*we hurt us.
You have to be super aggressive to generate pressure with a 3-DL scheme, and we aren't. We do the delayed LB blitz thing fairly often, but that free rusher is getting to the QB 0.5 seconds too late in most cases, or is so obvious and simple that it gets easily picked up. It worked well against uo for some reason, but its failed in most other games.
Aggressive to a degree…if you have the DL to generate pass rush it’ll allows you to drop more players into coverage. Pass rush and coverage have always complemented each other whether it’s an odd or even front. Iowa state had will McDonald and ML Anderson inside to generate pass rush which allowed them to have more numbers in passing situations
This makes us look like little brother. Who honestly cares, considering we flushed all the goodwill gained from that win down the toilet yesterday. It was another case of Gundy's teams not being able to handle the spotlight after experiencing success. We got destroyed by two directional schools this year, and that would be a serious indictment on just about any other power 5 coach.
I'm not talking about bringing zero blitzes on every play. I'm just saying that our scheme requires a degree of aggression and initiative to be effective, and right now we appear to be too reactionary.
It was a trap game and we got trapped.
It should be a indictment but it won’t be. We will continue this type of roller coaster because coach gundy is complacent to some degree at points in the season. As long as we make a bowl game, we will continue to kick the can down the road. I don’t see us winning any big 12 titles because any time we get close then we will have an inexcusable loss to a bad football team or we will choke in a big game that would make us champions for the conference or otherwise
That really doesn't answer my question though. You think coaches and a team who have the inside track to play for a Big 12 championship just got 'complacent' after beating their biggest rival and 'gave up' in a game the following week? That's extremely weak sauce man.
That looked like a hangover yesterday if I've ever seen one. That's on Gundy, and he should have made the team put bedlam behind them the day after the game. It looked like he allowed the team to believe that the season was over because they won bedlam. A game like yesterday should never happen with a head coach that's in his 19th year. To make matters worse, we've seen the exact same game play out twice this year, and both games were against directional schools.
I know what I saw. It seems like we had poor playcalling and I specifically saw black give up on a play that the flag was thrown… resulted in a TD.
He didn’t allow the team to believe the season was over. I guarantee you he told them that your only as good as your next game.
I know…any 3 man scheme requires some aggression. At the end of the day, to be successful on defense, it starts upfront. Right now, we don’t have the guys.
Great coaches are always able to get their teams refocused after big wins. That is something that Gundy has struggled with his whole tenure here.
