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[QUOTE="Shrmdougluvr, post: 1976881, member: 396"]
I skimmed it.  It's about reading and reacting.  Observe + orient = Read.  Decide and act = react.  A quarterback is out there reading what the defense is offering (both pre-snap and during the play) and then reacting to what is being offered (choosing his best available option based upon the play already called and what he reads from the defense).  The best players, lawyers, business leaders, soldiers, etc., do this intuitively.  It does not need to be taught or ingrained through training.  Turning your point around, since Babers is asking his already smaller (maybe slower) players to do more reading and then reacting, it is essentially bogging them down.  If they were just acting and minimizing reads, they could be playing faster.

I agree with your overall point and have said as much since last January when Babers hired his d-coordinator.  When you have inferior talent, which Syracuse will almost always have against those programs we aspire to overtake, you cant afford to sit back and take blow after blow.  The lack of collective talent will always make us big play prone.

Babers philosophy is that since he anticipates scoring losts of touchdowns, he'll live with giving up yards, then tightening up in the red zone and preventing touchdowns.  Time will tell if that is the best way to keep opponents from scoring.  My suspicion is it will not, and we will be better off flying around and bringing as much pressure as possible on the QBs.

It's odd Babers is so direct on offense (minimizing the opponents chance to get into the O's OODA loop), but so reactive on defense.
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