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Through 4 games, this defense has a definite lack of creativity/aggression. Line up in a base/predictable set and get pushed around and/or give up a 8 yard out. Rinse and repeat. Scheme or talent driving this?
 

balds said:
Through 4 games, this defense has a definite lack of creativity/aggression. Line up in a base/predictable set and get pushed around and/or give up a 8 yard out. Rinse and repeat. Scheme or talent driving this?
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4-0.

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balds said:
Through 4 games, this defense has a definite lack of creativity/aggression. Line up in a base/predictable set and get pushed around and/or give up a 8 yard out. Rinse and repeat. Scheme or talent driving this?
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Rossi has adopted a bend but don't break approach and has made it an emphasis to not give up the big play which we did way too much this year. So far we really haven't given up the big play so far. I think the longest pass play is like 39 yards and the longest run play has been like 25 yards. We have made opponents drive the length of the field and earn it. In order to do that, your not going to be as aggressive and be more vanilla and keep everything in front of you.

Last year against Maryland, Nebraska and Illinois, we gave up multiple 60+ yard run plays and multiple 40+ yard pass plays against Iowa, Indiana and OSU I believe. Thats what can happen if you play more aggressive D which we did with Rob Smith.
 

balds said:
Through 4 games, this defense has a definite lack of creativity/aggression. Line up in a base/predictable set and get pushed around and/or give up a 8 yard out. Rinse and repeat. Scheme or talent driving this?
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Saw lots of blitzing yesterday which I hadn't seen all year, and this was before the game got too out of hand. Purdue did a good job of picking it up for the most part until it was hold fest in the 4th.
 

I actually thought we were aggressive.... just didn't tackle.
 



Vanilla is what was successful at the end of 2018, but execution was present.
 

I opened this thread expecting to learn some hip hop star is related to one of the players á la John Legend.
 




Some guy said:
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The problem yesterday was tackling. The only minor gripe that I have is that I thought they were too aggressive at times. There were multiple times (this is of my recollection), where we had them in third and long and we blitzed. I didn't like it because I don't think Plummer and that O were capable if standing in the pocket and picking us apart. Their pass O was WR fade or QB scramble.
 


Bob_Loblaw said:
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The problem yesterday was tackling. The only minor gripe that I have is that I thought they were too aggressive at times. There were multiple times (this is of my recollection), where we had them in third and long and we blitzed. I didn't like it because I don't think Plummer and that O were capable if standing in the pocket and picking us apart. Their pass O was WR fade or QB scramble.
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Yeah. When the quarterback switch happened I took a series or three to figure out how they wanted to play them. They were trying to play pressure first. They started rushing 3-4 late
 

balds said:
Through 4 games, this defense has a definite lack of creativity/aggression. Line up in a base/predictable set and get pushed around and/or give up a 8 yard out. Rinse and repeat. Scheme or talent driving this?
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As others here have pointed out, this was more about execution than scheme. And out talent level is pretty good, in my opinion.

Pass rush actually looked solid. We often forced the QB move his feet and we seemed to prevent him from being comfortable back there. I felt as if there were quite a few opportunities where we just about had him for a sack, but we couldn't quite get him on the ground.

On pass defense, my impression was that many of the Boilermaker's catches were highly contested — yet the Purdue guy often came down with the ball. Our guys were right there in position, but couldn't quite make the defensive play. That's not a scheme problem.

And, as many have pointed out, there were plenty of instances where a Gopher defender had a Purdue ball carrier in his grasp, and simply couldn't finish the tackle.

I firmly believe that our tackling on defense — and our run-blocking on offense — will improve as the season progresses.
 



I still don’t know why Esezi and Boye don’t play more. It seems like they are much more aggressive and always around the ball when they are on the field. Thomas Barber has really struggled this year. He’s missed a lot of tackles.
 

Pompous Elitist said:
The Notorious D was 2018. Could have called it Ludacris. This is Vanilla D or maybe Eazy D, or maybe Lil’ D. Maybe 50 (per)Cent tackling D.
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How 'bout Exponential D.K.?

(My wife is a math teacher. :))

As @die hard gopher pointed out, it's a bend-don't-break approach, and I have no problem with that -- especially if our offense ever gets fully untracked. It appears we have a fair amount of team speed on defense, and we get to the ball well. And up until yesterday I've admired our sure tackling.



JTG
 

NotAFanOfBecky said:
Saw lots of blitzing yesterday which I hadn't seen all year, and this was before the game got too out of hand. Purdue did a good job of picking it up for the most part until it was hold fest in the 4th.
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We are a very slow blitzing team. A lot like the Mason years. They would blitz and a TD would usually follow.
 

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