Tackling was an Issue During First Scrimmage
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The worst news you can hear from a scrimmage is the news of a season-ending injury. The second-worst news is probably hearing the team struggled to tackle. Today, we got both.
Both defensive coaches talked about what they must improve over the next few weeks, most notably tackling. D.J. Eliot said the coaching staff is going to harp on tackling in the weeks to come after today’s scrimmage. Mark Stoops wants to get as many live reps as possible for the inexperienced defense.
“We’ve got to get that experience. That’s why it’s so important for us to get out there and play a game and put them in that situation because we have some guys that haven’t played much in this system,” Stoops said. “We need to continue to get out there and get as many game-like situations as we can. We did get quite a few snaps today. Hopefully we’ll learn a bunch from this.”
Courtney Love’s reasoning is understandable; they simply had trouble wrapping up. To be fair, they probably haven’t tackled in a live game situation since April’s Blue/White Game.
Hopefully today helped kick off the rust. If the problem persists, the offense will have to carry the team more than we initially thought.
9 Comments for Tackling was an Issue During First Scrimmage
Same shit different year sounds like
Inexcusable. How can a defensive coordinator from Fla St. not be able to teach tackling. We haven’t had Division 1 tackling since Rich Brooks left.
Nothing new. They can never tackle worth a crap. One reason they lose to sucky teams.
I learned to tackle in HS…
Didn’t everyone who actually played in a football game??
Issues with fundamentals of the game are unacceptable at this level and a cancer that has plagued this program for YEARS.
I appreciare KSR’s attempt to be positive, but many (not all) of the bloggers on this site, whom I respect very much, they seem to live in a different reality as exampled by their constant beratement of DJT and NEVER comment on the “goings on” of HRC…
Sorry to get political, but it seems to me that a Democratic “lean” is a requirement of employment here…
In other words, living in an alternate reality…
Its simple: It’s because DJT is THAT much worse than everyone else. I know it’s hard for you to believe.
And in what reality do you live in where a guy who never really says anything of substance, is suddenly going to make everything better? I’m sure the transgender and Mexican stances really strike a chord with you, though. So there’s that.
Tackling an issue? Shocker
I swear, I really thought Eliot would say, “The reason they were so successful, was because we did not prepare for what they did today.”
Seriously, make the move, Stoops. This guy is killing you. He is not a DC, he is not a recruiter, he is not a good coach.
Good god, you’re miserable.
I AM MISERABLE