Halftime Adjustments

WanderingEagle · October 13

Are a LARGE reason why this staff is winning and succeeding

Was the defense bad tonight? Yep! Did the offense stall out on key drives and shoot itself in the foot more than once? You bet!

Defense allows 27 and gets shredded in the first half, only allows 10 in the second half and the touchdown came as the result of a pick in our own territory.

For all the criticism this defense has gotten, and much of it is valid, Morris (and to an extension Caponi) both deserve their flowers for how they've been able to make in game adjustments and correct things at halftime to keep us in games. Specifically in the 3rd quarter, we have the #1 scoring offense in all of FBS. And our defense ranks 35th in 3rd quarter points allowed. That is NOT insignificant.

It is so easy to be frustrated with our defense's shortcomings. I am not arguing that. But we have to give credit where it is due.

jtm0097 · October 13

I take back all of the mean things I said about this team and school during the game. The first half was not pretty but glad to see they made adjustments and we got the win. We are 5-1 with three tough games on the horizon. If we can find a way to win against Memphis, Tulane, or Army, there is a chance this teams ends up 9-3 or 8-4. It's been a roller coaster of emotions, but I am enjoying this season.

Edited October 13 by jtm0097

untcampbell · October 13

Just a passionate, but football dumb, fan here:

Morris, in the pregame interview with Dave, said something about having the IPads is really helping with the adjustments being made during the game. Guessing they are better seeing play feeds and making decisions as the game is happening. But hasn't that been a thing for years? Did we just get technology this season, or have we had it and we now have personnel that can react to it?

GMG

Green with Envy · October 13

9 hours ago, WanderingEagle said:

It is so easy to be frustrated with our defense's shortcomings. I am not arguing that. But we have to give credit where it is due.

But, do we? Yes, they continue to make adjustments. Credit.

But what about the first half? Game after game after game. Is it scouting? Is it preparation? Is it scheming?

We’ve got a bad defense, masked by playing some bad teams. If there isn’t defensive success in the first half, the next 3 games are going to be rough.

you can celebrate 2nd half adjustments if you want. But I’m holding out for 4Q of defensive effort because we were prepared going into the game. Haven’t seen that yet.

3_n_out · October 13

4 minutes ago, untcampbell said:

Just a passionate, but football dumb, fan here:

Morris, in the pregame interview with Dave, said something about having the IPads is really helping with the adjustments being made during the game. Guessing they are better seeing play feeds and making decisions as the game is happening. But hasn't that been a thing for years? Did we just get technology this season, or have we had it and we now have personnel that can react to it?

GMG

I think they only had YouTube on their iPads before.

El Paso Eagle · October 13

6 minutes ago, untcampbell said:

Just a passionate, but football dumb, fan here:

Morris, in the pregame interview with Dave, said something about having the IPads is really helping with the adjustments being made during the game. Guessing they are better seeing play feeds and making decisions as the game is happening. But hasn't that been a thing for years? Did we just get technology this season, or have we had it and we now have personnel that can react to it?

GMG

This technology was not allowed on the sidelines until this year.

97and03 · October 13

8 minutes ago, Green with Envy said:

But, do we? Yes, they continue to make adjustments. Credit.

But what about the first half? Game after game after game. Is it scouting? Is it preparation? Is it scheming?

We’ve got a bad defense, masked by playing some bad teams. If there isn’t defensive success in the first half, the next 3 games are going to be rough.

you can celebrate 2nd half adjustments if you want. But I’m holding out for 4Q of defensive effort because we were prepared going into the game. Haven’t seen that yet.

This. Amazing how unprepared the coaches seem for the beginning of the game. I wonder if they script the first couple of series and the other coaches are able to anticipate the calls? Our coaches look lost out there and the same stupid formation penalties keep happening.
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Edited October 13 by 97and03

meaniegreenie · October 13

Tackling was one of our biggest failures. I don't remember if it was that much better in the second half, maybe it was.

Of course, you can remind them wrap up, etc., and give them a good butt-chewing over it, but I wouldn't call it an "in-game adjustment".

BigWillie · October 13

1 hour ago, Green with Envy said:

But, do we? Yes, they continue to make adjustments. Credit.

But what about the first half? Game after game after game. Is it scouting? Is it preparation? Is it scheming?

We’ve got a bad defense, masked by playing some bad teams. If there isn’t defensive success in the first half, the next 3 games are going to be rough.

you can celebrate 2nd half adjustments if you want. But I’m holding out for 4Q of defensive effort because we were prepared going into the game. Haven’t seen that yet.

You could say this happened with Tulsa. They held them to 3 points for a majority of that game, Tulsa only got garbage points.

The only debatable part of that was how good Tulsas offensive is.

WanderingEagle · October 14

17 hours ago, Green with Envy said:

But what about the first half? Game after game after game. Is it scouting? Is it preparation? Is it scheming?

you can celebrate 2nd half adjustments if you want. But I’m holding out for 4Q of defensive effort because we were prepared going into the game. Haven’t seen that yet.

This is valid! I am certainly not disagreeing with this. On my podcast with with @BillySee58 I noted that I wanted us to dictate tempo after scoring first and we didn't do that.

I think the mindset I'm approaching it with is, we were literally working with the worst defense in the country last year. If the next step this year is a pretty bad defense that is succeeding when it comes to "bend but dont break" then I can live with it. Better QBs then Fancher have done less against us this year.