Prophetic comments from last season
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MichiganDad3
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You can't tackle the guy if you can't catch him. I would also prefer to be nervous that something bad might happen than be almost certain that something bad will happen.
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Nebula
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Yes. I would agree that physical contact is a definite requirement in tackling.
Wait. Niles Paul. God..........dammit.
Polarhusker
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Polarhusker
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Blackshirts007
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It starts upfront. Yes our LBs are not the fastest and have been doing a terrible job of tackling, but it starts up front. Our front 4, are terrible. They can not get any pressure what so ever. They are slow and weak and just eat up space. Ucla did not have the most dominate o line, but they made us look like middle schoolers. Eric Martin is too small, Ankrah is too busy getting fed sugar cubes by the o line, and baker is/ was the most overhyped, overrated player on our entire defense. The holes that Franklin had to run through we're enormous and then our sh**ty LBs had to try to solo tackle him, and we all know who wins that battle. Hundley had 10 seconds in the pocket every passing down, and when no one was open he had wide open space to scramble because our spy couldn't keep up with him. The problem lies up front, of we had pressure on hundley consistently, they would have had 400 yards of offense.
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308_Husker
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You think they suck against the rush now, wait till you see that line up. That is a 3-4 with 3 DBS. That is more like a 3-1-7. I really don't see how putting less size on the field makes you better at tackling. May get faster, but teams with decent line play will gash that alignment. I do think getting some new blood in the mix will help though.
Animal_Mother
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C N Red
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I'm guessing what you're saying is there's maybe a good reason to throw in a 3-4 right now, correct? Because, it would definitely get rid of one bad Dlineman, and you could put a couple slower but bigger LBers in the middle, and put faster DB/LBs in the OLBer roles. I'd put Williams or VV in the middle of the Dline though. Meredith is too slow, and def too small for the middle. Then basically fill in with our normal secondary. It may sound crazy, but I think we could play a 3-4, and actually have a better chance. I've actually said a few times, with the way we seem to be recruiting, I could see us switch to a 3-4 in the future.
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Undone
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I realize the patented Pelini "Peso" defense is not exactly the same as a 3 - 4 scheme, but we essentially did play the Peso format throughout much of last season. Then Bo came out and essentially said that we weren't ready for the transition from covering spread offenses to the power offenses of the B1G, as a reason for the drop-off in defensive play.
I just don't buy his excuse. Both the Peso and what we're doing now require lightning speed from whatever players are behind our line (be it LBs or DBs) when your line just stands their blocker up. We had to shoot to the gaps, and we had to have fast LB play. We had that in 2010 especially.
Also, one issue that seems to fly under the radar a bit is our complete unwillingness to blitz. I swear, I feel like our LBs don't even have a feel for blitzing, even if we were to use it more often.
I just don't buy his excuse. Both the Peso and what we're doing now require lightning speed from whatever players are behind our line (be it LBs or DBs) when your line just stands their blocker up. We had to shoot to the gaps, and we had to have fast LB play. We had that in 2010 especially.
Also, one issue that seems to fly under the radar a bit is our complete unwillingness to blitz. I swear, I feel like our LBs don't even have a feel for blitzing, even if we were to use it more often.
OrderKindOfAlmostRestored
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Our current D will be fine against Le'Veon because the Spartan offense is as unathletic as our defense. We can stop a traditional offense that has a decent pocket passer, which is why we'll be fine against MSU and Wisky. We're going to need a lineup like this against Michigan and OSU to have any chance of winning those games. If we don't make a change, Braxton and Denard might get 650 yards by themselves.