Dickert postgame presser.
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“You’re not gonna win a lot of games giving up 600 yards of offense and it starts with me.”
Let’s see it then. Cause his 425 defense is gonna see nothing but 1-3 TEs and compressed bunched wide receiver sets from here on out. He will be challenged on size, double team blocks, sheer numbers at the point of attack and in the box. He is gonna earn every nickel of his paycheck.
Stone and Jackson had 2 tackles and 3 assists yesterday. I want to see how his scheme can adjust so teams don’t take 2 of his best defensive players out of the game altogether.
Let’s see it then. Cause his 425 defense is gonna see nothing but 1-3 TEs and compressed bunched wide receiver sets from here on out. He will be challenged on size, double team blocks, sheer numbers at the point of attack and in the box. He is gonna earn every nickel of his paycheck.
Stone and Jackson had 2 tackles and 3 assists yesterday. I want to see how his scheme can adjust so teams don’t take 2 of his best defensive players out of the game altogether.
This is his defense’s first bad game in what 9? Oregon has a bunch of NFL caliber OLinemen. They were the best graded passing OLine coming into this game which included a game against GA. They are F’ing good, and we knew this was going to be a tough test. The D will be fine. Dickert is a good coach and defensive mind. We were outmatched and overpowered, and that happens sometimes. Too bad we couldn’t make a play to pull it out. There were chances to seal it, just couldn’t get it done.
Im not talking about just the OL. It’s the addition of TEs, wings, bunched WR sets at the edge of the OL that concerns me.
He is overwhelmed with the size of players, the number of players and the angles they have on his front 4. His scheme is easy to overwhelm at the line of scrimmage.
My concern is that Oregon just laid out the blueprint on how to run up tons of yards on his scheme. Can the defense continue to hold teams in the redzone? I hope so. But as Neuheisel said… “hope isn’t a strategy for success.”
Dickert has work to do.
Not disagreeing there, there’s always work to do. Dickert is a strategist and his players play their asses off for 60 min. When you’re WSU playing Oregons or USCs you are always scheming for angles and favorable matchups because you are almost always going to be physically outmatched. They didn’t have the answers yesterday and I suspect we will see a lot of that with Oregon in particular this year. They will put up 550+ and 40+ on most teams not named Georgia. I also feel like he will get this defense to respond.
You’re missing the point. It isn’t the kids that need to respond. The kids will play hard. It’s him. He can’t line up with 4 DL against 6-7 huge blockers. He can’t have a LB lined up wide at corner. He can’t have 9 players on the offense all packed at the line of scrimmage and not have an answer.
It wasn’t just that Oregon ran up 625 yards. It’s that they put his scheme in conflict.
Stone and Jackson were schemed out of the game. It wasn’t a lack of effort. They play hard.
I’m not missing the point I hear you. I’m just not concerned about Dickert making the right adjustments. He’s by and large done it game after game, and maybe more importantly at halftime of games he’s coached in. I’m disappointed they lost and got torched defensively but have no concerns of this thing spiraling or our defense all of a sudden being Swiss cheese the rest of the year.
I don’t know that it’s something that can be fixed on the fly. It could involve getting larger personnel. He may be able to fix it as best he can…. ultimately that fix may be in the off season. That’s my concern.
We obviously were at a talent disadvantage against both Wisconsin and Oregon. Any objective observer knows that. What you can't seem to grasp with your comments is that those guys aren't available right now and won't be any time soon. There is no "bigger dude" magic wand.
What's important is that Dickert has created a great team environment where you can tell that he's got the team believing in each other and playing better than their talent should allow. Committing to a philosophy and using a lot of rotation to help our guys play aggressively has worked very well in the red zone this year, including most of the day yesterday.
The issue that we have isn't with getting bigger dudes on the defensive line. If you watch the game and watch the press conference, you know that our biggest issue defensively is that we just don't have the right talent in the secondary. Our linebackers are great at disrupting the run and they are playing their asses off, but they lack the speed to cover in space. As much as I like Henley....he kind of sucks donkey balls in any type of pass coverage. And our secondary players have shown that they struggle with minimizing available space for other passing offenses to operate in. We don't need "larger personnel", we need our players to read and recognize what opposing teams are doing more consistently. The pick six by Mauigoa was an excellent example of a player knowing what was coming. We need more of that. Dickert and his players talked about execution....not making excuses about needing different dudes.
I'll just finish by saying that I don't know what kind of coach you were and how good you were at your job, but I'll say that Dickert is the real deal and if you don't see it....that makes me question everything that you post about him. He knows how to bring a team together and get them to play hard as hell. Only time will tell if Dickert and his staff can be great at X's and O's because I do agree that there is work to do, but in terms of personnel management and being a leader, I'll say that Dickert is clearly better than Rolovich and arguably better than Leach as well.
He’s got a decent sample size already IMO. He’s proven he can make adjustments and coach. The diff between Wisconsin and Oregon is simply athletes on the edge. Our DBs couldn’t stay with Oregons athletes one on one so we couldn’t stack the box the same way, which was needed because Oregons OLine us every bit as good as Wisconsins.
Good news is we’ve seen the two best OLines we will all year already.
I'm waiting for two things.
1.) Cal will show that we can focus on the next game, and that is a game we need to win. A win there will set the stage for the rest of the season. We have to play well every game. We are not good enough to slack off against any team on our schedule.
2.) SC has every bit as good WR's as Oregon and our secondary will be tested. However, SC's OL is not as good as Oregon, so we should be able to get some pressure on the QB. How that plays out will be the story of the game, along with how our OL does against SC's D front. Our OL has made progress every game, though against Oregon that wasn't obvious...I think at least partially because Oregon's D line is pretty good. Also worth noting that SC needs to fix a lot of the issues they showed against OSU. If they were to play the way that they played at OSU for the rest of the season, they will lose several games. So their progress is part of the story, just as our progress is part of the story.
1.) Cal will show that we can focus on the next game, and that is a game we need to win. A win there will set the stage for the rest of the season. We have to play well every game. We are not good enough to slack off against any team on our schedule.
2.) SC has every bit as good WR's as Oregon and our secondary will be tested. However, SC's OL is not as good as Oregon, so we should be able to get some pressure on the QB. How that plays out will be the story of the game, along with how our OL does against SC's D front. Our OL has made progress every game, though against Oregon that wasn't obvious...I think at least partially because Oregon's D line is pretty good. Also worth noting that SC needs to fix a lot of the issues they showed against OSU. If they were to play the way that they played at OSU for the rest of the season, they will lose several games. So their progress is part of the story, just as our progress is part of the story.
