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PHENOMENAL Article on Stopping Jameis

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http://www.footballstudyhall.com/20...rback-Jameis-Winston-clutch-performance-blitz

Couple of key points that caught my eye in anticipation of the upcoming showdown.

1. You can't allow a QB to become "unconscious"

The moment a QB reaches a zone where he's barely having to think, he's in great rhythm, and he feels untouchable is the moment past when a defensive coordinator needs to have acted decisively. Ideally, in the 4th quarter the QB is constantly thinking about where the next hit is coming from, how bad it will hurt, and worrying about the players in coverage he can't see showing up in his line of sight after he's already delivered the football.

There's a lot of risk in bringing heavy blitzing early in a game since you are giving the QB and his teammates a good look at what they'll have to deal with in the 4th quarter, but it's useful to set a tone and keep the QB from ever finding that rhythm.

Similarly, I'm as big a fan of up-tempo football as anyone but if you can't trust your defense to hold down the opposing QB in big moments you have to think about exercising some ball control strategies as an offense to prevent your foe from getting extra looks at your disguises and game plan and figuring it out before the game is over.

The easiest way to stop a 4th quarter surge from a great player at QB is to have him beat before that moment arrives. Not just on the scoreboard but psychologically and physically.
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3. Rotate pass-rushers throughout the game

Even if the offense isn't holding the ball much, it's important for a defense to rotate players because if the offense is running multiple hurry-up drives late in the game than the DL will get gassed whether they've been working hard all game or not.

If you have to blitz to have any chance of getting a hit on the QB, confusing him, or rushing his reads then you are probably already beat.

Obviously it takes a degree of experience, depth, and athleticism on a roster to beat a top flight QB. Dem's the breaks, there are no magic bullets out there.
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4. Drop eight, rush three

Quarterbacks become used to dealing with the blitz and learning how to rifle the ball out to a weakened spot in the defense and land a kill shot that seals the game. Or if they can use the scramble, perhaps they escape and then find themselves confronted with wide open grass and very few defenders in position to reach them.

What college quarterbacks often aren't practiced at handling is a max coverage call that sits defenders in all of their favorite places to throw the football. Perhaps the best existing one for a dual threat QB is a Tampa-2 scheme with a shallow spy rather than a fourth pass-rusher

[video=youtube;FfCaePmiMZg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfCaePmiMZg#t=199[/video]
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I encourage everybody to read the entire article. It's an awesome read for football lovers.

Go to 3:19 of the video to see the coverage he's describing. We employed it last year, but to no avail being that we were dropping guys like AJ Highsmith and Jimmy Gaines into coverage.
 
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hmm...idk about number 4. i think thats where lousville started losing the game. stopped blitzing as much in the second half and dropped more into coverage. you'll get picked apart by fsu's offense if you do that. their athletes are too good and winston is winston.
 
Jameis had some problems with our bend but dont break defense but that was due to the fact that he was greedy trying to make the big play. Once he got smart enough to check down the game was out of hand.

See, this approach is tough when youre playing Florida schools because of the talent of the RB's you get.

Our lbs and safeties could do NOTHING with freeman and co catching passes out of the backfield last year.

Jameis ate us alive with the check down ad freeman gained a lot of critical first downs from it.

The rush 3 drop 8 works if you're playing someone who is not FSU. It is one of the WORST defensive strategies in all of football if you don't have great pass rushers.

I still think our strategy last year was pretty good if we could have gotten to jameis a few times with some of those stunts.

But FSu adjusted on both sides of the ball and we did not. Hence the reason why the game was close in the first half and a landslide in the next.
 
Good thing our coaches know a little something about dropping players in coverage
 
Keep it simple, rough up their WRs and play alot of man coverage, not that 15 yards off **** Goden been playing. Bump and run at the line of scrimmage. But the most important thing is our DL, McCord, Chad, Kamalu etc, need to put pressure on Winston up the middle, make him step back. And then chase and tackle him...hard
 
supacane said:
Keep it simple, rough up their WRs and play alot of man coverage, not that 15 yards off **** Goden been playing. Bump and run at the line of scrimmage. But the most important thing is our DL, McCord, Chad, Kamalu etc, need to put pressure on Winston up the middle, make him step back. And then chase and tackle him...hard
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Yeah, that's really where the game is going to boil down.

Can we get consistent pressure on him with four rushers.

Tyriq McCord needs to be a demon in this game.

I think Kamalu will be a big factor too. He seems to be pretty disruptive.

Wouldn't mind a Chad Thomas breakout game either.
 
jerzeycane said:
supacane said:
Keep it simple, rough up their WRs and play alot of man coverage, not that 15 yards off **** Goden been playing. Bump and run at the line of scrimmage. But the most important thing is our DL, McCord, Chad, Kamalu etc, need to put pressure on Winston up the middle, make him step back. And then chase and tackle him...hard
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Yeah, that's really where the game is going to boil down.

Can we get consistent pressure on him with four rushers.

Tyriq McCord needs to be a demon in this game.

I think Kamalu will be a big factor too. He seems to be pretty disruptive.

Wouldn't mind a Chad Thomas breakout game either.
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For over 3 years, we been rushing three and dropping eight.

So while I am certain that it's a bad move, I'm confident Golden will do so.

Just too hard to break old habit, huh Al?
 
Maybe we slow winston down by dropping 8, but dalvin cook will go off and the crab legs will still be fresh in the 4th qtr. We can't let them off the hook.

F this drop back and wait crap. I want somebody hitting him on every play.

Hulk SMASH!!

Every play.
 
They MUST keep hitting winston over and over.

Stop the run.

DBs and LBs got to take chances, jump routes, strip the ball.

Duke/Yearby/Gus is going run through the middle of that defense all day though.

Play action could be beastly.
 
We can't rush 3. We suck at it. We are better at covering our zones for shorter amounts of time (duh I guess). Blitzing Winston can be a disaster but giving him and Green too much time is a sure way to a slow death. Winston will make some mistakes. We have to go down swinging.
 
jerzeycane said:
supacane said:
Keep it simple, rough up their WRs and play alot of man coverage, not that 15 yards off **** Goden been playing. Bump and run at the line of scrimmage. But the most important thing is our DL, McCord, Chad, Kamalu etc, need to put pressure on Winston up the middle, make him step back. And then chase and tackle him...hard
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Yeah, that's really where the game is going to boil down.

Can we get consistent pressure on him with four rushers.

Tyriq McCord needs to be a demon in this game.

I think Kamalu will be a big factor too. He seems to be pretty disruptive.

Wouldn't mind a Chad Thomas breakout game either.
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Kamalu is a guy I have my eye on as well. You could say he's been our most consistent threat. He's disruptive even in traffic.
 
JHallCanes said:
We can't rush 3. We suck at it. We are better at covering our zones for shorter amounts of time (duh I guess). Blitzing Winston can be a disaster but giving him and Green too much time is a sure way to a slow death. Winston will make some mistakes. We have to go down swinging.
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You gotta mix it up and disguise.

When he thinks your not coming, bring everything.

It's about keeping him uncomfortable.

Smart QB's eat consistent pressure alive.

When he thinks your coming, drop back.
 
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Clearly, the best approach to stopping Jameis is to put a bucket full of crab legs next to a fine looking, drugged out ho holding a "**** her right in the *****" sign in the first row behind the F$U bench.
 
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