The first half defensive approach was Lane's decision, according to him

Did he have money on the game? Was a stupid arse approach for a coah that knows him.Made no sense.

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Coaches always do this shite.

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They had Trinidad confused as all hell and said "This is working way too well, let's back off 10 yards again".


Unreal

though the game was ours to lose at that point.....sigh

At a high level you play to confuse the QB. Giving Trinidad the same look for s half was a recipe for disaster.

24 points allowed in a half without the help of STs, turnovers, or penalties is a lot of points to score against a good D. Waiting to change at halftime wasn’t a good idea. Changing back with thd score tied was just as bad.

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My question would be why they reverted to that bullshite again after shutting them down in the 3rd quarter?

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They tried to mix things up with their looks. It wasn't the right decision but I understand their thought process.

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Kiffin's familiarity with Chambliss made him overthink it and was just trying not to give up the big play instead of letting the defense play to their strengths. He kept calling Chambliss Houdini so I assume he thought sending extra pressure at Chambliss would just result in Chambliss escaping and finding open guys downfield with less people in coverage

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This. From everything Kiffin said both during the week and after the game, Kiffin believed that if we sent a bunch of pressure, Chambliss would just escape and run all over us. So instead he chose to drop back in zone coverage, take away his legs, and force him to make throws. It worked in the sense that he only finished with 9 rushing yards. The problem was that we couldn't get enough pressure with a 4 man rush and he had all day to make the throws. And with his talent and the talent at WR's you're going to get killed.

I'm not necessarily sure what the answer to defend them is. Ik everyone is saying to bring more pressure, but Chambliss has shown the ability to execute RPOs to damn near perfection to beat pressure most of the time. Going back to last year, that offense has scored less than 30 points only 3 times. They put up 35+ on Georgia twice and 34 on oklahoma. And last I checked, Kirby and Venables are much better defensive minds than Baker.

Imo the only way to truly limit what their offense can do is to keep them off the field and not allow them to get momentum. We did that in the second half, unfortunately our offense couldn't string anything together in the first half and we kept giving them the ball back