Chrisarg72
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D'onofrio gets a lot of **** on this board, but let me explain a few things:
Against UF the man did not play call conservative at all. Why? UF has the horses, they have talent, if you allow them to dink and dunk they will destroy you. So naturally D'o calls up an aggressive defensive scheme.
When playing a Wake or UNC he plays conservative, why? These teams do not have the talent. ****** teams beat good teams off of big plays, not off of consistent high level performance, because if they could sustain high level performances they would not be a ****** team. They thrive off the big play which gets the D out of formation and shifts the momentum by an insane amount. Going back to wake the example was clear, they had only one touchdown from a sustained drive. ONE. Count it, the first one. That drive only succeeded due to awful tackling which allowed them to generate YAC on third down. The point is Wake was not good enough to sustain that performance, and it showed. The other two touchdowns came from big plays from when the defense was playing aggressively in man coverage, this led to Burns getting beat and Cornelius falling all over himself. So the count is 2 touchdowns in aggressive, 1 in passive (which shouldn't have been if the defense tackled correctly, but I digress). UNC also got most of its points from when the D was playing aggressive.
Now for those of you worried about D'o's press conference, where he announced he wouldn't change anything, obviously he will say that. What were you expecting? Him to show his cards? Obviously not, FSU has the horses and you have to playing aggressive D. D'o knows this, just watch the D against Florida. We will be playing in a similar package.
TLDR: If its a top team, take the fight to them, if its a bad team make them prove themselves consistently because they can't sustain it (they will regress to the mean)
Against UF the man did not play call conservative at all. Why? UF has the horses, they have talent, if you allow them to dink and dunk they will destroy you. So naturally D'o calls up an aggressive defensive scheme.
When playing a Wake or UNC he plays conservative, why? These teams do not have the talent. ****** teams beat good teams off of big plays, not off of consistent high level performance, because if they could sustain high level performances they would not be a ****** team. They thrive off the big play which gets the D out of formation and shifts the momentum by an insane amount. Going back to wake the example was clear, they had only one touchdown from a sustained drive. ONE. Count it, the first one. That drive only succeeded due to awful tackling which allowed them to generate YAC on third down. The point is Wake was not good enough to sustain that performance, and it showed. The other two touchdowns came from big plays from when the defense was playing aggressively in man coverage, this led to Burns getting beat and Cornelius falling all over himself. So the count is 2 touchdowns in aggressive, 1 in passive (which shouldn't have been if the defense tackled correctly, but I digress). UNC also got most of its points from when the D was playing aggressive.
Now for those of you worried about D'o's press conference, where he announced he wouldn't change anything, obviously he will say that. What were you expecting? Him to show his cards? Obviously not, FSU has the horses and you have to playing aggressive D. D'o knows this, just watch the D against Florida. We will be playing in a similar package.
TLDR: If its a top team, take the fight to them, if its a bad team make them prove themselves consistently because they can't sustain it (they will regress to the mean)
