Alex580 said:

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I still dont understand how our PPG was so low last season. We were terrible against the run, couldn't rush the passer and didn't create turnovers.

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We played some really bad teams. Unfortunately, we were worse.

Jarrin' Jay said:

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2021

39 sacks
32.8% 3rd down conversion rate
Opp. TOP 29:44
Opp. 16 PPG
Opp. 135 rushing per game / 193 passing per game
Opp. 21 total TDs
Opp. 328 avg. total yards / 4.7 avg. per play
15 TOs

2022

19 sacks (down 20, TWENTY!!!, 51% decrease)
36% 3rd down conversion rate
50% 4th down conversion rate
Opp. TOP 32:08
Opp. 21 PPG
Opp. 209 rushing per game (55% increase) / 156 passing per game
Opp. 31 total TDs
Opp. 365 avg. total yards / 5.2 avg. per play
16 TOs

Allowed 288 yards rushing vs. Bama
Allowed 390 yards rushing vs. Ole Miss. THREE HUNDRED NINETY RUSHING YARDS, in Kyle Field!!!!!
LSU had a 75 yard scoring drive that took maybe 1:20 off the clock in 3-5 plays.

Durkin should have been fired after last season. I am certain he will be fired after this season. That stupid grinning sideline face while his D continually underperforms based on his D philosophy and calls. 3 man DL in short yardage, 3-2-6 in long yardage, very little QB pressure.

The game vs. Miami was effectively over when we allowed them to go ahead TD right before HT, Miami went 75 yards on 6 plays in 44 seconds to take the lead going into HT.

Petrino was a good to excellent hire. Durkin was a questionable hire, I thought a terrible hire, and that is being proven game by game. Whatever our record is this season, it will -1 or -2 less Ws due to the incompetence of Durkin.

Any opponent with just a decent OL and / or an avg. QB just dominates Durkin's defense.

The 2022 Ole Miss game at Kyle Field should have been a fireable offense. Absolutely unacceptable.

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Yep, this.

Mack Brown sacked Manny Diaz in the middle of the season….so, canning DC's are not an impossible task.
IT CAN BE DONE, is all I'm saying.

as noted the problem is Jim Fisher choosing and hiring incompetent players and coaches.

Until Fisher is gone, we aint winning *****

It's honestly so unbelievably bad that he needs to be sacked. We could hire a former coach selling insurance to scheme a better defense.

ABATTBQ11 said:

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Alex580 said:

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I still dont understand how our PPG was so low last season. We were terrible against the run, couldn't rush the passer and didn't create turnovers.

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We played some really bad teams. Unfortunately, we were worse.

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Also, when his bend, don't break defense finally stopped teams to force a field goal, a miracle actually happened and we had opposing teams miss a bunch of them. I mean did Miami miss one or two last year?

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Bill Superman said:

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It's actually impressive to be unable to get any QB pressure with the most dominant group of D Linemen in cfb history…

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Half of which Durkin the nitwit leaves on the sidelines the entire game, including our edge rushers on obvious passing downs.

Glad we recruited them.

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Y I thought we'd be in a 5 man D line package most of the time given our talent up front.

Urkin truly is one of the worst D coaches I have ever seen.

I'm not trying to be funny or hateful. But a random person off the street that does not know football could take our great talent and do no worse.

Emilio Fantastico said:

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ABATTBQ11 said:

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Alex580 said:

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I still dont understand how our PPG was so low last season. We were terrible against the run, couldn't rush the passer and didn't create turnovers.

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We played some really bad teams. Unfortunately, we were worse.

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Also, when his bend, don't break defense finally stopped teams to force a field goal, a miracle actually happened and we had opposing teams miss a bunch of them. I mean did Miami miss one or two last year?

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Also, A&M offense was so putrid and our rush D was so putrid last year that teams could spend 20 mins driving down the field. Even just a field goal was a win because A&M offense would not score much. No real pressure on opposing team needing to score more.

If A&M offense was better last year then the D would have given up much more points last year, (See Ole Miss game for an example).

I get that the AD can't overrule Jimbo. But whatever power structure that extended him should have blocked the Durkin hire. It's insane that they pressured him to hire an OC but couldn't stop him from hiring that hack.

dreyOO said:

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I get that the AD can't overrule Jimbo. But whatever power structure that extended him should have blocked the Durkin hire. It's insane that they pressured him to hire an OC but couldn't stop him from hiring that hack.

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I think we need to stop believing a $600k-1million AD knows more about coaching than an actual football coach…

Upon hearing the news of his failure as the A&M defensive coordinator, Durkin just smiled and thought to himself, what's the difference between Laynes and Cains. Sometimes I'm in the drive through and I forget if I'm supposed to order the box or the three finger combo.

Sterling82 said:

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I know it's fashionable to criticize Durkin and the showing on Saturday justifies a good bit of it. But, at the end of the day, the issues are at the top. If we're not successful this year Fisher must be held accountable.

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I don't think there could be any clearer indication that you need a new HC than the defense sucking balls after the offense ball sucking from last season was corrected.

I think seeing Durkin on the sidelines in today's game, where the DC should be up in the boxes reading the offense from upstairs, is a big mistake.

I have never liked Durkin, and he wasn't great at Ole Miss before we paid him to come here, but last week's defensive performance was inexcusable.

We need to see a massive improvement the rest of the season, or he needs to go mid-season. That's just awful, awful defense. Either they are trying to do too much, or they are completely incompetent coaches.

We could run a basic nickel package and with our talent should be able to stop most offenses.

Those stats don't say what you think they say.

If you can't win giving up 21 ppg, Defense isn't the problem.