Inquiring minds want to know.

Durkin sucks. Next question.

They scored 3

Still mad, never want to see that 3 lineman front unless we're ahead by 35 and there's less than 3 minutes left

He still stinks.

Hold Auburn & Arkansas to both <20 and then we can talk.

Still have the same concerns going into SEC Play. Little to no consistent pressure on the QB and a lot of DBs chasing receivers from behind. Better tackling but still room for improvement. Durkin needs to study the Bama game today and learn a few things from how South Florida pressured the Bama QBs.

Somebody please post the "you serious Clark?" Gif....Durkin should be fired. The players held ULM to 3pts not his defensive scheme.

He can get a lower case d when he does it against someone that matters.

We will score enough offensively to not have defense be a huge story line for us vs Auburn and Arkansas.

I think Ol Miss might give us serious trouble. Demani looks like he's gotten slower back there.

Durkin sucks balls. Gotta get rid of him and OL coach.

Pressure, negative plays, and turnovers.

That's what you want to see against a weak opponent, regardless of the scheme or game plan.

So I'd say, yeah, still not liking what we are getting from the D coordinator.

Durkin has Jimbo's job in his hands. Hopefully Jimbo realizes that

It was ULM! what do you think?

We don't pay him to limit ULM to 3 points. We pay him to limit the power teams we have to beat and so far he's been completely inept at that

Did we still get embarrassed on D my Miami last week? Then we are still justifiably mad.

Beating ULM in no way makes up for that. That is what you are supposed to do, bare minimum.

This guy shouldn't be around kids let alone running our defense. He needs to be shown the door.

If you have watched last season to now, you already know.

Urkin will urkin and there is nothing we can do about it.

It was ULM. I could coach A&M over ULM just on the player talent disparity and I suck at coaching.
Urkin is who he is and this will not change. Probably a good guy but not a competitive D1 D coordinator. He was an issue last year but his failings were overshadowed but the OL issues. This year OL issues likewise are now overshadowed by urkins incompetence.
Just a note on the OL issues, all OLs during Fishers tenure regardless of OL coach have been slow to gel.

AgTrip said:

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They scored 3

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Which was about as impressive as falling off a ladder and hitting dirt

Unless those 3 o lineman rushers were 5 stars with amazing results, that should never happen.

We are unsound vs the run not only by alignment but also by assignment and in addition by personnel

The Run:

Go watch how we play counter in this game vs Miami. The end crashes inside and the DB, that he has playing that extra backer position because he refuses to take one of the 6 DBs off the field, squeezes inside the pullers getting cut off as well and by doing that... cuts off the other backers from scraping over the top.... it's bad .... really bad football and the moment we play someone who runs counter, GF, power, dart, wham, and any other power run concept we are going to get ripped.


When he goes with his hyper-light box he has the Mike backer playing both the A and B gap with no "check" backer helping on the weak side B gap with flow away… that is unsound as unsound can be.


In addition to that since he has the backers 2 gaps they are always slow to fill, which is why you see them very often catching guards and not attacking their gap…. Because they have 2 and it's a guessing game.


Vs tightend and tightend/wing he does an Under front kicking the strength away from the tightend or extra gap… that is fine if you have a Sam backer in a 40 (4-3) front or OLB in a 50 (3-4) front….. It's a problem when you have a safety as that extra defender to the front. Even when he goes to his 4 down front he tends to have DBs playing those extra backer positions (like counter vs Miami). I can say with quite a bit of confidence those DBs aren't doing inside drills regularly and learning how to fit up counter, power, dart, etc. So its unsound because of alignment, assignment, and personnel

The pass:

He loves playing match man when he drops 8 (does it in all looks but this is the biggest problem).... OC's love that... they can use the DBs rules against them to get the match up they want and have plenty of time to let those plays develop. When we play zone it looks like we rarely practice it, the players look lost and look as if they are still using match ques in their drops, which again is bad because the OC will recognize that and use it against them. He voids the middle of the field all the time, because in his Match 3 concept he has no middle zone dropper… his extra zone dropper is the Nickel to the strength.. Which is why crossing routes have been a killer against him both years. In addition to that he always plays man concepts to the weak side which is why the "wheel" route (Back out down the sideline) is always open. He will match the Back with the backer. Good example of this is vs Kiffin who did tightend-wing into the boundary and ran a drag/climb/wheel scheme. The drag picks the backer, the climb "grabs" the safety's attention because his rules in match are to match that route… and now you have the Wheel running free.


