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I am now sold on a 4-2-5 defense

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October 6th, 2010 at 1:23 AM
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I am now sold on a 4-2-5 defense

I am now sold on a 4-2-5 defense thanks to the article on Maize N Brew, that Dave wrote.  Great read if any one is up and would like to read it. 
http://www.maizenbrew.com/2010/10/5/1731787/fixing-the-michigan-defense-why-not-try-a-4-2-5

So why not try this.  I have been voicing my displeasure with Roh not on the line more often. A line consisting of RVB, MM, Banks, Roh.  Lb's Mouton and Kovacs (Herron). Cb's Rogers, Talbott/Avery/Christian.  Safety Gordon and Floyd, and T. Gordon/C. Johnson.  Whats some of your thoughts?  To me pressure is the key, this would bring some pressure.  The young secondary can still play their zone, and make plays! Maybe Gerg and RR are starting to notice this, thats why we saw some of this switch in the IU game.

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October 6th, 2010 at 1:29 AM
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I am sold

on anything that involves less 3 man rushes, gets roh rushing the passer, and limits ezeh's exposure even though he seems to be the nicest guy in the world

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October 6th, 2010 at 1:57 AM
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As a former GSI of Ezeh, I'll

As a former GSI of Ezeh, I'll will agree with you 100 times. I will forgive him a lot on the field since he was a good student in the classroom.

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October 6th, 2010 at 8:25 AM
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Did you teach

Mistackling 101?

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October 6th, 2010 at 12:10 PM
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October 6th, 2010 at 1:37 AM
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I actually think you'll see some of this vs. MSU

While Indiana was ugly, we knew they were going to pass a ton. With MSU's game, I think that at least some 4-2-5 makes sense.

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October 6th, 2010 at 9:50 AM
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?

whither will campbell?

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October 6th, 2010 at 12:29 PM
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On the sideline...

Or in for goal line, special teams or certain blocking packages.  Why would you expect him to be in for anything else?  He's not that good yet.

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October 6th, 2010 at 1:42 AM
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G Rob

could probably try any defense at this point and do as good or better. I don't see them installing a radical new scheme though mid season. I believe this is the type of defense TCU uses. 

I am not sure how great this D would be in the middle. Linebacker is already a problem and this would be even more pressure on them. A playaction drawing in the linebackers or WR dragging across the field could clear out the middle leaving huge space for a RB or TE. 

Ehh, I don't think anyone would complain at this point about a defensive change though.

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October 6th, 2010 at 1:50 AM
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agree with the pap, drag

agree with the pap, drag would hurt the linebackers.  IMO with pressure getting to cousins maybe that eliminates the drag.  As to the pap, its read, read then react.  Not saying Gerg should drastically change schemes.  If he voices it to the players and there smart enough to pull it off, then why not. 

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October 6th, 2010 at 1:53 AM
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Someone send this to the defensive staff ASAP

+ infinity to Maize and Brew, great article. Now, can someone forward this to Robinson...who has his e-mail? It would save me the hassle of printing this out and driving from Chicago to AA in the morning to enlighten the Defensive coaching staff.

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October 6th, 2010 at 1:57 AM
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I think you guys should wait for the UFR

First of all I think you'll be surprised with what Brian concludes. I suspect that the defense actually did very well (okay, very well is obsivously incorrect, but they held their assignments and were in position). A lot of the Indiana drives were kept alive because a few blown coverages and some rotten luck. On top of that, Indiana's skill positions played brilliantly. So don't quit on this scheme yet.

Second, Indiana shredded our four man front sets, which were essentially 4-2-5 or occasionally 4-4.

I also want to add a small physics lesson:

Jordan Kovacs - 6'0", 200

John Clay - 6'2", 248

And that's only if Kovacs manages to slip the block from the 290 lb lineman. Then what happens if the LB has to drop back into middle zone coverage? Kovacs isn't just leetle, he's SHORT. That's why Robinson had Roh wandering around in the backfield against Indiana, he was trying to block passing lanes with his 6'5" height and long arms.

We do a 4-2-5 it has to be Mouton + Ezeh/Demens/Roh. Demens isn't ready to play and we'd rather have Roh on the line, right?

We don't have the personnel for a 4-2-5.

