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Travell Dixon's performance on Saturday

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  • RoadDawg55
    RoadDawg55 Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 30,616 Swaye's Wigwam
    @IrishDawg22‌ - Great Post. I saw it the same way as you. Some terrible defense was being played, but penalties, dropped picks, and missed sacks greatly contributed to Eastern scoring 52. It could have been a lot different game. A big credit to Vernon Adams too. He is really good at keeping the play alive and I haven't seen a QB drop that many dimes in awhile.

    I thought Dixon looked pretty good. Jones struggled some, but he's physical for a slight freshman. I want to see him play a little more. Kelly has been really bad. His coverage and tackling have both been bad. At safety, I'm not sure who has been the best.
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  • fivehundredmileDAWG
    fivehundredmileDAWG Member Posts: 1,212
    RoadDawg55 said:

    @IrishDawg22‌ - Great Post. I saw it the same way as you. Some terrible defense was being played, but penalties, dropped picks, and missed sacks greatly contributed to Eastern scoring 52. It could have been a lot different game. A big credit to Vernon Adams too. He is really good at keeping the play alive and I haven't seen a QB drop that many dimes in awhile.

    I thought Dixon looked pretty good. Jones struggled some, but he's physical for a slight freshman. I want to see him play a little more. Kelly has been really bad. His coverage and tackling have both been bad. At safety, I'm not sure who has been the best.

    This my nega ^^

    Vernell is a combo of that black QB in Seattle that won't amount to much and Johnny Foosball ... The kid has ice in his veins.
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  • Tequilla
    Tequilla Member Posts: 20,270
    edited September 2014
    As usual @IrishDawg22‌ has this place dialed in ...

    The kids are young ... you can see glimpses, but it will take a bit of time ...

    The safeties really need to grow up in a hurry though ...

    One thing I will add is that there are a lot of people talking shit about the pass rush not getting to the QB ... but they are in general getting tremendous amounts of pressure on the QB. I'm very satisfied in that regard while also knowing that there's room for some improvement there as it is.
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  • RoadDawg55
    RoadDawg55 Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 30,616 Swaye's Wigwam
    Tequilla said:

    As usual @IrishDawg22‌ has this place dialed in ...

    The kids are young ... you can see glimpses, but it will take a bit of time ...

    The safeties really need to grow up in a hurry though ...

    One thing I will add is that there are a lot of people talking shit about the pass rush not getting to the QB ... but they are in general getting tremendous amounts of pressure on the QB. I'm very satisfied in that regard while also knowing that there's room for some improvement there as it is.

    I think we had 7 sacks, but the pass rush was not very good. There were far too many plays where Adams had all day to throw or only had to escape pressure from one guy. Some of those times were when we rushed three, which we did far too often. I think their needs to be some scheme/personnel changes from last week.
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  • Tequilla
    Tequilla Member Posts: 20,270
    @RoadDawg55‌

    That's the point I was making about there being room for improvement - the updated scheme/personnel changes could drive a little extra improvement.

    I agree that there's some opportunities for extra consistency in the pass rush.

    That being said, if you get 7 sacks each week, it's hard to get too critical of the pass rush.
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  • CuntWaffle
    CuntWaffle Member Posts: 22,500
    The secondary is going to be frustrating all season long, I have accepted that. Hopefully a little less frustrating each week. It is going to be set up very nice for the future since they will be rotating in a lot of young guys.
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  • CokeGreaterThanPepsi
    CokeGreaterThanPepsi Member Posts: 7,646
    I think we had about 11 sacks if not for penalties cancelling them.
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  • AtomicDawg
    AtomicDawg Member Posts: 7,389
    I don't expect the pass rush to be better against a balanced team. There was no fear of a running game.
    I think our secondary will be far below average this year. THis scrimmage on Saturday should tell us something as to how bad as Illinois doesn't run the ball either and should be similar to Wazzu and Cal.
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  • whatshouldicareabout
    whatshouldicareabout Member Posts: 13,019
    IrishDawg22 said:

    TD 1 - Cover 2, King got over late after cheating on crossing route.

    Yeah, they had the right defense called. King over the top would've been enough to break up the pass. In fact, you could see Peters chewing out King after the play because he was late over the top.
    IrishDawg22 said:

    TD 2 - straight man, Timu & Shaq got denied on blitz, Kelly with decent coverage, perfect thrown ball, but an experienced CB should have broken it up

    Yeah, Kelly was a step behind, got beat about 10 yards off the LOS and was playing catch-up. Adams saw it and made a perfect throw.
    IrishDawg22 said:

    TD 5 - Zone, Peters had to bump the outside WR, and it looked liked Shaq didn't get in the flat quick enough.

    They were in zone with Peters in the flat, Shaq inside and Walker deep. Peters had to cover the far WR leaving the inside one to Shaq. Shaq dropped back and the inside WR ran a short out route with Peters and the far WR bumping. It was an easy decision to dump it to the inside WR. He caught the ball in Peter's zone and Peters got off his block but wasn't able to make the tackle (a second too late). Shaq was late and ran behind the WR and Walker tackled his shoes. This one is a teaching point for the defense.
    IrishDawg22 said:

    TD 6 - Man by Jones with no safety help. Perfect coverage, perfect throw, perfect catch. Only coaching point would how he played the ball in the air.

    That and bumping his WR at the LOS. I think if we had Peters on the field that play, they would not have scored a TD.
    IrishDawg22 said:

    One of the big problems was our pash rush not getting to the QB on key plays, and when they did it got nullified by stupid penalties.

    That, but part of it was on Adams moving around in the pocket, escaping the pocket and buying time with his feet. EWU shifted their game plan to a lot of quick underneath throws after they struggled on the opening drive and it worked brilliantly when we were in zone coverage. They were able to move the field because the quick passes negated our pass rush (mostly 3-man) and Adams was able to find the open receivers. It was bad.

    But our coaching staff figured it out and made adjustments in the second half. If it weren't for Peter's stupid penalty and that fortuitous tip drill on 4th down, we could have potentially limited EWU to one second half TD and made the score 59-38. One of the more amusing adjustments was lining up Shelton in the 7-technique on some 3rd downs and stunting inside. I think he got a sack or two on that package.
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  • doogsinparadise
    doogsinparadise Member Posts: 9,320
    Tequilla said:

    @RoadDawg55‌

    That's the point I was making about there being room for improvement - the updated scheme/personnel changes could drive a little extra improvement.

    I agree that there's some opportunities for extra consistency in the pass rush.

    That being said, if you get 7 sacks each week, it's hard to get too critical of the pass rush.

    I would rather have had two sacks with pressure on every play than seven sacks and absolutely no pressurefrom the three man front.
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