All-22 Review of the 'Canes defense vs. UNC

[E1k]

What’s crazy is we had similar problems last year but we had players who just transferred here so they weren’t fully indoctrinated with what our scheme calls for, but now? The scheme is fully getting exposed

We blitzed a safety just as much last year, he did the same at Minnesota. Did this basic soft cushion spot drop zone coverage last year too, so not much has changed schematically.

Remember late in the notre dame game we almost let them back in the game because we were in a soft zone coverage, indiana took advantage of it, Louisville did it, a&m had some success but it was super windy and our dline dominated, ole miss had success…

None of these are new problems, im sure we self scouted because mario talks about it alot but if you self scout and things are playing out exactly how your scheme wants it to play out then you probably see no reason to change until it gets exposed even more

So only thing we can hope for fixing now is tackling and thats not a mid season problem you want to have

 

[skyman]

What’s crazy is we had similar problems last year but we had players who just transferred here so they weren’t fully indoctrinated with what our scheme calls for, but now? The scheme is fully getting exposed

We blitzed a safety just as much last year, he did the same at Minnesota. Did this basic soft cushion spot drop zone coverage last year too, so not much has changed schematically.

Remember late in the notre dame game we almost let them back in the game because we were in a soft zone coverage, indiana took advantage of it, Louisville did it, a&m had some success but it was super windy and our dline dominated, ole miss had success…

None of these are new problems, im sure we self scouted because mario talks about it alot but if you self scout and things are playing out exactly how your scheme wants it to play out then you probably see no reason to change until it gets exposed even more

So only thing we can hope for fixing now is tackling and thats not a mid season problem you want to have

Yea the spot dropping country cover 3 has always been there.. Thats why when you listen to Hetherman the main pillars of his defense is violence, physicality, communication, block destruction, swarm and tackling. Plays 3 deep to eliminate explosives, keep everything in front of you and rally to the ball and **** **** up..

Thats not hard to implement with a guy like Jakobe and Keionte, they gonna run to ball and crashout.. We can put the ND game on from last year and guys are tackling the screens and short stuff immediately. Yea Poyser is still missing tackles but you have others to clean up, guys are playing closer coverage and communicating and passing routes.. Now? Those habits are gone, you dont really see it, coverage is wayy looser, guys are bailing soo deep with nobody even threatening.. Idk if you can fix something you have let get to thise level..

 

[E1k]

Yea the spot dropping country cover 3 has always been there.. Thats why when you listen to Hetherman the main pillars of his defense is violence, physicality, communication, block destruction, swarm and tackling. Plays 3 deep to eliminate explosives, keep everything in front of you and rally to the ball and **** **** up..

Thats not hard to implement with a guy like Jakobe and Keionte, they gonna run to ball and crashout.. We can put the ND game on from last year and guys are tackling the screens and short stuff immediately. Yea Poyser is still missing tackles but you have others to clean up, guys are playing closer coverage and communicating and passing routes.. Now? Those habits are gone, you dont really see it, coverage is wayy looser, guys are bailing soo deep with nobody even threatening.. Idk if you can fix something you have let get to thise level..

Exactly I don’t see much fixing you can do. I think our only hope this year was oj being healthy so we could live in man more with him and eoc, that’s what helped alot in the playoffs.

Im hoping for a shift like there was for dawson after smu but dawson is a seasoned vet and one of the most versatile OCs in the country, so his philosophies can shift and the foundation can be the same but heatherman the foundation is leaky idk if you can save it