The Secondary

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Florida football: Making sense of Florida’s secondary woes
I thought this was a good article. We know they have issues,..the numbers prove it. And the part about the coaches, well, I expect comments..lol.

 

[NVGator]

Do we even have one?

 

[FireFoley]

The Gators entered Saturday ranked 91st in passing downs success rate allowed and 96th on 3rd-and-long


It's not known as 3rd and Joe Lee Dunn Jr. for nothing.

Florida has very good coaches on defense, and you won’t find many secondary coaches more well respected than Torrian Gray (corners) and Ron English (safeties).

I could not read anymore after that sentence.

 

[gatorfan81]

Sometimes coaching isn't at fault when your players consistently take the wrong angles or are manhandled by recievers. It becomes a coaching issue when those players are allowed to keep their #1 status

 

[gatormandan]

Sometimes coaching isn't at fault when your players consistently take the wrong angles or are manhandled by recievers. It becomes a coaching issue when those players are allowed to keep their #1 status

Our players dont look like they are taught to tackle.

 

[The Lateral Move]

What's a secondary?

 

[gatorfan81]

Our players dont look like they are taught to tackle.

Believe me they know how they lack the common sense to do it. They would rather have that oh wow hit instead of wrapping up and driving someone back

 

[deuce]

fire them all!

 

[The Lateral Move]

Not terrible for an SDS article

 

[cover2]

It’s hard to imagine an SEC defensive staff 1) having so much trouble getting the secondary lined up properly (e.g. inside vs. outside leverage) as often as it looks to occur, 2) struggling with substitutions against an up-tempo offense that they surely prepared for, 3) having so many players taking shallow angles to the football, 4) safeties excessively deep on their drops, and 5) extremely inconsistent to poor tackling technique.
Something is not connecting somewhere, obviously.

I would agree with the article’s author that our pass rush hasn’t exactly been stellar, but it has gotten some better (UGA game for instance), but backed up some Saturday. Our LBs have struggled in their cover assignments and this can have some effect, but doesn’t account for so many busted assignments and dreadful techniques. I know we’ve had recruiting concerns, but some of the guys making constant mistakes have been around 2-3 years now. A few were highly regarded coming out of high school. They’ve had pretty much the same staff working with them as collegians. What does that point toward?

 

[Ancient Reptile]

What's a secondary?

What's a tackle?

 

[no1g8r]

What's a secondary?

Also known as the end zone welcoming committee.

 

[rogdochar]

Vandy's QB threw several pinpoint passes, unlike other QBs we've faced. A couple of times those WRs were adequately covered; Gators just let them pull off the good catch. Maybe from here out our DBs will block completions and make interceptions. They've gotta start sometimes, don't they?
Looked to me like they were more times in good position, -- maybe they are getting better? Should be seen in next game.

 

[Slug]

What's a tackle?

It's when you dive, head down, at the opposing players feet.

 

[divits]

DPU.

 

[jdh5484]

It's when you dive, head down, at the opposing players feet.

Oh. I thought they were diving for dropped change.

 

[Slug]

Oh. I thought they were diving for dropped change.

That's a possiblity.

 

[neteng]

The worst thing I saw in the game was us playing some kind of BS hurry up defense. Our players were tired and confused from having to sub in every single play. I think fathead todd is just trying to get too cute instead of playing a more central game plan.

 

[Tunaboat]

Looked to me like they were more times in good position, -- maybe they are getting better? Should be seen in next game.