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Baylor’s multiple 4-3 D

April 4, 2018 by ianaboyd 10 Comments

With the season and recruiting classes firmly in the rearview mirror I was keen to check in on something I didn’t devote much time to previously, the status of the #RhuleofLaw defense. I studied Temple fairly intensively last offseason partly because they were an interesting team that won a fascinating league and partly because Baylor … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football Tagged: #RhuleofLaw, 4-3 defense, 4-3 Over, 4-3 Under, Baylor Bears, Blake Lynch, Joe Paterno, Matt Rhule, zone blitz

Breaking down Baylor’s 2018 recruiting class

April 2, 2018 by ianaboyd 22 Comments

The average pundit said that Matt Rhule was going to struggle to recruit Texas replacing Art Briles and coming in to a program that had just endured a PR nightmare but that he’d be able to win early by utilizing Briles’ players. I had a very different sense of things, I was never terribly worried … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football, Recruiting Tagged: #BFast, #RhuleofLaw, 4-3 defense, Baylor Bears, Big 12 recruiting, Matt Rhule, Multiple, Outside zone

A glossary of modern defensive formations, pt I

February 6, 2018 by ianaboyd 3 Comments

So I was watching some more Texas high school football recently. I was doing some breakdowns of 2018 Texas Longhorn commits and trying to find full games so I could eval guys off more than the traits they reveal in limited HUDL highlights. You may find that you are wrong about which guys will translate … [Read more…]

Posted in: General college football, Texas HS Football, Theoretical ramblings Tagged: 3-4 defense, 4-2-5 defense, 4-3 defense, Cloud quarters, North Dakota State Bison, Oklahoma Sooners, Oklahoma State Cowboys, Quarters coverage, tite front

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