In short, Kirby is the GOAT on defense.

i remember in your vid about baylor defense they played that match quarters coverage or cover 7 brackets and thats essentially georgia's bread and butter coverage and as you break it down in the bunch part of the vids you show it on how they use their diamond structure

@TheCoordinatorProject

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I've been diving into the Saban Cover-7 stuff a lot lately. It gives a pro-level sophistication to similar principles to what you'd see with Gary Patterson and a lot of college 4-2's. The way that that whole coaching tree has adapted to college spread offenses is a really important part of football theory/history.

@jameshoops10

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheCoordinatorProject i think you should do a full breakdown of the scheme & it’s history

Georgia also applied a lot of pressure on Bryce this game, sacking him a few times

Excellent videos man! Learned so much from your Jim Knowles video! Excited to see what he brings to Ohio state! What's your favorite DC in the college game currently?

@TheCoordinatorProject

2 жыл бұрын

This isn't a risky answer, but as a scheme fan it's still hard to beat the Saban system, and it's hard to differentiate Saban and Smart as defensive architects right now (though they aren't technically the DC's, they have more to do with the overall system/playbook than the coordinators do). They've got that perfect combination of intentional volume, meaning that they run a lot of different stuff, but it's all calculated and included for a reason, and they're typically able to call it all at the right time. A good, effective use of stunts and pressures, lots of diversity in their fronts and coverages, and a foundation of tight matchup zones that take away a lot of space in the passing game. It takes a genius to really run it effectively, and also to teach it well, but in the right hands it's a high-performance racecar, and on top of that neither guy has been afraid to adapt when modern offenses have found ways to exploit them. Another guy that has to be mentioned is Dave Aranda (again, not a very risky pick). He's got the best version of what I'd call the college hybrid nickel, by which I mean one of those defenses that uses a hybrid DE/OLB to swing between Even and Odd fronts from the same personnel. Aranda has especially good answers vs. the modern spread run/RPO game. It's not quite like Saban, in the sense that Baylor's more likely to "play what they play" instead of having a silver bullet to take away every particular play, but it's a great system defense with enough variety to take away a lot of what college offenses are trying to do. Justin Wilcox and Andy Avalos are other guys who've done interesting things in this space, but without the same consistent success as Aranda. My emotional, dark horse pick would be Tony White, but that's just because I'm rooting for someone from the Rocky Long, 3-3-5 tree to break through at the P5 level. White took Syracuse from #112 to #18 in one year, but a lot of that was from beating up on weak offenses; they didn't do anything impressive against better opponents. Still, I think that Long's system anticipated a lot of both the hybrid 3-3/4-2 stuff that's really taken off over the last 10+ years, as well as some of the 3-high stuff that's getting trendy right now, and I think that it's got a nice opportunity now to merge with other base nickel ideas to do some really interesting things. I've found this system intriguing for a long time, and I always thought that Long deserved a shot as much as lots of other guys who've gotten one, but he had the disadvantage of working for bad HC's who couldn't bring him up the ladder with them. White is the guy from that tree with the best shot to make some noise right now, so that's why I'm including him, but I'll need to see him hold a few teams like Louisville, Wake Forest, Purdue, etc. closer to 20 points next year before I really believe that he's the guy to break through. Mostly, though, I find bits and pieces of lots of different defenses that I like or respect. I love Knowles' secondary rotations and coverage disguises, and I'm watching everybody who's experimenting with more 3-high stuff, since that's what's new and pushing the game forward at the moment (Heacock and Venables come to mind as two very different versions from film studies that I've done). Tim DeRuyter's defense has been great at disguising coverages and creating turnovers over the years, and there are more units that I'm really looking forward to studying more (Jim Leonhard at Wisconsin, Marcus Freeman at Notre Dame, Mike Elko at A&M, now Duke, etc.). Outside of Saban/Smart, though, I'm most likely to see a mix of both interesting and underwhelming elements in most good college defenses.

Tuesday night surprise video!!

@TheCoordinatorProject

2 жыл бұрын

Haha, you know it!

And they expect kids to want to go to school while learning all of this too lol

You mean when Bama had their top 2 receivers out a RB and their starting RB was injured? LMAO!!!!