I see a lot of times that they have a huge buffer between the d back and the receiver and also there have a been many times where one side gets over loaded and no adjustment is made before the snap. In the Florida game, there were two wide open receivers with no D guy to account for......resulting in scores where I could have thrown the pass. The huge buffer results in large chunks of yardage, 10 and 12 yards and first downs are made. I am no guru, but I think they play way too soft on the wide outs.
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No coach worth his salt coaches their DB's to turn their head to the QB unless they are in zone, they are to mirror the WR when playing man to man and react to him. There's a bit more to it than that but when they turn their head, they lose contact and are easily beaten. The difference between Stoops at FSU and at UK is talent - plain and simple.
It appears not many have analyzed the problems in the Mizzou and Ol Miss games. The old saying of if you give up liberty for security, you have neither (by Ben Franklin I think) could be appropriated to say, if you give up pass rush to cover, you have neither is more indicative of what we saw in those two games.
To try to stop the run while covering a spread spread you out passing team, our coaches chose to take out our Jack LB, leaving the Nose on the field and inserting a DB. We ended up with a slower down 4 of 4/5 of our regular run front while adding a DB.
Bad choice IMHO and had hoped the coaches would reevaluate that during the bye week and scrap it but we came out and did it again vs Ol Miss and it cost us dearly. Last week vs Vandy we went back to our 3-4 front with the 4 down nickel package we normally use and it was very effective. My hopes are we never see that hybrid neither run or passe defense again.Comment
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The defensive backs seemed more alert and aware for most of Saturday. I don't know if Stoops got their attention and focus, or if it was other factors.Comment
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You turn your head to locate the ball. As a DB, you get a feel for when the ball is being thrown. As was the case vs Ole Miss, that receiver didn't have anywhere else to run. He was in the back corner of the end zone. The best I have seen at UK do this is Trevard Lindley. He rarely got toasted. Not only was he a great athlete, but he was excellent at locating the ball and timing the opposing receivers jump. We just seem to have our backs to the QB quite often. You look at the really good cover guys in the NFL and the have an uncanny ability to not only keep up the WRs, but they have their head/hips on a swivel the whole time.Isaiah 5:20Comment
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There is a lot of trickery involved in that too, though. We've been playing some very good receivers. I don't think ours can give our DBs great practice.Comment
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I agree Old School. Our DB were turning their heads and locating the ball against Vandy and we had some interceptions. Then again, the Vandy reeeivers were not at the same level as the Ole Miss or Missouri receivers. I know we've had some broken coverages. But some of the receivers we've seen have made some outstanding catches while being covered. The secondary seems to me to have improved against Vandy.Comment
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I really appreciate RV pointing out what the defensive set did differently in the Missouri and Mississippi games. I can readily understand that in trying to strengthen the pass protection we gave up not only pressure on the quarterback but opened up the rush lanes as well.
having the extra back is fine, but a solid quarterback can pick a secondary apart when they have time, and Mizzou certainly has a good, not solid quarterback. Ol Miss had the advantage of a really, really fine group of wide receivers to boot.
Switching back certainly worked better against Vanderbilt, and their qb had only thrown three interceptions all year long.Comment
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