re: The case for Daronte Jones

Under the circumstances, I think Jones did a really good job. I wouldn’t be upset, if Kelly kept him around.

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Do we actually know that O was in the way? Or is that just sort of speculating the obvious?

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I think he was if you read between the lines.

O talked a lot about simplifying things before the season and that's what the defense was doing, running base defense. They were doing almost no blitzing.

Then Kiffin let O know they were keeping it to simple during the bye week. Shake my head that a man with as many years on the defensive side of the ball had to be told by another coach that he was only running base defense.

After the bye week, O "opened things up". Which probably meant let Daronte do what he wanted to and the defense improved every game after.

What happened this year has all the appearances of O sitting on his first year coordinator trying to keep it simple, then he seemed to let Daronte do what he wanted to after someone clued him into why the defense was performing poorly.

"Jimbo and his offense suck"

"Y'ALL SEE DARONTE SHUT DOWN A&M???"

He shutdown a shitty Bama offense too which really struggled second half. TAMU game actually showed why he's not a good DC. He makes zero adjustments and they almost curb stomped us in the second half after getting dominated first. His scheme coming into the game either works or it doesn't. If the coaches adjust to his scheme you better believe he's going to stand there bamboozled trying to make what it is work even if he's figured out.

Same people wanted some combo of Jorge Munoz/Mangis/Callaway as OC the past two years with this well it wouldn't hurt my feelings if we retain this guy who "got better" and doesn't recruit or develop young players.

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It seems the narrative that O let jones dictate the D for Bama is probably Not true. That was O going back to the 3-3 with blitzes drawn up by Coyle.

Regardless, Hopefully we can upgrade from Jones with the DC hire.

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I don't know who did what but the last 4 games were night and day to the point that defense was probably close to tops in the country stat wise. Scoring defense was much improved as well. Last 4 games this D allowed 308,283,311,& 296 yds and thrre of those teams were ranked...
So someone needs to explain how this staff and roster of 3rd stringers pulled that off. It was not just playing on opportunity and emotion. We completely flip flopped the pressure tendencies and took a lot more risks on secondary coverage. Everyone on the D looked like different players.

Well It is because it was different players. How many guys started the seasons as starters ended the season as starters? 2 or 3?

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Kevin coyle who was the lead defensive analyst put together those blitz packages and O asked Jones to install them.

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Where did you see that and why do we do everything so arse backwards?

His thoughts on the recent results from DC Daronte Jones...


"I am proud of him. Really proud of him. When I went in during the open week, and said (what we were doing), and he put it in and didn’t blink. And he’s calling it. To call zero blitz, you gotta have some you know what. And he’s doing it, and he’s not blinking."


On the decision to move to 3-4 looks on defense...


"I told the guys we have to change going into Alabama. I was looking at the front, since that’s my expertise, and we weren’t stopping the run in the 4-3. You have to do different things … I knew some defenses we could put in that were better against the run, and they would change their blocking schemes. Why I was doing that, other people were researching, and Coach Coyle came up to me and said he’s got blitzes that he knows can get home, but they have to be zero. I said run them. We put them in, ran them all week and they have been working for us."


— Bama defense and thereafter was not Jones D. It was O who “meddled” and told Jones what they were gonna run. This was all easy to find it is wild the narratives that start here and become truth isn’t it.