re: Chavis vs. Steele - WVU

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this football stuff too seriously. Maybe direct your focus elsewhere for a bit; you'll realize how ridiculous you seem in about an hour or so.

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We'll gladly let you have them back if it bothers you this much.

You just gave Chavis credit for TM7 and then made a really bad Katrina joke. Two of the more ignorant posts in recent memory on a board that is nothing if not dominated by ignorant posts. They you try to turn around and tell ME that I'M the one that doesn't know how it works. You can't make this stuff up

Football discussions with you are over at this point. You're an immature piece of shite. My family lost everything in Katrina and were transplants all over the country. Trying to bring up Katrina "rustle" is tasteless and uncalled for.

I'm not gonna bring up anything from the bonfire, because I'm not a child who takes football debate so serious that I feel the need to throw jabs about people dying. You need to reevaluate.

Not to mention you just made up every word in that post and sound like a compete and utter jackass. If you honestly think Chavis coaches DBs, then I really don't know how to debate this. Because you just believe something that is completely false.

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JG: "Soft zone" is a dirty word in Baton Rouge, how would you characterize Chavis' "style of play" or scheme?
Is it at all dependent on personnel or opposing offenses for that week?

WS: It's funny, soft zone might be the biggest complaint about Chavis' style.
There was an NFL scout a few years back, and I can't remember his name, but in talking about Tennessee's defensive players he said "The Tennessee guys always have the run-hit philosophy: they're fast, and when they get there they're in a bad mood."

Chavis has always employed a 4-3 defense that utilizes speed and athleticism. When Tennessee was on top of the college football world in the late 90s, their defense was so tough to deal with because it combined these incredible athletes with an offense that allowed them to be super- aggressive and take chances; when Peyton Manning was your quarterback, you knew you could go full-tilt and gamble on defense and he had your back. And they did. All the Tennessee sack records that don't belong to Reggie White come from this era.

When Manning wasn't under center or the Vols didn't have an explosive offense, the defense could throttle back some but was still very capable of carrying the entire team - the Vols won the National Championship in 1998 with an inexperienced quarterback and the loss of Jamal Lewis because their defense put them on their shoulders the entire season. That team established a mentality that Vol defenses have upheld, for the most part, ever since: you will not drive 80 yards on us. Whether by someone making a play (again, speed and athleticism) or by your quarterback making a bad decision against our coverage, you won't go 80 yards against us. Long drives against Chavis defenses are few and far between.

Under Chavis, the Vols have put guys like Leonard Little, Shaun Ellis, Darwin Walker, Al Wilson, Deon Grant, John Henderson, Al Haynesworth, Gibril Wilson, Jason Allen, and now Jerod Mayo in the NFL as starters.

Chavis has always been more about players than scheme, but even in the last few years when Tennessee's talent level has decreased, he still finds ways to maximize what's out there. Even if he doesn't have NFL athletes, he'll put the right guy in the right spot to make a play with alarming consistency. And putting guys in the right position is why Eric Berry has seven interceptions this season on a team that's really not spectacular on the defensive front and doesn't pressure quarterbacks to make hurried throws.

Getting back to the "soft zone"—Tennessee defenses were typically aggressive under Chavis, except in third down situations. The biggest complaint Vol fans would have about him is what some would call "Third and Chavis", where the Vols employed their "Mustang" package—three down linemen, two linebackers and six DBs—and trusted athleticism in the secondary to make a play instead of going after the quarterback.

Some of Tennessee's most heartbreaking 4th quarter losses can be attributed to the use of this package in late game situations—we helped make JaMarcus Russell the first pick in the draft using some of this package in 2006.

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But keep on trying to convince yourself Chavis had no impact on Honey Badger's succes, or that of any other elite LSU defender in his time there.

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And keep trying to convince yourself that he recruited any of the elite talent personally.

Ever heard of Twitter you frickwit?

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if Leonard Fournette could spell Katrina we'd all be impressed

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Seriously? I guarantee he's smarter than you.

I saw firsthand the devastation that Katrina brought and I wish that no one ever has to experience the hellhole that it created. frick you worthless Aggy punks.

Then disown his punk arse.

pot and kettle brah

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Football discussions with you are over at this point. You're an immature piece of shite. My family lost everything in Katrina and were transplants all over the country. Trying to bring up Katrina "rustle" is tasteless and uncalled for.

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You're just looking for a reason to be offended. What I said wasnt a Katrina joke and every Lousiana native on this board knows that lots of tPOS from NO moved to Houston and East Texas. That isnt a comment on the good people there or the disaster. I never said anything about people dying, other than the murder victims of the transplants.

Put on your big boy pants and get the frick over it princess.

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Not to mention you just made up every word in that post and sound like a compete and utter jackass. If you honestly think Chavis coaches DBs, then I really don't know how to debate this. Because you just believe something that is completely false.

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I'm sorry you dont know how major college football coaching works. Cant help you with that.