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With the smoke and rumors of Corey Raymond coming here in some capacity, I wanted to get an idea of what type of coach he might be. I was aware he was probably a good recruiter based on the athletes they get into that program, but I wanted to see if they utilized that talent and made them better, or if he mainly just let them go and see what happens. I chose the Auburn game because they run an offense that puts the secondary in a bad position on almost every play due to play action, the threat of a QB running, requiring deep responsibility, and the ability to set the edge and help in run support.
Ricky Jefferson is a backup FS who was a 4-star recruit out of high school. Mainly a WR recruit, who has been taught to use an angle, lock out his arms, shed the block and make the tackle on a spread option run. Very good technique here. Class of 2013, means he’s completely a Corey Raymond recruit and coached by him. A WR commit taught to play Safety is something our previous DC would tell you is not possible. Tre’Davious White, another Raymond recruit, does a nice job of playing off-man coverage on the boundary and then coming up to help run and force runner back inside. His role is important as well, because if he loses contain, this is a big run.
You can see how Auburn’s offense causes your secondary all kinds of problems and forces your corners to come up and make tackles. It’s also why I chose this game to evaluate their DB’s. This is a nice tackle by a 5-11, 190 lb. corner.
Look at the boundary corner at the bottom of the screen. He’s played off man twice and come up and made a nice play. Now he’s up in press and uses his hands well. The WR tries to shuck him off, but the corner keeps his hands inside the WR and gets to his chest, just like you’d teach it as a DB coach. Speaking as former DB myself, the natural inclination is to lunge and launch yourself when you’re in press man, but in this coverage you want to shade to whatever side you have the least help and then get your hands on the WR on balance rather than getting off balance and losing sight of your man. That’s when big plays happen.
As for the play itself, look at the top of the screen with the arrow. This player lined up at the 45 and is already to the 40 before the QB has even released the ball. You do this through film study and anticipation. Look at where he is by the time the WR catches the ball. He’s already waiting prior to the WR getting to the LOS. Think about our own defense and how many times these bubble screens have killed us. This is how you blow them up. You blow them up from the inside out. This was the S who got there, not the corner coming and blowing up the play by having to defeat a block. This play was killed with speed and aggressiveness.
Again, you see a defense defending the screen with speed and aggressiveness, not by defeating blocks. Our previous staff wanted us to rely on defeating blocks and disengaging rather than using angles and setting the edge with our boundary corner. The corner sets the edge, and the S comes downhill and cleans it up.
As I’m looking at this game, I find myself excited at what Raymond does for his safeties even more than his corners. Look at this play and see what he’s done with his S. This play actually double covers the slot WR. The OLB has inside middle and the S has the seam and anything outside breaking. He is at the 39 yard line at the snap, but already moving forward because he doesn’t respect the speed of the slot WR and he knows he has help from his FS if he the outside WR doesn’t run a deep route. That’s aggressive defense and seeing this formation on film.
He sees run and is actually already passed the slot WR before the RB is to the LOS, leaving him unblocked. If he takes a slow step or hesitates what he sees, the slot WR blocks him, and while the OLB is unblocked in that scenario, you’d rather your RB be N-S with shoulders square against an OLB or cutting outside with a WR blocking the S and no outside contain. In this case he was shot out of a cannon and makes the tackle for a two-yard loss. Does anyone here remember a play where our S’s were this aggressive to come up and make a play rather than being afraid to make a mistake and get beat deep?
Man, I like their boundary corner. The kid is smart and well-coached. This is a 3rd and forever so he is lined up in press man with cover-3 behind him. This is exactly what Seattle does- they play press with their cover-3 while most teams play bail and cover-3 behind it on long yardage situations. You want to be a great defense that doesn’t yield a yard? Play press-man with cover-3 behind it and dare teams to throw deep.
On this play the boundary is shading outside because he wants the WR back inside. You can see that above. Now watch what the corner does to the WR:
That’s exactly what you want your corner to do on this play and he keeps him inside with one arm leverage. Not only does this protect you where your defensive teammates are, it protects you from a press beater where the WR goes with an arm-over move. If the WR tries the arm-over here he can hit him on the shoulder with his left arm and effectively shut the WR completely out of the play. Love it, and you would have to think the coach gets some credit for teaching the technique. (he also comes off the block and makes the tackle on the run)
#2 plays bail at the snap, but immediately recognizes he doesn’t have a WR threatening his zone and starts to come up to set the edge. This is important when the QB is a threat to run- otherwise you’re just looking to fill to that side. LSU asks their CB’s to do multiple things against this offense and definitely have to be a contributor in run defense.