What did work against Indiana, and it was one of the few things I agree on with Burgeoning Wolverine Star, was a three man front with man coverage and a one drop zone. The shutdown in the second half of Indiana's offense happened because of this setup, and was when the sacks came.

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October 6th, 2010 at 2:02 AM
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Please diagram 3 man front, 1 drop zone

Or page Steve Sharik to do so. I'd like to see and understand the scheme. Also, to know when it would be used.

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October 6th, 2010 at 9:12 AM
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I'm Not good at football terminology

I meant a cover 1 safety set instead of a cover 2, so the five wide receivers are covered on man and there is a single safety in deep coverage.

I clearly need to study the terminology or I will just confuse and irritate people, I'm sorry.

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October 6th, 2010 at 2:11 AM
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you may be right

about the personnel, but I'm not sold on our scheme with the way it's implemented.

64 drop backs... 2 sacks.

Yes, Chappel threw the ball away quite a few times as well, but from what I recall, he was rarely under pressure when that happened. It's like he suddenly realized he'd been holding onto the ball forever and decided he had to get rid of it.

On the bright side... with very few blitzes we are real solid against RB screens.

I'd be happier with the scheme if it included a 10% increase in blitz rate. I'm not asking for much... c'mon GERG... please?

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October 6th, 2010 at 2:18 AM
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so you keep kovacs at safety, floyd at db

so you keep kovacs at safety, floyd at db put in ezeh/demens/herron as MLB. But don't give me this we don't have the personnel for this defense.  Ok we wait for the UFR from Brian, since im not sure what d we were playing when the INT was made.  Having db's play 7-9 yards off the ball in a vanilla soft zone, giving up 494 passings yards.  Although seeing floyd try and jam at the line impressed me, haven't seen that in a long time.  Only 3 or 4 pbu, and a INT.  Thats all on a very well defense, that just missed a few blown assignments and rotten luck.  Come on now. 

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October 6th, 2010 at 2:46 AM
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Wait, you never finished the

Wait, you never finished the physics lesson; you only gave us heights and weights. For all we know this is the initial information needed to set-up a equivalent pulley system (with a frictionless pulley of course).

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October 6th, 2010 at 7:36 AM
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Okay, so I failed physics

But I think the end of the lesson has something to do with velocity squaring the pain

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October 6th, 2010 at 8:13 AM
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It seems that

Kovacs is willing to get hit by a train, get up, and get back on the tracks.  While the physics lesson makes me feel like he'll absorb some punishment, watching him play makes me feel like he's up for it.

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October 6th, 2010 at 9:08 AM
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Kovacs is a tough mofo, no doubt

It's not that he won't get up. It's that the train will KEEP GOING

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October 6th, 2010 at 9:56 AM
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Leverage

What he lacks in size he makes up for with technique.  IMHO he's the best tackler on the team.  Speed...not so much.

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October 6th, 2010 at 2:05 AM
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I am all for it...

With all the progress the MSU running game has made so far this season, can we really win this game with only three d-lineman for a majority of the game? I know the secondary has been the very visible problem...but I do not think a 3 man rush will do enough to stop MSU's running game. While the secondary will be a cause for concern for the rest of the season...I think the x-factor saturday will be Michigan's level of success vs. the MSU running game.

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October 6th, 2010 at 2:23 AM
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The premise of 3 down linemen

Is that you have a strong LB core that can read, make plays, and tackle.  Obviously we do not have enough LB to fill that criteria. 

Roh just seems like a fish out of water when he is asked to play in space.  To me, Roh just plays a whole lot better as a DE than a LB.  In the UCONN game when he had is hand down, he was living in their backfield.

Ezeh is just.....aww never mind

Kovacs, bless his soul for trying, but is simply overmatched physically

Mouton has played well, but he he still has brian farts (we'll see what the UFR states, but my take on that last IU TD is that Willis was Mouton's guy and he was soooooo slow reading the play, it left him wide open.)  Check the replay.  For some reason, right at the snap Mouton is looking towards the sideline?  By the time he realizes that the play has started, Willis is 3 steps into his pattern

Against MSU, containing their running game will be key.  They will be more than happy to have multiple long time consuming drives to keep our offense off the field.  Plus it would frustrate the crowd.

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October 6th, 2010 at 10:34 AM
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IIRC

I think whomever had responsibility for Willis got picked by a WR running a slant.

