Can we make just one adjustment - maybe containment? If we take the QB on an option edge run there is no one to take the RB until he's already 9 yards down field. Consistently. Or any sweep, we just cannot contain. Granted we got ripped up the gut so many times that its pick your poison with our rush D, but basic containment, please. That, and spy the QB at some point if he's going to run it that many times.
In hindsight, Baylor was a recipe for disaster - we've been desperately looking to shore up busts in the secondary, but Baylor was determined to run it on us (which we should have seen coming - Bohanon is a mediocre passing QB). But the failure of in-game adjustments on either side of the ball was just eye-opening - a collective staff failure. "Playoffs!?!?!?"
Baylor was just not our day - when even Brkic gets an F (KO out of bounds and missing his FGs), you know you are in for a long day.
But either this staff makes adjustments vs ISU and @oSu or hopefully Riley nuts up and cuts dead wood. The CB coach needs to be toast already IMO (and that Grinch coaches safeties is concerning, to say the least). We have not faced great QBs this year (Casey Thompson set a career high vs OU and then KU - that should tell you something), and this secondary has still struggled. I believe resetting the D to help the struggling secondary is why we did so poorly vs BU vs the run; that we didn't get beat that badly in the passing game does not change that basic fact - its just allowed BU to take advantage of our over-compensation.
In hindsight, Baylor was a recipe for disaster - we've been desperately looking to shore up busts in the secondary, but Baylor was determined to run it on us (which we should have seen coming - Bohanon is a mediocre passing QB). But the failure of in-game adjustments on either side of the ball was just eye-opening - a collective staff failure. "Playoffs!?!?!?"
Baylor was just not our day - when even Brkic gets an F (KO out of bounds and missing his FGs), you know you are in for a long day.
But either this staff makes adjustments vs ISU and @oSu or hopefully Riley nuts up and cuts dead wood. The CB coach needs to be toast already IMO (and that Grinch coaches safeties is concerning, to say the least). We have not faced great QBs this year (Casey Thompson set a career high vs OU and then KU - that should tell you something), and this secondary has still struggled. I believe resetting the D to help the struggling secondary is why we did so poorly vs BU vs the run; that we didn't get beat that badly in the passing game does not change that basic fact - its just allowed BU to take advantage of our over-compensation.
