Florida ran for 302 yards and six touchdowns and Pete Golding's answer at the podium was manhood and a lack of courage. That's not the diagnosis. Ole Miss walked into Gainesville already surrendering an SEC-high 159 rushing yards a game, so Saturday wasn't an outlier — it was a trend arriving all at once. John Fourcade's fix, said on this show: more man coverage, cut the call sheet to about five things, start it at Vanderbilt. The case for it: this staff installed the system that took three years inside the building at Alabama, and installed it with eight new starters and one training camp. A defender a step late isn't a coward, he's a player thinking — and you fix thinking by handing him less of it. Then segment two. Kewan Lacy didn't play at Florida. JT Lindsey and Mekhi Frazier carried it 19 times for 73 yards late, and everybody filed it under garbage time. File it under an audition instead — the open date is three days to find out whether either can carry a quarter. The honest counterweight on both: simplify too far and good offenses eat simple defenses alive, and 3.8 a carry against a defense that stopped caring is not a number you build a plan on. Who gets the carries if Lacy isn't right? Tell me in the comments. Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/KF3dtcQJhC Locked On Ole Miss Hits — quick takes on the Rebels every weekday. Subscribe and hit the bell. Hotty Toddy. #OleMiss #HottyToddy #SEC #CollegeFootball #RebelNation #PeteGolding
Florida ran for 302 yards and six touchdowns and Pete Golding's answer at the podium was manhood and a lack of courage. That's not the diagnosis.
Ole Miss walked into Gainesville already surrendering an SEC-high 159 rushing yards a game, so Saturday wasn't an outlier — it was a trend arriving all at once. John Fourcade's fix, said on this show: more man coverage, cut the call sheet to about five things, start it at Vanderbilt.
The case for it: this staff installed the system that took three years inside the building at Alabama, and installed it with eight new starters and one training camp. A defender a step late isn't a coward, he's a player thinking — and you fix thinking by handing him less of it.
Then segment two. Kewan Lacy didn't play at Florida. JT Lindsey and Mekhi Frazier carried it 19 times for 73 yards late, and everybody filed it under garbage time. File it under an audition instead — the open date is three days to find out whether either can carry a quarter.
The honest counterweight on both: simplify too far and good offenses eat simple defenses alive, and 3.8 a carry against a defense that stopped caring is not a number you build a plan on.
Who gets the carries if Lacy isn't right? Tell me in the comments.
Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/KF3dtcQJhC
Locked On Ole Miss Hits — quick takes on the Rebels every weekday. Subscribe and hit the bell. Hotty Toddy.
#OleMiss #HottyToddy #SEC #CollegeFootball #RebelNation #PeteGolding