Interesting thought re: DB play/technique, WRs, & practice...

uafan4life said:

I know many get upset or, at least, concerned with our DB play - at times - in games where a player will seem to be in a position to make a play but doesn't look for the ball or just doesn't make the play.

And many often question our practice techniques/methods regarding teaching our DBs to look for the ball.

The stock answer - a technical explanation - is that we teach our DBs to look for the ball but only when they're in-phase (in the proper position to attempt to make a play on the ball while still being able to recover and play the man).

However, this doesn't really explain - on the surface - why our DBs often fail to look for the ball when they appear to be in-phase.

Watching yesterday's replay, Matt Stinchcomb relayed a conversation he had with one of our DBs that may have inadvertently shed some light on this issue...

When "speaking to our DBs to get their opinion on what might be the best WR corps in the country," one of them mentioned that in practice they (the DBs) are pretty much always in recovery mode and when they get in a game and are in-phase with a receiver they have to remind themselves that they can look for the ball.

Could it be that our WRs are too good and that is, indirectly, why our DBs have a tendency to not look for the ball - because they're rarely in a position in practice to actually practice it?

Are they so not-used-to being in-phase that they don't trust that they really are when they are often in-phase in a game?

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4Q Basket Case said:

I wish I could hand this out to everybody sitting near me in BDS. They're forever bellowing about looking for the ball, and have no clue as to what they're talking about. They don't even know enough to know where the gaps in their knowledge are, and it's highly irritating.

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Krymsonman said:

Well, it makes sense to me. If you are constantly getting juked in practice by Jeudy, Waddle, Ruggs etc, and are always playing catch-up, maybe they don't realize when they are right where they are supposed to be. A&M did a great job yesterday of looking like they were in position, but had no idea where the ball was.

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uafan4life said:

I know many get upset or, at least, concerned with our DB play - at times - in games where a player will seem to be in a position to make a play but doesn't look for the ball or just doesn't make the play.

And many often question our practice techniques/methods regarding teaching our DBs to look for the ball.

The stock answer - a technical explanation - is that we teach our DBs to look for the ball but only when they're in-phase (in the proper position to attempt to make a play on the ball while still being able to recover and play the man).

However, this doesn't really explain - on the surface - why our DBs often fail to look for the ball when they appear to be in-phase.

Watching yesterday's replay, Matt Stinchcomb relayed a conversation he had with one of our DBs that may have inadvertently shed some light on this issue...

When "speaking to our DBs to get their opinion on what might be the best WR corps in the country," one of them mentioned that in practice they (the DBs) are pretty much always in recovery mode and when they get in a game and are in-phase with a receiver they have to remind themselves that they can look for the ball.

Could it be that our WRs are too good and that is, indirectly, why our DBs have a tendency to not look for the ball - because they're rarely in a position in practice to actually practice it?

Are they so not-used-to being in-phase that they don't trust that they really are when they are often in-phase in a game?

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