A 4-3-5 would certainly be advantageous.
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Defense 2025
- Thread starter Cranky
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One of those 50 yarders was such a perfect example of TM’s athleticism that is hard to replicate. Between his tenacity, speed and god given ability, all you can do is tip your cap to him.
That being said. If that ball bounces the opposite direction, or USD doesn’t have the miscues in the red zone that game is a nailbiter. Game of inches. Playing at home makes all the difference. Did for us last year, yesterday for the bison(really their whole history), the jackrabbits the last few years and for you guys this year and in the semis in 21. The number 1 or 2 seed is the most important piece to getting to Frisco, and will be moving forward.
The Dan Lanning approach
Haha yea, I edited that to the 4-3-4 that I meant.
That was in reference to the bobcat defense giving up two fifty yard runs to the yotes not the other way around. I was just saying that the bobcats 4-2-5 scheme is not that dissimilar to the 3-3-5 scheme the griz run that everyone seems to hate.
The flags would make for a slow game.
billingsgriz
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My friend here in Billings who played NAIA college football about 1O years ago and then was an assistant college coach told me his team's 4-2-5 was just a variant of his team's base 4-3-4. I asked him what happened when their opponent came out with 4 or 5 wide, and he told me his team just dropped a LB and " played nickel," describing the 4-2-5 as a variant of his team's base 4-3-4, with the two remaining LB's knowing their changed assignments from both practices and previous games playing nickel. He told me that even as a college WR and as an offensive assistant coach, he was not a fan of the 3-3-5 !!!
There are a lot of variants of the nickel based defense. When most people talk about the 3-3-5, they are talking about the front six in a tite front, consisting of a 0 tech, two 5 techs, a will and sam LB shading the ends with a mike LB in the middle. That is almost never the formation the griz run unless they are facing a spread. They are generally lined up in an over or under front with a 1 and 3 tech and the edges being a hybred DE/LB which is essentially a nickel 4-2-5 much like MSU runs.
