Major burns and jardin Gilbert gave up a combined 10 catches 160 yards in coverage

While you’re at it factor in Sage Ryan

I knew to be concerned when A&M fans didn’t care when Gilbert left and were saying he was terrible

Burns is not an SEC defender. Period

I’m not clicking that link—or defending either player—but catches and yards aren’t given up in a vacuum. We didn’t have 2 safeties—one playing a glorified LB position—playing man all game.

That said, those USC WRs made some fricking incredible plays and their Qb threw them some incredible balls. The biggest mismatch in the entire game was easily their WRs on our DBs. Yet all that and the best play caller in college football, they still only managed 27 points against us. And our offense decided to start giving them the ball back in the 4th quarter like it was their fricking job.

Burns sucks, and frick him for that penalty. Gilbert is too early to tell. But I’m not blaming that game on just those 2. He’ll, their QB threw for like 370-something. There’s another 200+ yards unaccounted for. Thread fricking sucks.

Major Burns was targeted 6 times and allowed 6 catches. Jesus.

Burns needs to transfer. No common sense. Hurt the team.

Honestly, they did not look good. But as mentioned above, we played zone.

IMO: zone coverage is hardly successful when the QB has all day to let WR find the holes and sit in them. That was part of our problem. We had success in zone when we brought a blitz with it or got some pressure. But even when it was a quick pass, we would have guys in wrong area and looked clueless when an offensive player would transition zones half the time.

I cannot remember us running a zone defense successfully in recent years. I’d rather see us in a man coverage with 2 deep or 1 deep/spy than what we do now.