re: Looks like Tennessee is transitioning to a 4-2-5 Defense

Butch broke out the 2-2-3-4 out against Georgia Tech.

I saw an opening and took it.

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these guys played for uga, no way you call them “deep and talented”. It’s these hypocritical inconsistencies that kill your reputation and credibility.

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And none would come close to making our
2 deep.

Tommy Bush would be the clear #1 if he was a Vol

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Bailey 6’5 225 high 4* guy with a cannon Hooker 6’4 220 Dual threat transfer Salter 6’2 185 Dual threat freshman

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I don’t think any sec team has a bigger bunch of nobodies who never did shite in their QB room.

Most teams are in a 4-2-5 or 3-3-5 as a base now any way. The biggest difference usually is whether the 5th DB is a safety type or corner type. And that usually depends on that weeks opponent, anyway.

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He ran a 3-4 with the OLBs rolled up to the line of scrimmage...

From the 2019 Orange and White Game

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Lol
Your photo is 12 personnel.
Are you expecting nickel or dime against that?
It is a running offensive formation and Pruitt (like a good coach) implements a running defensive formation.

I’ve looked into the Iowa State 3-3-5 defense that uses 3 safeties. They do a lot of the 3-3 zone blitz packages you’d expect but they change up responsibilities a bit and it seems to help them some against the quick RPO game. Obviously cover 3 is sorta their base coverage but they also have an inverted cover 2 that ends up working a lot like the Tampa 2. The big benefit is that their inverted Tampa 2 doesn’t require the mike linebacker to be otherworldly because the hole between the split safeties that Mike LB covers in the Tampa 2 is handled by the middle safety instead.


Mississippi State is using a similar approach to Iowa State and they got absolutely abused by Devonta Smith (combo of their freshman corner and some of the 3-3 zone blitzes leading to him just running past the safety isolated on him several times) BUT Mississippi State did hold Alabama to the 2nd lowest offense-only point total of the season (34 points).

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Maybe his particular version of his defense didn't work or maybe he didn't have the right personnel but to say his
defense is some antiquated elementary school defense is silly.

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It’s the fact that zero adjustments were made during the season to address it that bothered most fans.

In highschool I remember we ran a 5-4-2 defense and a wing-T called the broken bone. Coach Welch considered a forward pass from either team a sign of weakness. The 2 safeties were back there if anything made it through the line. The guys that would normally be WRs or DBs played basketball or baseball for years because of it. But the school was skill a pipeline for LBs and DLine a decade after he left the 1st time. JV guys that passed or caught the ball ended up at Brierwood. Now they were running an O that included a passing QB and a more normal D.

Maryville is the highschool I follow now with its modern stadium that makes the Brickyard look shabby. But they use to shut the whole town down when Thomson had a home game.

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I don’t think any sec team has a bigger bunch of nobodies who never did shite in their QB room.

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2 freshman and a transfer. And moving into a proven high octane O. Know those names, learn them. Because they will be on everyone’s lips in the offseason. This isn’t some jumped up journeyman WR coach calling plays for a record second year in a row for the 1st time their 30 year career.

The offense dictates the defensive scheme. It isnt the other way around.

Your own offense runs a 12 personnel with 2 additional offensive linemen playing the tight end role and your first impulse is to declare an oklahoma 52 defense as antiquated coaching?

The defense was a check based upon offensive personnel. Not the other way around.

The defense doesnt sub first and the offense seeing a Bear front think that they probably should roll out a couple of extra linemen as a precaution.