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Message: [QUOTE="RandomGuy, post: 4890015, member: 6422"] The system was relying on tempo, to negate the blitz. When tempo didn't work, the lack of Blitz pickup preparation was painfully obvious. You don't start prepping for BPU 3 games into the year. You start in spring - and work on it year round. Before Devito was injured, they were working on implementing a completely different scheme - Tommy under center, Pistol etc... Because what we were doing wasn't working, and they were going to try to adapt to player strengths. I was happy the staff was willing to make the change- but Tommy went down, and we never saw it. Following year, they hoped everything had fixed itself- which it hadn't. Bringing Schmidt on board was a huge upgrade. When they made the change from Tommy, they implemented a bunch of Schmidt plays, because they knew we'd have to run the ball.. We did change some scheme things. Just not when Tommy was healthy at QB. [/QUOTE]