I talked before about the importance of seeing the play and having the confidence to pull the trigger and go. This is the quintessential example of that principle. If he sits back and tries to play this safe the pulling G (#63 ) gets to him, the C gets to the ILB, this run might go for a TD. Instead, #2 goes, beats the lineman, and destroys the play. #2 is a freshman and is already trusting his eyes to make this play. I think the coaching staff deserves a little credit for getting a ready to play like that.
On this play the CB was playing bail coverage with cover-3 behind. He was obviously scared of his speed and opened his hips up way too early and allowed the WR to be open by 5 yards. Luckily for him, the QB sucks and missed the throw badly. A good throw picks up that first down and keeps the drive moving. This is where the little things in football add up. That corner needs to keep those hips closed and trust his technique.
Good look at their cover-2 shell defense they’re playing here. LSU is destroying Auburn and starting to lose respect for Auburn’s WR’s to get open deep so they want to shut down the crossers and underneath stuff. Auburn takes the bait and throws right into the deep safety who is playing zone and just reading the QB’s eyes.
This is an easy interception, but #33 is making me feel a little funny inside. I like the kid. Not a man-to-man S, but he has some ball skills and really has range against the run.
Here’s [URL=https://www.canesinsight.com/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=1]#1 8[/URL] filling against the run again. If Raymond does come here, you can rest assured we will be a lot tougher on the edge of our defense and our corners will learn to tackle.
This may not mean much to some, but to me, this play is a good example of a well-coached secondary. This was a bubble screen that was blown up the DT getting penetration quicker the offense expected and the QB starts a scramble drill. Watch #2 9 keeping with his assignment though. How many players would see the QB sitting there and want to go get him. Instead, he takes away his one option and forces the QB to keep. Of course, by doing so the QB runs right to him and he gets the tackle for a 7 yard loss. A lot of players would’ve taken the yellow line route here. If he does, the QB might be able to pitch it to the WR who then would’ve had a convoy in front of him. Again, those little things.
This defense was ready for this offense. Look at the DB’s sticking to their assignment rather than playing hero ball. The DB’s all have their inside shoulder to the outside of the blocker. This keeps outside leverage and forces the runner back inside to where your LB’s are scraping downhill clean and ready to thump. Get that shoulder inside the blocker and it’s an easy walk to the sideline for clean and easy yards.
He gets zero credit on a stat sheet, but this made the play.
This is why you play zone in 3rd and long situation. It allows your S to sit back and watch the eyes of the QB. This S ran the route for the WR and broke on this ball long before it got there. If it’s on target, it’s a pick.
#1 can play for me. No hero ball in this young man, but he’s also not afraid. A lot of CB’s duck out of the way of this OL but he uses his speed to skirt past him, and rather than the OL hold, he just moves to the next guy to block and allows #1 to turn the runner inside again.
If #63 gets there and blocks him, he has this alley with his shoulders square. #63 blocks #1 , #5 blocks #2 9, #92 already kicked out the boundary CB, that’s a possible TD. Instead it goes for half a yard. #1 still gets no credit on the stat sheet, but that’s two plays that fundamental football made for his defense.
#1 gets passed #63 again, and this time he makes the tackle. If he doesn’t get there and #63 gets to him, it’s an easy 7-8 yards. By the way, #1 is a 5-11, 167 pound freshman named Donte Jackson. Yes please, getting that kid ready to go as a true freshman is awesome. I looked him up and he was a 5-star recruit, which makes sense after reviewing this game.
LSU has zero respect for the passing game of Auburn and are trying to take away the legs of Johnson by playing zone behind their LB’s all game. Here’s #33 jumping another route and reading the eyes of the QB. Johnson has played pretty badly, but LSU is showing sound assignments and the ability to understand their responsibilities in the secondary as well. Like this defense.
The game got ugly, so I won’t do too much with the rest after the 3rd quarter, but this secondary understands setting the edge first and foremost. Has a good idea how to shade and use press man techniques, utilizes some pattern match coverage with cover-3 and gets freshmen ready to play immediately.
