re: Please convince me this is not Tepper's drop linebacker def.

The SEC.........you know the most competitive conference in the country.........where teams had the likes of Danny Wuerffel........Peyton Manning.......Eli Manning.......Josh Reed......Jason Campbell, Ronnie Brown, and Caddy.......

Show me another team with that consistency and I will take down your idoitic statement.

Nevermind you still believe Matt Jones is one of the top 20 athletes in the SEC's history.

People at LSU are going to hate Chavis after the next three years. He's known for soft coverage and lack of game time adjustments. As for his national ranking,


1999: 11th
2000: 13th
2001: 13th
2002: 5th
2003: 22nd
2004: 45th
2005: 7th
2006: 50th
2007: 70th
2008: 4th


My concern is his ability to adjust to all the new coaches in the SEC like UM, Saban, Petino and Kiffin. He hasn't fared well against Urban or Saban at all so far.

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BIG MAC

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Compare the results of Chavis vs Tepper.

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Please convince me I am wrong.

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You are obviously under the mistaken idea that we care if you are wrong.

Why would anyone listen to a guy who's sig quote is from the f'n "Bachelor"?

The concept is similar. If you don't want to shift to nickle as much, then you need a LB that can cover. However, this is where the similarity ends. While this is similar, Chavis has proved his scheme works, while Tepper sucked wind. As they say, it's all in the presentation.

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See attached article from The Advocate. Linebacker changes sound alot like Lou Tepper's awful failure know as the "drop linebacker".

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Doesn't really sound like it at all. Tepper's scheme was not about simply dropping a linebacker back into coverage, it involved the same "Drop Linebacker" having responsibility for pass coverage, pass rush and run contain on the same play. There's not a lot of guys -- LBs or otherwise -- who can cover a receiver AND rush the QB at the same time. I guess Simeon Rice and Kevin Hardy could (almost the only times Tepper's defense was successful anywhere was when he had one of those two guys), but guys like that are fairly rare.

Besides, the article does not actually say that the LBs will be dropping into coverage every time they run out a 3 or 4 WR set, and it doesn't say that we will keep all our LBs in there when teams go with 5 WRs. If there is a 4 WR set, we may go man coverage on all four with our DBs and blitz the LBs. We don't know.

All I know is that Tepper had two years in the SEC, and Chavis has had 15-20 as a DC. And I'm not sure Chavis has ever had a defense as bad as the best one Tepper had at LSU.