Nebraska's Chance Against Our Schedule
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Lack of pressure means slow playing, reading, two gapping
When you DONT get upfield quickly, you are in MUCH better position to handle typical "trickeration" (hate that word) plays like draws, screens, shovels. traps, waggles, boots, reverses or other dispy doodle stuff
And no we wont see that against well coached teams and we havent yet because they are suboptimal plays against the type of defense we play
They Can and Do work well against teams that run the exact opposite of what we run
Changing the question- common, Not what we were "debating"
The SCHEME we USE NOW is MUCH more effective against all the dipsy doodle stuff I described than aggressive defenses
That is why you havent seen the 4 teams we played already run any of it
They have all stuck to basic zone, power and a little pin and pull stuff.
Yes, philosophicaly if you asked 100 HS or College coaches that question, all 100 would all agree with me, Im absolutely positive of that
When you play aggressive defenses- you run: traps, draws, screens, boots, waggles, reverses, play action passes, counters, shovels, roll outs, run pass options- and even some more elaborate deception plays
When you play defenses that arent aggressive you run: powers, straight zone runs, pin and pull runs, split flow runs, drop back passes
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I am I
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Further evidence is when we finally left the gate open w an all out blitz against GA they went 80 yds on a screen pass.
Redux
Assistant Coach
Again. I get your reasoning. But the whole point of a trick play is fooling your opponent to the extreme of gaining a certain chunk of yardage. Wheher its a screen pass on a 4and1 or a draw on 3and10 or a Statue of Liberty for a 2 pt conversion.
Call it a double fake then. We expect them to expect us to not pressure but they were expecting that so they throw a run at us expecting us to expect them to pass boom 13 yards. Mind. Blown.
Call it a double fake then. We expect them to expect us to not pressure but they were expecting that so they throw a run at us expecting us to expect them to pass boom 13 yards. Mind. Blown.
You are right and 100 out of 100 HS or College Coaches you would ask about this are wrong, you win
I totally get why these college coaches get so frustrated with "fans" poor fellas. Like telling a 5 year old not to touch a hot stove, yet they continue to do so and tell you they like it LOL Pointless
I totally get why these college coaches get so frustrated with "fans" poor fellas. Like telling a 5 year old not to touch a hot stove, yet they continue to do so and tell you they like it LOL Pointless
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Redux
Assistant Coach
Are you trying to tell us youve coached at the high school or college level? I think I gathered that from your mentioning coaching every post. Good lord, I dont give two oompa loompas what the book you bought at the dime store says. You could have a signed copy of Bear Bryants playbook. If the players do not reaxt properly to a play designed to fool them. Yards will be gained. The pressure doesnt matter. The prevent doesnt matter. What matters is if the players react properly to a play rhey werent ready for. Im not talking formations and schemes. Black and White. Delayed/Improper reaction to tricky play MAY end in big yardage. Verbatim. Even if you and your coach friends drew it up different. Man alive, why didnt Bo hire youas DC? Obviously you know more than JP himself. Or are you John Papuchis?
True2tRA
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That was simply a well timed play call on their part. They called screen and caught us in a blitz. Nothing more, nothing less. It certainly doesn't mean we should not blitz. IMO this defense needs to do quite a bit more blitzing.
I am I
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Oh, I agree. I wish we'd bring more heat. A lot more heat.
But pertaining to the awesome argument at hand, we play pretty 'read and react'. A good example of getting burned was that particular play.
I was saying when a defense is selling out to the ball one way or the other, those plays can happen more often. I like Bo's philosophy of making teams run (hopefully) 9-12 plays to score rather than giving up HUGE chunks over the top a lot.
But it goes both ways, if a defense blitzes at great times, it has rewards. If an offense runs "trick" or misdirection plays at the right time it burns a defense.
I think Bo constantly harping "execution" means:
We don't need a TFL or a sack or some crazy blitz every 3rd play, because--if executed properly--our defense forces offenses to play pretty mistake free football. Which is hard to do drive after drive.
Which is why I think mobile QBs give us suc trouble. We can play our D very very well--but a mobile QB "keeps plays alive" outside our Defensive box and can gash us.
I'd like to see pressure when pressure isn't expected like 1st and 2nd down to force teams out of THEIR box.
But pertaining to the awesome argument at hand, we play pretty 'read and react'. A good example of getting burned was that particular play.
I was saying when a defense is selling out to the ball one way or the other, those plays can happen more often. I like Bo's philosophy of making teams run (hopefully) 9-12 plays to score rather than giving up HUGE chunks over the top a lot.
But it goes both ways, if a defense blitzes at great times, it has rewards. If an offense runs "trick" or misdirection plays at the right time it burns a defense.
I think Bo constantly harping "execution" means:
We don't need a TFL or a sack or some crazy blitz every 3rd play, because--if executed properly--our defense forces offenses to play pretty mistake free football. Which is hard to do drive after drive.
Which is why I think mobile QBs give us suc trouble. We can play our D very very well--but a mobile QB "keeps plays alive" outside our Defensive box and can gash us.
I'd like to see pressure when pressure isn't expected like 1st and 2nd down to force teams out of THEIR box.
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Someone that has actually played and probably coached
Basic agreed upon football philosophy