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October 6th, 2010 at 12:08 PM
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The way I understand it, that

The way I understand it, that play was a zone, but Talbott (the CB) played it like man.  He moved inside with the wide receiver, leaving the flat (his zone) wide open for Willis to catch the ball.  It may appear that Mouton was in man and slow to react, but he was actually in the right spot, sitting in his zone where he would have met Talbott's wide receiver.

Michigan's defensive struggles are due to personnel, as Gsimmons says.  These guys are young, often near the right spot, but not usually in position to make a play on the ball.  Rewatching the Indiana game, I found that the pass rush was actually not terrible.  We just are not very good at covering receivers, no matter the amount of pressure on the quarterback.

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October 6th, 2010 at 3:16 AM
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Doesn't just putting Roh on the line

essentially turn us into a 4-2-5?  It seems the personal recommendations are all based on Ezeh.  Need Herron to step up to give Ezeh breaks, and leave Roh on the attack.

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October 6th, 2010 at 3:38 AM
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Why does everyone keep acting

Why does everyone keep acting like Herron is a jack-of-all-trades linebacker?

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October 6th, 2010 at 6:03 AM
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Hope and confusion

I think his first name is confusing people and they hope that he will play like #55 from last year.  

Seriously, as you know the limitations of depth, talent and experience have been well documented.  People are frustrated and want to try anything and hope that it works.

Win or lose it will continue the balance of this season with very few legit options to significantly change what we will see from this D. 

Other than praying for the team to stay healthy and that the youngsters learn quickly.  I'm not convinced that there is much that can be done that will produce more than marginal change.  

They will bend like a fuckin' contortionist - and some time they will break.

Enjoy the ride kids!

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October 6th, 2010 at 8:41 AM
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Same Reaction

I guess that it's simply that he is not Ezeh?

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But he's never played MLB,

But he's never played MLB, and AFAIK, he hasn't practiced there either.

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October 6th, 2010 at 10:53 AM
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sorry

I had that originally saying Demens and Herron to step up and give Ezeh and Roh more breaks, and deleted the wrong names (I want Roh out there).

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October 6th, 2010 at 10:47 AM
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October 6th, 2010 at 4:02 AM
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While rushing the passer is

While rushing the passer is important, dropping 8 prevents our secondary from getting put on an island.  With how young these guys are, it's hard to be able to expect them to make plays all alone in open space.

 

I have faith that once GERG gets some experience in the secondary, he will be able to bring more pressure from the front.  We all want to see more pressure, but that may lead to more long plays a la last year.  Just have faith, GERG is known as a defensive mind and will hopefully have the D good to go once the younger guys find their feet.

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October 6th, 2010 at 7:00 AM
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We don't have CB's. We have 5 safeties

CB's cover receivers.  We don't do that.  Safeties cover zones and tackle.  That's what we do

Every guy we've got, "he could be a good safety".  Not so much CB.  GERG knows this and it limits the D.  Floyd is getting closer to playing corner, but doesn't have the speed for many WR's.  3 man fronts keep us in games.  If we can get Roh in as 4th rusher through scheme, and we can play a little better - take more chances going for the ball, punish when tackling -, we will be better.  I think we're headed that way

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October 6th, 2010 at 7:45 AM
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Can't edit from an IPhone

But this excludes freshman CBs, don't know enough about them.

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October 6th, 2010 at 7:54 AM
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Better solution

Is to keep the scheme that the kids have been practicing on all year (remember the whole 3 D-coordinators in 4 years thingy?) and make minor changes to calling during the game. The 3-man DL was getting decent pressure on their own and when we brought a 4th blitzer (be it one of the S's, or Black moving around the line looknig for holes) we almost always got a good hit on Chappell-- he was just good enough to stand in there and deliver the ball while taking a hit. A LOT of the passes with the 8 men back were well defended except either our LB or DB who had coverage responsiblity got beat physically or technique-wise by Doss when you still have to have individual responsibility.

I think against MSU you're going to see Roh drop down into a 4th rusher more often than not, and even though we'll be in a 3-3-5 scheme, we're probably going to play more like a 46..... Kovacs will be up on the strong side line, RVB, MM, Banks will be on line, Roh will be online hybrid-ing between hand on the ground and standing up (but I'll bet rushing 75% of the time), Ezeh & Mouton will be in the box and Floyd / Rogers / Gordon will be playing a 3-deep zone.

