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September 28, 2008
Alabama Kills Georgia's Zone Defense
If I had to draw up an offensive gameplan against Georgia it would be simple. Just watch the first half of the last to Tenessee games, the first half of the West Virginia Sugar bowl game, and last night Alabama game. I have never been a big fan our our defensive coordinator. Willie Martinez's soft zone philosophy is terrible. Alabama is a good team, but last night Martinez's soft defense made them look like world beaters. The blame for last night 41-30 beatdown can be pointed at a number of things, but when a defense allows 31 points in the first half the defense is non-existant. Is it a talent issue? No, unless you believe Tulane has more talent on defense than Georgia. It's a coaching issue.
Georgia cannot beat a team that can pass who can also block. We'll rust 4 or 5 guys and everyone else sits in a zone. It's predictable, it's pathetic, and it's time CWM finds another employer. Losing games happens, but our last two losses were over at half because the defense couldn't stop a simple short pass scheme.
Where do we go from here? It doesn't look good. We've lost another offensive lineman and our tight-ends are beat up. It's a testament to our offense that we were able to score 30 in the second half. Our offense did a terrible job of holding on the ball in the first half. With the defense struggling we tried too many bombs and big plays when all we needed to do was get the first down. I don't think Alabama is that great of a team; however, they are coached well. They took what we gave them and were able to kill the game off in the first half. Good coached offenses will continue to beat our bad coached defense.
Posted by nemov at September 28, 2008 9:01 AM
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