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Re: Game Week: Improvement Week
Just getting caught up after not logging in this week at all and this post stood out to me. You are really not paying attention if your calling out the starting defensive ends. Game 1 they maybe had 20 reps and coaches had them out on passing downs. There is a game within the game for a defensive end. You have to set up the tackle throughout the game to get that one sack per game and when you aren't on the field on 3rd and long (we pulled callendars redshirt and he took 3rd down reps) he gets to take advantage of the work the starters did.
Game 2 Montana state. The team prepared all week for an option team and rightly so, that's the body of work msu had put on tape. If you watched the first quarter our defense was incredibly effective. Somewhere in the second quarter soulek got hurt which was obvious, but both kern and earith did as well. Both of them finished the game (this is not to say soulek should have). Our young defensive ends played the end of the game in obvious passing situations but the coaches had obviously souls out to make msu pass instead of allowing option to get going (think cal poly last year). Doing so in high altitude you get wore out.
Last week vs drake kern and earith both played maybe a quarter and half and smenda was back and I believed mason started instead of earith. Again like the first game of year not many reps and due to injuries to starters both were done really early in game and both have sat out of the practices that I saw this week.
My final point is this. Why do you think our linebackers have so many tackles in a game? Our defensive lines job isn't always to rush a quarter back. Their job is simple eat up blockers so the line backer can make a play. It's been this way for a long time, so before you blame the d line or specifically the d ends for not living up to your expectations realize it's not your expectations they are worried about they get graded by the coaches for both practice and games and if they weren't doing their jobs the way they are coaches they wouldn't be starting.
Originally posted by WestSideRabbit
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Game 2 Montana state. The team prepared all week for an option team and rightly so, that's the body of work msu had put on tape. If you watched the first quarter our defense was incredibly effective. Somewhere in the second quarter soulek got hurt which was obvious, but both kern and earith did as well. Both of them finished the game (this is not to say soulek should have). Our young defensive ends played the end of the game in obvious passing situations but the coaches had obviously souls out to make msu pass instead of allowing option to get going (think cal poly last year). Doing so in high altitude you get wore out.
Last week vs drake kern and earith both played maybe a quarter and half and smenda was back and I believed mason started instead of earith. Again like the first game of year not many reps and due to injuries to starters both were done really early in game and both have sat out of the practices that I saw this week.
My final point is this. Why do you think our linebackers have so many tackles in a game? Our defensive lines job isn't always to rush a quarter back. Their job is simple eat up blockers so the line backer can make a play. It's been this way for a long time, so before you blame the d line or specifically the d ends for not living up to your expectations realize it's not your expectations they are worried about they get graded by the coaches for both practice and games and if they weren't doing their jobs the way they are coaches they wouldn't be starting.
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