What About The Run

#2
#2
I don't think thats a great question to ask yet, considering how bad our run defense was last year.

We probably will not know until we play Florida.

Not that Cal isnt gonna be a tough game, its just UT ran the ball good against them only to struggle later on against other teams.
 
#4
#4
XtennesseeX said:
I don't think thats a great question to ask yet, considering how bad our run defense was last year.

We probably will not know until we play Florida.

Not that Cal isnt gonna be a tough game, its just UT ran the ball good against them only to struggle later on against other teams.
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You are correct Florida will be the litmus test.
 
#5
#5
Lexvol said:
You are correct Florida will be the litmus test.
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agreed, and it depends on your definition of 'better'.

better than -11 yds rushing.....yeah, i think we'll be better than that.....
 
#9
#9
Hardesty's huge run pretty much made the numbers look a little better than they really were.
 
#10
#10
VolinArizona said:
Hardesty's huge run pretty much made the numbers look a little better than they really were.
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there were a couple of big runs in that game if memory serves, that probably account for at least 1/3 of the total.
 
#11
#11
Do you think if Coker started against Florida we would have ran the ball better and might have pulled that game out
 
#12
#12
no. o line wasn't good enought to run block against that front of FL's last year.
 
#16
#16
ronniep said:
Do you think if Coker started against Florida we would have ran the ball better and might have pulled that game out
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No, but maybe if we had stopped that drive in the 4th quarter we would have won. still sore about that one
 
#18
#18
ronniep said:
Do you think if Coker started against Florida we would have ran the ball better and might have pulled that game out
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We could have had Bo Jackson in the backfield that night and we wouldn't have gotten anything on the ground. We got no push and our RBs spent most of the night making the first guy miss so they could get back to the line of scrimmage for no gain.
 
#19
#19
GAVol said:
We could have had Bo Jackson in the backfield that night and we wouldn't have gotten anything on the ground. We got no push and our RBs spent most of the night making the first guy miss so they could get back to the line of scrimmage for no gain.
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Even if the D-Line was blocked (which happened maybe once all night) it wasn't like UF was starting scrubs at linebacker. I don't see how Coker could have done anything unless he could have actually hurdled over groups of defenders like Super Mario.
 
#20
#20
The O&W game was a perfect example of an issue I'm beginning to have more and more of. The explosion off the line on the part of the offensive line was absolutely pathetic.

Why that's problematic is because more defenses are running a gap control type of scheme on the D-line. What this means is basically telling their linemen (in a base defense) to get to around the heel's depth of the offensive line, then look for the ball and get there. It pretty much eliminates the read-and-react scheme that was in vogue for a while.

The end result is that a defensive end set up outside of an offensive tackle (usually outside shoulder, sometimes wider) needs only to get one quick step and he's already well past an offensive tackle. If the play isn't designed to simply have the tackle block out and is focused on zone blocking, then there's a D-lineman there who shouldn't be there at all. And I saw a LOT of that on Saturday.
 
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