Blackshirts!

[BigRedBuster]

While I am certainly capable of overthinking things, I think you are under-thinking this. When a team hands out Tier One identities to 3 of it's 4 in the Defensive Backfield, just who would YOU target first (and often) if YOU were the offensive coordinator? It is an outward symbol you don't know who deserves a Blackshirt at that position.

Maybe the two on the other side are very good, but fairly equal.  It doesn't mean they suck.

 

[GSG]

Wouldn't the guys WITH the Blackshirts have a bigger target on them? I mean they're supposed to be living up to the lofty standards of defenses of yore 

 

[Mavric]

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[In the Deed the Glory]

While I am certainly capable of overthinking things, I think you are under-thinking this. When a team hands out Tier One identities to 3 of it's 4 in the Defensive Backfield, just who would YOU target first (and often) if YOU were the offensive coordinator? It is an outward symbol you don't know who deserves a Blackshirt at that position.

Dude, I think they know who Cam Taylor-Britt is and would go the other way anyway…

 

[cheekygeek]

Dude, I think they know who Cam Taylor-Britt is and would go the other way anyway…

Good point.

 

[UniversalMartin]

I feel for that 4th DB (or 2) because (with no Blackshirt awarded) Frost has just put a big target on THEIR back for Saturday’s game. Expect them to be tested early & often by Illinois.

AND if a safety is helping out to that DB’s side, look for Illinois to try to exploit THAT. Frost just made their offensive game plan a bit simpler. (Unless “It’s a trap!”)

Is this the first pregame-One that Frost & Co. have handed out Blackshirts instead of playing motivational games with them?

If a teams offensive game plan is centered on getting success on players that did not get blackshirts...than as a HC, I go Oprah and "BLACKSHIRTS FOR EVERYONE!!!"