Ed Orgeron Comments On The Defensive Struggles And The Plan To Get It Fixed

During his Monday press conference, head coach Ed Orgeron talked about the defensive struggles from the Missouri loss and how they plan on fixing it going forward.

The big takeaway was that Orgeron wants to simplify the defense and make sure the players understand it in practice and execute it during the game.

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"On defense, not a very good performance. We had a long meeting yesterday about communication, about missed singles, about all kinds of stuff. And I just put it on the coaches. That's all that is. I'm not going to put it on the players. We gotta execute better, but we gotta practice better. We gotta simplify. I told both Steve and Bo to simplify, make sure that our players can do it. I don't care if we have to play one defense and one coverage; play it, play it right, do whatever we need to do, put our athletes in a good position and let them make plays. I know the players are hurting today. I'm going to talk to them today, and we're going to get it fixed."

"We're definitely going to simplify it. There's no question about that. I'm going to make sure that any defenses called, Bo's going to call the defense. I'm going to make sure any one that's called that we run it right all week and our guys understand it. If we don't understand it, we're not running it."

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