We seem to have great weakness in the film review dept. Have to get better staff in that area.
2 things come to mind in regards to this, the first is if they are watching and dissecting film are they teaching the correct responses to the given situation. We see the defense exploited in the same 2 areas over and over which is the secondary in middle coverage and the inability of the DE/LB to recognize an outside run(set the edge)…..we know there are some talent/size/experience issues but are the position coach's walking the players through enough reps in practice to hammer the point home....My conclusion based on the season results are no.... Getting beat up the gut is more on personnel and I'll give a pass on that for now.
Offensively the "slow start" that Itraz mentioned could be by design, here's why. We still 8 years later have some sort of wiring problem that makes our offense go dead for a couple of quarters in almost every real game save for the Idaho's and such. My belief is that Mullen knows this and tries to coach around it by having Franks throw mostly sidelway passes and run the ball(we do always take 1 long shot on the first series) but if he sends Franks out there with too much on his shoulders throwing the ball he chances losing his confidence later in the game. We also don't want to put even an adequate passing QB from the other team out there too many times and have him build a ton of confidence against our secondary, even the likes of Shurmur of Vandy, Locke of Mizzou, Fromm, and the UK QB torched our guys in the first half...Sad but for this game and the bowl game TOP will be our best friend....
