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Last year Diaz had great success overloading a single gap and winning with speed. They would send two guys at a gap and one guy would come through unblocked with a bead on the QB. Teams are now simply running away from the overload into the giant gap that it exposes. I don't know if they are able to do that because they had a year of film to prepare with or because the LBs are a bunch of gay troglodytes. I do know that they continue to do it and that in response, Manny continues to do nothing different.

I see a lot of people taking the original post as a knock on the defense. I think that is short-sighted. The defense is clearly an issue, but merely a symptom of a larger disease. The issue is Texas is soft. Neither line is capable of dominating. The culture at Texas needs to change. A new DC can not do that. A team will reflect its leader. Firing off at the DC is exactly what will keep the program stagnant. Do not allow yourself to scapegoat another coordinator or position coach. We have all been there. It does not change things. Changing the culture takes far more drastic action. It is time to hold Mack accountable

This is what we need

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It won't work and unless the whole scheme is changed the results will be the same next year. I really don't blame Diaz, he was honestly shocked and surprised Mack offered him. He had one year of experience with big time Division 1 competition at Miss State and had fairly good but overall mixed results in a conference that hadn't seen his schemes before.

Mack took a huge gamble, a completely unnecessary gamble after being turned down twice. Mack was being criticized in the local press for taking so much time hiring someone. He panicked and frankly it was shocking to anyone familiar with Manny's inexperience. Mack said he got Manny's name as an up and comer from multiple sources. That may be true but he was completely unproven. I don't blame Manny one bit for taking the job, anyone with any grit and ambition would have taken that opportunity on. This is Mack's deal and a huge error from someone who is hands off particulartly with the defense. he flunked his self described role as CEO with a terribly risky hire.

By the way I never understood why anyone thought this defense would be good based on last year's results. This defense never did perform consistently well against a good offense last year and got completely embarrassed by Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Baylor.

Sorry,

Revisionist history is a pet peeve.

Back to an otherwise excellent thread.

2 very well done posts but I will ask each, your thoughts on the "why" we have problems. (Mack sucks isn't what I'm looking for but think they realize that)

+1 for your use of troglodytes

And, it's beyond incredulous that our head coach just sits back and watches it. He has no clue how to offer help.

What still shocks me are all the short memories regarding Muschamp's defenses.

He lived and died with stunts and blitzes also and either came up with tackles for losses or gave up huge runs.

Lamar Houston and Henry Melton were great college defensive lineman and why they are successful in the NFL.

You can blame the putrid Horn offense all you want, but the 2010 Horn defense didn't exactly hold teams to a lot of FGs that season and was consistently gashed by below average teams.

In the interest of fairness, we stood up to bama pretty well.

But we lack any senior LBs and really and good lbs (sans the injured Hicks) along with no senior DTs and that is on Will.

still, thought Will was second only to GR and Tomeny as a DC here in the mack era, maybe even ahead of them.

If the MLB was Edmonds, he was easy to block because he plays high plus he's not suited to walk up & shoot the gaps. He's the defensive version of Bergeron as in he needs 4 yards to build up speed. He is a run thumper not a pressure the QB LB. He is at his best when he goes from the regular LB spot to tackle the runner, not from the DL. Just not fast enough.

I'll second that !!!

Bama didn't throw because our secondary would have eaten them alive while the game was still in doubt, and they didn't have to once it was clear that our offense was going to poop on itself in response to losing Colt. I don't blame them at all for that loss. They stood up very well for a long time in that game against a very, very good opponent.

They weren't terrible in 2010 despite several trumpeting how teams ran all over them. That D was weak up the middle due to playing Okafor at DT, Robinson's penchant for avoiding blockers, and Gideon's Gideoness, but it did quite well in adjust stats that year, and was sabotaged by a horrid offense that featured a turnover machine under center.

What does the hiring of Diaz say about Mack's football acumen?

30 years as a coach and Mack cannot analyze a DC?

It is time!