re: A&M - Bama 2012 and JFF vs. the Zone Defense

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JFF torched you last year.

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253 yds isn't exactly torching. He made critical first downs though and made the plays when they counted though.

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The point of this thread was to ask A&M fans if they think JFF can beat the zone and Bama fans if they'll stick to Man even though JFF torched you last year.

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It's really just not a very good premise honestly. The foundation of it assumes the A&M offense was the same game one to game 13. It simply wasn't. Manziel was a freshman who people forget really had his struggles early on in the season. We were forced to punt the first 3 series vs the vaunted SMU defense for instance. His mechanics early on were also a cluster and he was incredibly inconsistent throwing the ball because of it.

Yet you seem determined to get a very simplistic answer to a question that has hundreds of variables. We had a new offense last year. It took everyone a while to adjust. The first few games people wanted to fire our OL coach because our OL was so bad. Seriously. You just can't make these straight line comparisons.

Also, the Air Raid is typically very hard to blitz. The best schemes against it have always been built around getting pressure without blitzing. LSU confused Manziel no doubt. But it doesn't mean that same scheme would have worked 4 weeks later after he'd already seen it and sat in the film room looking at it. Just as I doubt McCarron is confused this year by the robber defense we employed. You can't study these games in a vacuum.