Long off season but LB play has to improve immensely.
First play of the game here. Look at the fit by Marist. Botelho clearly has outside, and we're run blitzing Morrison from outside as well. So that's 2 players. The play looked to have botelho seal the edge funneling rb inside if it's a run, morrison coming free outside if it's a pass, with marist filling the B gap, marist for some reason goes outside running into botelho and morrison, so there's 3 ND people outside leaving a gaping hole. This is the first play of the game, i have no clue how you can have a run fit this bad. This looks to be all on marist to me.
On the TD play at the one minute mark, you can't play it worse than Bracy did on simple screen, we corrected it later on, but man. To just run into the back of morrison when you are unblocked at that point, allowing TE to then seal you. Bad. I bring this up because Bracy is as nickel despite South Carolina playing a pretty much 2 TE look. ND just exposes themselves at times in this new scheme.
At the 2:34 mark, Snead completely forgets he has the TE
4:40 mark betrand just isn't athletic enough to turn around, an athletic lb at minimum bats that down or picks it. He's also trying to push him 8 yards downfield which is a penalty if he was succesful. Instead of playing his area he got himself off balance and out of his area for an easy throw for big gain.
7:05 mark. Bracy in again at nickel despite power look again. Bracy covering TE and seems confused.
Just a few plays that seemed confusing to me on scheme and obviously poor lb/nickel play when South Carolina with all their injuries/opt outs didn't have personnel to spread us out. They had DL players as wide outs at times. Yet we were in nickel a ton.
First play of the game here. Look at the fit by Marist. Botelho clearly has outside, and we're run blitzing Morrison from outside as well. So that's 2 players. The play looked to have botelho seal the edge funneling rb inside if it's a run, morrison coming free outside if it's a pass, with marist filling the B gap, marist for some reason goes outside running into botelho and morrison, so there's 3 ND people outside leaving a gaping hole. This is the first play of the game, i have no clue how you can have a run fit this bad. This looks to be all on marist to me.
On the TD play at the one minute mark, you can't play it worse than Bracy did on simple screen, we corrected it later on, but man. To just run into the back of morrison when you are unblocked at that point, allowing TE to then seal you. Bad. I bring this up because Bracy is as nickel despite South Carolina playing a pretty much 2 TE look. ND just exposes themselves at times in this new scheme.
At the 2:34 mark, Snead completely forgets he has the TE
4:40 mark betrand just isn't athletic enough to turn around, an athletic lb at minimum bats that down or picks it. He's also trying to push him 8 yards downfield which is a penalty if he was succesful. Instead of playing his area he got himself off balance and out of his area for an easy throw for big gain.
7:05 mark. Bracy in again at nickel despite power look again. Bracy covering TE and seems confused.
Just a few plays that seemed confusing to me on scheme and obviously poor lb/nickel play when South Carolina with all their injuries/opt outs didn't have personnel to spread us out. They had DL players as wide outs at times. Yet we were in nickel a ton.