Yeah, well, there is that.... You win. I just thought we'd be smarter than that. There is no excuse for 28 points in the 2nd quarter. I'm amazed that people are bytching about Treon and Taylor and given Coach Sideways Hat a pass for his shytastic gameplan.
The thing is, people think playing soft zone helps the DBs, but it doesn't. They take their drops then have to basically wait a second for the WRs to get to them, now at full speed, then the deep zones (usually safeties but sometimes CBs in cover 3 or 4) pick which one to cover and how to move (deeper than the deepest). It's hard to have an SEC receiver running at you full speed and have to try to intercept them by accelerating from a stop to try to cover them. So many times they just blow right by the flatfooted safeties as we've seen so often. Moreover the gaps between the safeties (or deep corners) and backers are so much larger that it makes it easy for even poor QBs to hit the intermediate routes. The gaps in front of the LBs are also huge, not that some of our LBs have any ability to cover regardless of the scheme.
It's also really hard for the safeties to be so soft and deep when on running plays too, when they usually C/D gap responsibilities or have to clean up inside when Morrison completely disappears for an entire game again. They are so deep that they tend to try to cheat on the run, so as to not get abused by the TB, and find themselves just like they were in that long TD on the flea flicker, running the wrong damn way (both of them) when they SHOULD have noticed a receiver still running his route.
If you are going to beat us, we should make you work at it. Stuff the box and make you hit the long pass over the top (not in front of) the safeties. Most of these college QBs just can't hit those and many cant hit anything if you don't let them gain confidence by giving them the easy short passes in front of the soft zone repeatedly.