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October 6th, 2010 at 9:57 AM
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So you're saying

that the 3-3-5 works, when we rush four?

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October 6th, 2010 at 12:20 PM
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Yes

just like how Pittsburgh's zone blitz concept works rushing 4 or 5 out of a 3 man line. It's not the initial configuration, but how the plays are called and the individual players execute their responsibilities. Just putting a 4th lineman isn't going to solve our problems. Bringing a little extra heat to give the QB a little less time to make decisions and the WR's a little less time to separate from their coverage, might.

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October 6th, 2010 at 10:11 AM
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Agree

I don't think MSU has a Doss

I am willing to bet he is the best receiver we face all year

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October 6th, 2010 at 12:16 PM
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3 man didn't get too much pressure,

3 man didn't get too much pressure, when Banks was in.  On one blown assignment Banks was there for a nice play.  He doesn't get off his blocker.  When Jibreel Black was in the game, thats the only time 3 man rushes saw pressure.  I am lobbying the MLB spot for Kenny Demens! In 10% of the snaps he has 11 tackles, 2 goal-line stops in back to back games.  Obi Ezeh has 30 tackles.  As regards to Tandon Doss, its all with flanker motion.  Whenever he came down on motion, it confused the lb's.  He was there trying to crack down to spring the rb.  Also in on plays that set up the bobble screen.  That motion caused fits. 

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October 6th, 2010 at 8:25 AM
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Great discussion

I would just add/point out that the reason why Roh was on the line more against UConn, but not thereafter, is because Herron got injured.  If and when Herron is back (hopefully by Saturday), this will allow Roh to play DE more.

One point that I'm glad was raised in the linked article is that the 3-3-5 is RRod's baby, not GERG's.  So blaming GERG for the 3-3-5 is misinformed.  RRod is the guy who is insisting on the 3-3-5.

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October 6th, 2010 at 8:41 AM
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i think we will see more four man

against MSU. But I also think that the vision of three beasts who could put on enough pressure to continually hound the other team's QB is a great one, and leaves you more coverage at the next two levels, where--by crikey--we need it even more.

Now all we need is one and a half more beasts.

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October 6th, 2010 at 9:28 AM
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Everyone in the world except

Everyone in the world except Gerg can see that 3 man rushes are killing us.

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October 6th, 2010 at 9:57 AM
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IF THERE WERE EVER A TIME...

...to change up the defensive look, NOW IS THE TIME! 

We have to try to stop the run and pressure Cousins. If Cousins can beat us through the air, then so be it. 

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October 6th, 2010 at 10:39 AM
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Between now and Saturday?

I like the sound of a changeup in defrndive strategy but I'm wondering if the cure isn't worse than the disease in the short term.

T

Is s our relatively inexperienced d capable of shifting gears that fast, or is a sudden shift likely to result in execution error?



Ps i am on an iphone so the typos are notmmyfault

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October 6th, 2010 at 10:25 AM
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Let's not try a new scheme with such a young D

I understand the frustration and wanting to try something new, but one of the benefits to the three man front is that it allows for more exotic blitz packages.  I am holding out hope that we are waiting until this game to unleash some of those packages. 

You have to remember one thing.  If you blitz like crazy early in the season with that inexperienced secondary, and you don't get to the QB...you'll get killed downfield.

These packages are hard to pick up on the fly for these young kids, so trying something new at this critical point could be problematic.  I trust that our coaches are smart and both GERG and Rich Rod know their butts are still on the line.  They won't sit back and let MSU carve up the D.

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October 6th, 2010 at 10:41 AM
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Banks

Another issue not yet mentioned is the second DT in the 4-2-5. Who's going to play there?

Banks is 6'4" and 275, not exactly stout enough to hold up to double teams on the interior. Think Pat Massey 2.0. Sagasse and Patterson haven't shown anything in their playing time. Campbell is not ready (if he were, the 4-2-5 would be a more attractive solution). While the 4-2-5 might generate more edge pressure, with our current personnel, it would likely make the middle of our D very vulnerable to power running, ie, MSU, Iowa, Penn State, Wisc., Ohio State, especially if Kovacs is the second MLB.

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October 6th, 2010 at 12:34 PM
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What are you talking about?

