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Gotta find a way to win when the 3's aren't falling. It will look ugly when we have to do that. But, these are games we would have lost in years past. Just keep winning, ugly or otherwise.

I would suspect that we've seen the end of the 3-3-5. My guess is that he will go back to the 3-4 we ran through the middle of the season. We have run some 4-2-5 in obvious passing situations. If he is a 4-man front guy, he could use that as a base. I don't really think he will do that. We have to do something to fill more gaps and get a pass rush. You can do either with the fronts we currently have, but in the 3-4 you have to be willing to shade the nose. Caponi absolutely would not do that. We NEVER slid the front or moved the nose off of a zero shade. Brown can be a much bigger factor than he has been. So can our DT's. I just hope we put our kids in a situation where they have a chance. Filling gaps on the LOS from the third level is a good way to give up 500 yards a game. Hopefully we never see that again.

This last game started with a whole lot of not being on the same page with each other. Too many passes that became turnovers when somebody zigged instead of zagged. The game changed when Aniyah Johnson went in and we started pressing. She created turnovers that led to easy baskets. Aniyah doesn't play a lot, but when she does there is usually an impact. She has a role and she does it well. It takes a mature player to play 4.5 minutes a game and be ready when called on. It was also interesting that Coach Burton put 5'10" Talley on their tallest girl and not 6'2" Lampkin. But, he was right. She fouled out without scoring a single point. It would be nice to get a win over a "name" opponent.

My favorite is to watch Brackens rebound. Girl can jump out of the gym.

You have to cover the center or they will kill you with the midline. You probably need 3's or 4I's and 9's. You adjust to unbalanced formations with secondary. That is the most sound on a chalkboard. Problem is, this is what we've been doing since Tech. Corners have to run support. Ours are small and get drug around. We have one 9, but the other is light. Maybe Army will take us lightly. It would be hard for them not to.

Army actually does not run the triple option anymore. The closest they will come is the midline. It is harder to run the midline against a nose, but it still can be done. If you remember the old single wing, most of their schemes would more closely resemble that. As far as inside veer and outside veer, you won't see that. I expect a lot of the attack will be in forcing our secondary to support and tackle. We all saw how that worked out vs Tulane. I hope for better, but I don't expect it. And this Army team can throw.

It looks like our strength will be in the number of guards/players that can handle the ball. Deck also looks like an awesome addition. Price is a freshman and looks like she can play at a high level immediately. Brannon and Tac did not play. With Duncan out for the season, that only left 10 players. Johnson got the fewest minutes. It will be interesting to see if she is last off the bench or Coach Burton already knows what she can do and wanted to see the newer players. Either way, she seems to come up biggest when we need her the most. We had lots of turnovers, but we did that early last year too. It mostly was just excitement and getting used to one another. Come see the women's team if you get a chance. They are good and deserving of support.

Sadly, they are the worst possible matchup for our defense. They are a physical running team. We have shown absolutely nothing to indicate that we will stop them. They will look at the Navy tape from last year and be prepared for us. I'm afraid they will score 50 and we will have to be perfect on offense to keep pace. We won't be perfect. I hope I'm wrong, but I'm probably not.

I don't blame them for finishing a last Covid year away, as long as they graduate from NT. He is family now and forever. Go Mean Green !

Nevermind. My fault for posting. I know better than to do that after a loss. Lost my mind for a moment.

Better than losses to crappy opponents. But yes, we will probably get smoked in a bowl against a good team.

We didn't have 3 safeties defending at any point. The announcers are idiots. We actually had 3 corners and 1 safety a lot of the time while playing man. Tulane schemed so that our corners had to play run support, and they got run over. We never made any adjustments and just took our butt whippin. We never move the nose off the center. We are very predictable about where we will line up. We line up EXACTLY where we did on the last film. Nothing to adjust. Just run the plays against us like you did in practice. But we never ran 3 safeties.

Just get Army over with and be healthy. The last 3 are all games we can win.

Not a cool as when we hosted the NCAA in the Super Pit..... but, okay. Whatever.

Fumbles are generated by being physical on defense. That we are not. We drag tackle and try to bump people down. At least we are gap sound for now and I'm happy about that. We can work on physical, but that is the primary reason we don't create turnovers.