After the loss to Tennessee, has the secondary falling short?

[FeatheredCock]

After the loss to Tennessee, has the secondary falling short?



Oct. 27, 2019


Gamecocks toke another on the chin Saturday with a 41-21 loss to SEC rival Tennessee, coach Will Muschamp pointed to the many defensive issues that one could simply be a major player in the defensive break downs that have plague this team. (VIEW ARTICLE)

 

[Papadoc]

So sick and tired of hearing excuses from Muschamp.  I was wondering if he can get us back into the acc.  Easy schedule easy teams to beat, win 7 or 8 games every year, go to a mid level bowl.  And every few years steal one from clemsux and go to the playoffs,  win win.

 

[Mr Ed]

Heard somewhere one analyst say that the book on S.C. secondary was that we were physical, but kind of slow.  I think that’s shown up a couple of times this year. 

Tennessee was able to protect with 7 and give their QBs time to throw.  I hope McClendon was taking notes.  

 

[Pitchcock]

 Tennessee was able to protect with 7 and give their QBs time to throw.  I hope McClendon was taking notes.  

One big problem is our receivers as a whole just not elusive/athletic enough to get open consistently.

The only receiver we have who could play for pretty much any team on our schedule is Edwards.  Even at that he wouldn't start at several of the teams we play against.

WE need some gamebreaking guys who are a threat to take it to the house every time they touch the ball. Shi wants to be that guy, but he's too inconsistent. Edwards wants to be that guy, but he's more of a tough yardage possesion type receiver.

When Edwards is our best choice at returning punts, it clearly illuminates how short we are on pure dynamic athletes....like when Hurst was tried at PR because we didn't have anyone else who could do it.

The only way to fix it is through recruiting, but literally everyone zeroes in on the top guys. We either need a booster to "encourage" a couple of high caliber guys to come here, or we need to get really lucky with a few Pharoah/Deebo type of guys.

 

[gAmkok]

So sick and tired of hearing excuses from Muschamp.  I was wondering if he can get us back into the acc.  Easy schedule easy teams to beat, win 7 or 8 games every year, go to a mid level bowl.  And every few years steal one from clemsux and go to the playoffs,  win win.

We lost to a rebuilding UNC and will lose to Clemson again. The ACC isn't a cupcake schedule for our team.

 

[dreammachine]

One big problem is our receivers as a whole just not elusive/athletic enough to get open consistently.

The only receiver we have who could play for pretty much any team on our schedule is Edwards.  Even at that he wouldn't start at several of the teams we play against.

WE need some gamebreaking guys who are a threat to take it to the house every time they touch the ball. Shi wants to be that guy, but he's too inconsistent. Edwards wants to be that guy, but he's more of a tough yardage possesion type receiver.

When Edwards is our best choice at returning punts, it clearly illuminates how short we are on pure dynamic athletes....like when Hurst was tried at PR because we didn't have anyone else who could do it.

The only way to fix it is through recruiting, but literally everyone zeroes in on the top guys. We either need a booster to "encourage" a couple of high caliber guys to come here, or we need to get really lucky with a few Pharoah/Deebo type of guys.

You make some very good points here.  I have also wondered at times where our receivers are at when our QB is running for his life.  Our O-Line is not that good and this in turn makes our QB (Regardless of Who Is Playing QB) have to get rid of the ball a tad bit quicker than they do in practice.  This in turn makes our receivers have to catch a ball that is either "too high - too fast/hard - or in the dirt - wrong side of body - etc".  It seems as though every QB we play against has enough/more time than he needs to get rid of the ball or check off to another receiver.  Heck, sometimes we don't have time to throw a pass out into the flat?  Where is Orte Smith at this year?  He is 6ft - 4 inches and should give you those tough - hard - yards - that a team needs for a first down and thus freeing up B. Edwards and S. Smith?  I just think our O-Line could do a heck of lot better job of protecting, thus ensuring the receivers have time to run their routes and the QB has enough time to at least hit his first read on a pass play?

Is being the O-Coordinator too much of a strain to also be the receivers coach?  Maybe we need to allow someone else to handle receivers and just allow Coach B-Mac to concentrate on our offense?

If our O-Line cannot protect our QB properly, then keep in a back or two to help with the protection as nothing else seems to be working?

 

[zcoop]

It does matter who the QB is when it comes to pass rushing. Some can make the defense honest and some can't. No QB is going to get 4+ seconds of protection in the SEC, so the winning teams have guys that can move. Fromm is an exception but UGA is a run first offense with them being tailback U, it works well for them.

I don't get the unwillingness to try other guys when what we're doing isn't getting it done. That is a definition of insanity. Say what you want about SOS but he didn't mind yanking an unproductive QB to get wins.