Sagesse and Patterson haven't shown anything in their playing time?  That's a ridiculous and uninformed statement to make.  They've shown quite a lot actually.  Whenever Mike Martin has to come off the field I have every confidence that Patterson will hold his own and as far as Sagesse is concerned, he already has a couple tackles for loss this year and has caused plenty of disruption in just his limited playing time.  We'll be fine with either there and furthermore, RVB would be a possibility there as well.  He played DT all last year.

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October 6th, 2010 at 10:50 AM
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So earlier in the season we

So earlier in the season we were plagued by blown coverages that led to 50+ yard TDs in basically every game we played prior to Indiana.  Against Indiana, there was the one 46 yard play by Doss but generally speaking, we executed the 'bend and slowly break' defense versus anything that resembled the scoring we gave up against Notre Dame.

My question is, do we consider this improvement? Do we consider this the 'scheme' working, when we force Indiana to have to take that many plays to score a TD if they are going to just score anyway? Right now I dont' think we have the personnel to shut anyone down for any period of time, we need to just play as sound and fundamentally solid as possible and hope for some mistakes in addition to the few that we create.

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October 6th, 2010 at 10:57 AM
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The whole Kovacs to MLB thing needs to die

Sorry, but 195 lb Kovacs would get destroyed at LB.  Making reads from the safety position is much easier than making reads from the MLB position.  If you haven't practiced at MLB and your 195 lbs your going to get pulled in the wrong direction and put in the wrong spots (worse than Ezeh) and then get bull dozed even further from the ball by a Guard of Center.  Plugging in safeties at LB doesn't just automatically work.

Also, the 4-2-5 would probably hurt us against the run.  For all the complaining about all this stuff we actually aren't bad against the run.  Having only two LBs being able to pursue (it's much more difficult to pursue as a down lineman as you already have a O-lineman on top of you) would hurt us against the run.  I agree on passing downs a 4-2-5 would be better, and maybe mix it in a little on other downs, but we can't just turn over the whole thing right now.

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October 6th, 2010 at 11:23 AM
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jimmies

and joes....  not x's and o's...

 

how many switches in pre-snap formations does michigan have to go through before people start realizing the difference between 97's defense and this years defense has a lot more to do personal, and a lot less to do with how many lineman get in a three point stance before the snap....

 

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October 6th, 2010 at 11:34 AM
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I don't care where Craig Roh

I don't care where Craig Roh lines up pre-snap, as long as he doesn't have to cover the flat very often.

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October 6th, 2010 at 12:18 PM
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It's especially frustrating

It's especially frustrating since we've seen most of these joes in a 4-man front last year (with BG!) and it still wasn't a very good defense.  But why would anyone want to learn lessons from the past when it's much easier to blame the scheme and call for GERG to be fired?

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October 6th, 2010 at 1:26 PM
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We're also giving up 3 more

We're also giving up 3 more points a game than we were at this time last year.

In addition, we're giving up 433.6 yards a game, while we only gave up 393.3 per game last year.

There are reasons to be concerned.

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October 6th, 2010 at 1:42 PM
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We also lost BG, Donovan

We also lost BG, Donovan Waren, Troy Woolfolk, and Stevie Brown from that defense and mostly replaced them with inexperienced underclassmen.  I'd be willing to bet adding those four players would help fix the defense much more than any change of scheme.  (Of course, that is a completely unprovable assertion, but so is all this talk about fixing the defense by switching to the 4-2-5).

I'm concerned, but I don't see how switching the number of down linemen will magically improve anything.  Given the personnel losses, we knew going into the season this defense was going to be bad no matter what scheme it ran.

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October 6th, 2010 at 11:23 AM
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jimmies

and joes....  not x's and o's...

 

how many switches in pre-snap formations does michigan have to go through before people start realizing the difference between 97's defense and this years defense has a lot more to do personal, and a lot less to do with how many lineman get in a three point stance before the snap....

 

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October 6th, 2010 at 12:55 PM
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We're still 5-0, right?

I suspect that as the corners and safeties get more and more experienced, we'll start to see more of the multiple look we were expecting before the season started, with Roh coming down to the line more often, etc.  I think we've been a little hamstrung based on personel and the type of team we've played.

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October 6th, 2010 at 7:33 PM
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can we just play 12 men??

can we just play 12 men??

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October 6th, 2010 at 8:20 PM
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Or we can just play 13, like

Or we can just play 13, like Tennessee. 

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