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Originally Posted by Empire Lindy
And Petrino, specifically through Wolthausen, was a mastermind at KNOWING what the opposing offense was going to run at you from their formations. I am convinced that neither Cassity nor Krag have this figured out most times. It's WHY Utah can run it down our throats and WHY UK and Syracuse can beat us deep almost as if we didn't have safeties on the field.
It also helps when your defensive coaches get a play formation/unit on the field before the opposing offense is lining up the snap.
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If you know a team is going to run it down your throat, get guys up in the box and stop the run. That's basic football. That's not on the coaching, that's players getting pushed around.
If you are getting beat deep because a guy bites on a play fake or bites on a short route or is just in the wrong place and not providing the deep help that's not coaching, that's the players.
Cover 2 is two players playing deep halves, cover 3 is deep thirds.
That means no one behind you in your half or third of the field. DB's play the pass first, run second, they have to let the LB's cover the short passes.
If they were in man coverage of course means you suck if they can get that far behind you.
Coaches can tell players how to play in that defense but if the players dont execute that and you dont have a player ready to step in to replace them if they dont, what can the coach do?
Recruit better players for next year.
The defensive line putting pressure on the QB helps the defense backs also.
Dumervil in 2005 and Amobi in 2006 gave our defense that kind of pressure on the QB, we lacked that kind of player on the defensive line who showed up every game. We lacked the defensive backs who could cover deep and stay in their coverage, not bite on a pump fake, not bite on the QB's eyes on a short route and toss it up deep, our LB's were Preston Smith 219, Lamar Myles 205 and Malik Jackson listed at 230, which I find hard to believe.
Brohm at 6'4" 228 is bigger than our LB's
You have to have a d-line that occupies a blocker and let a LB fill. Our LB's were the size of DB's.
I bet there is no starting LB in the big 10 under 230lbs.
We need quicker d-line, bigger LB's and smarter DB's.
Smaller, quicker LB's is how DII defenses recruit.