Our Defense vs. Our Offense

[Flowers4Heisman]

Defensively, what's different this year? I think we are letting our best athletes loose and letting them play their game -and being aggressive. Last year, I don't even know what sort of philosophy that was.

Offensively, QF is almost the only one who is allowed to do stuff. Everybody else is on a fixed pattern of some kind -complete assignment football.

Whenever our players break out of their assigned stuff, you see good things happen on the offense.

#FreeOurPlayers!#

[Bulls On Parade]

Tackling alone is much improved on defense and D line is getting pretty good pressure from starters...secondary seems pretty good at corners  but the middle seems to be a weakness down the field.

Watching the O this season is frustrating because its like watching a 500hp car thats limited to 80 mph.

Did like the playcalling last game hope they keep it up.

 

 

 

 

[George_Bullnard_Shaw]

The level of our competition.

Defense starting to look more exposed the last 3 games.

[FatDaddyBull]

57 minutes ago, Bulls On Parade said:

Watching the O this season is frustrating because its like watching a 500hp car thats limited to 80 mph.

 

 

 

 Gilbert was handed the keys to a Lamborghini and traded it in for a minivan

[IBulleve]

I watched our D a lot last year trying to figure out why they were so bad. The main thing I noticed from the TV view was we were running "bus stop" where the DE were told not to get up field. Generally, this is used against running QBs so the DEs don't create lanes for the QB to scramble. Now that we seem to have turn our DEs lose, you can see that our lack of pressure last year wasn't due to lack of talent, just awful awful scheme.

[usfgrad84]

I think the issue with Gilbert he just seems to have too much in love with the dive. Although there are things he has set up with the run, he rarely goes to what he has set up. 

Also, the opposite has been true. He rarely has used other elements of what the offense can offer to set up his middle runs. 

He seemed to work the field a little better yesterday  for example, the Wilcox TD.  Fake handoff, no Safety deep easy TD.  Same on the edge passes  LBs widened out a bit and the runs in the moddle opened up.  

Sterlin seems locked in to one dimensional offense.

 

Glad he changed up a little yesterday  

 

 

 

[raptorcj]

12 minutes ago, FatDaddyBull said:

 

1 hour ago, Bulls On Parade said:

Watching the O this season is frustrating because its like watching a 500hp car thats limited to 80 mph.

 Gilbert was handed the keys to a Lamborghini and traded it in for a minivan

don't know about minivan with the numbers we've still been able to put up--maybe a big-engine dually (has speed but takes a while and has to stop for gas a lot).

I agree, though, it seems to have a governor on the throttle. Even Q, though I agree mostly with the sliding--he has changed the way he used to run. Now he just looks for the safe route, then slides well short of contact. It's safe, but if he was really let loose I feel like he'd have a lot more rushing yards. It's been there for him.