Our defense was reactionary

The pressure on the qb ended up hurting us a lot more than helping us. Kid was throwing jump passes and passes across his body to wide open receivers.

Did we record an official sack? I mean we were back there it seemed on 70% of passing plays. I don’t remember the first guy ever wrapping up the qb.

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I thought we had the talent to force their offense into playing how we wanted them to. Turns out I was wrong and their qb and big receivers were better

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I think the opposite...

On many plays you can see where we either bring somebody down, crash the LoS, or blitz and they magically went to the other side.

It wasn't magic, or luck. Either we thought we knew their tendencies and we didn't or, more likely, they were making reads through our disguises and were audibling.

We tried to dictate by bringing more to the box on either the field or boundary side. They used it against us.

For example, we knew their QB liked to run right and was accurate on the run to that side. And they did that some. But most of their first downs on 3rd downs were to the boundary side with a pass on the hash while we're rolling over to the field side.

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Our defense was reactionary
I thought we had the talent to force their offense into playing how we wanted them to. Turns out I was wrong and their qb and big receivers were better

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What we learned...

Our CBs are bad. I think they are really bad.

Our safeties are average. I think they are semi-talented, but make poor decisions and miss tackles.

Our linebackers in coverage are very poor. They don't identify the routes in zone coverage...even when the coverage is specifically designed to prevent the route in front of them from succeeding.

Our Defensive front was disruptive...but not nearly disruptive enough to overcome everything else.