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Defense Question

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September 28, 2014 at 3:48am
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So, I watched the game in a bar tonight.  Like everyone else I was freaking out about the long pass plays we kept giving up.  My question is this, were those plays due to bad scheme or due to individual mistakes? 

The fact that it happened three (or four depending on how good that interference call was) times and that Urban talked about needing to pull our cover guys off the line indicates it was a scheme thing. 

The other side of the coin is that outside of those three plays, the D actually held up well.  This wasn't like the Clemson game where Watkins had a billion catches and bled us to death.  The drive chart listed on ESPN for Cincinatti is actually pretty ugly.  It was big play or bust for the Bearcats for the most part.  They had 12ish drives and 8 were 5 plays or less and none were more than 8 plays.

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