Blitzing Duke on the long pass play to white on west virginia's first touchdown. Left adams in single coverage
But then people complain that we never blitz and play 10 yards off all the time. If anything, we've blitzed poorly way too much this year as we seem to constantly end up with safeties or linebackers one on one on receivers. The biggest issue is our front 7 has an incredible ability to not make plays at the point of attack as we saw over and over yesterday. I'd say that Hayes has done a much better job putting his defense in position to make plays (especially compared to Dimel and the offense), just way too often our guys don't when they get to the QB.
I agree with this, the main issue is that there is a huge lack of a pass rush by the defensive linemen. And when they do finally get into the backfield, they somehow whiff so badly that the QB just easily spins off of them and heave a 50+ bomb.
Basically put, the D-Line isn't athletic as it once used to be. And it's hard to expect Walker and Geary to get anything done when the offense know they can just double both of them while singling up everyone else.
Our run defense, for the most part, is OK, and that's what this D-line is built on. But when they sub out Dishon and Geary, the subs aren't very good on getting any pass rush at all.