I know some coaches like to get after it as soon as possible following a mediocre performance, but that might be pushing it a little.

as you noted is the pass defense. Just awful. And for the love of Sir Big Spur, quit trying to insert Connor Shaw in the wrong places. His role is mop-up duty this season.

And thank you BC Eagles. You made my day better.

1. I never thought I’d say it, but the secondary is just not very good, while the DL is playing lights out. I am worried what Ryan Mallet is going to do to us. Props to Simms for a great first half, and Bray a great second half despite a horrific pick-6 on his first throw. But Mallet plays at a different level, and in a league with Alshon Jeffery, Julio Jones, Randall Cobb and AJ Green, its easy to forget that Joe Adams is a stud WR who would be first team all-conf in any other league (he’s injured against Vandy). Even if the Hogs struggle a bit against Vandy (which I doubt) they will be tough, tough, tough against us.

2. I’m told Shane Beamer is a heckuva recruiter (see eg, Damiere Byrd) and, of course, he is Carolina’s recruiting coordinator. But you’re right the special teams are just bad. Lanning is 1-2 on his last three FG. We’re barely getting kicks inside the 10, and giving up too much in returns, while I haven’t seen us take a return of our own over the 45 in I don’t know how long. Punt coverage nearly killed us … Ace fieled better but picked up a moronically dumb personal foul hitting Cunninghman out of bounds; Stephon Gilmore lost track of the ball and nearly gave Tennessee a gift that would have tied the game at 31-31.

3. There’s going to be grumbling about the play calling on the Boards this week.

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I know I sound like a broken record, but I’m just making my opinion official in the official post-game thread.

As for the pass defense, I don’t think they can just blitz over and over again. Arkansas will catch on and use screens to pick up as much yardage as they would have tossing it deep. They do need to bring the house, but sparingly. Mixing it up a lot will be the key. Arkansas needs to call a deep pass play when they’re blitzing more than one guy, not anticipate the blitz and just dump it off for a big gain. The pass defense is bad, but they do hold once in a while. Our defensive coordinator and Spurrier need to realize that, and trust them to do their thing against Arkansas’ receivers. Going from one extreme to the other would be catastrophic.

Like I said, mixing it up a lot is the key. I’d like to see at least three corner blitzes during the game. They need to blitz the whole front six, and the spur, at least twice. They need to do some stunts and blitz Paulk a few times. They also need to back off and only rush three a couple times to keep them guessing, and try to get a coverage sack. As soon as Arkansas keys in, the game may be over.

just needs to start being much more aggressive with his playcalling and coverages. Hes obviously still using WAY TOO much soft zone, there is no way our secondary goes from one of the best in the nation to one of the worst in the nation in one season.

Hopefully they will come out next week and have one of their best games. One thing I have noticed is they are not playing with fire at all, they seem to not wanna be out there.

How many are we willing to give up? Johnson said earlier this year that part of the reason for the soft zone was depth. He didn’t want to wear his guys out. But if you get off the damn field, you won’t wear them out. Gets on my nerves.