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To realize that you can't have a good defense no matter who the DC is without a good DL. Until we get some good DLinemen we ain't winning anything.
 
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Someone should send coach d and the dline some skates. Maybe the can hold the line better
 
we cant know if we have good DL if we tell them to stop gaps and not fire off the ball. Give a kid one gap and say fire off the ball. Simple
 
Totally agree. But it's not just the DL, it's the LBs and Safeties as well. cb is the only position that we have top tier talent but the even so, the depth is not great. Gunter, Howard and Crawford in 2nd year, two freshman behind them. We don't have one Elite player on defense right now. Zero
 
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^what FarArcher said.

******* clowns making excuses for the worst coordinator in school history. I hate all of you.
 
We mix it up, but unfortunately NoDonofrio, hasn't quite figured out when to call certain plays or to know other teams tendacies. I see teams running the same **** over and over.
 
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I sent Denofrio NCAA 2014 to help him learn the zone read and qb designed runs. It's the least I could do.
 
We use other techniques but most of the time I see us 2-gapping. You can usually tell what technique we're gonna use by looking at the D-lineman's stance. If he's got alot of weight on his hand and he's leaned forward then he's 1-gapping. When they're in a frog stance they're 2-gapping.

Funny thing...

On the 4th & 1 play where Duke scored on the 33 yard run we were 1-gapping. We actually got penetration. One of our DT's blew into the backfield. It was Cornelius that was absent during the cut-back.
 
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WildcatDefense said:
We use other techniques but most of the time I see us 2-gapping. You can usually tell what technique we're gonna use by looking at the D-lineman's stance. If he's got alot of weight on his hand and he's leaned forward then he's 1-gapping. When they're in a frog stance they're 2-gapping.

Funny thing...

On the 4th & 1 play where Duke scored on the 33 yard run we were 1-gapping. We actually got penetration. One of our DT's blew into the backfield. It was Cornelius that was absent during the cut-back.
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Yup.
 
I'd like to know if some people really think our DL are worse than Memphis' DL (or other relatively ****** teams who performed better against Duke). Someone let me know.
 
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LuCane said:
bbcane said:
WildcatDefense said:
It's this ****in' 2-gapping garbage we're doing.
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Is this done every play? Or do we mix it up.
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We like to mix things up on 3rd down and long situations where we put Quan inside and run games/stunts…almost. every. single. time. If I were an opposing OL, I'd laugh my *** off.
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Yea I see it on 3rd. I know we just got run on by duke. But this d seems to be built to stop a running team. It does not seem built to stop a good balanced offense
 
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This year we ALWAYS 2-gap when we're in an Odd front. (atleast from what I remember)

Last year we did some different things out of the 3-4. Sometimes we 2-gapped and sometimes we slanted (1-gap). I haven't really been seeing us slant this season.

Either way, this 2-gap **** is terrible. We obviously can't do it. I don't know why we're being so stubborn. Even when we do it right we still give up 3 yards. Our D-linemen pop straight up at the snap, meanwhile the O-linemen are launching forward at us. We're giving up ground at the snap. Then, by the time our D-lineman disengages the RB already has 3+ yards.

A buddy of mine who coached Olivier Vernon in high school told me that this is one of the reasons Forston and Vernon took off to the NFL. (that's what he was told by Vernon)
 
WildcatDefense said:
This year we ALWAYS 2-gap when we're in an Odd front. (atleast from what I remember)

Last year we did some different things out of the 3-4. Sometimes we 2-gapped and sometimes we slanted (1-gap). I haven't really been seeing us slant this season.

Either way, this 2-gap **** is terrible. We obviously can't do it. I don't know why we're being so stubborn. Even when we do it right we still give up 3 yards. Our D-linemen pop straight up at the snap, meanwhile the O-linemen are launching forward at us. We're giving up ground at the snap. Then, by the time our D-lineman disengages the RB already has 3+ yards.

A buddy of mine who coached Olivier Vernon in high school told me that this is one of the reasons Forston and Vernon took off to the NFL. (that's what he was told by Vernon)
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They ran a QB draw today for 5 yards. On one TD, the QB didn't meet resistance till he was 3 yards in the end zone. If you want to kill a player's motivation, put them into that situation to get literally driven into the end zone. Really tough to watch. At one point in the game, I joked that they could have ran QB draws from under center for 4 yards a pop for the entire game. I once saw that in a HS game.
 
WildcatDefense said:
This year we ALWAYS 2-gap when we're in an Odd front. (atleast from what I remember)

Last year we did some different things out of the 3-4. Sometimes we 2-gapped and sometimes we slanted (1-gap). I haven't really been seeing us slant this season.

Either way, this 2-gap **** is terrible. We obviously can't do it. I don't know why we're being so stubborn. Even when we do it right we still give up 3 yards. Our D-linemen pop straight up at the snap, meanwhile the O-linemen are launching forward at us. We're giving up ground at the snap. Then, by the time our D-lineman disengages the RB already has 3+ yards.

A buddy of mine who coached Olivier Vernon in high school told me that this is one of the reasons Forston and Vernon took off to the NFL. (that's what he was told by Vernon)
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I don't know about forston, but yes in Vernon. Talked to him when he was training for a couple of days down at XPE before the combine. Said it wasn't his game and he didn't want to put a ton of weight on like coaches wanted him to.
 
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