First...thanks Gabe for asking the tough questions. But, Synder's answers were the weakest I have ever heard, all excuses...
* "those guys are pretty good"
* "those guys were physical"
* "we are limited in practice on learning tackling"
* "those coaches did a good job out coaching me on covering Amari Cooper on the first drive"
* "our defense was really coming on up until we ran into the Alabama buzz saw"
* blah, blah, blah....on and on..........

What a bunch of garbage!
* I so sick of hearing we got out played physically, where is black death this year, way can't we take punches to other teams?
* Last I checked all the NCAA teams have the same rules, but somehow they know how to tackle.
* Shocked he basically admitted, even though he was trying to make an excuse, that he got out coached on Amari Cooper. Why would you think Alabama is going to do the same thing with Amari that did not work against Arkansas. Stupid, that is what you get paid for...make the next chess move.
* Seriously, our defense was really coming on up until Alabama! I don't call bottom half of the country mostly against cupcake schools "really coming on". Synder's expectations are way too low.

I'm done with Synder's excuses, don't let the door hit you on the way out!

tell us something we don't know bro

But I AGREE

Did anyone ask him why he thought playing the corner 10 yards off Cooper on 3rd and 5 was a good idea? Especially the second time?

That's not being outcoached. That's having your head up your ass.

Guy's a complete A$$bag

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Can someone please explain to me how "we are limited in practice on learning tackling", and what exactly does that mean?

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That's not being outcoached. That's having your head up your ass.

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this.

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Can someone please explain to me how "we are limited in practice on learning tackling", and what exactly does that mean?

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it means, "We're not real good at teaching that."

What do you want him to say? Do you want him to call out these collegiate athletes and say that they suck? There's only so much he can say to the press. I sure as hell don't want him calling out our athletes and blaming them for stuff to the media

I want him to take some ownership of the problem and show a little fire in his belly. He can do that with saying a single word about the players.

"i told you guys last week: that's a good.. really good football team we just played.."

oh really? thanks for telling us that, coach. i had no idea that alabama was good at football. i kinda thought maybe we were good too but i guess not.

on missed tackles: "yeah, we did [miss tackles], but a little of that had to do with who we're playing."

hey jackass.. you realize you gotta play them every year right?


the worst was his "tackling rules have changed" excuse. my god. everyone has the same rules, guy.

his b.s. excuses just go on and on. it's hard to watch.

To be fair the D did a decent job against Ole Miss, hence his "coming on" statement.

Snyder

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What do you want him to say? Do you want him to call out these collegiate athletes and say that they suck? There's only so much he can say to the press. I sure as hell don't want him calling out our athletes and blaming them for stuff to the media

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Really?? What I saw was Ole Miss blew out to a big lead of 21 pts in the 1st half and then backed off in the second to kill the clock. Ole Miss shutting down their offense in the 2nd half doesn't make me think our D had a whole lot to do with it.

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Can someone please explain to me how "we are limited in practice on learning tackling", and what exactly does that mean?

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I need to verify he actually said that and in what context he said it. But if it was said like it stars here then I'm not going to say what needs to happen because I don't want to bet banned.

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I need to verify he actually said that and in what context he said it. But if it was said like it stars here then I'm not going to say what needs to happen because I don't want to bet banned.

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SnyXer acts like A&M is the only program that is limited to practice tackling! He Sux!

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Really?? What I saw was Ole Miss blew out to a big lead of 21 pts in the 1st half and then backed off in the second to kill the clock. Ole Miss shutting down their offense in the 2nd half doesn't make me think our D had a whole lot to do with it.

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You do know that the Aggie Offense gave up 14 of Ole Miss' 35 points that game right?

Snyder

I watch good tackling all day on Saturday. I wonder how K State with all their two star talent gets good tackling?

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I watch good tackling all day on Saturday. I wonder how K State with all their two star talent gets good tackling?

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They are probably in a better position to make the tackle. I think scheming is the issue. He pretty much admitted that in the press conference.

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"i told you guys last week: that's a good.. really good football team we just played.."



on missed tackles: "yeah, we did [miss tackles], but a little of that had to do with who we're playing."

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If that is what he really said, then I'm extremely disappointed. He's basically saying that they're just better than us and there's nothing he can do about it. His job is to help make us the best team in the nation, not simply concede that someone is better and say, "oh well".

Sumlin was every bit as bad or worse. Blah! Blah! Blah!! Same song and dance. Put away your white board, and films. Coach Sumlin's playboys knew exactly how they played, they intended to miss tackles and blocks. It is time for punishment, do bear crawls the length of the field and back, etc.

I wanted someone to ask how in the hell did you let things get to this point before you woke up. Spavital was the only that really tried to explain what he was attempting to do. But in the last couple weeks Spav has picked up the same facial quirks that Snyder has. Like they are very uncomfortable, and evading the truth.

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You do know that the Aggie Offense gave up 14 of Ole Miss' 35 points that game right?

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And 45 points in the first half vs Bama.

eff you snyder

Our boys were just ill-prepared. And that's on Snyder. We got suckered into every screen play, every draw, every play action, and every read option. Not to mention we over pursued on every play which led to massive cut back lanes. Poor tackling is usually a symptom of no speed or bad positioning. Look at KSU's defense to show how staying home and playing disciplined will contain an offense with more speed and athleticism. Our guys just aren't taught to do that. Which is why every team that has a decent mobile QB kills us. I expect Marshall to do the same.

Ok..the D was not as "bad" against Ole Miss. But loss is a loss and the D let Ole Mis score more on offense than we did. Ws & Ls are all that really count, I'm not into moral victories.

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Shocked he basically admitted, even though he was trying to make an excuse, that he got out coached on Amari Cooper. Why would you think Alabama is going to do the same thing with Amari that did not work against Arkansas. Stupid, that is what you get paid for...make the next chess move.

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The fact is that we didn't even TRY what Arkansas did. Bama basically didn't do anything special. We did NOTHING to limit them from running their offense.

Snyder would make a great obama press secretary! FOS

He said a lot of good things in his presser as well.

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"we are limited in practice on learning tackling"

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WTF DOES THIS EVEN MEAN?!?!? First off, a football team that can't tackle is like a baseball team that can't field a ball or catch a pop-fly, or a basketball team that can't make a free throw. We have one of those teams. It's a funda-***kin-mental. Secondly, since we are obviously lacking in that aspect, PRACTICE IT! Crawl before you walk, defensive schemes don't mean jack unless the players can TACKLE

I don't know how ANYBODY with interest in Aggie football (other than people/family with ties to Snyder) can keep defending this guy. If you can watch that press conference today and think this is a legit SEC defensive coordinator you have some other vested interest.