I made fun of Tuberville’s sudden conversion to the Air Raid offense, but if you read the transcript from his initial presser, there’s a lot of very interesting commentary there from him. Check out what he had to say about his philosophy on defense:
Q. What will your base defense be? What defense will you run?
COACH TUBERVILLE: Here you’ve been based on a four-man front. And I coached four-man front for 15, 16 years. I thought there was nothing else. Then everything he involves. And probably over the last seven or eight years we’ve based out of a three-man front with four linebackers.
And we did that because of adjustments. When everybody was playing two backs and throwing it 15 times a game, a four-man front was pretty good. Gave you an opportunity to get lined up, not real complicated. Then when everybody started spreading it out, it makes it easier to play nickel and dime defenses out of a three-man front. Replace a linebacker or two linebackers with two corners that can cover all these wide receivers that teams are putting on the field.
So I like the three-man front. Now probably about 30%, 40% of the time you’ll see us in a four-man front. You have to be multiple. But we’ll be aggressive. We’ll attack the line of scrimmage. You’ll see blitzing. You’ll see zone blitzing.
It’s hard to zone blitz out of a four-man front. But, again, we’ll have to evaluate how much of the three-man front we’ll put in depending on the personnel.
He goes on to say that he’ll run the same defense at TTU that we saw from both teams in the BCS title game.
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You have to be multiple? And here I thought the 4-man Cover 2 and the 4-man man were the only defenses that existed!!
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Don’t forget the 3rd and long, empty-middle-of-the-field set. That one is the key to having a successful WillieMart D.
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The 4 man front and no man back has served us well thus far
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In Willie’s defense we went to the 3 DL set when we needed to get zero pressure on the QB and allow him to take his time and burn us on 3rd and 20. The open middle set was a designed D we taught in practice where our LB’s were instructed to never ever drop into coverage until the ball sailed over their heads. This scheme combined with the Willie special which is illegal in the NFL, face masking has made for many exciting fun filled games in Athens. Don’t forget his wonderful rollout D where our DE’s were coached to just ignore the QB if he leaves the pocket.
Willie was the most quarterback friendly DC in the SEC.
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Georgia should have gotten Tuberville and fired Richt. Tuberville is one of the best coaches ever. I have hated Richt since the day he showed up and his lousy coaching has proved me right.
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I’m with you. Any coach out there could do better than 4th best winning % among active coaches, 10 win/year avg, and two SEC titles. What a lousy, no good, so and so. He should be fired!
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Your just a disney dawg Prov. You don’t want to hear the truth. I tell it like it is. Ask anyone around Washington, GA or anyone who went to Wilkes Academy. Rodney Holloway tells it like it is and is almost always right about stuff like this. I’ve been exactly right about Richt. He should have started Shockley from Day 1 and he sucks as a coach.
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So what is your criteria for not sucking? A national Title? Tubs couldn’t do that, even WITH an undefeated season.
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Rodney, maybe it’s the truth, but in an alternate universe. Take your meds buddy.
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I always take someone seriously if they start speaking in third person.
Perhaps that is the way they teach grammar over at Wilkes Academy.
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Yeah, no reason to keep Greene as the starter. All those annoying records he set, 4th qtr winning comeback drives, on-field leadership……all overrated in HamDawg11’s book. If HamDawg11 had been the coach, HamDawg11 would’ve started Joe Cox from day 1…..that’s what HamDawg11 woulda done!
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What’s Richt’s record against Tuberville?
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Most high school defensive coaches run the 3-5-3 or the 3-5-3 tight because of the number of spread offenses they now see. High school coaches will stack the line or even use a wide tackle six against the wingT. It does not matter how the D stacks against the wingT in high school, because it will adjust the call. More D1s are going to the 3-5-3 against the spread offense. You have to stop the QB and run things to the side line against the spread. UF had trouble with Bama because they had no running back. Bama shut down the UF receivers. But the glory days of the spread, like the wishbone, are now numbered. The Ds have caught up. It will depend on your personnel…Tebow and UF…no Percy. Look up the numbers. I thought the spread was the offense. I changed my mind watching the Dawgs after the UF game. I think the Dawgs offense in 2010 will be a nightmare for most DCs on their schedule (even with a rookie QB). I do not think you can stop it with the 3-5-3 or the 4-4. Dawgs need a D that slows the scoring of the opponent. The Dawgs had issues with the secondary and the push from the DL in most of their games. They gave up yards to TxAM, but not like Will and the Horns. And the Horns moved the ball of Bama, but an unprepared rookie QB almost bailed them out against Saban and Smart.
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‘Wide tackle six.’ Now there’s a flash from the 70’s. Wasn’t that what Erk ran on the early Junkyard Dog defenses?
Oh yeah, I’m standing and I removed my cap to say “Erk.”
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