Defensive personnel preventing House from running his defense?

Then he needs to adjust and do better at working around what he’s got. Don’t ask me how because I don’t get paid to figure it out. I just know our talent is better than it plays on that side of the ball and we are underperforming there. Period.

This group is not very talented - like at all - as you can tell when they consistently lose one on one battles. That has nothing to do with being out of place or scheme.

That being said, House has been terrible. Not spying Milroe, for example, was just inexcusable.

If so, he shouldnt be running his defense and needs to adjust.

If we were getting in different ways from series to series on defense I could buy the “we have no players” argument. But that is not the situation. We have stayed in a scared, soft, drop everyone zone coverage with only combos and twists up front and get killed every week. Why not throw caution to the wind and just blitz 6 or 7 guys and force the offense to make a tough play? We finally blitzed the other night against Florida and they threw a long deep ball that got ruled incomplete on replay review so we got a 3rd down stop. Wasn’t that much better than dropping everyone deep and giving them easy throws in the middle of the field for a first down?

Send some pressure and try to create some negative plays for the offense or god forbid, a turnover.

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I just know our talent is better than it plays on that side of the ball and we are underperforming there. Period.

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Yea, I refuse to believe that even our second string is “historically bad”.

He’s in over his head IMO.

Then he needs to recruit better and get better players for scheme. Because now our top 2 dbs have flipped and we don't have any game changers committed for d line. No excuses the def coaches aren't performing on any level

Personnel has nothing to do with Speights whiffing on 75% of tackles

So we had no one who could have spied Milroe? Sorry, but anyone off the street could have devised a better defense for Bama.

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If we were getting in different ways from series to series on defense I could buy the “we have no players” argument. But that is not the situation.

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Eh.

Look, I want House gone as much as anyone, but we do have some sub packages that he probably can't run because of the lack of personnel/ experience (particularly amongst the DBs). And especially after Sam got kicked out.

He's run some dime looks for instance.

That said, I just wish we could get the tackling down. BK mentioned something about that in the postgame the other day, something to the effect of that comes down to "want to"/ effort.

There is 0 doubt he is limited in what he can run.

The issue that others have mentioned is that there have been blatant missteps, such as failing to spy Milroe, and overall lack of discipline on the defensive side.