Holes in the secondary need to be addressed

[BlacksburgHokie]

Of all of the good aspects of the game today, the one thing that really stuck out as a sore point was our pass defense. It's a good thing that Griese kept missing on his long throws since it seemed like there was a player running free in the secondary at least once every possession. I don't know whether it was a scheme problem or just mental mistakes, but something definitely needs to be changed for next week.

[Magstuff]

Heck Dave Archer said against Tampa you gotta cover Galloway and the tight ends. He said gotta cover the tight ends a bunch of times, and the tight ends were killing us. That and the draw play.

[BenB321]

Of all of the good aspects of the game today, the one thing that really stuck out as a sore point was our pass defense. It's a good thing that Griese kept missing on his long throws since it seemed like there was a player running free in the secondary at least once every possession. I don't know whether it was a scheme problem or just mental mistakes, but something definitely needs to be changed for next week.

I don't think it was that bad. Really our defense kept us in the game. Every NFL offense is going to be able to move the ball at some point. I was more concerned with our run defense. I think that the Lions were more impressive throwing the ball than the Bucs.

[Falcons 'til Death]

Of all of the good aspects of the game today, the one thing that really stuck out as a sore point was our pass defense. It's a good thing that Griese kept missing on his long throws since it seemed like there was a player running free in the secondary at least once every possession. I don't know whether it was a scheme problem or just mental mistakes, but something definitely needs to be changed for next week.

Chalk that up to inexperienced secondary. This time next year, we're going to be impressed with their play.

[FalconFanForLife]

Yeah we got a good schooling today and that just makes you better in the long run.

There will be more games like today.

I was impressed with the way we came back after going down 17-0.

They had the Bucs shut down after that till Graham broke that long run.

[GEORGIAfan]

im sorry, but wasnt lofton suppose to be a run stuffer? and they ran up the middle all the time. i say we get a good coverage MLB and move to the cover 2 for the time being, then go cover 2 once the secondary gets better. id rather have them rushing, when we could use an excuse, but the runs were horrible.

[SwaG FactorY EnT]

I think the game plan was to do a lot of Zone Blitzing in order to get pressure on griese, and when the pressure didint get there he found the open man. There are usually holes in zones and if you give the QB and WR enough time they wil exploit them. Overall I thought they did a pretty good job griese was like 15 of 32 or something