In defense of the 2-gap and this coaching staff

[zoogs]

I'm a big believe in staying the course. If your personnel are not excelling at running a system you have worked towards and believe in - then keep working at it and developing the talent. Adjust year-to-year by all means with added wrinkles, but you can't simply graduate a few guys and turn the entire scheme front-and-back upside down. Especially in the middle of a season.

[BLACK22Trap]

A lot of heat coming down onto this style of play and I would just like to register and post in defense of the current system.

 

I played DE and was taught to do something very similar to what our D line is taught now. Get into your mans chest- stand him up- feel which way he is trying to take you and react. "read and react" 2 gap responsibility. A matter of fact our coach wanted a good 1-2 power steps out of stance(thats all). Always stay home to stop the reverse. Obviously these are some general rules but when you go any further up field you take yourself out of the play. You may be screaming for Merideth to rush the QB, but odds are he is doing a better job staying right where he is on his gaps containing the QB. Once he goes anywhere else that opens up a running lane.

 

I see why some of you want to lick your chops, pin your hair back and get up field, but I PROMISE that we would make way more mistakes and be 3 times as frustrated as we are right now. The 2 gap is the way to go.

 

Mcbride claims you need a very strong man to control 2 gaps? I disagree. How strong must a tackle be to get into his guys numbers? The other guy cant even use his hands? If he is double teamed, perfect- bring both guys down with you and roll into the play- and likely someone else is open to make the play(i.e SUH/CRICK)

 

We saw what this system can do back when we had the right players to run it. i.e 2009? with SUH and crew. Alabama literally said we had the better defense that year and that we made a lot fewer mistakes. That is because our guys were not rampaging up field. GAP CONTROL FOOTBALL/ASSIGNMENT FOOTBALL

 

Yes Alabama looks awesome being aggresive, but they also have the best players in just about every position on the field. When you have that it doesn't matter what system you run, youll likely win. ALSO Alabama and the SEC will pay for their oversigning and cutting of scholarships. It is very disgusting what kind of operation those teams are running and it is clear they are operating on a "win at all costs" model. It will not sustain.

 

I just want to touch on the UCLA loss. Yes frustrating. But I didn't see any comments about how those kids(UCLA) dont even start class until sept 24? I read that somehwere. Are those kids just hanging out playing football until then or are they in summer classes? Also, they had rice first and we had USM. Who do you think they were practicing for all spring summer fall? We HAD to put decent prep time into USM, they are always a very salty team. Either way, the end of the year will define the loss to UCLA and if we would have made 1-2 more plays EVERYONE would be picking us to win the B1G.

We made just about every mistake in the book and we were still in the game until the very end.... that is worth a shout out.

 

We've seen what our defense can be like when hitting on all cylinders and this year is the first time we will see our offense hitting on all cylinders. In time they will both hit at the same time and that is when we will shoot for a nat title. I am looking for this to happen next year

 

The mid 90's Huskers defenses says that the "read and react" you're advocating is pretty much worthless. However, Kevin Cosgrove's defensive style completely agrees with you.

 

And for the record Uncle Rico....I played DT...and I only worried about a screen or draw when I saw the tell tale signs of pulling lineman or one that let me go without any real resistance. In other words, I played fast and aggressive, but I kept my head up and played with smarts.

 

The best defenses we ever had here at Nebraska, those from the 90's run, played fast and aggressive and didn't worry about getting beat. Because they knew that if they played mean, fast, aggressive, and full bore on every snap by the time the offense "popped" a big play the Huskers would be up by 50 and it wouldn't matter.

Hilarious, call me Uncil Rico right after you refer to the golden 90's in 80% of your reply. I'm not going to sit here and break down every aspect of how to play the defensive line, but I can say using 1 guy per gap is the most worthless decision a coach can make, IMHO of course. If the best thing your coach had to tell you was, "play with smarts", then I feel for the program you came from.

 

As for "getting into the guys numbers", of course I mean shooting your hands. Only a rookie would ever let the Olineman get in on you, because his next move is to hold you nice and tight.

[The Dude]

I'm fine with the scheme. Bo will forget more about football than I'll ever learn, so I'm not going to pretend I know better than him.

 

And I'm really not sure changing the scheme would make our players any better or make the defense any more effective.

['SkersRule]

Hilarious, call me Uncil Rico right after you refer to the golden 90's in 80% of your reply. I'm not going to sit here and break down every aspect of how to play the defensive line, but I can say using 1 guy per gap is the most worthless decision a coach can make, IMHO of course. If the best thing your coach had to tell you was, "play with smarts", then I feel for the program you came from.

 

As for "getting into the guys numbers", of course I mean shooting your hands. Only a rookie would ever let the Olineman get in on you, because his next move is to hold you nice and tight.

 

What's hilarious is that you seem to think that you're the only one who's ever played football and knows anything about the game.

 

When Bo has a DT the caliber of Ndamukong Suh then this two gap read and react works really well.

 

But we don't have a player of that caliber and the way our defense has played the past two seasons clearly demonstrates that something needs to change.

 

Let me ask you seriously now: do do see Alabama or LSU's DL playing the kind of read and contain style that Nebraska does? Now I'm clearly not saying we have that kind of talent but playing "contain" with the front four and coverage with the back seven has resulted in Nebraska's getting torched by just about every offense.

 

Last year in Lincoln we played a Keith Price led Washington team and while we won the Huskies scored 38 points. This season, pretty much the same Washington team went down to LSU and scored a grand total of 3 points. In that game, LSU's DL just got after the QB. No worrying about him taking off and running, no worrying about getting beat deep, no playing scared. They got after the QB and darn near had a shut out.

 

But right, playing two gap and contain, stay the course.

[The Dude]

Hilarious, call me Uncil Rico right after you refer to the golden 90's in 80% of your reply. I'm not going to sit here and break down every aspect of how to play the defensive line, but I can say using 1 guy per gap is the most worthless decision a coach can make, IMHO of course. If the best thing your coach had to tell you was, "play with smarts", then I feel for the program you came from.

 

As for "getting into the guys numbers", of course I mean shooting your hands. Only a rookie would ever let the Olineman get in on you, because his next move is to hold you nice and tight.

 

What's hilarious is that you seem to think that you're the only one who's ever played football and knows anything about the game.

 

When Bo has a DT the caliber of Ndamukong Suh then this two gap read and react works really well.

 

But we don't have a player of that caliber and the way our defense has played the past two seasons clearly demonstrates that something needs to change.

 

Let me ask you seriously now: do do see Alabama or LSU's DL playing the kind of read and contain style that Nebraska does? Now I'm clearly not saying we have that kind of talent but playing "contain" with the front four and coverage with the back seven has resulted in Nebraska's getting torched by just about every offense.

 

Last year in Lincoln we played a Keith Price led Washington team and while we won the Huskies scored 38 points. This season, pretty much the same Washington team went down to LSU and scored a grand total of 3 points. In that game, LSU's DL just got after the QB. No worrying about him taking off and running, no worrying about getting beat deep, no playing scared. They got after the QB and darn near had a shut out.

 

But right, playing two gap and contain, stay the course.

Jason Peter, is that you?

['SkersRule]

Jason Peter, is that you?

 

LOL.