re: SECCG

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Have you every played football ?

You can play just fine in a game and get soundly beat because of miscues, short fields and penalties adding up.

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Yes... and miscues =/= "playing well"... particularly at the rate we were committing them. What part of this is so difficult?

Even when we weren't committing personal fouls, we were giving up an average of 5.2 ypc to Kerryon (this is not including the breakdowns on screen plays). We gave up 55 yards to Eli Stove on 4 jet sweeps. While we held Stidham to a QBR in the 40's, he still ended up throwing 3 TDs... There wasn't anything about that defensive performance to really sell as "not bad" other than the early drives stopping them for FGs. If I only look at the first half, we managed ONE tackle for loss on KJ, one for no gain, and one more for less than 3 yards... every other run went for 3 or more yards (believe only 2 were less than 5)...

It was an uncharacteristic performance from our defense. Even in the Notre Dame game (another team with talent in the run game), we managed to keep it reasonably contained. We failed to do that in the first matchup with Auburn. Will see if KJ is healthy first of all, as Kam Martin is not the same caliber back, but the Defense has work to do to say the least... the players will be the first to admit it (look back at the interviews).