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It's way worse than that. People are not in a position to make plays. The scheming is completely inadequate. The offense sees opportunities and makes one block and the field is open to the goal line. This is not on the players. This is bad coaching.
Well, to be fair, Teddy G WAS once in their spots. As were a lot of great sports journalists who worked at The Daily. I can assure you they were not afraid to ask tough questions of coaches or players. If anything, the hubris of youth led them too far the other way at times.
Most students have a tough time asking direct and difficult questions, and now there are no professional reporters to model how to do it. It’s so sad. We play in the third-largest market and no media is around to give a crap. I genuinely hope Fitz never takes the Bears job because I think he’d melt under the slightest real scrutiny and it would suck to hate him.
I misread that you WANT him to go. I do not want that either, but yeah, they would roast him over an open fire
The Bears would be nuts to hire him and/or any NFL team. If he plays the CEO role the most important task is hiring/firing. Could you imagine him being taken to task on the SCORE 24/7? Fitz needs to do the right thing and make a change to his program, I am worried this won't happen quick enough.
You realize Colby is actually similar to Cheddar cheese, and has nothing to do with Swiss........
I think it goes without saying - but I will anyway - that it's funny because his name is Colby (like cheese) and his defenses were full of holes like Swiss Cheese. I think everyone gets that. If his name was Deuteronomy, it wouldn't be funny to say Deuteronomy Swiss Cheese.We have Turk, not surprisingly, to thank for that english malfunction.
Although Deuteronomy would be a wonderful name for a coach of the "Cats"
Plunging the program into a mini-Dark Ages helps nobody. It's hard to recover from stuff like that. A year of sporting the worst defense in FBS and with a coach that pretty much everyone is going to point to as the problem can hurt us for years.
We should want Fitz to make changes to get the defense working. If that involves meeting JON and telling him to change his schemes to more Hank-like schemes or demoting or firing him, that's what needs to happen.
Can we please stop repeating this nonsense? Yes, I criticized the LBs in the instant reaction to MSU, but now after five games it is abundantly clear to anyone who has analyzed the film that the LBs are being put in positions to fail by the scheme, including but not limited to the D-line technique.
Even before the season, I was seeing BS like "well, it's an odd year, so Northwestern will suck". Right- because we sucked in 2019 and...2013? We've already given the talking heads what they need to say we can't win 2 years in a row, even though we have done so. Do we have to make it a chemical spill?
Yeah I really don't get that stuff.
A problem like this can snowball to the point where it won't be an "only the odd year/off year" kind of thing.
There's not going to be a snapback from this without serious changes and fast.
Do we really want to test the waters in the portal era and with recruiting with such an obvious problem on one side of the ball.
Good luck to the coaches but it's going to be way too easy to negatively recruit against JON.
Should want to and the reality that is Fitz are mutually exclusive. Again, I have no control over it. Just looking for silver linings.
I don't think anyone is arguing that there isn't a drop-off in talent. I won't name names because others have here and elsewhere; however, there is enough returning talent/incoming transfers that we shouldn't have gone from first to worst. Worse than worst. The last time I can remember a 3 game P5 stretch of defense this bad was after Persa went down in 2010.
Doc - here is a list of guys that we know have talent based on past performance: Bergin, Joseph, Miller, Tomi, Hampton, Mitchell. Not a long list but not zero. Let's limit it to these guys for now. As I see it, only Tomi has made any real impact. Bergin has a bunch of tackles but hasn't really impacted any of these (P5) games. These guys are good players. Did they forget how to play? I don't blame depth because we are getting crushed early - before they are worn down. Our P5 opponents are averaging nearly 30 points per first HALF.
Also - consider that two of the three teams that clobbered our defense are mediocre to poor teams. Michigan State appears to be legit. But...Duke?? Nebraska??
I don't believe any rational fan (are there any?) would say the defense should be as good as the last year(s). It just shouldn't be the absolute worst.