I'm taking recommendations for post ideas. I've already posted and gotten a few ideas in the following BI thread, so if there's something you want to see, head over there and let me know.
http://bearinsider.com/forums/showthread.php?88765-Bear-Raid-Breakdown-What-do-you-all-want-to-see
Wednesday, November 26, 2014
Friday, November 14, 2014
Pick Plays and Cover-0: Caleb Coleman's 4th Down Stop
Every season there's some hot-button issue that gets the pundits
talking. This year, for a stretch after the controversial finish to
Notre Dame-FSU, that issue was the pick play. A little closer to
home, a similar play gave Utah the victory over USC in the last
minutes of that game. These are plays that everybody runs. Everyone
complains about them when they're used against their team, and nobody
notices them when their own team runs them. Until someone institutes
a rule that no two receivers can pass within X yards of each other,
these plays will have a legitimate place in football strategy, and
that's OK. Although picks capitalize on a certain amount of
“interference,” defenses have plenty of answers that can render
them ineffective. Like every other play, it's about the coordinator
having a sense for when these plays are coming, and making the right
call to stop them. This post will break down three key plays
involving picks from the OSU game in an effort to get inside the
game-within-the-game behind compressed formations (formations where
two or more receivers line up tight to each other). The ultimate
point will be to understand Caleb Coleman's game-sealing tackle late
in the game on 4th and 2.
Sunday, November 2, 2014
UCLA Defensive Gameplan
Up until the UCLA game, our defense had
never given up more than 5 ypc against the rush, and had only given
up more than 4 ypc twice. We'd only given up 150+ yards one time (to
Colorado), and had held everyone else under 120. In the UCLA game we
gave up 237 yards at 5.04 ypc. Why the sudden change? It's tempting
to say that they're just better than the teams we'd played up to that
point, but on the season they aren't that far ahead of UA. As
always, it's a lot more complicated than the size, strength, and
speed of your opponent.
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