Defense and more specifically all of the "rules" in coverage are something completely alien to what it was like when I took my last snap of football in HS 40 years ago. Where we keep getting caught is in the pass offs which I think are like switches in man-to-man in basketball. Motion of an outside receiver into a bunch formation where the slot receiver and outside receiver responsibilities are changed and have to be communicated on the fly. That's what coaches are talking about when they say misalignments or poor communication which sounds like Coachspeak but it is as fundamental in defensive football as brushing your teeth before bed. We have been caught on it over-and-over all year and the offensive staffs of the teams we have played aren't idiots, they have increased the number of times they do this during a game. We got caught for TDs twice against BC with it, multiple times against Miami where it really is a fundamental within their scheme, burned on it by UVa for a 4th down score that was identical to the one scored by BC on 4th down that caught Puryear in coverage for an easy score. SMU and Ga Tech burned us for huge gains. The seam route for the TD against Notre Dame was the same thing and so was the 4th quarter lost responsibility breakdown that led to the TD scoring drive that was the score that proved to be the winning one.
It's damned frustrating to endure because it is coming on 3rd and 4th down so frequently that you not only aren't getting the stop, you're getting a crushing momentum shift and completely flipping the field.
