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greenyellow wrote:As I said in the game thread, Donte Williams is the new CB coach since Clark left for Ole Miss this off-season.

GrantDuck wrote:There's a couple issues here. First is recruiting in that we don't have any upper class corners. It's a Helfrich staff issue first and foremost. Donte didn't recruit until this year and he's got some real top tier kids coming in.

^^ my thoughts also, this is still pretty much the kids Helf and staff recruited, he brought in some gems, fat Mac, Dye, Herbert, Jelks....... but the DB class has suffered and Helf and staff dropped the ball there, case in point Schooler was a starting safety as a true freshman. Mario needs a couple of years to bring his players in, again I'm very excited about this coaching staff!

I don't think it's a coaching issue, but that may be something to re-visit if they keep throwing Graham out there and we don't see improvement overall.

I agree, I don't think it's a coaching issue although I did disagree with a few of their decisions last night, clock management, bringing in new RB's that hades played yet on critical plays, change of play calling in the second half. Overall I agree with your thoughts on Gramam, one has to wonder what real talent is behind him. I also feel the same way about Johnny Johnson, the kid is not making points in my book. Too many dropped passes this season, most other WR's had that part of their game figured out last night, not JJ. Also that "after the play Personal foul" late in the game was stupid and I feel shows a bunch about his mindset and maturity. But yet they keep putting him in....... is Schooler really that much worse? How about the guys behind him?

GoDucksTroll wrote:Graham had a great tackle on a WR screen where he took the ball away and should have been a turnover, but overall he played poorly. Lenoir is a little better. Our safeties were bad. Kaden Smith and Colby Parkinson just took us apart. The DL didn’t get good pressure often enough to help out. Thankfully we don’t have another team like this on our schedule.

Quietduck wrote:We can complain about the cornerback play all day but remember just two years ago where our DB's were five yards away when the ball got there. At least now they are on the receiver and trying to fight for the ball. Not everyone will have huge receivers and hopefully, they will learn from this game.

UOducksTK1 wrote:

Quietduck wrote:We can complain about the cornerback play all day but remember just two years ago where our DB's were five yards away when the ball got there. At least now they are on the receiver and trying to fight for the ball. Not everyone will have huge receivers and hopefully, they will learn from this game.

I was gonna say, our corners were in the position to make plays A LOT. Stanford is probably the worst matchup team for us in terms of WR vs DBs.

As a whole, I thought our corners played well, and were very close to batting down a lot more passes.

Everythingsducky wrote:

UOducksTK1 wrote:

Quietduck wrote:We can complain about the cornerback play all day but remember just two years ago where our DB's were five yards away when the ball got there. At least now they are on the receiver and trying to fight for the ball. Not everyone will have huge receivers and hopefully, they will learn from this game.

I was gonna say, our corners were in the position to make plays A LOT. Stanford is probably the worst matchup team for us in terms of WR vs DBs.

As a whole, I thought our corners played well, and were very close to batting down a lot more passes.

Bottom line, is that they DIDN’T make the plays. You know what close counts in...Cal has 7 picks this year in one less game than UO. Why aren’t these DB’s actually getting to the ball and getting picks? The D line is mostly holding its end of the bargain.