Part of our safety problem is personnel and part is scheme. I've never seen so many one on one coverages with safeties against the opposing WRs as we run. That's a lot to ask of that position and would be tough to handle with really good coverage safeties and ours are average at best. Now its anybody's guess how much direct input Mullen has in defensive scheming. Hopefully very little since, as far as I know, he's never had any experience coaching defense.

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Posted by engie

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Posted on 12/22/14 at 9:19 pm to Maroonmadness

That's the problem with the constant non-disguised soft zone we ran. Matchups are exploitable when you don't use the multiple nature of our personnel any better than we did this year. AND that was with Wells covering our arse.

Also why I want to run the Patterson 4-2-5. Called in "hurry up" D on playcards. Front 4 called separate from back 7, back 7 split down the middle with each side called separately. Lets you play man on one side and zone on the other, etc. Naturally disguises everything because it's literally all called separately.

Read up on it -- it's a really interesting read... I already know Wommack runs a 4-2-5 primarily and that Freeze is planning to study Patterson's D this offseason. I think alot of people are going to go to some variation of that to slow the spread.

Which, Shannon's year under Patterson is another reason I want him...

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