I have to agree with you. I think our talent level was good enough to be a solid B but our schemes are an F. I'm so sick of seeing loose coverage.. It does not work
Our best talent spent a combined 75% or more off the field this year between Nick Martin (6 straight missed games) and Colin Oliver (played 2 games total). What we had on the field the last, well, really half of the year was not "solid B" level talent. In their place, we had Ezeigbo who was playing D3 football this time last year and Roberson, Robertson, and Oates who were getting real playing time for the first time in their careers. Frankly, none of those players should've gotten serious, consistent PT nor would they have had we stayed healthy. On the flip side to that, Kirkland, Daniels and a few others really regressed from last year when we should have been counting on them the most.
All that to say, we didn't necessarily have our best talent on the field and who we had to fill in the gaps, were clearly still struggling to understand their assignments. Not that this also can't be a coaching problem, but I doubt Nardo drew up the coverage below leaving the field-side underneath zone wide open. I don't know who's responsibility that was, and circled the two who likely should've been responsible, but someone missed it.
Or here where we had two defenders who had great position.. covering each other:
The ball would be thrown a second later to an open spot where one of those two likely should've been.
Again, not necessarily trying to defend anyone here. You don't get a historically bad defense without everyone contributing at least a little bit. I just don't heap this entirely on Nardo. We definitely were playing with some key contributors missing and those who we were relying on had a tendency to go MIA or give half effort (*ahem* Daniels).