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Against most squads, Paul Johnson’s option was good for 500 yards a game. It was annoying to prepare for, gimmicky, and against most teams very tough to stop bc of its uniqueness. Hard to prep for.
against good to great teams?—Tech couldn’t move the ball at all. They would play Duke one week and win by 6 TDS, look all world, only to score 7 points and 180 total against UGA. The disparity between wins and losses was huge.
Diaz defense is the same. The “run up the field” “no contain” “no set gaps” “spot drop zone” defense helps him rattle bad QBs and OLs, and creates preparation headaches for lesser programs. It confuses players and lesser programs can’t properly prep for it.
But if your team has talent on the OL, and a reliable if not above average QB, it all those defensive gimmicks become weaknesses that are exploited over and over.
The fools in our fan base who fall for it are JUST like the GaTech homers who thought that offense was great, and excused the losses away for a decade when they would get trashed in their 2 or three losses a season. They’d point to stats like TOP, or rush yards per game, and declare it was “talent”, “the lack of true WR”, or the defenses fault. Those of us on the outside know, it was that trash *** gimmick scheme.
against good to great teams?—Tech couldn’t move the ball at all. They would play Duke one week and win by 6 TDS, look all world, only to score 7 points and 180 total against UGA. The disparity between wins and losses was huge.
Diaz defense is the same. The “run up the field” “no contain” “no set gaps” “spot drop zone” defense helps him rattle bad QBs and OLs, and creates preparation headaches for lesser programs. It confuses players and lesser programs can’t properly prep for it.
But if your team has talent on the OL, and a reliable if not above average QB, it all those defensive gimmicks become weaknesses that are exploited over and over.
The fools in our fan base who fall for it are JUST like the GaTech homers who thought that offense was great, and excused the losses away for a decade when they would get trashed in their 2 or three losses a season. They’d point to stats like TOP, or rush yards per game, and declare it was “talent”, “the lack of true WR”, or the defenses fault. Those of us on the outside know, it was that trash *** gimmick scheme.