Boise gets us to tip our hand by motioning one of their WRs across the formation into the boundary slot to give a 2x2 look, and Hampton travels with him (indicating likely man coverage). It looks like we are bringing pressure, but with two deep safeties, we’d either need to drop one of our five rush threats on the LOS into coverage or be running some form of zone. Voi Tunuufi and Sekai Asoau-Afoa are playing with their hand down on the boundary side, Tuputala is up on the LOS in the field side B gap, Trice and ZTF are aligned in their usual positions, but perhaps the most interesting wrinkle is that we have our starting safeties, Hampton and Turner, lining up over the slot WRs with Fabiculanan and Esteen playing deep safety 15 yards deep.įrom Boise’s perspective, our pre-snap look is tough to read. We swap out our DTs and one of our LBs to field 4 EDGEs, 1 LB, 2 CBs, and 4 Safeties. To match Boise’s pre-snap look, our defense runs out one of our 3rd down sub-packages.

Coach Inge and Coach Morrell have said that they want to field an aggressive, press-man/Quarters pressure-oriented defense ever since they’ve arrived on Montlake, and this is exactly where that mentality shines through. Taylen Green is a young and unpolished pocket passer, so our defense has Boise right where they want them in a passing situation. Here on 3rd & 10, Boise comes out in an 11 personnel 3x1 shotgun look at our 27 yard line. This year’s defense looks quite a bit different. Base coverages were changed, new techniques needed to be mastered, and the play sheet was likely limited to what could be mastered in one offseason. A lot of last year’s struggles could be attributed to injuries and youth, but it was also the first year in a completely new scheme. Last season, the run defense was average, but the passing defense took a huge step back from the Petersen/Lake era defenses that we were accustomed to. This week on Film Study, we wanted to take a look a few of those plays from the 2nd quarter to see just what led to our success.įirst play up this week, we wanted to take a look at the defense. It was relatively slow start for the Huskies, but after finding our footing, our Dawgs put together an excellent 3-phase performance in the 2nd quarter that seized the momentum, and we never looked back. We want to thank my old partner John Sayler for all the great work he’s done over the years, and we want to welcome Awgs to the crew.Īnyways, this past weekend’s game against Boise was a substantially more dominant performance than many were expecting given that Boise is a pretty strong G5 opponent that is a favorite to win the Mountain West this year. Facing an even more potent opponent, the same Bruins defense that surrendered 101 points to the Bears struggled to contain Creighton's versatile offense in a high-scoring affair.Like College Football, Film Study is back, and this season we have a new partner joining the Film Study crew.

UCLA looked shaky earlier this season when it squeaked past Georgia Tech and needed overtime to beat Central Arkansas. When he was introduced along with the rest of this year's Hall of Fame class during a first-half timeout, the 74-year-old Silas easily got the largest ovation. Paul Silas averaged more than 20 points and 20 rebounds his senior year at Creighton, and is clearly still a beloved figure there. ''That didn't have one thing to do with how we guarded tonight.'' ''My whole focus has been on Creighton,'' Alford said.

Trump tweeted that he should have left the three UCLA players accused of shoplifting in China in jail after LaVar Ball minimized his involvement in their release. Alford said he hasn't paid any attention to the Twitter spat between President Donald Trump and Ball's father, LaVar.

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