For the life of me I could not figure out why we kept doing that in the second half while the UNC quarterback kept throwing to nice and easy slant routes for 5-10 yards whenever he wanted. Why did we continue to line up 10 yards off their main receivers? I don't claim to be a DC, but it seems that if you are getting beat consistently on short passing routes it's time to line up and hit the receivers in the mouth at the line of scrimmage. The play I still have burned in my head was the play that Mathieu blitzed and forced the fumble. If I recall correctly they only needed about 5 yards or so for the first down on that play, and I remember seeing their outside receiver given a 15 yard cushion. If they would have ran a slant right there it would have been a first down easy. In fact, I'm not really sure why they didn't considering we were giving it to them all night and it was working. I happened to catch Bo Pelini's Nebraska team playing Texas in the Big 12 championship from last year a couple of nights ago. They absolutely frustrated Colt McCoy because they were harassing the receivers from the second the ball was snapped. He could not find anyone open! I never saw any of that soft zone crap unless it was 3rd and long. Why do we play soft zone so much on downs like 3rd and less than 5? It makes no sense to me....
yeah, when they got up to the line i looked at my brother and said "what the hell are they doing ? it's 3rd and 5 and you are 15 yards back?" that was stupid!..luckily he got there and caused the fumble..if they had ran the slant 20+ yd pick up
Because our safeties screwed up assignments and gave up two enormous pass plays, one for a TD. At that point I don't blame Chavis for wanting to play prevent and keep everyone in front of the secondary.
Those short timing routes are destroyed if the CB keeps the WR at the LOS. There are at least two HC's out there (Hmmm who would that be?) that are secondary types and their CB's press far more than LSU. I HATE the rush 3 drop 8 defense when they keep dinking and dunking down the field. Notice that the second to last drive was stopped when they busted the QB and he fumbles w backside CB blitz. This is going to be a long year.:geauxtige
:geaux: Not jamming the receivers at the LOS really bothered the hell out of me last night! Doing that would have significantly cut down on Yates & his receivers success, IMO. I realize you probably don't want to do that every play, but I'd think you'd want to harass their receivers pretty often and keep them from getting comfortable running their routes. :LSU231:
lsu was up 3 tds-thats why. play back, slow them down and your O should score a little and/or run out the clock. it worked. and 9 times out of 10 would have worked out much better.
Exactly, and when you are up by 2 scores VERY late in the game, the very last thing you want to do is give up a big play. 2 minute offenses usually work well. This is just the truth of the matter. It puts the defense in a bad position because they cannot press and give up a big play. The best course is to give up short plays over the middle to drain clock. This is why the slants were open. The thinking is that if they score, they must recover the onside kick, which is a low percentage play.
It is starting to appear as if any play is a high percentage play if Miles is standing on the other side of the field......................sad but very true. The 4th quarter UNC put up does not happen with a DC that gets paid what Chavis does.:geauxtige
