re: Golding is underwhelming!

Hate to beat that horse but a lot of the issues are youth and inexperience . As others alluded, some of the guys going against our young ones have been in a system, 3-4 years in a weight program, and have seen a lot of schemes , wrinkles , etc thrown at them . I noticed Saturday our linebackers missing a ton of plays and it was not physical , just mental mistakes. They are less than a year removed from HS and are used to “see ball, get ball” type if systems where they were the top dogs on the field . They are easily fooled with misdirection and fail to cover cutback lanes. All this is correctable . Will they be what we are used to seeing out there this year ? Probably not , time will tell. Losing our 2 LBs was a worst case scenario obviously and the coaches are trying to mask this the best they can IMO. Thank god we have the offense we do this year. It will get better.

For the record , I hate seeing it too but it’s what we have right now . I can assure you , exotic blitzes and coverages are in the playbook. Have been to too many clinics and heard Saban and some of the other coaches speak over the years , it is a complicated playbook