DC fail?
From my perspective in the stands, it looked like a lot of the long pass plays from PSU happened because they were able to isolate a receiver or fast tight end(quarless) on our linebackers.
Does anyone have any analysis as to why this happened? It looked like we may have adjusted because I didn't see it happen as much in the second half. We had other problems after that. Still, I am wondering if this is a schematic problem with our defense. Not that they should get beat every time, but I don't want to see obi ezeh trying to cover quarless or stevie brown trying to cover whoever is number 5 for PSU.
Also, I think the title of my thread may be misleading. I am not trying to suggest that Robinson is a failure, just wondering about this specific problem.
October 24th, 2009 at 7:17 PM ^
part of it also may be that kovacs and williams BLOW...i havent seen safties bite like that since i was 8 years old
October 24th, 2009 at 7:21 PM ^
We knew Penn State would attack the middle of our back seven and they did, to good effect. I'm sure the coaches tried to work on that in preparation but there's only so much you can do with limited talent.
October 24th, 2009 at 7:25 PM ^
Its hard for me to keep blaming the DC when we've had 3 different ones in the last 3 years, with the same lousy results on defense. Unless we coincidentally got 3 different terrible DC's. I think we just dont have many players on that side of the ball.
October 25th, 2009 at 10:47 AM ^
As bad as our entire defense was yesterday (minus BG), Mike Williams looked absolutely awful. He not only bit on some plays, but he missed tackles and took horrible angles on runs (Roysters 30+ yard run, specifically).
October 24th, 2009 at 7:19 PM ^
Um no its not all Robinson's fault. We just need more talent everywhere, which we will next year. The linebackers have to get better otherwise Hopson may be gone.
October 24th, 2009 at 7:20 PM ^
LB's can't run with WR's........every team attacks Michigan using the slot receivers and TE's covered by LB's.
It has been this way for several years now, it is a perssonel issue not a scheme issue.
Our LB's are slow, and worse yet slow to react, and lets face it our safeties have just blown for years now.
October 24th, 2009 at 7:21 PM ^
All that can be said is even though a walkon gets 17 tackles in a game he's still a walkon. If you ask me it's a bad sign he got so many against MSU. Should be our LB's getting them.
October 24th, 2009 at 7:22 PM ^
These are not Robinson's players. He was dealt a very shoddy hand with Ezeh so the fact that Ezeh can't cover anyone is not Robinson's fault. Continuing to play Ezeh, however, should be counted against Robinson. You can't get any worse than Ezeh. Brown was also exposed today. Shades of last year. Expect 2 TE and 4 wide with 2 inside WR sets the rest of the year.
October 24th, 2009 at 7:47 PM ^
calls half our defense shit & I say the obvious and get negbanged. this is why the blog is gay as shit. the d didn't lose the psu game. the offense & the playcalling did.
October 24th, 2009 at 11:42 PM ^
I think you can get worse than Ezeh, just name a backup LB. He's got no choice.
October 24th, 2009 at 7:22 PM ^
Let's hope some Barwis magic bears fruit next year.
October 24th, 2009 at 7:23 PM ^
more of a recruiting fail than a dc fail. give GERG a couple years. He's done a lot of good things this year with a lot of walkons on the 2-deep.
October 24th, 2009 at 7:25 PM ^
What I would like to know is where are all the confusing zone's that all the pro DC's run. It's a zone surely even our lackluster back 7 can pull them off.
October 24th, 2009 at 7:29 PM ^
Seriously??
Yeah, it could be that, *OR* the fact that we have almost no talent on defense.
Furthermore, can we stop using the word "fail", ASAP?
It's not trendy and cool, it's trite and cliche.
October 24th, 2009 at 7:38 PM ^
Not so much today, but this season as a whole has seen much better tackling than in the past 3 or 4 years. GERG has had to spend tons of valuable time teaching these basics rather than slightly more complicated things.
October 24th, 2009 at 10:55 PM ^
...when a TE hits a seam route for a TD against Cover 2. Okay, it was a good mis-match on Ezeh. But how in the *$&@ does a TE run untouched for a score up the hash mark with a deep half safety back there? And when said TE was the only vertical route on that half of the field? Answer: walk-on safety. Oh, and Angry-Michigan-Safety-Hating-God, of course.
As for Stevie Brown, Penn State is one of the nation's premiere programs, and their coaches get paid, too. Sometimes the other guys get you.
October 25th, 2009 at 10:42 AM ^
Brown's coverage wasn't that bad on the TD he allowed. It was just a damn good throw.