He is unsound

Today, he showed us a little d.

btglow87 said:

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We are unsound vs the run not only by alignment but also by assignment and in addition by personnel

The Run:

Go watch how we play counter in this game vs Miami. The end crashes inside and the DB, that he has playing that extra backer position because he refuses to take one of the 6 DBs off the field, squeezes inside the pullers getting cut off as well and by doing that... cuts off the other backers from scraping over the top.... it's bad .... really bad football and the moment we play someone who runs counter, GF, power, dart, wham, and any other power run concept we are going to get ripped.


When he goes with his hyper-light box he has the Mike backer playing both the A and B gap with no "check" backer helping on the weak side B gap with flow away… that is unsound as unsound can be.


In addition to that since he has the backers 2 gaps they are always slow to fill, which is why you see them very often catching guards and not attacking their gap…. Because they have 2 and it's a guessing game.


Vs tightend and tightend/wing he does an Under front kicking the strength away from the tightend or extra gap… that is fine if you have a Sam backer in a 40 (4-3) front or OLB in a 50 (3-4) front….. It's a problem when you have a safety as that extra defender to the front. Even when he goes to his 4 down front he tends to have DBs playing those extra backer positions (like counter vs Miami). I can say with quite a bit of confidence those DBs aren't doing inside drills regularly and learning how to fit up counter, power, dart, etc. So its unsound because of alignment, assignment, and personnel

The pass:

He loves playing match man when he drops 8 (does it in all looks but this is the biggest problem).... OC's love that... they can use the DBs rules against them to get the match up they want and have plenty of time to let those plays develop. When we play zone it looks like we rarely practice it, the players look lost and look as if they are still using match ques in their drops, which again is bad because the OC will recognize that and use it against them. He voids the middle of the field all the time, because in his Match 3 concept he has no middle zone dropper… his extra zone dropper is the Nickel to the strength.. Which is why crossing routes have been a killer against him both years. In addition to that he always plays man concepts to the weak side which is why the "wheel" route (Back out down the sideline) is always open. He will match the Back with the backer. Good example of this is vs Kiffin who did tightend-wing into the boundary and ran a drag/climb/wheel scheme. The drag picks the backer, the climb "grabs" the safety's attention because his rules in match are to match that route… and now you have the Wheel running free.


He is unsound

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u know more about football than me... but this sounds not good..

He is in Year 2 of a two year contract. Hurry, extend him before he gets away!!!!

Let's Aggie this thing up as usual

Durkin will continue to use his damn 3 man front, no pressure on the QB, and continue to have our DBs chasing receivers. Btglow87 put it in more detail, but Durkin should have been fired after last season. I truly hope Durkin only has a 2 year contract, and can begin packing up his office pronto...

trueaggie2782 said:

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Today, he showed us a little d.

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The same problems are still there on defense.

dlsarmi2 said:

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Durkin will continue to use his damn 3 man front, no pressure on the QB, and continue to have our DBs chasing receivers. Btglow87 put it in more detail, but Durkin should have been fired after last season. I truly hope Durkin only has a 2 year contract, and can begin packing up his office pronto...

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Hugh Freeze runs the type of offense that will stress this defense. Next week will be interesting to watch.

He still sucks, and the defense is slow as molasses.

btglow87 said:

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dlsarmi2 said:

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Durkin will continue to use his damn 3 man front, no pressure on the QB, and continue to have our DBs chasing receivers. Btglow87 put it in more detail, but Durkin should have been fired after last season. I truly hope Durkin only has a 2 year contract, and can begin packing up his office pronto...

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Hugh Freeze runs the type of offense that will stress this defense.

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You mean the kind that takes advantage of stupid people?

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btglow87 said:

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dlsarmi2 said:

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Durkin will continue to use his damn 3 man front, no pressure on the QB, and continue to have our DBs chasing receivers. Btglow87 put it in more detail, but Durkin should have been fired after last season. I truly hope Durkin only has a 2 year contract, and can begin packing up his office pronto...

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Hugh Freeze runs the type of offense that will stress this defense.

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You mean the kind that takes advantage of stupid people?

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"If you line up like cones you will get treated like cones" as a great coach once told me

It didn't matter how many d linemen were up front. We couldn't generate any pressure on the QB of a weak opponent. The secondary held up only because they didn't have the same talent of SEC teams to defend against. It's not looking good from my perspective.

Yep.

"Take what they give you, son"

Well, we give A LOT

The defensive talent carried the day on an inferior offense. The Durkin scheme will fail against every SEC team. He needs to go but not gonna happen. It's a shame that we now have a offense that can score with anyone and a defense that will us down because of coaching and scheme, not talent.

_uck _urkin