We need to play more press coverage to keep teams from doing that.Some are still worried about our pass rush. Here are a few more numbers to consider. Trickett only held the ball for more than 3 seconds from the snap the entire game. He threw 2 completions on those 6 plays and 2 were sacks. Other two were incomplete passes.
Most plays the ball was gone in less than 2.5 seconds. Thats very quick and extremely hard to get sacks when a QB is doing that.
I hate to be critical of a particular player, but that was my take as well. He was in position most of the time, and that's what you want, but he just couldn't make any plays on the ball, and that's also what you want...Sylve was in postion many times, but had a hard time finding the ball.
Yea. I was wondering why we were recruiting Matt Elam at all. There really isn't a place for a 350 pound defensive tackle against the HUNH or spread. They are just liabilities against speed teams..Those guys would just about die on the field against the HUNH.
Situational player. He would play in obvious running situations and against teams that had a big physical running attack. Actually if you think about it if had completely eliminated the possibility that AU could have run up the middle then that would have automatically eliminated a good portion of their offense.Yea. I was wondering why we were recruiting Matt Elam at all. There really isn't a place for a 350 pound defensive tackle against the HUNH or spread. They are just liabilities against speed teams..
I don't think a guy like Elam would be much help against AU, or any HUNH. I think he would be to tired to be effective. The problem with being a situational player would be getting him subbed out of the game against the HUNH after a few plays..Situational player. He would play in obvious running situations and against teams that had a big physical running attack. Actually if you think about it if had completely eliminated the possibility that AU could have run up the middle then that would have automatically eliminated a good portion of their offense.
You have to rotate your DL to keep them fresh. However the rotation should happen every series or every other series perhaps unless there is a timeout or some other stoppage of play. Keep in mind that not every team on our schedule is HUNH (e.g. Arkansas, LSU) so we still have to have the widebodies to plug up the middle. Even though AU is HUNH they are still predominately a power running team so you still have to have someone that can plug the middle of the D against them.I don't think a guy like Elam would be much help against AU, or any HUNH. I think he would be to tired to be effective. The problem with being a situational player would be getting him subbed out of the game against the HUNH after a few plays..
Again, you can't play press coverage with cornerbacks averaging 5'10 and 185 pounds, they just don't have the physical skill set to do it. It's no different than trying to throw a jump ball to a guy like Marquis Maze. Not knocking the strategy in general, but you must have the right personnel to execute it, and we simply didn't have that on the field Saturday to do that. Had we tried, I don't think there's any real doubt that it would have been a failure.We need to play more press coverage to keep teams from doing that.
It's for when we put in the Jumbo Package down on the goal line.Yea. I was wondering why we were recruiting Matt Elam at all. There really isn't a place for a 350 pound defensive tackle against the HUNH or spread. They are just liabilities against speed teams..
Eh, not really. Sure that's true with a quality nose guard against an pro-style / interior run team, but spread teams and misdirection-based run spreads -- which includes Auburn, by the way -- will gladly block someone like that with only one offensive lineman. Guys like that are useless against bubble screens, jet sweeps, mobile QBs, and the like, all of which are staples of those offenses, and obviously their value only goes further down against HUNH teams once they get going because stamina becomes an issue.And a guy that big requires a double team which is going to leave someone else free to work the edge.
What you described is not know as "HUNH." You described an offensive scheme, which isn't a result of Alabama and LSU's dominance. This has been making its way through college football since the 1990's. It has been very popular in high school for years, too.I think that, in a way, we are victims of our own success when it comes to the rising popularity of hunh O's. Think about it--along with LSU, we've dominated college football for 6 years with great D and pretty vanilla O and so OC's and HC's had to devise something to neutralize our size advantage and extensive usage of substitutions and other defensive schemes. Presto--you have the teams going onto the field with scripted and multiple plays mainly using speed and misdirection, otherwise known as hunh.
Yeah, many much larger trends are in play here that have gotten us to where we presently are, and those trends go well beyond the recent scope of the dominance of Alabama and (to a much lesser extent) LSU.What you described is not know as "HUNH." You described an offensive scheme, which isn't a result of Alabama and LSU's dominance. This has been making its way through college football since the 1990's. It has been very popular in high school for years, too.