Defensive Play

SouthLincoln Husker said:
This defense is made for linebackers to read and react.  We do not have the guys to run this.  Watch JoJo and A. Davis.  A. Davis runs by the QB on the zone read, Jo Jo hesitates to make sure the ball is gone.  I really like Barry, but sometime he gets caught in the line and takes bad angles. 
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Dumas had worthy criticism for the LB's this morning on Severe and Benning.  Said the OLB's (mainly Davis) get too far upfield and don't want to "set the edge".  He also said Barry plays too often like a 4-3 MLB, and shoots to a gap, rather than reading the play and avoiding blockers.  The 3-4 is very tough on LB's, as they are expected to make the majority of the plays.  

 
Setting the edge.  Something I've definitely noticed we haven't done well so far this year and it's kinda important.  A Davis especially has had problems with this.

 
ColoradoHusk said:
Dumas had worthy criticism for the LB's this morning on Severe and Benning.  Said the OLB's (mainly Davis) get too far upfield and don't want to "set the edge".  He also said Barry plays too often like a 4-3 MLB, and shoots to a gap, rather than reading the play and avoiding blockers.  The 3-4 is very tough on LB's, as they are expected to make the majority of the plays.  
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LBs are weakest part of our Def.  I truly believe it will get better and we will have a dominating defense again.

 
Here's one of my biggest questions: Let's say Ty Robinson is the guy we think he's going to be - a slightly smaller JJ Watt out there. On 3rd & long situations, will Chinander be willing to be flexible and play him as a fourth guy on the line in addition to three other guys that might have roughly the same builds as Khalil/Carlos/Derrion?

Or will Ty just be the third lineman with two other Davis twin type bodies out there? We won't really know I guess until a year or two down the line.

 
ColoradoHusk said:
Dumas had worthy criticism for the LB's this morning on Severe and Benning.  Said the OLB's (mainly Davis) get too far upfield and don't want to "set the edge".  He also said Barry plays too often like a 4-3 MLB, and shoots to a gap, rather than reading the play and avoiding blockers.  The 3-4 is very tough on LB's, as they are expected to make the majority of the plays.  
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That's an interesting observation.  I'm sure he's right.  But that's kind of an interesting balance between being aggressive and playing smart.

 
Undone said:
Here's one of my biggest questions: Let's say Ty Robinson is the guy we think he's going to be - a slightly smaller JJ Watt out there. On 3rd & long situations, will Chinander be willing to be flexible and play him as a fourth guy on the line in addition to three other guys that might have roughly the same builds as Khalil/Carlos/Derrion?

Or will Ty just be the third lineman with two other Davis twin type bodies out there? We won't really know I guess until a year or two down the line.
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I don't think he's the guy to do that.  He's going to be big.  You want an OLB type to develop into that type of pass rusher.

I'd say Robinson will be in the mix of six-ish guys like we're doing this year.  Next year we'll have Stille as a senior.  Damion, Deontre and Jahkeem as Juniors and those four would seem to be the locks.  Then find 2-3 more guys out of Chris Walker, Wildeman, Rogers, Robinson and Newsom.

 
Mavric said:
That's an interesting observation.  I'm sure he's right.  But that's kind of an interesting balance between being aggressive and playing smart.
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And I haven't listened to that link that ColoradoHusk posted yet, but the thing is, maybe Barry is actually being coached to this...

 
Undone said:
And I haven't listened to that link that ColoradoHusk posted yet, but the thing is, maybe Barry is actually being coached to this...
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Yeah, that's what I was wondering about as well.  They definitely talk a lot about being aggressive and looking for TFLs.  Perhaps they have a little different ideas about how to go about it thatn others.

 
Not trying to feed/start any sort of infernet drama but just happened to read this tweet from Clark.  Hope all is good.  Again I have no idea what he is referencing.


 
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Exhibit A for why I think PFF is cool but very flawed: Eric Lee was still the highest graded Safety in the country through week 5 (link). He balled out against South Alabama and maybe you can argue he should be playing more, but I'm pretty sure we're not bringing the best Safety in the nation off the bench for a few snaps at a time. Impressive grade either way though.

 
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