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you will need more plays to score enough. you will likely get less chances to make up for your D if AFA has the ball all game. |
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AFA scares me for 2 reasons.
1. Out middle backers have not played very well this year and to stop the option you really need great linebacker play. 2. We have not played with emotion since UCLA. I know someone pointed that out but is pretty disappointing to see this team not play with any heart. There are a couple of players that show it but they are few and far between. |
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Against AF I think your OLBs are more critical than your MLBs. Because they dont give it to the dive man all that often. Russ T and Bauman should be ok in the middle. Our OLBs are the strength of the linebacking core this year. Nixon will be fine against the option as will Clawson, although Clawson is a bit of a concern since he has not played AF yet.
One thing I might try is playing a field OLB/DE and a boundary OLB/DE. Keep Jorgensen and Nixon on the wide side of the field because that is the side AF runs to 80% of the time and they both have the speed and discipline to disrupt the play. Also that gives Clawson if he makes a mistake a shorter distance to make up for it. The other thing is our corners need to not try and play hero and stay home, AF completed 6 of 8 passes for 170 yards and 2 tds vs CSU. Stay home and let the other guys make plays. |
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Scores against D1 opponents: Wyo: 23-3 Hou: 31-28 Utah: 23-30 Navy: 27-33 SDSU: 35-10 UNLV: 29-28 UNM: 23-10 Army: 16-7 CSU: 38-17 CSU ranks 106th in rushing D at 5.2 YPC. UNLV ranks 103rd at 5.2 SDSU ranks 110th at 5.3 Houston ranks 77th at 4.3 Navy is the only team AFA managed to put up 24+ on that has a decent rush defense (at 3.5YPC). BYU's rush D, despite being so maligned, is only allowing 3.6YPC this year (Interestingly, there's quite a disparity between YPC BYU gives up & the rushes/game they typically see. I think teams are definitely trying to play keepaway with the BYU O.). AFA is only averaging 4.43 YPC on O this year. That's 49th nationally. I don't expect AFA to score that much in this game. I expect them to be in the 17-27 point range. |
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