This is not really new news. A poster claiming to be the coach's brother said it was not true a couple days ago. I think he was legit. I was never worried about Texas, I'm still worried about LSU.
I hope TV doesn't read this board and all the complaints about our DC and scheme.
For all the complaints about the 3-4, the Gruden just hired by the 'Skins said he'll probably stick with the 3-4 because of all the problems it created for OC's in the League. I'm saying that as a guy who loved Jimmy Johnson's 4-3.
People are far too focused on 3-4 or 4-3
The problem is that we run a very vanilla 3-4. With South Florida athletes, this defense should be blitzing off the bus and playing forward, but we are all too often playing a soft 3 deep, with linebackers who suck in pass coverage.
This!! 3-4 is just the alignment and personnel. The 2 gap , zone system that we run is not the same as, for an example, the 3-4 1 gap system that teams like FSU , Bama, & Stanford's of the world run. Yes they have the personnel but they're guys are asked to attack more so than control the point of attack. That's my guys like chick and porter seem to never be off the LOS where as 1 gappers they're be shooting up field more.
ANd then we would be getting SMOKED downfield because our LBs and Safeties were terrible.
In fairness to AG and MD, I SUSPECT, that an alternative theory to "they are mentally retarded" was the fact that they felt our LB and Safties were SO bad, that they would rather play contain 2 gap, and try to "bend dont break", keep everything in front of them, rather than get smoked once we lost containment at the LOS. It was "pick your poison". Im not trying to defend it, because WHATEVER they chose was a sh8t show, and an utter failure. BUT, I suspect this may have been the rationale for playing what they played last year. I suspect they just had NO faith in the personnel they had, and tried to limit the damange, but they ended up playing scared, which got us burned anyway. AG and MD have shown they CAN play better defense than what we have seen the last 2 years.
Wether or not they can make the changes to get this fixed, is a huge question mark. We should have some better talent to work with next year, even if its young and raw. Burns, Howard, Gunter, Bush, Jenkins, DP, Chick, AQM, Kirby, FIgs, McCord, some JUCOs like Heurtelou, even if you have to throw the Frosh in there like Hester, that SHOULD be enough talent to have a marked improvement. They cant coach scared forever because of weak personnel. Eventually they need to trust the players, OR they will go down in flames.
