re: I watched the Alabama replay and.........

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McCray needs to improve ALOT.

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Yep, lol at those people who say he's a good free safety.

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I hope Alem lerns to play the run in the 7 gap

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Not true at all. I will watch the replay again, but I remember him doing a very fine job against Andre Smith. He kept his gap responsiblities the whole game.

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Our D line could not get any pressure.

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Hence why I say we need to recruit more speed.

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Not to mention against FL when Coleman was trash talking to Tebow while we were in the process of getting our collective arse kicked...

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I mentioned this one time as one of the many examples of how team culture and discipline have deteriorated during the Miles tenure and was crucified for it.

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I watched the Alabama replay and.........

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we still lost

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no I just think it was those 2 guys coaching on defense last year that lost control of them, I don't expect to see that this year.

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So Ricky Jean's comments, the trash talking while LOSING, Byrd trashing his teammates and the kicked ball/personal fouls in the Arkansas game have to do with our shitty defensive scheme?

People will say anything to deny that the buck stops with Les Miles. Especially with incidents like this which are solely the responsibility of the head coach to keep under control.

Come on, Les Miles is a good coach with a good record. But this is an area that has clearly been in decline since he has been head coach.

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and the kicked ball/personal fouls in the Arkansas game

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I had forgot about those. Someone should have been running gassers for a week.

I agree about McCray as well. He almost always took a bad angle and missed tackles. I'm not ready to write him off forever, but I am looking forward to what Brooks can do. There were times we weren't aligned properly either, and I look for that to change. Outside of the turnovers, I thought we played well that game. Our running game really took it to Bama.

With enough time, Saban made Demetrius Hookfin into a somewhat viable SEC corner by his senior year. Will McCray make the same kind of progress? Should be interesting to see, since that's the guy to whom McCray is most compared.

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Hence why I say we need to recruit more speed.

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Every athlete in this year's class runs a 4.4 40 IIRC.

Looks like Les heard you.

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let me ask you a question, who is in charge of the defense? not coach Miles. he is HC, but is more of a delegater, responsible for more things than keeping players in line. most of the lack of disipline and lost of control you talk about fell on the defensive side of the ball. Byrd is on the offensive side and should have been controlled by coaches on that side. you can't blame Miles for all of that, that is not right.

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You could not be more wrong. Coach Miles is the head coach of the entire team, and is solely responsible for enforcing disciplinary action, especially in matters not related to scheme. It wasn't Crowton who kicked Perrilloux off the team for all the crap he did, it was Miles (way too late, in my opinion). It wasn't Pelini who kicked Derrick Odom off the team either. What a completely horrible argument.

So the buck doesn't stop with Les Miles? Got it.