Going into the 2009 Egg Bowl,
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Nix couldn't coach is way out of a wet paper bag.
Watch this weekend. It's funny watching a front 4 that slants and stunts, and seeing that the LBs aren't being coached to move and fill based on the stunt.
We move our front 4 all the time and leave our LBs with the instruction to still just read and react. That's why it's so easy to run a read option against us. If Mullen is smart, he'll run zone read left and right the whole game and see if Nix has figured it out. Hint: He hasn't.
He's too stupid. As I said, if you don't score 40 on us this weekend, you should be sorely disappointed in your offensive performance and game plan.
If you run the right style of offense, and we have personnel advantages in the right spots against that right style of offense, Nix can look like a genius. If not, he's going to get torched. It's easy to see why Spurrier kept Ellis Johnson and was willing and ready to let go of Nix. I wish we would go out and hire someone who at least has an understanding of basic defensive principles. I don't have faith though.
Watch this weekend. It's funny watching a front 4 that slants and stunts, and seeing that the LBs aren't being coached to move and fill based on the stunt.
We move our front 4 all the time and leave our LBs with the instruction to still just read and react. That's why it's so easy to run a read option against us. If Mullen is smart, he'll run zone read left and right the whole game and see if Nix has figured it out. Hint: He hasn't.
He's too stupid. As I said, if you don't score 40 on us this weekend, you should be sorely disappointed in your offensive performance and game plan.
If you run the right style of offense, and we have personnel advantages in the right spots against that right style of offense, Nix can look like a genius. If not, he's going to get torched. It's easy to see why Spurrier kept Ellis Johnson and was willing and ready to let go of Nix. I wish we would go out and hire someone who at least has an understanding of basic defensive principles. I don't have faith though.
I wouldn't have much faith either, seems to be lacking in oxford. I'm just scared that our defense from the bama and arky game will show up and we will end up in a damn shootout against OM in their house. I don't like that situation.
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Because you guys sure didn't have the same opinion of Nix when he had Peria Jerry, Greg Hardy, Marcus Tillman, Kentrell Lockett, etc. That line was dominating. Even last year the defense was pretty good all things considered.
And for the record, I don't think last year for MSU was ALL on Torbush. Coaching means alot, but we also replaced some personnel late in the year. And didn't really lose much this year, thus the good defense.
My point is, coaching is important but players is the most important. Your porous defense can't all be attributed to Nix because he's proven that he can succeed. I hope you do get rid of him because you'd be firing your best recruiter.
And for the record, I don't think last year for MSU was ALL on Torbush. Coaching means alot, but we also replaced some personnel late in the year. And didn't really lose much this year, thus the good defense.
My point is, coaching is important but players is the most important. Your porous defense can't all be attributed to Nix because he's proven that he can succeed. I hope you do get rid of him because you'd be firing your best recruiter.
With the right personnel and match up combinations, I could look good as a DC. Nix has issues with the same types of offenses, even when he has better personnel, because he's not good at adjusting.
It becomes even more glaring if his personnel can't overcome his lack of coaching ability for him.
I was down on Nix as far back as the middle of the 2008 season at times, because he couldn't adjust. Having a dominating front 4 and some solid experience in the back 7 allowed for him to get around that.
I've watched us all year slant our front 4 without sliding anyone back outside for contain, and it burns us over and over. That's not a personnel issue. When we run into a read option team, any read option team, Nix doesn't understand that he can't keep using the aggressive, attack approach. It's clear we have no concept of assignments on defense. Our defense is a mix of stunts and blitzes. We mix that up, and that's about it. Same approach every game regardless of the opponent or the offense. Past that, we either get lucky, or we have enough talent to make plays in spite of our coaching.
The option works well against us because we don't sit back and wait on it, and we won't this weekend. Watch. We'll attack attack, and just open holes for Relf and your RBs to run through by playing too aggressive. It's the same problem LSU had against us. We ran all over them, and it sure as hell wasn't because Jared Duke and AJ Hawkins were dominating Drake Nevis and Kelvin Sheppard. It's because they were over-aggressive, which you can't be against a read option team. LSU is just in a spot where they still have enough talent to overcome it most times.
So yes, our talent drop off has something to do with the fact that Nix's deficincies are being exposed, but the deficincies have been there from the outset.
As far as the recruiting goes, isn't Derrick Nix the one that's the good recruiter? I didn't think Tyrone did a whole lot on the recruiting trail. I could be wrong on that.
It becomes even more glaring if his personnel can't overcome his lack of coaching ability for him.
I was down on Nix as far back as the middle of the 2008 season at times, because he couldn't adjust. Having a dominating front 4 and some solid experience in the back 7 allowed for him to get around that.
I've watched us all year slant our front 4 without sliding anyone back outside for contain, and it burns us over and over. That's not a personnel issue. When we run into a read option team, any read option team, Nix doesn't understand that he can't keep using the aggressive, attack approach. It's clear we have no concept of assignments on defense. Our defense is a mix of stunts and blitzes. We mix that up, and that's about it. Same approach every game regardless of the opponent or the offense. Past that, we either get lucky, or we have enough talent to make plays in spite of our coaching.
The option works well against us because we don't sit back and wait on it, and we won't this weekend. Watch. We'll attack attack, and just open holes for Relf and your RBs to run through by playing too aggressive. It's the same problem LSU had against us. We ran all over them, and it sure as hell wasn't because Jared Duke and AJ Hawkins were dominating Drake Nevis and Kelvin Sheppard. It's because they were over-aggressive, which you can't be against a read option team. LSU is just in a spot where they still have enough talent to overcome it most times.
So yes, our talent drop off has something to do with the fact that Nix's deficincies are being exposed, but the deficincies have been there from the outset.
As far as the recruiting goes, isn't Derrick Nix the one that's the good recruiter? I didn't think Tyrone did a whole lot on the recruiting trail. I could be wrong on that.
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He's not good. If we could swap DCs going into this game, I would actually feel fairly good about our chances. I think Diaz has done a pretty good job this year, and at least he seems to understand basic defensive concepts other than the twist, slant, and blitz.