re: Our Defense is just poorly coached

I don't think Barnett will play, Saban loves RSing Freshman QBs.

I think it is Coker's job to lose. He looked good when he played.

I like Cornwell as the darkhorse though. Guy has just about everything you could ask for, and he has a no nonsense release. We're gonna be young on O anyway, if he has a good offseason, look out.

I'm mentioning Barnett fully realizing there isn't a chance in hell he is our starter next year. Alec Morris has a better chance than Barnett

Bateman looked good in the spring. Can he progress from that?

The problem with this year's team is that there was very little garbage time. Our backups didn't get much reps at all, so a lot of next year will be unknown.

We have the best coaching staff in cfb, and we will be back to the top soon enough. Might not be next year, but by 2016 I see us fielding a title contending team.

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CFB is in a transition stage and the defenses just havent quite caught up yet.

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2012 and 2013 Stanford say hello. Oregon says hello. They play in an offensive oriented league that is also the 2nd best conference in the country. Perhaps Saban and Smart should talk to Derek Mason—the man that coached the Stanford defense in 2012 and 2013 when they slowed down Oregon and other high-powered offenses.

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Our defense is trending downwards

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Can't disagree with that. Since the GOAT 2011 Defense, we've gotten worse each year. We used to be pissed if we gave up more than 14-17 points. Now we give up 30+ on a repeated basis. Some of that is due to nature of offenses. But as I've said, there's obviously something fundamentally wrong with what we're doing. The 3rd and Longs are killing us....absolutely killing us and it was a problem going back to before this season. We routinely let QBs have career days against us.

That said, we still have a better defense than most other teams but the trend is not in our favor and I don't want to rely on having to outscore teams in shootouts.

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Look at TCU - Ole Miss. Our defense just doesn't do that anymore.

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We shut out OM just last season. Plus the only guy to really have a ton of success against us, Treadwell, didn't play. He is basically their entire offense. Plus they lost Tunsil early and were already down a couple of linemen.

We shut out A&M, shut down Arkansas' potent rushing attack.

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We couldn't design an effective "exotic" blitz to save our fricking lives. They never work. Never.

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I think us trying to do this is what is killing us. Offenses snap the ball too quickly to disguise things and get the ball out quickly. We are leaving some of our DB's on an island that should never be left on an island, especially since we got zero help in coverage from our LB's this year.

I just wish Saban and Kirby would take a look at how KState defended Auburn this season. Just play good assignment football instead of trying to out chess match these offenses.