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MLive: Key to game: Maxwell solving TCU's unique 4-2-5 defense
By Mike Griffith | [email protected]
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Michigan State quarterback Andrew Maxwell has utilized the "rewind" feature dozens of times over the past month on the clicker he utilizes to study game film.
TCU's 4-2-5 defense — the trademark of Horned Frogs coach Gary Patterson — is unique unto itself, evolving over Patterson's successful career.
"The front was originated at Pittsburg State (Kans.) as an eight man front, the coverage aspect started at UC-Davis and we just kind of kept changing with the times,'' said Patterson, who coached at 10 different places between 1982-1997 before going to TCU as a defensive coordinator in 1998 and taking over as the head coach in 2000.
"The difference for us, you're either a base defense within it, or you're a man defense or zone blitz, and we do all three,'' Patterson said. "In the conference we're in, if you don't change things up — and it's hard, because of how you double people - but you have to change during the season so (opponents) don't know where you're at.
"You always have to keep giving them a different look.'' ...
http://www.mlive.com/spartans/index.ssf/2012/12/key_to_game_for_michigan_state.html
By Mike Griffith | [email protected]
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Michigan State quarterback Andrew Maxwell has utilized the "rewind" feature dozens of times over the past month on the clicker he utilizes to study game film.
TCU's 4-2-5 defense — the trademark of Horned Frogs coach Gary Patterson — is unique unto itself, evolving over Patterson's successful career.
"The front was originated at Pittsburg State (Kans.) as an eight man front, the coverage aspect started at UC-Davis and we just kind of kept changing with the times,'' said Patterson, who coached at 10 different places between 1982-1997 before going to TCU as a defensive coordinator in 1998 and taking over as the head coach in 2000.
"The difference for us, you're either a base defense within it, or you're a man defense or zone blitz, and we do all three,'' Patterson said. "In the conference we're in, if you don't change things up — and it's hard, because of how you double people - but you have to change during the season so (opponents) don't know where you're at.
"You always have to keep giving them a different look.'' ...
http://www.mlive.com/spartans/index.ssf/2012/12/key_to_game_for_michigan_state.html
