05-15-2019, 07:23 PM
(05-15-2019, 05:44 PM)depthchart Wrote: Alabama & Clemson seem to run NFL style offenses & defenses and they take turns winning it all in College Football.
Both College & the NFL are ever evolving laboratories trying to find ways to win. Then counter that. Then counter the counter etc.
Coaches go from College to the NFL or the NFL to College with their differing ideas.
I'm not sure who is ahead of who but rather that they are all constantly experimenting, observing each other at times and exchanging ideas.
Quite interesting though that Belicheck saw teams with lighter, quicker LB's and went power football on them. So yeah, these new trends can be countered.
I've often felt that our defense, from a LB perspective was built to play in the AFC North 20 years ago. Seems, we favor the slower, bigger LB in general. Not coincidentally, pass coverage for our LB's has been bad...for well a long time.
When was the actual last time we had LB's who could cover? Maybe Spikes?
