You guys know that Albin is the Offensive coordinator right? I think this would be more suitable a fire Jimmy Burrow thread. We did give up 56 points to one of the worst teams in America!
His awful defensive calls lost us the Camellia Bowl too.
Nope! The defense is what we thought it would be: A good front 7 (only 106 rushing yards surrendered in a game that went to 3OT to go with 6 sacks), and an inexperienced secondary. I'm not shocked we gave up 440 yards passing when we were daring them to throw the out route over and over, and they did. You can complain that's a scheme problem, but again, we knew our corners were going to be inexperienced, so I get why we played such soft coverage. Could we have adjusted? Sure, but then we risk giving up an easy score deep.
And I think a big part of the problem our defense had was a result of the offense's poor performance. Not counting the end of the first half, we had 16 possessions. Of those 16 possessions, we had a grand total of one that lasted more than four minutes. In the 2nd quarter, we went 3 plays for -40 yards, 3 for 5 yards, 3 for -3 yards, and 4 plays for 23 yards. We scored 0 points.
If the offense can't sustain a drive in the first half, you can't be shocked when the defense gets fatigued and gives up big plays in the second half.