- On the 4th & 1 at midfield in the first quarter, it looks to me like Gentry messed this up.
UM comes out in the I formation with double TE’s to the left. We’re running a trap from right to left so Mike is trapping across on the snap. NW has a DE lined up head up on Gentry, who is inline next to Runyon and flanked by McKeon.
On the snap Bredeson and Runyon combo on the DT and crush him down while Ruiz walls off the other DT. Gentry tries to take the DE over him but he struggles to turn him. It looks like McKeon steps to take the same DE, which would be a much easier downblock for him rather than Gentry. McKeon sees that Gentry picked up the DE and then kind of gets lost and can’t reset himself in time to take the S that shoots his inside gap and gets in on the tackle.
If Gentry blocks down he picks up the scraping LB that eventually fills the hole while McKeon pins the DE inside. That leaves Mike to open the edge against a S and Ben leading up on a CB. Those matchups lead to a first down.
- NW was attacking our G-scheme really hard. The play-side DE would crash off the hip of our T when they’d block down and our G’s (Bredeson especially) really struggled to open a hole. NW is well
coached, but the simple adjustment for Bredeson there is to crush the DE back down. If he wants to stick to Runyon’s hip than pin him inside. The results the same.
- We haven’t done a lot of man blocking this year as we’ve relied more on traps and pulls. NW was attacking the movement so hard that we shifted to man blocking on the 4th possession and the result was a TD drive, including a couple really nice Higdon runs.
Later we used the offset TE to the backside as the lead blocker to set the edge. We’re multiple enough in scheme and personnel to switch things up when an opponent game plans to take something away. In this instance it was the G-scheme; we’ve been killing teams with it the last few weeks, but we proved that we can thrive without it if necessary.
- NW didn’t bring a lot of blitzes but they brought tons of stunts. The OL picked them up without a hitch.
UM comes out in the I formation with double TE’s to the left. We’re running a trap from right to left so Mike is trapping across on the snap. NW has a DE lined up head up on Gentry, who is inline next to Runyon and flanked by McKeon.
On the snap Bredeson and Runyon combo on the DT and crush him down while Ruiz walls off the other DT. Gentry tries to take the DE over him but he struggles to turn him. It looks like McKeon steps to take the same DE, which would be a much easier downblock for him rather than Gentry. McKeon sees that Gentry picked up the DE and then kind of gets lost and can’t reset himself in time to take the S that shoots his inside gap and gets in on the tackle.
If Gentry blocks down he picks up the scraping LB that eventually fills the hole while McKeon pins the DE inside. That leaves Mike to open the edge against a S and Ben leading up on a CB. Those matchups lead to a first down.
- NW was attacking our G-scheme really hard. The play-side DE would crash off the hip of our T when they’d block down and our G’s (Bredeson especially) really struggled to open a hole. NW is well
coached, but the simple adjustment for Bredeson there is to crush the DE back down. If he wants to stick to Runyon’s hip than pin him inside. The results the same.
- We haven’t done a lot of man blocking this year as we’ve relied more on traps and pulls. NW was attacking the movement so hard that we shifted to man blocking on the 4th possession and the result was a TD drive, including a couple really nice Higdon runs.
Later we used the offset TE to the backside as the lead blocker to set the edge. We’re multiple enough in scheme and personnel to switch things up when an opponent game plans to take something away. In this instance it was the G-scheme; we’ve been killing teams with it the last few weeks, but we proved that we can thrive without it if necessary.
- NW didn’t bring a lot of blitzes but they brought tons of stunts. The OL picked them up without a hitch.
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