This guy recruits big-time athletes, no doubt about it, but he also allows his players to be confident, see something and go attack it, rather than sitting back and being safe. I would absolutely endorse this coach based on what I’ve seen from this game. I don’t know if he’s ready to call plays or not, but he has certainly learned under an excellent defensive staff and adds a lot of coaching value, rather than just being a recruiter.
Ricky Jefferson is a backup FS who was a 4-star recruit out of high school. Mainly a WR recruit, who has been taught to use an angle, lock out his arms, shed the block and make the tackle on a spread option run. Very good technique here. Class of 2013, means he’s completely a Corey Raymond recruit and coached by him. A WR commit taught to play Safety is something our previous DC would tell you is not possible. Tre’Davious White, another Raymond recruit, does a nice job of playing off-man coverage on the boundary and then coming up to help run and force runner back inside. His role is important as well, because if he loses contain, this is a big run.
You can see how Auburn’s offense causes your secondary all kinds of problems and forces your corners to come up and make tackles. It’s also why I chose this game to evaluate their DB’s. This is a nice tackle by a 5-11, 190 lb. corner.
Look at the boundary corner at the bottom of the screen. He’s played off man twice and come up and made a nice play. Now he’s up in press and uses his hands well. The WR tries to shuck him off, but the corner keeps his hands inside the WR and gets to his chest, just like you’d teach it as a DB coach. Speaking as former DB myself, the natural inclination is to lunge and launch yourself when you’re in press man, but in this coverage you want to shade to whatever side you have the least help and then get your hands on the WR on balance rather than getting off balance and losing sight of your man. That’s when big plays happen.
As for the play itself, look at the top of the screen with the arrow. This player lined up at the 45 and is already to the 40 before the QB has even released the ball. You do this through film study and anticipation. Look at where he is by the time the WR catches the ball. He’s already waiting prior to the WR getting to the LOS. Think about our own defense and how many times these bubble screens have killed us. This is how you blow them up. You blow them up from the inside out. This was the S who got there, not the corner coming and blowing up the play by having to defeat a block. This play was killed with speed and aggressiveness.
Again, you see a defense defending the screen with speed and aggressiveness, not by defeating blocks. Our previous staff wanted us to rely on defeating blocks and disengaging rather than using angles and setting the edge with our boundary corner. The corner sets the edge, and the S comes downhill and cleans it up.
As I’m looking at this game, I find myself excited at what Raymond does for his safeties even more than his corners. Look at this play and see what he’s done with his S. This play actually double covers the slot WR. The OLB has inside middle and the S has the seam and anything outside breaking. He is at the 39 yard line at the snap, but already moving forward because he doesn’t respect the speed of the slot WR and he knows he has help from his FS if he the outside WR doesn’t run a deep route. That’s aggressive defense and seeing this formation on film.
He sees run and is actually already passed the slot WR before the RB is to the LOS, leaving him unblocked. If he takes a slow step or hesitates what he sees, the slot WR blocks him, and while the OLB is unblocked in that scenario, you’d rather your RB be N-S with shoulders square against an OLB or cutting outside with a WR blocking the S and no outside contain. In this case he was shot out of a cannon and makes the tackle for a two-yard loss. Does anyone here remember a play where our S’s were this aggressive to come up and make a play rather than being afraid to make a mistake and get beat deep?
Man, I like their boundary corner. The kid is smart and well-coached. This is a 3rd and forever so he is lined up in press man with cover-3 behind him. This is exactly what Seattle does- they play press with their cover-3 while most teams play bail and cover-3 behind it on long yardage situations. You want to be a great defense that doesn’t yield a yard? Play press-man with cover-3 behind it and dare teams to throw deep.
On this play the boundary is shading outside because he wants the WR back inside. You can see that above. Now watch what the corner does to the WR:
That’s exactly what you want your corner to do on this play and he keeps him inside with one arm leverage. Not only does this protect you where your defensive teammates are, it protects you from a press beater where the WR goes with an arm-over move. If the WR tries the arm-over here he can hit him on the shoulder with his left arm and effectively shut the WR completely out of the play. Love it, and you would have to think the coach gets some credit for teaching the technique. (he also comes off the block and makes the tackle on the run)
#2 plays bail at the snap, but immediately recognizes he doesn’t have a WR threatening his zone and starts to come up to set the edge. This is important when the QB is a threat to run- otherwise you’re just looking to fill to that side. LSU asks their CB’s to do multiple things against this offense and definitely have to be a contributor in run defense.
