I'm not here to defend our secondary. Lord knows they were a weak link last year. But the majority of the plays over the middle to their TE was the fault of our LB's. I re-watched the first half and there were 4 plays where they connected between the LB's and safety's. On two of the four plays, DeAndre Ward, a former walk-on, let the TE run by him without even noticing. One play was covered by Gerri Green, again letting his man run right by him without bumping him and trying to hold him up. The fourth play we were in man, and Redmond let the slot guy run free, again without the slightest bump and he caught the ball between he and the safety.
They were also confusing the LB's with their routes using multiple folks in one area. Hats off to USM for doing this, but we need to get that cleaned up. This was the same thing No. Miss. was doing to us last year. Teams are going to continue to do it until we get it fixed.