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Possibly the worst Defense since I started watching the Frogs my Freshman year in 1984
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<blockquote data-quote="Gehörnter Frosch" data-source="post: 3075116" data-attributes="member: 79"><p>I really believe that GP "guesses" whether each play will be a run or a pass, and then signals a defensive play to counter it. He goes all in on his gut, and the defensive play he calls is all or nothing. In the past, he was right more often than wrong, and it led to tremendous success.</p><p></p><p>But now, opposing coaches have figured out that the RPO devastates Patterson's soothsayer predictions of what play is coming. It's like a batter being 100% certain that a fastball is coming, only to swing a half-second early at a huge, slow, hanging curve ball.</p><p></p><p>And this is also why we get torched for big plays. It's all or nothing with his Defensive scheme. Notice that teams don't drive the field on TCU. Instead, they eat up huge chunks of yards and are in scoring position in the blink of an eye. This even happened when our D was great. But then we would stop them in the Red Zone, because the end zone itself acted as a 12th defender, and Patterson could dial up blitzes, contain with the secondary, etc. It was a bend but don't break scheme.</p><p></p><p>But now, the young coaches have had time and resources to design plays that exploit Patterson's D, and his tendency to try and guess what play is coming next. Rather than playing to averages and having a defensive scheme that is flexible, yet solid, he has kept the all-or-nothing model, and the small exploits are there for other teams to take advantage of.</p><p></p><p>This isn't about youth, or injuries, or inexperience, or our signals being stolen. No, this is about a defensive model and approach to the game that doesn't work anymore.</p><p></p><p>#NextCoachUp</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gehörnter Frosch, post: 3075116, member: 79"] I really believe that GP "guesses" whether each play will be a run or a pass, and then signals a defensive play to counter it. He goes all in on his gut, and the defensive play he calls is all or nothing. In the past, he was right more often than wrong, and it led to tremendous success. But now, opposing coaches have figured out that the RPO devastates Patterson's soothsayer predictions of what play is coming. It's like a batter being 100% certain that a fastball is coming, only to swing a half-second early at a huge, slow, hanging curve ball. And this is also why we get torched for big plays. It's all or nothing with his Defensive scheme. Notice that teams don't drive the field on TCU. Instead, they eat up huge chunks of yards and are in scoring position in the blink of an eye. This even happened when our D was great. But then we would stop them in the Red Zone, because the end zone itself acted as a 12th defender, and Patterson could dial up blitzes, contain with the secondary, etc. It was a bend but don't break scheme. But now, the young coaches have had time and resources to design plays that exploit Patterson's D, and his tendency to try and guess what play is coming next. Rather than playing to averages and having a defensive scheme that is flexible, yet solid, he has kept the all-or-nothing model, and the small exploits are there for other teams to take advantage of. This isn't about youth, or injuries, or inexperience, or our signals being stolen. No, this is about a defensive model and approach to the game that doesn't work anymore. #NextCoachUp [/QUOTE]
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