1. Our defensive ends lost containment multiple times. With a mobile QB and a team running some option, that is a disaster waiting to happen.
2. Dykes has improved this season, but his lack of speed is a still a huge liability. We need to get some speed at safety. There were a few different plays that should have been 10 yard gains that turned into 20 and 30 yard gains.
3. Our LBs are still largely invisible. Jeff Smart was absolutely getting blown up by linemen on Saturday. The LBs have to get better next year or we're really going to struggle with a young, inexperienced defensive line.
4. Our blitz packages are too predictable. It seems like we failed to reach the QB on about 75-80% of the blitzes on Saturday.
2. Dykes has improved this season, but his lack of speed is a still a huge liability. We need to get some speed at safety. There were a few different plays that should have been 10 yard gains that turned into 20 and 30 yard gains.
3. Our LBs are still largely invisible. Jeff Smart was absolutely getting blown up by linemen on Saturday. The LBs have to get better next year or we're really going to struggle with a young, inexperienced defensive line.
4. Our blitz packages are too predictable. It seems like we failed to reach the QB on about 75-80% of the blitzes on Saturday.