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Originally Posted by Empire Lindy
I see LB's who are specifically told to stay home and make tackles in the open field, you see poor talent.
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The 1st rule of playing LB is play the run first, the pass second.
A linebackers 1st step is towards the line no matter if it's a run or a pass you attack the line of scrimmage. Even on a pass you take a jab step towards the line before getting into your drop.
That's Linebacker 101 on every level of football.
There is no way in hell our LB's were told to stay home and make tackles in the open field.
Did you mean to say they were told to play their gap responsibility 1st, which is at the line of scrimmage not 8 yards deep?
Stay at home and tackle in the open field is not at the line of scrimmage.
That sound to me like letting the ball carrier come to you, there's NO WAY IN HELL any college level coach told a LB to play the position that way.
You have to give me a link, show me that in print and prove it to me.
I'll carry a sign in protest for Kragthorpe and staff to get out of town if they are coaching the LB position that way.
I dont care how poor you believe the coaching to be there is no way a DI college coach is telling the linebackers not to attack the line of scrimmage on a run play.
Also I never said our LB's had poor talent, I said they are undersized.
You can't effectively have a 205, 210,215 pound LB taking on the blocks of 300lb lineman and think they will play off that block and stop the run.
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Originally Posted by Empire Lindy
I see D-linemen who are not rushing the QB, but rather trying to just hold the line of scrimmage... you see poor talent.
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Again you are out of the loop.
Show me in print somewhere that the Louisville coaches told the d-line to "hold the line" and not rush the QB.
Also I said the same thing, the d-line didnt apply pressure on the QB well.
I also said we didnt have a player who we knew was going to get sacks on a regular basis as part of their game.
Is that poor talent, poor technique, lack of size, result of poor coaching?
Maybe a little bit of all of those reasons but not playing to potential is a big part of it.
I definetly see lack of talent as part of it, maybe those guys can still develop, that's what college is about but they didnt have it this year.
Peanut for one was highly recruited as a DE and most DE's speed rushing off the end get sacks, Peanut got his first sack of the year against Cincy.
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Originally Posted by Empire Lindy
the talent isn't AS good as the past two seasons, but it doesn't suck either.
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We agree on that. I dont think our talent sucks.
Just like I said UK was better than many Louisville fans would admit early in the season, UCONN & USF for example also improved while the Cards dropped a notch from 2006.
Louisville is just one of many schools this year for example like Michigan, who lost games they shouldnt have by most expectations. Cal lost 4 games this year, Alabama just lost to Louisiana-Monroe I could give a dozen more examples, this was a topsy-turvy season in college football, Louisville took a couple extra hits we didnt see coming.
What I see on here was a lot of posters making Kragthorpe the scapegoat for all of Louisville's problems and losses.
The players share in that responsibility of the product on the field and while I was trying to point that out I never said our talent sucked.