daily 09/21/2013

• Pocket : Texas Longhorns football 2013: defending the option

  • Wallace is not a great runner, nor a QB that NFL teams will be knocking down the door to draft. However, his ability to make the reads and basic plays of the Rebel passing and running game makes the real play makers on the team far more dangerous.
  • Because of the way that spread-option tactics allow teams to transform solid, well rounded QB’s into scoring machines and major athletes into featured weapons, it’s essential that every defense today has a schematic system that allows them to account for the way teams are reading their defense.

  • Manny Diaz’s plan was to continue to evolve Texas’ base defense towards a Cover-3 approach.

      

  • Whether it was because of a desire by Mack Brown to keep the margin of defeat down, a fear of the Ole Miss passing game, or an acknowledgment that Texas doesn’t have a reliable Free Safety, Greg Robinson almost exclusively used our Cover-2 “Palms” defense against the Rebels.
  • Given Texas’ considerable struggles in pursuit, run support, and handling blocks in the open field, there has to be a philosophical change by Robinson and the staff in how they handle these plays. Even Jordan Hicks and Dalton Santos struggled to hang with Scott on these outside runs.

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