re: Anybody else notice a constant influx of “It’s not O’s fault” and “not Pelini’s fault”

The Head Coach and the Defensive have to shoulder part of the blame but there are extenuating circumstances : one, a big glaring thing is these kids don know how to tackle and that is something they should have learned in junior high school, or middle school, whatever its called any more; second, the VAST MAJORITY of these kids on both sides of the ball NEVER played a second of SEC football before and that is just a tiny step below going into the NFL at 19-20 years old. They will probably not get it together this year but from the South Carolina game on, they have made steady improvement.