I talked before about the importance of seeing the play and having the confidence to pull the trigger and go. This is the quintessential example of that principle. If he sits back and tries to play this safe the pulling G (#63 ) gets to him, the C gets to the ILB, this run might go for a TD. Instead, #2 goes, beats the lineman, and destroys the play. #2 is a freshman and is already trusting his eyes to make this play. I think the coaching staff deserves a little credit for getting a ready to play like that.
On this play the CB was playing bail coverage with cover-3 behind. He was obviously scared of his speed and opened his hips up way too early and allowed the WR to be open by 5 yards. Luckily for him, the QB sucks and missed the throw badly. A good throw picks up that first down and keeps the drive moving. This is where the little things in football add up. That corner needs to keep those hips closed and trust his technique.
Good look at their cover-2 shell defense they’re playing here. LSU is destroying Auburn and starting to lose respect for Auburn’s WR’s to get open deep so they want to shut down the crossers and underneath stuff. Auburn takes the bait and throws right into the deep safety who is playing zone and just reading the QB’s eyes.
This is an easy interception, but #33 is making me feel a little funny inside. I like the kid. Not a man-to-man S, but he has some ball skills and really has range against the run.
Here’s [URL=https://www.canesinsight.com/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=1]#1 8[/URL] filling against the run again. If Raymond does come here, you can rest assured we will be a lot tougher on the edge of our defense and our corners will learn to tackle.
This may not mean much to some, but to me, this play is a good example of a well-coached secondary. This was a bubble screen that was blown up the DT getting penetration quicker the offense expected and the QB starts a scramble drill. Watch #2 9 keeping with his assignment though. How many players would see the QB sitting there and want to go get him. Instead, he takes away his one option and forces the QB to keep. Of course, by doing so the QB runs right to him and he gets the tackle for a 7 yard loss. A lot of players would’ve taken the yellow line route here. If he does, the QB might be able to pitch it to the WR who then would’ve had a convoy in front of him. Again, those little things.
This defense was ready for this offense. Look at the DB’s sticking to their assignment rather than playing hero ball. The DB’s all have their inside shoulder to the outside of the blocker. This keeps outside leverage and forces the runner back inside to where your LB’s are scraping downhill clean and ready to thump. Get that shoulder inside the blocker and it’s an easy walk to the sideline for clean and easy yards.
He gets zero credit on a stat sheet, but this made the play.
This is why you play zone in 3rd and long situation. It allows your S to sit back and watch the eyes of the QB. This S ran the route for the WR and broke on this ball long before it got there. If it’s on target, it’s a pick.
#1 can play for me. No hero ball in this young man, but he’s also not afraid. A lot of CB’s duck out of the way of this OL but he uses his speed to skirt past him, and rather than the OL hold, he just moves to the next guy to block and allows #1 to turn the runner inside again.
If #63 gets there and blocks him, he has this alley with his shoulders square. #63 blocks #1 , #5 blocks #2 9, #92 already kicked out the boundary CB, that’s a possible TD. Instead it goes for half a yard. #1 still gets no credit on the stat sheet, but that’s two plays that fundamental football made for his defense.
#1 gets passed #63 again, and this time he makes the tackle. If he doesn’t get there and #63 gets to him, it’s an easy 7-8 yards. By the way, #1 is a 5-11, 167 pound freshman named Donte Jackson. Yes please, getting that kid ready to go as a true freshman is awesome. I looked him up and he was a 5-star recruit, which makes sense after reviewing this game.
LSU has zero respect for the passing game of Auburn and are trying to take away the legs of Johnson by playing zone behind their LB’s all game. Here’s #33 jumping another route and reading the eyes of the QB. Johnson has played pretty badly, but LSU is showing sound assignments and the ability to understand their responsibilities in the secondary as well. Like this defense.
The game got ugly, so I won’t do too much with the rest after the 3rd quarter, but this secondary understands setting the edge first and foremost. Has a good idea how to shade and use press man techniques, utilizes some pattern match coverage with cover-3 and gets freshmen ready to play immediately.
This guy recruits big-time athletes, no doubt about it, but he also allows his players to be confident, see something and go attack it, rather than sitting back and being safe. I would absolutely endorse this coach based on what I’ve seen from this game. I don’t know if he’s ready to call plays or not, but he has certainly learned under an excellent defensive staff and adds a lot of coaching value, rather than just being a recruiter.
