here in the N.O. tv area, if you watch it on WWLTV Channel 4, they delay the game for 5-6 secs, so it can be even with their radio, because they own both the TV and the radio station
I agree whole-heartedly. But from my perspective as just a hardcore fan who knows absolutely zero about coordinating a defense; it seemed like those fakes and handoffs took an eternity to develop. Again, I know nothing about coordinating a D and don't pretend that I do, but it seems like if we could've got some pressure up the middle; it would've disrutped every play they ran from that set. I guess it's a risk/reward type of thing. If we blitz and don't make the play, it's probably a TD. I guess it's better to read/react in that situation.
I'm on the MS Gulf Coast. Not sure if that has anything to do with it or not. I'd much rather listen to Hawthorne (even though I think he's lost a step) and Morreau (sp?) than those CBS honks, but it just didn't work out that way. At least Gary Danielson was giving LSU and the SEC it's props; which made it a little easier on the ears.
If you had TIVO/DVR, you could have synched it as close as possible to match the Radio (pause the video until the radio catches up to it). Did anyone do this? I am sure it worked pretty well.
Speed. It's hard to defense speed, its not a formation thing, you either have speed (McFaden and Jones) or you don't. They kept running these guys from a wide out position in front of the QB standing back in the shotgun and they had a running start when they took the handoff. The defenders were all standing still. The runner had a big advantage getting to the corner to turn upfield, and with their natural speed it was very hard to catch them. Both running backs had excellent speed and power. They mostly raced us to the corners and won the race. They had more trouble running inside and that would cost them a down (except for McFaden's 80 yd burst for TD), and their passing attempts were attrocious, usually costing them a down.
I find that the Wildcat wasn't what we couldn't stop. Cause we did. What we couldn't stop was the wildcat when they ran to the outside. Who got high school football in my NCAA? BTW if this formation is in NCAA Football 2008 I just might hurt Houston Nutt.
Watch the replay tommorrow the ends kept crashing down inside all day...leaving the outside wide open and those backs proved to fast for the OLBs (Ali out early and Beckwith not 100%)......but I thought for sure the coaches would correct this at half but no the entire game the ends kept collapsing and not forcing the RBs up the middle. But I have to agree with the game on the line on 4 and 3 how Nutt did not put the ball into either MacFadden's hands or Felix Jones' is unthinkable. But all in all have to give credit to one of the best RB duos that I can remember in recent history.....they may not be as flashy as Bush and White were at USC but I would take them on my team any day over those two, and they certainly give Ronnie Brown and Cadallac Williams a run for their money as well.
I agree and it seems they'd at least go to what was effective, at least once, with the chance of getting out of bounds. They had time for one and had they gotten OOB to stop clock.....
Right on the money. Arky with their tremendous RBs were able to exploit a weakness that showed up a couple of times in the Bama and Ole Miss games: a lack of speed by OLBs and CBs when it comes to sealing outside runs. Zenon and Chevis Jackson are solid coverage CBs, but just aren't strong tacklers. Going up against RBs like the ones Arky has, and it's a mismatch every time. I also think another key factor to Arkansas's success on the ground, which has been very underrated IMO, is their veteran OL, which opened up a hell of a lot of running room today. As for Verne's running the "wildcat" formation into the ground, it reminded me of David Pollack, that guy's motor NEVER stops running. :dis:
Good point. I don't recall, but I imagine the tackles were railing the D-line into the middle, and Pelini figured at SOME point we could get inside pressure to disrupt the exchange. That's a TD for the defense if it happens. A lot of credit to the Arkansas o-line for not letting that happen. It really was the damnedest thing.
