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Leaving 3 linebackers on the field when they go 3 wide

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I feel like they were outcoached based on the fact that when L'villes offense was on the field they would mix up calls and have us in all kinds of trouble. On obvious run downs they passed, on obvious pass downs they ran and we were ALWAYS out of position.
 
Most defenses match personnel against offense to take away the offense's advantage of having a slot receiver on a lb. That's why teams like Alabama, Florida State, and all the NFL stay in nickle personnel 65% of the time. You can use a safety, corner, smaller faster lb, who ever can get the job done. The school I coach at has this "star" player as a position that is taught with the linebackers and he is covering slots man to man, dropping to a zone, and even blitzing. If we get a guy that plays corner or safety and then moves to the "star" like javier arenas, Mathieu, or Lamarcus Joyner even better for us. If we don't we take a guy and he only plays star and he masters it. What makes this guy work is that we put pressure on other teams not by just blitzing but by pressing our corners, moving our end to nose and bringing a kid whose not good against the run but can pass rush his *** off in the game. This way he doesn't have to cover somebody for 7 seconds. We have a defensive rule that if a play lasts for 7 seconds most of the time we messed up. Get your *** from Point A to Point B in 4 to 6 seconds. Just two cents from a dude that coaches lower level college football.
 
See what alot of you don't understand is that they love armbrister and Owens for a reason. They are both 2 converted safeties who can run with WR s or so they think. So they basically feel they have the 3rd Cb on the field but a LB just in case a run happens. I think it dumb as he'll personally but I just call how I see it.
 
850Cane said:
See what alot of you don't understand is that they love armbrister and Owens for a reason. They are both 2 converted safeties who can run with WR s or so they think. So they basically feel they have the 3rd Cb on the field but a LB just in case a run happens. I think it dumb as he'll personally but I just call how I see it.
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Then they need to run a 4-2-5 or play an aggressive 3-4 and stop having guys put on weight. Sure, maybe power run teams might murk you in an aggressive 3-4 unless you have a dominant NT, but, how many of those are in the ACC?


Remember those quotes from the offseason in which scouts and opposing coaching said our defense looked incredibly slow and nonathletic? It's not necessarily the base set, it's how they run it, and how they are altering our personnel to try and get them to fit it.
 
Only complaint I had with the D is that they were in the wrong set a handful of times and most of them were at key points.
 
Because when a teams goes 4 wide on you, and their goal is to get their speed in 1v1 situations out in space, what better way is there to counter that than by asking two defensive ends in McCord and Harris to walk out and get into coverage?

We basically trot out the equivalent of a heavy package on defense when teams spread out. 4 fast WRs vs a front 7 of over fed kids that've been fattened up for this defense.

Offenses are getting faster, quicker, sleeker, and more uptempo, and we counter by getting heavier, slower, and refusing to adapt to what's right in front of us.
 
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hharvey09 said:
Most defenses match personnel against offense to take away the offense's advantage of having a slot receiver on a lb. That's why teams like Alabama, Florida State, and all the NFL stay in nickle personnel 65% of the time. You can use a safety, corner, smaller faster lb, who ever can get the job done. The school I coach at has this "star" player as a position that is taught with the linebackers and he is covering slots man to man, dropping to a zone, and even blitzing. If we get a guy that plays corner or safety and then moves to the "star" like javier arenas, Mathieu, or Lamarcus Joyner even better for us. If we don't we take a guy and he only plays star and he masters it. What makes this guy work is that we put pressure on other teams not by just blitzing but by pressing our corners, moving our end to nose and bringing a kid whose not good against the run but can pass rush his *** off in the game. This way he doesn't have to cover somebody for 7 seconds. We have a defensive rule that if a play lasts for 7 seconds most of the time we messed up. Get your *** from Point A to Point B in 4 to 6 seconds. Just two cents from a dude that coaches lower level college football.
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All of this is the exact opposite of what we do on defense. And therefore it makes perfect sense.
 
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