I think part of it was loading the box when King was in and Philo missing some reads. Haynes seemed upset a bit at times.Man the tailwind behind that kick was scary.
Philo deserves a lot of credit on that winning drive. His runs did it.
But why was our running game mostly shutdown?
Tech didn't run zone almost all night. There might have been one or two plays but that was it.We have struggled to run against odd fronts and exotic blitzes this year. When you run a zone scheme you run into that problem. Thats teh short answer.
The long answer is in order to actually counter this we needed to get our toss run working the issue is that play really only works when it has hte threat of the midline off it or quick rpo. Ralph Freidgin would have gone to I formation sets and running his version of speed potion agains the ouside backer. Johnson would go to flex TIght and rocket toss a team doing that to death then hit them with PA (whcih we almost did just... dropped it). Nix would have ran Reggie on QB draws against 8 man coverage ( what essentially won us the game) The issue was their nose was beating double teams.
fridayAaron Philo is the real deal.
We got too cute putting King in for first down where he dropped the snap. Philo was playing well at that point.
And way too much blitzing without anyone spying the QB. But a win is a win. Go get another one next Saturday.
He is good now.Philo is going to be good. If we can keep him.
You realize that horrible defense accounted for 14 of our 30 points.Super pumped for this crazy win. Defense played horrible tonight especially tackling. However I can't believe how happy I am to have 7 wins going into the Dwags. I hope Haynes King is okay. I still have to wonder how this year would have looked had he been healthy. Go Jackets!
A movie quote that came to my mind while watching Philo and team play."Hanging around, hanging around. Kid's got alligator blood. Can't get rid of him."
Yes but they also let their qb run at will...gave points right backYou realize that horrible defense accounted for 14 of our 30 points.