[Goose]

So, what to make of that? Clearly our defense can break down and give up some long runs, but it only happened on one drive and on the other 24 carries they actually performed quite well.

True. Fortunately, it was clear what happened on that drive. We were being victimized by over pursuit. The fix was to keep backside contain so the back couldn't simply cut back against pursuit. In particular, I remember Alfieri stuffing a counter play on the next drive after the touchdown. Up to then, counter action, either in the called play or the back just doing it, was killing us. We had a problem and we fixed it. Hopefully, any future problems will also be that easy to fix!

[Goose]

So, what to make of that? Clearly our defense can break down and give up some long runs, but it only happened on one drive and on the other 24 carries they actually performed quite well.

True. Fortunately, it was clear what happened on that drive. We were being victimized by over pursuit. The fix was to keep backside contain so the back couldn't simply cut back against pursuit. In particular, I remember Alfieri stuffing a counter play on the next drive after the touchdown. Up to then, counter action, either in the called play or the back just doing it, was killing us. We had a problem and we fixed it. Hopefully, any future problems will also be that easy to fix!