This is genius. Call the Touchdown Play on offense and the Turnover Play on defense!
I'm the coach
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Play to our strengths. We have really good TE's and a good group of RB's. our offensive line will need to play their A game against a very good defensive line and LB's. secondary for k-state is a question mark.
I don’t want Avery Johnson running for his life, that’s where he can kill us. Keep him in the pocket.
Confuse him. Delayed blitzes, blitzes from places he’s not expecting, etc. Otherwise make him read our defense. I want him seeing ghosts.
I don’t trust our CB’s yet so we can’t be hanging them out to dry with blitzes. Johnson will make us pay if we give him a bunch of chances to improv.
You pick your poison, do like the Eagles did with Mahomes, keep him in the pocket, not allowing him a lane to run, but keeping him guessing and force him to read our defense that is changing the blitz from one play to the next.
The best way to defeat any QB is by speeding them up, the flaw of our 3 man front, is it gives the QB too much time to see the field, without feeling pressure and then make the right play. The best DBs in the world are going to be in trouble when the QB has too much time and gets into a rhythm, that is what you are trying to avoid.
I’d much rather take our chances having Avery Johnson throwing a bunch of passes. When he had less than 30 pass attempts last year KSU was 6-2 in those games.
But was that caused by the fact that they were running the ball well, and he was not forced to throw many passes? It's hard to look at stats from a season ago, and then determine which path will be the best to lead to a victory. He was a first year starter last season, so there is going to be some growing up out on the field.
What we do not want is for him to have all day in the pocket and then scramble at the last minute to pick up yards. Having a healthy LB core will solve some of that, but I would like to see us with put a spy on him or blitz the hell out of him from play one. Just do not rush only three hoping we can get him, and let him sit in the pocket and pick us apart, which he will do if we let him
He’s not a great pocket passer. He’s a great runner and improviser. He thrives in the chaos and making big plays when things break down. He’s a really good to potentially special QB. You have to pick your poison. I’d prefer to make him a pocket passer by playing sound defense and doing what we do.
Blitzing someone leaves a gap somewhere. That’s where he’s special whether running to exploit that gap or creating with the pass through that gap. The way I see it every blitz is just a better opportunity for him to make a big play. KSU is an explosive team.
Our identity isn’t blitzing. Our base D isn’t aggressive. Keep the edges and let our safeties make plays when they throw. That’s where our strength is.
