DB's weak link

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sherels had a really tough game. very passive. royston, apart from the pick, was not very agressive either. he should've destroyed that wr in the endzone on the TD...he held up instead. brock would've killed that guy, and maybe knocked the ball out.
 

We've been playing pretty soft all year.

In particular, we have a star corner who simply refuses to man-up against the run. Totally unwilling to play physical. Afraid to hit! Plays like a girly-man against the run! Won't name names!
 


I am not sure if this has been posted yet, but Michael Carter replaced BPT at the end of the third quarter after the 24 yard TD pass was allowed for the rest of the game....very interesting.
 

JackiO said:
I am not sure if this has been posted yet, but Michael Carter replaced BPT at the end of the third quarter after the 24 yard TD pass was allowed for the rest of the game....very interesting.
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Studwell writes: In particular, we have a star corner who simply refuses to man-up against the run. Totally unwilling to play physical. Afraid to hit! Plays like a girly-man against the run! Won't name names!
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Hmmmm....
 

Damn, I thought he was subbing in for Sherels. Couldn't tell with the fabulous BTN coverage.

Did Collado or Dandridge see any action today, or was there no other subbing for DB or Safety other than Carter?
 

JackiO said:
I am not sure if this has been posted yet, but Michael Carter replaced BPT at the end of the third quarter after the 24 yard TD pass was allowed for the rest of the game....very interesting.
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I thought he was in for Sherels
 



The 2nd TD (I think) that Northwestern got.... the option where Kafka waited for Triplett to commit. Sherels just got manhandled by the WR blocking him for a good 5 seconds. I like him but his size hurt on him that play.
 

Studwell. Maybe we can clone two of our DB's and give him number 17. That's the play 7. Sherels was in there after that TD.
 

GophersInIowa said:
I thought he was in for Sherels
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No, he was in for BPT. The paper today stated Brewster had no comment on why they benched him towards the end of the 3rd quarter. Clearly the gophers have a lot of confidence in Carter which makes me a very happy man, since it seems like we have no depth at the position going in to next year.
 

Brewster fielded a question about Carter getting PT on the Huddle this morning. He commented that its nice to have players who can replace injured players and also those who aren't playing well. I think it was the later but he never did say why Carter was in there.
 



Bayfieldgopher said:
Brewster fielded a question about Carter getting PT on the Huddle this morning. He commented that its nice to have players who can replace injured players and also those who aren't playing well. I think it was the later but he never did say why Carter was in there.
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Yeah, was at the game and BPT was definitely benched with Carter brought on as a replacement. BPT still played on special teams, so it was not an injury. Carter was very impressive. Hopefully BPT can get his issues figured out and be the lockdown corner he was last year.
 

MBAGuy said:
Yeah, was at the game and BPT was definitely benched with Carter brought on as a replacement. BPT still played on special teams, so it was not an injury. Carter was very impressive. Hopefully BPT can get his issues figured out and be the lockdown corner he was last year.
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Quite possibly BPT just wasn't good against NU's crossing schemes. Some people do better in certain matchups than others. For instance, Triplett and Campbell and Lawrence had trouble with the short middle passes, but had played very well in the Syracuse and AFA games. Sometimes, when things aren't working, you just change things up to try something different to see if that works. I'm assuming that is what was done here, if no injury was involved.

Personally, in a matchup against a team like NU, I'd match up speed against them, not strength. It may have been smart to play safeties in the LB positions more often in early downs to help cover their multiple-receiver/TE sets.
 

I just think maybe it's the coaching scheme. What corner doesn't want to be right on the play. I don't know Cos well, but is he a bend don't break type of D coordinator??

It's very tough to make it consistently down the field in college with a three down mentality, too many mistakes. The drive is more likely to blow up then score. Maybe that's what cos is doing, we've kind of seen it all year, give up big yardage but fewer points. I'd be interested to hear what those more familiar with Cosgrove have to say about this.
 

cncmin said:
Quite possibly BPT just wasn't good against NU's crossing schemes. Some people do better in certain matchups than others. For instance, Triplett and Campbell and Lawrence had trouble with the short middle passes, but had played very well in the Syracuse and AFA games. Sometimes, when things aren't working, you just change things up to try something different to see if that works. I'm assuming that is what was done here, if no injury was involved.

Personally, in a matchup against a team like NU, I'd match up speed against them, not strength. It may have been smart to play safeties in the LB positions more often in early downs to help cover their multiple-receiver/TE sets.
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I was wondering why they didn't try a 3-4 in the third quarter on defense. They weren't getting alot of pressure on the quarterback and Northwestern rarely ran the ball. It seemed the extra linebacker would have helped in the pass defense.
 

Cosgrove is a bend but not break specialist. His scheme won a game against Purdue one year when Brees threw 83 times but could not score in the red zone. He is a good football coach. Not surprisingly, he had his best defenses at Wisconsin when we had good players on defense.

Generally, keep everything in front of you and don't give up a big play.
 

Cos has gone against a lot of tough offenses so far this year. Air Force, Cal, and Northwestern offenses will keep D-coordinators up at night.
 

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