re: I believe O. How can we realistically simplify this D

Bert, in your opinion why is the run D struggling?

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ts a type of coverage that Aranda never ran. It has its pros but its cons are that everyone has to see everything the same and technically an offense can use your rules against you and clear you out so to speak. We are so bad at the assignment part that we haven't even run into the second issue.

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Yea - this was innovative in what, 2010? Still more recent then Bo's last departure but this is still dated.

Like Aranda said - the better offenses (including ours under brady) have gone from "this is a play" "you read their d and check down and go here instead of there if this is what you see" to a "when they line up like this and show us this, on motion, this is what they are in and this is the adjustment we can make ... gotcha plays).

He said modern defenses are responding in kind, so if A&M is in bunch, we know that if we drop 6 and pressure with x, they havent ran anything that will beat that. Or if they line up in double tights, they dont have any protections to stop a smoke blitz that we've seen."

I think many people refuse to understand that Aranda and Brady were two of the brightest minds we've ever had on the same team at one time, and that currently, defenses are a bit behind in the league with regard to catching up with this new play calling design.

Ole Miss had the success on us running the ball because we literally had not had to defend that and after all of their studies on us... "gotcha." Defenses simply can't afford to say hey "run this base with these added adjustments this week and reads to stop this offense." It has to be more specified, this is exactly how they are going to try to get us.

Aranda was extremely underappreciated in a league that now has better HC's and assistants than we do.

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