Good Game for Caponi and the Defense

[Mean Green 93-98]

Just saying.  We've given him a lot of grief for last season, a lot of it deserved, but he deserves some praise for a good game as well.  Not counting garbage time, he essentially held Tulsa to 3 points.

[BigWillie]

I was going to make a thread about this, but I will just use this one. 

What changed? I think this defense has looked completely different in the past 2 weeks. You could argue that Wyoming wasn't a good offense, ok, but Tulsa was better on offense and they dominated them.

This defense has done 3 things that I haven't seen really all year.

• Tackling
• Turning the ball over
• Stopping the run

I will stop using the word play on Caponi's name, at least for now.

Lastly, do we think it was a scheme change? Did it come from Caponi or is he just the face of someone else that is now running the defense?

Edited 2 hours ago by BigWillie

[peanuts104]

If you're going to only use 3 down linemen, it makes sense that a defense that uses 4 linebackers is more effective than one that uses 3. I get that the star position is supposed to be a hybrid safety/LB but it just hasn't worked here for whatever reason. We stopped the run because we had four linebackers in position to fill run gaps past the line of scrimmage. And, unfortunately, I think having a really complex backfield with a mix of 5 safeties and corners only works if you have the best personnel AT OTHER POSITIONS NOT IN THE BACKFIELD. For a 3-3-5 to work, the front 3 and linebackers have to be perfect and that is asking a lot. Happy with the 3-4 and multiple D change.