Re: Isaiah Simmons and other thoughts

I had him picked as my breakout player for the defense this year and he was lost against A&M a lot. That is not too surprising as Fisher runs a complicated offense. I do believe he will learn from this and become a much better player from it. By game 5 he will be lights out. Also, I kind of like the fact that teams may try to pass more, it means they will give our Dline more to eat.

A&M played a nearly flawless game and had almost every tipped ball go there way.

I still feel like our offense was even more explosive last year and we haven’t found our identity yet, but such is life with a 2 QB system. This will gel and really is the main missing link right now. When we get our snap count up, things will look completely different. The Chad used to worry more about how many plays we could get in to wear a defense out than the quality of the play calls and it would bite us in the rear sometimes. I believe our OCs are trying to find that perfect blend of high snap counts and quality calls.

Either way, the best is definitely yet to come for this season.

Go Tigers.

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Sep 11, 2018, 12:46 PM

He just needs to learn that he has to account for a TE coming off the line or out of the backfield for a pass (or running back depending on what the other team lines up in). There were a few times were Isaiah was just reading the quarterback and watching his eyes. You can't do that at SAM. He will learn (hopefully). The one who was/is lost is Tanner Muse. He has not gotten better AT ALL in pass coverage from last year. Saw it against Furman and saw it again against A&M. It's almost sickening to watch him cover somebody. He just seems to always be out of position. Like one touchdown A&M had he literally dove BEHIND the receiver in the endzone to try and swat the ball like he was gonna be there to make the play or something. I don't know what he was doing. That's why Denzel Johnson played the whole fourth quarter because Muse was getting beat. Denzel just needs more live reps. He looked ok against A&M and I hope he plays some more. We just have to get better in pass coverage in general. Got guys looking in the backfield too much instead of finding the guy/area they're supposed to be covering. And honestly some of those touchdowns were luck. Like there's no way they could run those same plays (or any other pass plays for that matter) again on KVon Wallace or any defender and the ball just hits his hands and the receiver still catches it. Mond was lighting us up in general and did an amazing job of keeping plays alive, but some of those plays were luck. But hey, the way we played Saturday we might need some of that luck. I hope not. Hope this storm passes so we don't get a game cancelled!! We aren't like BAMA and can afford to take a week off and still get into the playoff, lol.

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Isaiah Simmons and other thoughts