I’d love to read our defensive playbook. Used to be able to find older playbooks online but with iPads it’s really dried up. It feels to me we don’t have a solid, fundamental base defense to rely on.
I legit can’t understand what we do on defense.
The play last night that sums up my frustration was where ETN cut through the B gap after the Hback sealed and pancakes McCloud And then ran for miles. There were three fundamental issues with that play that shouldn’t ever happen in year 6 in a scheme.
1) roche runs way too upfield, opening up a huge lane between the T and G. He cannot be the force player with such an aggressive up the field approach.
2) McCloud neither spills nor forces against the pulling H back. He can be the force player but his alignment is too inside to be able set an edge, and is too close to the LOS. He looks to be more a “scrape to the open gap” here.
3) there is no DB responsible for any run fit to either be the force player Outside of McCloud (Quarters or cover 2) or fill player inside (single high coverage).
You cannot have a play at any level where there is no defined force player, but this happens over and over and over. We get away with it against garbage teams. It bites us against good ones.
Herbstreit mentioned multiple times last night that Miami has issues containing. It’s so unsound and inexcusable for a staff in its 6th season running this defense, and I believe they just don’t teach it or care, as they think they can just tackle for loss their way to good defense. it’s gotta change next year for manny, who I support, to succeed here.
I legit can’t understand what we do on defense.
The play last night that sums up my frustration was where ETN cut through the B gap after the Hback sealed and pancakes McCloud And then ran for miles. There were three fundamental issues with that play that shouldn’t ever happen in year 6 in a scheme.
1) roche runs way too upfield, opening up a huge lane between the T and G. He cannot be the force player with such an aggressive up the field approach.
2) McCloud neither spills nor forces against the pulling H back. He can be the force player but his alignment is too inside to be able set an edge, and is too close to the LOS. He looks to be more a “scrape to the open gap” here.
3) there is no DB responsible for any run fit to either be the force player Outside of McCloud (Quarters or cover 2) or fill player inside (single high coverage).
You cannot have a play at any level where there is no defined force player, but this happens over and over and over. We get away with it against garbage teams. It bites us against good ones.
Herbstreit mentioned multiple times last night that Miami has issues containing. It’s so unsound and inexcusable for a staff in its 6th season running this defense, and I believe they just don’t teach it or care, as they think they can just tackle for loss their way to good defense. it’s gotta change next year for manny, who I support, to succeed here.