Originally posted by ghuffman
don't start with real football, cause you have to clue.Unless you've coached it at the college or pro levels then I'm pretty confident I know more than you do.
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fwiw i have been a WL DC since season 12 with a couple of gifs, u?Fair enough, but I'd never heard of you until recently and I've been a WL DC for that long as well. The only time DS defenses ever come up is to talk about hays leaving guys uncovered.
Originally posted by
what is your definition of game planning? maybe that i will help me understand your pointBack in the days before the expanded playbook, it was possible to scout teams and have a pretty good idea of what they were going to run with X personnel in the Y formation. So against Valhalla I would prepare specific defenses to counter the three main plays they used out of Singleback (
have I mentioned lately that I'm the only DC ever to hold them scoreless for a half? 
) These days that kind of specific targeting isn't possible. The expanded playbook has forced defenses to go to more vanilla schemes where you're protecting against all the good plays in a formation instead of having a pretty good idea of which ones they're going to run. There are some exceptions, like when that 2TE drive play was all the rage and made it worthwhile to drop a defender in weak under fourth to take out that HB route, but for the most part your formation schemes are not targeting specific plays anymore.
It's a simple equation of risk versus reward. Playing a defense that targets a particular play will presumably help you a lot against that play, but leave you vulnerable against the others. In the old days an offense might run that play 30-40% of the time they used that formation. Now it's 10-20%. Expanded playbooks greatly lowered the chance of anticipating a particular play, and thus greatly increased the risk of targeting specific offensive plays. That's why so many WL defenses look the same these days. You drop 2 or 3 deep and play man on the receivers, or you go with a generic blitz. Flooding certain areas of the field with zone defenders isn't part of the game anymore, at least for the vast majority of us.
You're making yourself look incredibly dense by acting like it's an issue of laziness. It isn't. It's a matter of having brains. If there are many effective plays in a particular formation then it's foolish to go all-out hoping that you guess a particular one correctly when an incorrect guess will dramatically raise the risk of giving up a big play. Vanilla defenses are about playing the odds, as those have been shifted firmly in the offense's favor.
Originally posted by NorDoor
and one foot should haveWe had a good blitz package, but got hit with one of those morale tanks in the 4th quarter and got squashed.
