What kind of defense do you prefer?

[Redux]

Stop trying to play perfect and play football.

At this level, defense is complicated but there is no reason to over-complicate it either.

McBride's defenses would still be successful today.

A defense should never allow an offense to dictate to them. Do what you do and do it well.

McBride has said multiple times, they never changed much. It was pretty basic with just some vartiations but it wasn't a lot of mixed formations with mixed coverages. We were deceptive, that's all. We would march six or seven to the line of scrimmage and only bring 3. The next play all seven would be in the bacfield making the tackle. We kept the opposing offense out of rythym and off balance.

We trusted our players and let them do their jobs. We challenged them to rise up, and most times they did. This allowed the defense to play aggressive instead of playing scared.

The best thing about McBride's defenses, those guys played from whistle to whistle, they hustled whether the play was to their side of the field or not. The result: Gang tackling, hard hitting, and turnovers. Multiple times a Blackshirt defender would chase an opponent down and strip the ball or if an opponent fumbled, there was always another Husker there to pick it up. Pure hustle every play. Good depth and rotation allows for this.

Another philosophy of McBrides was "play the ball, not the man". Blackshirt defenses were ball hawks.

We were't playing bend don't break, we were playing "break dat ass in two mother effer".....we didn't just want a nice little stop for a three yard gain and hope to force a short field goal or a three and out. We wanted the ball back to our offense and we wanted it now.

It's all about the mentality the coaches instill on a daily basis.

Is it wrong that I'm a little turned on after reading that?

[NebraskaHarry]

We can't have both?

[Bball1091]

To me, it seems if you play "mistake free" football, then you will be in the backfield often...so I pick both