The Jackal wrote: ↑Wed Sep 05, 2018 1:37 pm
16:34 - Good run by Jemar Lincoln.
Designed QB draw. I don't know if we saw a whole lot of that last season. Look at Bo Layton blocking a DB 20 yards downfield.
22:23 - Defense in something like the Mike Nolan "amoeba." Two men down, everyone else hovering. Rush 3 and McKoy almost picks it.
25:35 - We have two wing backs that are both TBs (Wynn and Watkins). This was a rarity last year as we infrequently went into a pure three back set. That was a sweep, which I don't recall us running much of last season. That's a play we can run to either side. Next play had Wynn and Morehead.
28:08 - I Formation! With a TE!
29:57 - I pro right, we just didn't get the DT blocked (who, admittedly, is a horse). Hole is there if we get #42 blocked. We'd still be running. I don't think Elon's NG is going to make that play.
3?:50 - Toss sweep (yes!). Ferrell makes a play. Again, the blocking is there, we just ran into a man child.
34:40 - Great close by Trapp. Broke hard on the ball. Those will turn into picks.
Great call-outs of some neat stuff...
A couple of comments...
* QB Draw may have been a check. From my seat, just inside the ozone layer, I was yelling "QB DRAW!" before the play. I wasn't hoping Mr. Lincoln could hear me, of course (because that would have tipped off the Tigers too
). My shouts were evoked because of Clemson's alignment on that play. The middle is wide-a$$ open. I'm thinking it must be part of a blitz package they do, and our astute Staff picked it up on film and had the check to QB Draw ready. I know Coach Venables makes about $500B a year as the greatest DC in the universe, but that alignment is NOT sound. Maybe the ACC dudes aren't smart enough to pick it up...but that was the perfect play for their unsound alignment. Too perfect to have been a coincidence. Also tells me something about Mr. Lincoln's grasp of what we want to do on Offense and his ability to get us into the right play at the right time.
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"29:57 - I pro right, we just didn't get the DT blocked" - Equal time...Coach Hendrix and Coach Lusk are going to 'straighten me out' on this (I'm sure), but I do not like our scheme on this play. I guess the play is designed to be an ISO on the outside LB, but we are Zone Blocking it in the O-Line, which I am not a big fan of on ISO's, but it can work...sometimes. Maybe it's an Inside Zone with a lead blocker...but that sort of defeats the purpose of the Zone concept because the TB is trying to follow the FB AND to see where the crease is on the Line Blocking...Those 2 things may not agree. Anyway....In order for that OLman to make that backside scoop block on the DT, he's either gotta be a SUPER-AMAZING athlete (and I think he's only AMAZING...at this point) or he's gotta cut his split down to almost nothing, which brings more backside BadGuys closer to where we want to run the ball, which is OK on a RocketSweep (like most of those sweeps are), but this play is designed to hit up in the opposite B or C gap. I want BIG splits on those plays...particularly backside. So...WWFUBeAR do? Power Scheme....down, down, back on playside (back block picks up #42 - with an angle to be able to do it), backside OG skip pulls and is up on p/s LB. FB kicks DE/last man on LOS (AKA 'edge guy'), b/s OT scoops hard for any run-through trash, then pivots to pick up pursuit if no 'trash' shows. Power is a beautiful play when run effectively. Must have agile OG's to do it (well)...and I think we do.
Coach Garvin? Now that you are back on the bRight side of the ball Coaching God's Favorite Children and have 50 years DC'ing experience....any comments?