But don't you think it's safe to say that Bo and Carl have been very experimental with their combinations of players on the defensive side. I think this itself has led to the games seeming close, I think Bo and Carl were confident enouph that they could do this and still easily win their first four games. Just seems like we would dial it up, especially on O and score pretty easily when we needed to. See the second half of the Fresno St. game and the same with Washington. We basically ran the ball at will when we needed to and weren't testing things out. Tenn Chat and Wyoming never had a chance and you saw all kind of crazy combinations of players on D.
Well you raise an interesting point, but I personally don't know how much stock or credit to put behind it. There's nothing experimental about the fact that Andrew Green got beat three times against Washington for touchdowns, and got beat a couple other times just on pass protection. There's also nothing experimental about how Cassidy hasn't been playing the safety position consistently well at all.
Furthermore, there isn't a lot experimental about the fact that our linebackers (including the all-american candidate) keep screwing up on run-defense and making the wrong reads.
I think a lot of what has happened has been about defensive scheme. Our secondary doesn't play well enough to drop seven into coverage. But when we get aggressive, bring an extra blitzer or play bump-and-run, the defense seems to play better.
On offense, I think a lot has been experimentation so far, so I agree with your point offensively more-so than defensively.
This makes me think that they have been doing something different on defense. Cassidy is one that is known to have the defense down pat. and is the one that gets guys lined up, but he even has looked lost in what we have been doing.