Basic defense questions

[Tully55]

Could someone please help me out and answer a couple questions.
#1 Why when it is 3rd and short our CBs play 5, 6, and up to 10 yards off the line when the other team is successfully running their wideouts on slants. Why not get them up on the line and jam the receivers?
#2 Why do our defensive ends or outside LBs go for the inside fake to the running back to the other side of the field rather than not boxing out and containing on their own side preventing misdirection bootlegs? Just wondering????

 

[Oneoldgopher]

+1

 

[MNRideorDieChick]

Think Cosgrove and Lee have answers to those questions?

 

[Doc1001]

Your point number one

was so obvious to me. I mentioned it repeatedly during the game. Dont give the receivers so much space. Sure you are more prone to the bomb but sheeesh------play like a man. Take em on man to man and not pussy foot around.

 

[jovs]

Could someone please help me out and answer a couple questions.
#1 Why when it is 3rd and short our CBs play 5, 6, and up to 10 yards off the line when the other team is successfully running their wideouts on slants. Why not get them up on the line and jam the receivers?
#2 Why do our defensive ends or outside LBs go for the inside fake to the running back to the other side of the field rather than not boxing out and containing on their own side preventing misdirection bootlegs? Just wondering????

Bend but don't break philosphy, who know's, it seems pretty obvious that jamming and playing man would probably take care of those slants. It would have made it more exciting thats for sure.

I think the end needs to learn to keep their head up and read the play before they react. What I wonder about is why an adjustment wasn't made on that. It happened the same way too many times. Pretty simple change to make.

 

[uagain]

Playing his DBs soft...

...was Cosgrove's trademark as Nebraska's DC. Got torched for 70 in one game, as I recall.

Just sayin':

--When hired, Brewster embraced the Spread. Two years later, he abandons the Spread and embraces the Pro-Set, with an emphasis on the running game.

--When hired, Brewster said he wanted an aggressive, attacking defense. Two years later, he hires Kevin Cosgrove, the ultimate read-and-react DC.

This kind of cluelessness is what you get when you hire as your head man a tight ends coach with zero HC or coordinating experience.