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| Tweet Topic Started: Oct 28 2012, 09:57 AM (101 Views) | |
| *TennesseeTuxedo | Oct 28 2012, 09:57 AM Post #1 |
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The guy, whom the layers said is the best cover guy on the team, is not seeing any time at cornerback. Deion Bonner is a huge upgrade to P. Toast Waggs at the corner opposite Justin Coleman. You have wonder why he is not seeing the field? |
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| *TennesseeTuxedo | Oct 28 2012, 10:04 AM Post #2 |
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I will addd that our safety play is worse than our corner play. Byron Moore was once our fair hair safety, but he is getting burned continuously each game and is whiffing on many tackles. He was primarily responsible for 3 of SC's TDs yesterday. Maybe move P Toast Waggs to safety or move someone else back there, who can at least tackle. Safeties have to be able to tackle more than cover people. |
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| el diablo | Oct 28 2012, 02:10 PM Post #3 |
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Waggoner is a zone corner. He can cover man to man WITH help over the top with the safety. He cannot cover straight man to man b/c of his physical limitations. Teague is just not a CB. Coleman is big enough and fast enough to play man to man. He, however, has technique probs and gets turned around and out of position. When in postition, he doesn't make plays. Bonner (big enough and fast enough) and Gray (fast enough) can play man to man. According to the coaches, they don't know where to line up. If you have ever coached a sports team from pee-wee to Pro, then you have probablY looked over at your bench during a game and realized that there are just no answers over there. The tragic mistake that was made was changing our defense from a 4-3 to a 3-4 in a year where there were drastic defensive staff changes. This is not just a UT problem, but a thing that happens in the NFL, also. I have never, ever understood why coaches don't learn the current offense/defense and leave the players in their known defense/offense. This allows players to just get used to their new coaches and not have to learn a new scheme. Changing defensive/offensive schemes in a make or break year is a HC killer. See Fulmer, Tubberville, Steve Spagnuolo at the Rams, etc. I believe Coach Dooley made a tragic error in his evaluation of our team's talent compared to the other teams in the SEC. We have 3 SEC playing DLmen. The backups are not SEC level or are very young. We have 1 LB playing SEC ball, not 4 LBs that are NFL talents per our new DC. Maggit gets a pass b/c of injury. We have 1 DB playing SEC ball and he is injured. The others are either too slow, too dense, not coachable, or just dang confused with this new defense. Offensively, Dooley thought he had 2 experienced 1st round draft choices at WR, with a talented JC that he could work in slowly. Choose you poison DCs, Rogers, Hunter or CP. After Rogers turded out, he had 1 1st round draft choice with his head up his arse looking forward to the Draft and a JC WR playing his onions off every dang game, but who had to come around by the NCSU game and not the UF or UGA game. BIG DIFFERENCE. Also, he thought he had a QB who had grown up and was ready to come thru in nut cutting time. Instead, he had a QB who still pouts and has showed he is not ready to grow up yet. Fulmer talked of the perfect storm. He never talked of the perfect sunny day season when we got every break go our way and played NC LSU's onion's off in the SEC championship game. Thank you Coach Cut for getting out more with less. I am sure things could have gone more wrong for Coach Dooley, but I'll put $100.00 in a pot to get a dang voodoo princess up to knoxville to get the bad ju-ju off of campus. |
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| Tnphil | Oct 28 2012, 02:18 PM Post #4 |
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Well said El d.... |
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| gatewayghost | Oct 28 2012, 02:45 PM Post #5 |
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Everyone also wanted to see #33 and he's looked pretty bad when I've noticed him. I think DB is really hard for freshmen. We haven't had many do good. |
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| gallavol | Oct 28 2012, 04:27 PM Post #6 |
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All of these young DBs will be better next season when B Randolph gets back. At least L McNeil will stick his head in there and make a tackle, even if he does blow a coverage every now and then. Brewer and B Moore will be back ups to those guys next year. |
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