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<blockquote data-quote="slugboy" data-source="post: 793746" data-attributes="member: 282"><p>I understand a coach saying “let’s get good at one defense before we add another one”. </p><p></p><p>Over the last 20 years, we’ve run mostly a 4-3 under Tenuta, mostly a 4-2-5 under Wommack, a 3-4 under Groh (and mostly under Kelly, as I remember), Mostly a 4-2-5 under Roof, but it was our base and not our only defense, and a 3-4 under Nate Woody. It’s been so long since Tenuta that I don’t remember if we had a lot of different personnel groupings (but we did have a lot of blitzes). In the last 10 years, none of them were more than average, and most were not good. It seems unfair to put too much blame on a 4-2-5 scheme that is the most popular against the “‘multiple’ read-option” offense. </p><p></p><p>I could see us with a goalline 52 or 5-3 package, but I don’t think we had a lot of goalline stands last year to see if we had one. Lots of teams in the pre-read-option days would flex from a 4-3 to a 4-2-5 when their opponents went 4 or 5 wide. It’s possible to have the variations in your base defense. </p><p></p><p>The problems that killed us the last two seasons probably wouldn’t be fixed by a change in formation. In the middle of the defensive line, the G-C-G’s fired off faster and won at the point of attack. Through the first half of the season, we had one linebacker taking too long to make a read, and getting stuck behind a wall of people, and another one getting in the wrong lane. We had a safety and a linebacker filling the same hole. Changing your defensive formation isn’t going to fix that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="slugboy, post: 793746, member: 282"] I understand a coach saying “let’s get good at one defense before we add another one”. Over the last 20 years, we’ve run mostly a 4-3 under Tenuta, mostly a 4-2-5 under Wommack, a 3-4 under Groh (and mostly under Kelly, as I remember), Mostly a 4-2-5 under Roof, but it was our base and not our only defense, and a 3-4 under Nate Woody. It’s been so long since Tenuta that I don’t remember if we had a lot of different personnel groupings (but we did have a lot of blitzes). In the last 10 years, none of them were more than average, and most were not good. It seems unfair to put too much blame on a 4-2-5 scheme that is the most popular against the “‘multiple’ read-option” offense. I could see us with a goalline 52 or 5-3 package, but I don’t think we had a lot of goalline stands last year to see if we had one. Lots of teams in the pre-read-option days would flex from a 4-3 to a 4-2-5 when their opponents went 4 or 5 wide. It’s possible to have the variations in your base defense. The problems that killed us the last two seasons probably wouldn’t be fixed by a change in formation. In the middle of the defensive line, the G-C-G’s fired off faster and won at the point of attack. Through the first half of the season, we had one linebacker taking too long to make a read, and getting stuck behind a wall of people, and another one getting in the wrong lane. We had a safety and a linebacker filling the same hole. Changing your defensive formation isn’t going to fix that. [/QUOTE]
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