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TCU vs Wisconsin: Rose Bowl
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<blockquote data-quote="shetownbucky" data-source="post: 705543" data-attributes="member: 67223"><p>Don't worry about the "Boise Syndrome". You guys are nothing compared to some Xavier fans that blew up for about 10 pages worth of bickering a few years ago when I harmlessly said they were a "great [Deleted] team with success rivaling Gonzaga's" before a basketball game against them in the NCAA tournament. Sorry that you play in the A10 and win 25 games a year? It's not like it was a subtle shot at them, they were a top 15 team and we were unranked.</p><p></p><p>The problems our defense has with spread offenses is that our secondary is the weakness of the team. They are good in run support but pretty average in pass defense. Our stud DE J.J. Watt single-handedly hides that deficiency rather well sometimes, but we are a "bend but not break" defense against a spread. Our defense plays a lot of cover 2 zone against the pass and tries to keep everything in front of them, so the corners normally play the receivers about 7 yards off the line of scrimmage. Naturally, this opens up a dink-and-dunk passing game to shred us until they get into redzone if we can't get pressure up front. But even with a spread option we have some issues due to our base defense being a 4-3 instead of a 3-4, 3-3-5, or 4-2-5 (thus having slower guys on the field than we could have). For example, Michigan's spread option netted 4.7 yards a carry against us. They are really the only team that we've faced this season that runs out of the spread, albeit a great one at it. Now only if Michigan could figure out how to play defense they might win a few games against good teams.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="shetownbucky, post: 705543, member: 67223"] Don't worry about the "Boise Syndrome". You guys are nothing compared to some Xavier fans that blew up for about 10 pages worth of bickering a few years ago when I harmlessly said they were a "great [Deleted] team with success rivaling Gonzaga's" before a basketball game against them in the NCAA tournament. Sorry that you play in the A10 and win 25 games a year? It's not like it was a subtle shot at them, they were a top 15 team and we were unranked. The problems our defense has with spread offenses is that our secondary is the weakness of the team. They are good in run support but pretty average in pass defense. Our stud DE J.J. Watt single-handedly hides that deficiency rather well sometimes, but we are a "bend but not break" defense against a spread. Our defense plays a lot of cover 2 zone against the pass and tries to keep everything in front of them, so the corners normally play the receivers about 7 yards off the line of scrimmage. Naturally, this opens up a dink-and-dunk passing game to shred us until they get into redzone if we can't get pressure up front. But even with a spread option we have some issues due to our base defense being a 4-3 instead of a 3-4, 3-3-5, or 4-2-5 (thus having slower guys on the field than we could have). For example, Michigan's spread option netted 4.7 yards a carry against us. They are really the only team that we've faced this season that runs out of the spread, albeit a great one at it. Now only if Michigan could figure out how to play defense they might win a few games against good teams. [/QUOTE]
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