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[QUOTE="money3189, post: 1841153, member: 436"]
I didn't say our base scheme would have hold them. No one plays their base defense the whole game. You have to scheme and game plan. You make small adjustments within your base.  When you change your base defense you are changing alignment, your base reads,  how you take on blocks and the angles you take to make tackles.  Its a big risk.  On top of that you are adding specific stunts, blitzes coverages for specific situations. I've learned that myself being a D coordinator for 15 years.  I don't like to call people out but I've had conversations with people and I was flat out told they screwed that one up. So my thoughts are based off what people have told me.

Now I probably watched that GS game on youtube 10 times now.  I thought Ward had a good game plan.  There were 3 or 4 plays where they could have prevented a TD or ended a drive. I saw stunts designed to stop where they were trying to attack. There were corner blitzes to stop the pitch man. BG had quite a few TFL's.   Its was sound scheme but it really came down to GS players and scheme being better than BG's. BG's offense turning the ball over 2 possessions in a row in the red zone was too much for the defense.  The GS offense is a machine that no one totally stops. That QB that runs a 4.2 40. BG didn't have anyone to match that in the second half.   BG's offense also put more pressure on the defense in the second half because they didn't score like they usually do.  I don't know if its was because of the rain or what not.
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