re: Should Chavis be placed on the hot seat after this performance

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A good coach can make his players put forth 100% effort, especially when the game is on the line.

When the problem is this consistent, it is a coaching issue. For the past 2 seasons, we have been absolutely unable to stop an offense from driving down the field and scoring in the final minutes. Even if it is the players, why haven't the coaches done anything about it? They obviously haven't tried to fix it. It's the same soft coverage, give up 8-10 yards per play letting the offense systematically drive down the field with ease.

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I agree with this. Of course it is a player issue because they are actually playing the game.

Is the reason for the defensive collapses late in the 4th quarter because the players are poorly conditioned, the defensive schemes are ineffective, the defense lacks talent and playmakers, the wrong personnel is on the field, the players are poorly prepared, the players are undisciplined, the players struggle with scheme (i.e, playing zone, cover two, etc.), the players are getting beat physically, they are making mental errors, they are not developing. Regardless, all of these issues should fall squarely on the coaches.

Personally, I believe the main reason is that we lack talent on defense. We lost too many key players to the draft that we were not prepared to replace with equal talent. Having said that, the defense collapsed last year in the 4th quarter when we had Mingo, Reid, Montgomery, Simon, Logan and Minter. And don't forget Mathieu who was a playmaking demon. I hate to say it, but a lot of our current guys are just not very good.

We were bound to lose a game like Ole Miss. In order too keep winning, we need Mettenberger to play at a very high level the whole game. He basically shite the bed in the first half.