Incredible the difference under Steele vs golding

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Not sure why it took this long. Letting the guys play instead of exotic stunts and blitzes. We are pressuring much faster and not constantly blowing assignments

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I see now why Saban liked Golding. The complexity was pretty amazing.
However, the problem was always that it made our defense soft, and always reacting instead of attacking.

If Golding were just a bit more aggressive he'd be a great DC

But yeah, this simple, more aggressive defense is a breath of fresh air.
I wanna see how we fair against the elite offenses before I form an opinion about Steele but so far so good

May have just been me but the defense looked like they knew their assignments and weren’t confused.
Just went about their business. The offense much better coached.
We may have something here.

Hard to take a lot from one game (and game 1) against a severely overmatched opponent. There are some absolute dogs on this defense, that’s what’s most clear. Super impressed with the talent in the LB corps and secondary.
And glad to see we weren’t getting ourselves flagged every other play. Seemed like LBs and safeties were more decisive, but hard to say too much about that just yet (and even if that is true, it might have more to do with roster changes than the coaching changes). I think though, that there was a reminder even in this game that our scheme is very beatable, with the same pathways to success as always. So, I’d say there are some subtle signs of improvement, but also some indication that the schematic issues that have plagued us in key games in the past remain (and, really, why wouldn’t they?) - all with the caveat that it’s hard to say much at this point.

They have to get better at covering the running back coming out of the backfield....we seem to forget about the rb a lot.

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Also awesome to see the defense not trying to get the play call right up to the snap.

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I've heard that Golding was very slow on pre snap adjustments from the booth... from what I'm hearing, I don't think the players were crying when he left.

Should’ve kept Tosh, fired Golding and hired a top notch DC.

Tosh was leaving if he didn’t get promoted to DC, but I with the fire Golding part.

Golding stuck around because injury and pandemic excuses covered for the on-field struggles while his recruiting was stellar.

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Simplicity is a beautiful thing

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I think this applies to BOTH offense AND defense. I thought BOB and Golding each limited our effectiveness at times over the past couple seasons by trying to play chess with the play-calling. When you have had Top 3 recruiting classes for 17 years in a row, you can do a lot by just playing checkers with the KISS principle.