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stingmeyall

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I noticed Clemson blitzing on D on probably 70% of the plays on defense, even with the best DL in college football. They had 5-6 coming all night. Brent Venables puts more of a premium on seeing the QB rushing his throws rather than counting on 7 players trying to stay with the receivers an extra second or two. Tenuta knew this when he was our DC but we haven't shown this tendency since then. Take notice Geoff and make sure your new DC installs this type of aggressiveness on defense.
 
stingmeyall said:
I noticed Clemson blitzing on D on probably 70% of the plays on defense, even with the best DL in college football. They had 5-6 coming all night. Brent Venables puts more of a premium on seeing the QB rushing his throws rather than counting on 7 players trying to stay with the receivers an extra second or two. Tenuta knew this when he was our DC but we haven't shown this tendency since then. Take notice Geoff and make sure your new DC installs this type of aggressiveness on defense.
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Geoff said thanks and he will
 
stingmeyall said:
I noticed Clemson blitzing on D on probably 70% of the plays on defense, even with the best DL in college football. They had 5-6 coming all night. Brent Venables puts more of a premium on seeing the QB rushing his throws rather than counting on 7 players trying to stay with the receivers an extra second or two. Tenuta knew this when he was our DC but we haven't shown this tendency since then. Take notice Geoff and make sure your new DC installs this type of aggressiveness on defense.
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They also got pressure when they rushed two. Hell, they even got a hurry when they rushed one. Most of the night, they were stopping the run and getting adequate pressure with a 5 man box. When they did send LBs on a blitz, they tended to drop linemen into short coverage preventing the hot route throws. The impressive part was that the linemen were athletic enough to charge the line to make OL commit to them, then get depth before the OL could switch which allowed them to create overloads without committing numbers.

TL;DR rewatch the tape, OP is wrong about how they were creating pressure.
 
BainbridgeJacket said:
They also got pressure when they rushed two. Hell, they even got a hurry when they rushed one. Most of the night, they were stopping the run and getting adequate pressure with a 5 man box. When they did send LBs on a blitz, they tended to drop linemen into short coverage preventing the hot route throws. The impressive part was that the linemen were athletic enough to charge the line to make OL commit to them, then get depth before the OL could switch which allowed them to create overloads without committing numbers.

TL;DR rewatch the tape, OP is wrong about how they were creating pressure.
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No doubt they are heads above better than us on the DL. Even more reason to blitz. Don't agree with your account though, early in the game they were bringing 5-6 often. Also what does OP stand for?
 
They have one of the best dl in the history of college football with Lawrence in there. It’s not a mystery why they are good.
 
stingmeyall said:
I noticed Clemson blitzing on D on probably 70% of the plays on defense, even with the best DL in college football. They had 5-6 coming all night. Brent Venables puts more of a premium on seeing the QB rushing his throws rather than counting on 7 players trying to stay with the receivers an extra second or two. Tenuta knew this when he was our DC but we haven't shown this tendency since then. Take notice Geoff and make sure your new DC installs this type of aggressiveness on defense.
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When you blitz, you leave your DBs on an island. Even if you don't get beat deep for a TD, you rely on the DB making a 1v1 tackle to prevent a TD. That's a recipe for disaster for the DBs we have had the last couple years.
 
stingmeyall said:
I noticed Clemson blitzing on D on probably 70% of the plays on defense, even with the best DL in college football. They had 5-6 coming all night. Brent Venables puts more of a premium on seeing the QB rushing his throws rather than counting on 7 players trying to stay with the receivers an extra second or two. Tenuta knew this when he was our DC but we haven't shown this tendency since then. Take notice Geoff and make sure your new DC installs this type of aggressiveness on defense.
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Clemzon can get away with that because one of their LBs was 6-4 and was a former track guy out of Kansas that was running in the 4.4 -forty yd dash range that allowed him to cover good enough that the DC can call blitzes

Gotta have talent on the back end to blitz like that

Clemzon's gonna do what UGA did to Tua and come after him, he can be forced into bad reads and bad throws
 
johncu said:
When you blitz, you leave your DBs on an island. Even if you don't get beat deep for a TD, you rely on the DB making a 1v1 tackle to prevent a TD. That's a recipe for disaster for the DBs we have had the last couple years.
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Like when Tenuta left Pat Clark on an island against Matt Ryan?
 
JJacket said:
Like when Tenuta left Pat Clark on an island against Matt Ryan?
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