re: Defensive adjustment

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Saban said it last night. Disrupt the quarterback. If you can disrupt the QB you can get negative plays and sometimes turnovers. Now, it's awesome to be able to do this with four guys, but if you can't you need to bring pressure and live with the fact that you're going to give up some chunk plays. One issue is that our DL are so big that most of them don't have explosive pass rush ability. I wish they were a little smaller and quicker, but I don't see that happening unfortunately.

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You can't disrupt the QB with your front 4. Hell, nobody can since holding doesn't exist anymore. You have to literally ride a guy down to the ground with your arms around his neck for holding to be called. It's bullshite. They HAVE to rebalance things and give the defense a chance. That's one reason DC's are blitzing like hell. That's the only way you can get home. Venables did it all night last night. He could see that LSU had figured it out and were burning Clemson almost every play. But he kept bringing it, hoping he could get home and hit Burrow. It was his only chance and only answer. If not, Burrow has all damn day back there to throw or decide to take off.