re: Where has Chavis's aggressive approach gone?

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Where has Chavis's aggressive approach gone?

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It seems like we don't have a TPOS player anywhere on the defensive roster, and it seems like we need one.

It declared early and went to the nfl last year along with the rest of our 6 starters and depth.

Well, an aggressive pass rush is always a must, and we just haven't had it for a long time now. Georgia certainly wasn't afraid to use it and it came up really big on the last play where Mett wasn't sacked but might as well have been, since his hurried pass sailed way over the head of our open receiver. I really hate when CB's drop back 10+ yards from the LOS, then still can't keep up with the receiver or turn around to swat the ball away. Of course a DL that creates no pass rush and is porous against the run is no help either!

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He is compensating for youth and possible talent deficiancies in the defensive back fiels and dropping 7 or 8 into coverage

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I heard all summer how DBU was stacked in the secondary, just reload baby.

And since TD has this group of posters that like to measure dick size based on number of posts I'm gonna go ahead and reveal that a lot of those people that said we would just reload and that DBU was fine were certified PHD in football because they had 4,5, and 6 digit post counts. You got 10,000 posts you are never wrong.....

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Compensating for youth doesn't explain Bama in 2012 or Clemson. It seems like we get a lead and he starts playing to not lose, instead of playing to win.

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We corner blitzed multiple times against Bama on the final drive.

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I disagree. If you look at that 4th quarter vs. GA, the corners were playing 10-12 yards off the line, whereas in the 1st 3 quarters, they were up. When you change your scheme and drop back off the line like that, you're in prevent (the "Mustang" package), and you lose the ability to knock the receiver on his arse when he comes off the line, and allow the QB to dump the ball off to receivers unmolested. They did the same against Bama and Clemson last year.

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We were getting gashed with Georgia's multiple vertical routes on one side of the field. The best way to combat that is with Cover 3.

When we went to cover 3, Georgia reacted immediately and dumped it off to the TE underneath. When we switched to Cover 2, Georgia ran two verticals to the strong side and we weren't able to handle it.

I tend to agree that, at some point, you have to go to man and take your chances at getting to the QB. But, it is very oversimplistic and frankly wrong to summarize our issues by saying we went in "prevent". It shows you don't know what you are talking about.

I think we should run blitz more on first down. Play more pass on second and blitz the hell out that QB on 3rd downs while keeping a saftey deep and Kwon on either the RB or TE..... We do need to let our CBs jam more on 3rd and put pressure on that QB, also stop taking on the blockers straight up!!! Need to be more elusive and make their way around them! I REALLY think we over coached and over played in this game. Which confused more than helped! This week must see improvement and if we do, I think we start to get better! The O is fine!!! No one is going to stop this O not even bama! They are just too good! Need more hot reads on those 3rd down blitzes, mayb to the TE or HB or FB. If we did that on that last drive it would of pulled those defenders back or we would of tore them up! Adjustments must be more affective and be made per drive, to what the D or O is doing! Need to save our damn timeouts for this instead of mishaps in play calling or lining up incorrectly!

Well this has to change year to year, when your defensive line isn't as deep or aggressive. I went back and watched that Dline from 2007 or 08 and they were freakn aggressive as hell and couldn't be contained! I think we need to go bigger on the line and stay small and quick at OLB! Those small DEs just aren't powerful enough for the run Def?? Idk it's not working right now? They are being pushed around! Or we need bigger DTs like Brockers and Logan. We just aren't getting push from the line or hardly any disruption in the back field, I can't say what the problem is at the moment but something needs fixing!! Mayb it's just depth! Put those Frosh bodies in there and tell them stuff the inside nothing more and let the DEs do the rushing! We need to be more aggressive in the front seven PERIOD!!!! We aren't at all right now, or most of the time at least! But when we are aggressive they make big plays, like sending Kwon on those edge blitzes, or Beckwith! We could be much better if we use our personnel just a lil diff!!!

Don't know who the "people" mistaking defense are that you're referring to but I didn't make a mistake. Chavis went to prevent with about six minutes left in the game and didn't get out of it.

After the first series, and the way the d has been playing this year. It should have been obvious LSU was going to have to get to the QB in order to win the game. We played coverage way to much.