Ebyl is the King of ignore and insults. Don't take it personal. He back up your facts with his insults and running.
He is a "take my ball and go home" kinda guy. I think you were wrong on this post but I ain't gonna cry about it.
You know, you seem like a cool cat... what do you think the coaches can do to get the players to shore up the holes in the run defense? I bet Wistrom and those guys would get their azzes chewed bad by McBride, and look how they turned out! I think we are coddling this team too much. just my honest opinion.
A big problem is that Coz has his backer blitz off tackle, he should consider run blitzes in the gaps instead. Also, our D-line plays too high which makes me think coaching sucks and they are tired. We need to say forget it and play 8 in the box by bringing Ruud up to the line on the strong side, have the DE play heads up on the tackle to shoot the gap and then bring up our best safety in run support. He would play Weak side and Dillard and Octavien would be in the middle. That is our best bet I think.
WOW!! Thats an awesome answer... much respect to your knowledge of the inner workings. What does playing too high mean? they are being asked to move around too much?
Don't forget the RUN and the PASS are both hurting us right now. Wake Forest exploited both, USC Ran all over us, and Ball St. aired it out......all done easily! So you really can't put too many people in to defend the run because of our corners, who are suspect to be burnt frequently!
Yeah, I think you are right about the corners... we have to ask, what is wosre, being passed on for 40 yards a few times or having someone run right up the gut 20+ times? So whats the answer? How do we inspire the kids to play to their ability and OUR expectation?
He isn't correct in regards to play action pass. That is only when safeties are playing back on come in on the run...play action effects safeties if they aren't helping corners. You don't run this defense on 3rd and 8 this is for first down and 2 or 3rd and short. Play action will beat you regardless of your defensive scheme if your corners don't play good man coverage. Besides it allows your safety to pick up a tight end in a pass play and it free up your LB to watch the run, and Ruud will watch the RB or TE on his side.
Blitzing will always hurt you if they have the right offensive call but I guarantee this is a better defense than we are running.
BTW our corners and safeties get hurt b/c the QB has too much time. You have a hard time completing a 20+ yd pass with less than 3 seconds to release. It is a better defensive scheme also because passes 20+ yards are typically completely less than 20% of the time and if you get more pressure up front that # goes down. Also, the free safety knows his only responsibility is deep help so he WON"T bite on the play action.
Now, playing high means when the ball is snapped you stand up too much. You need to fire off the ball lower to gain control of the line and get off blocks. You also need to do this to gain gap control. Think of it as a running back running straight up instead of lowering his shoulder pad.
