Does the following sound familiar?:
http://bleacherreport.com/arti...efensive-scheme
Excerpts:
"How long will fans be willing to put up with these regularly occurring atrocities? Here's the laundry list:
- The complete inability to stop any mobile quarterback that runs a sub 5.2 40.
- Defenders falling on their backsides because of lack of proper positioning and being fooled by sweet moves.
- No pressure on the quarterback.
- Arm tackles. Missed tackles. Non-tackles.
- Interceptions. Wait, I forget. What's an interception?"
In my opinion, Pelini's (can substitute D'Onofrio here) stubborn reliance on the 4-3 two gap defense is part of the problem. His defenders have too much to think about. For college kids, sometimes playing the game naturally is the best way.
In fact, on the flip side, only one team in the NFL, a league with far more complex defensive schemes, incorporates the two gap scheme: the Jacksonville Jaguars."
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"For those of you who are unfamiliar with the 4-3 two gap defense, the scheme involves defensive linemen concerning themselves with two gaps in the offensive line. They are responsible for not only reading the play as it comes, but knowing what everyone else on their side of the ball is doing as well.
Compare that with the one gap scheme, where defensive linemen are able to line up against their counterpart and worry solely about how they are going to get past him and make tackles.
One gap schemes aren't thinking-man defenses. But they allow players to take their mind out of the equation and focus on their physical skills. For a college athlete who is still growing as a football player this would seem to be optimal.
Take the UCLA game. (insert almost any of UM's games in the last 3 years)
The Bruins (insert almost any UM opponent in last 3 years) launched the perfect offensive scheme for a defense that thinks too much. The blackshirts (insert Canes) had their positions ironed out and their coverages in place. Then...HOLY SMOKES...a man went in motion. And just as the safeties and corners and linebackers had all finished pointing at the player and set their new coverage, the ball was snapped.
You could almost see the thought bubbles exploding over helmets.
This happened on nearly every single snap.
Too much thinking. Too little reliance on natural ability."
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Miami's defensive scheme may not be exactly the 4-3 two gap described above, but the point is that whatever D'Onofrio wants to call his "plan", it is too complex and difficult for our team to execute properly and they are getting absolutely shell-shocked out there.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and over and expecting a different result.
How can Al not see that D'Onofrio's defensive scheme simply does not fit the talent we (and very few other teams) have here.
If Golden is too blind or loyal to his friend to be willing to make the hard but necessary decision to dump DO, then he will be riding that fireball **** right into the ground and get fired also.
http://bleacherreport.com/arti...efensive-scheme
Excerpts:
"How long will fans be willing to put up with these regularly occurring atrocities? Here's the laundry list:
- The complete inability to stop any mobile quarterback that runs a sub 5.2 40.
- Defenders falling on their backsides because of lack of proper positioning and being fooled by sweet moves.
- No pressure on the quarterback.
- Arm tackles. Missed tackles. Non-tackles.
- Interceptions. Wait, I forget. What's an interception?"
In my opinion, Pelini's (can substitute D'Onofrio here) stubborn reliance on the 4-3 two gap defense is part of the problem. His defenders have too much to think about. For college kids, sometimes playing the game naturally is the best way.
In fact, on the flip side, only one team in the NFL, a league with far more complex defensive schemes, incorporates the two gap scheme: the Jacksonville Jaguars."
....
"For those of you who are unfamiliar with the 4-3 two gap defense, the scheme involves defensive linemen concerning themselves with two gaps in the offensive line. They are responsible for not only reading the play as it comes, but knowing what everyone else on their side of the ball is doing as well.
Compare that with the one gap scheme, where defensive linemen are able to line up against their counterpart and worry solely about how they are going to get past him and make tackles.
One gap schemes aren't thinking-man defenses. But they allow players to take their mind out of the equation and focus on their physical skills. For a college athlete who is still growing as a football player this would seem to be optimal.
Take the UCLA game. (insert almost any of UM's games in the last 3 years)
The Bruins (insert almost any UM opponent in last 3 years) launched the perfect offensive scheme for a defense that thinks too much. The blackshirts (insert Canes) had their positions ironed out and their coverages in place. Then...HOLY SMOKES...a man went in motion. And just as the safeties and corners and linebackers had all finished pointing at the player and set their new coverage, the ball was snapped.
You could almost see the thought bubbles exploding over helmets.
This happened on nearly every single snap.
Too much thinking. Too little reliance on natural ability."
*********************
Miami's defensive scheme may not be exactly the 4-3 two gap described above, but the point is that whatever D'Onofrio wants to call his "plan", it is too complex and difficult for our team to execute properly and they are getting absolutely shell-shocked out there.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and over and expecting a different result.
How can Al not see that D'Onofrio's defensive scheme simply does not fit the talent we (and very few other teams) have here.
If Golden is too blind or loyal to his friend to be willing to make the hard but necessary decision to dump DO, then he will be riding that fireball **** right into the ground and get fired also.
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