Great stuff from Jackie this week @ BDJ
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3. The third decision is to play man or zone. If you play man, now you've got to make sure you contain. In the zone, the cornerback can help you contain. But if you are in the man, there is normally no one to help contain because the free safety or strong safety will be locked up and be the lone contain man.
Our zone defense sucks. Big time.
If we play zone, they will burn us with passing. If we play man, we're going to be one broken tackle away from giving up a big play on the option.
unless they have to (3rd & 6 or longer). At least that's the way they played the entire game Saturday against UNC. I don't think they ever threw on first down. We should load up on the run & TRY to make Nesbitt beat us passing.
Edited to say, I went back & looked at their drive charts. They passed on 1st down twice (once first half, once second). The other times they threw (or tried to) were 3rd & 9 (twice), 3rd & 6 (sacked), 3rd & 5, 3rd & 11 (twice), and four times running their two-minute drill in the first half. I really doubt they will throw much unless we are stopping their running game. Nesbitt has a strong arm, but he's not very accurate (does better in not throwing on the run).
Edited to say, I went back & looked at their drive charts. They passed on 1st down twice (once first half, once second). The other times they threw (or tried to) were 3rd & 9 (twice), 3rd & 6 (sacked), 3rd & 5, 3rd & 11 (twice), and four times running their two-minute drill in the first half. I really doubt they will throw much unless we are stopping their running game. Nesbitt has a strong arm, but he's not very accurate (does better in not throwing on the run).
getting them in those third and long situations. I think they also may have Jaybo Shaw back- he may a better QB than Nesbitt, I really don't know all that much about their players other than Dwyer.
I'm more than willing to take my chances against GA Tech's passing game with any defense we play. If we play zone and they go to a passing game, I'm feeling real good about our chances.FlabLoser said:If we play zone, they will burn us with passing.
patdog said:FlabLoser said:If we play zone, they will burn us with passing.
I'm more than willing to take my chances against GA Tech's passing game with any defense we play. If we play zone and they go to a passing game,
I'm feeling real good about our chances.
for the Auburn gameplan, right?
And the Croom 15 minutes of the option defense, to.
When you say zone do you specifically mean in pass situations?
You stop the option by not missing assignments. For instance, mlb has the qb, DE has the dive, olb has the pitch. No matter what the 17 happens you take your guy. No matter what. There are other combinations depending on what type of d your running. Last year we looked 17ing lost.
You stop the option by not missing assignments. For instance, mlb has the qb, DE has the dive, olb has the pitch. No matter what the 17 happens you take your guy. No matter what. There are other combinations depending on what type of d your running. Last year we looked 17ing lost.
Our cover corners are so bad you don't have to actually pass. If we had 9 in the box you could just lob it up in the middle of the field and let your guys run under it. We need at least one safety back at all times (preferably BEHIND the receivers if we could convince them to do that).paindonthurt said:<span class="post-title">I would put 9 in the box and dare them to pass.</span>
said Shaw played his best game against us last year (passing wise). Not sure if he's back or not (should be back soon).
he is the guru of the flexbone. If we play straight up one way, he's going to figure it out pretty quickly, and will burn us. We have to mix things up. And that goes for the run and pass game.
I don't know if he's done it at Ga. Tech (haven't really seen them play), but at Navy, about 99% of the time, Paul Johnson would run some type of play-action pass on their first offensive play of the game. And usually it worked for a big play. Thinking was that the defense had had it drilled in their heads all week to be ready to play their option assignment that they would get burned on a deep pass play. And usually the pass was to one of the slotbacks who just took off on a post route downfield and blew past the safety who was still looking at the fullback.
The thing about Johnson is, when given comparable talent, he'll figure out a way to change blocking schemes to counter whatever the defense is doing. He's been running that offense for 20 years and says he's seen every defensive gimmick imaginable. I think against Clemson and Miami, his talent on the OL wasn't nearly as good as their DL's and that's why they were able to crash thru and disrupt things. Will be interesting to see if our DL gets the same kind of push that Miami and Clemson did. Not so sure. If not, our LB's better be ready because they'll be running from side to side all day.
The thing about Johnson is, when given comparable talent, he'll figure out a way to change blocking schemes to counter whatever the defense is doing. He's been running that offense for 20 years and says he's seen every defensive gimmick imaginable. I think against Clemson and Miami, his talent on the OL wasn't nearly as good as their DL's and that's why they were able to crash thru and disrupt things. Will be interesting to see if our DL gets the same kind of push that Miami and Clemson did. Not so sure. If not, our LB's better be ready because they'll be running from side to side all day.
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But, if I remember correctly, GT burned Clemson on a big play pass early in the game. They seem to use that effectively at opportune times.
He coached here longer than anywhere else.VirgilCain said:I like to think that out of all his coaching stops (including Pitt) that he favors State
43%.
They have a whopping 501 passing on the season (4 games).
I agree our secondary sucks, but i wouldn't let them do to us what they did last year. If we can stop them with our front 7.......O.k., but at the first hint of us not being able to, I would leave Washington and Anderson on an island and put all kinds of pressure on them.
They have a whopping 501 passing on the season (4 games).
I agree our secondary sucks, but i wouldn't let them do to us what they did last year. If we can stop them with our front 7.......O.k., but at the first hint of us not being able to, I would leave Washington and Anderson on an island and put all kinds of pressure on them.
was that the only reason he was playing was because he was dating Jackie's daughter. I never believed it, though.
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