February 10, 2022 · 6:30 AM

Blitzed

This is kind of interesting:

Georgia blitzed more than Florida did.  But Florida did a better job than any other defense in the conference at generating pressure.

Maybe Grantham’s flaw this season was not blitzing more.

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13 responses to “Blitzed”

  1. MGW
    February 10, 2022 at 7:00 AM

    The trouble was never Grantham’s D getting pressure on the QB. It’s going to do that a lot. The trouble is what happens when it doesn’t get pressure on a blitz.

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  2. armydawg
    February 10, 2022 at 7:13 AM

    I don’t know how to quantify it but I think we disrupted more plays than anyone else. Even if he didn’t break free, how many times did Jordan Davis make the QB change his mind or timing?

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  3. Ran A
    February 10, 2022 at 7:27 AM

    Doesn’t matter if you can’t stop the run.

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  4. frozendawg
    February 10, 2022 at 7:37 AM

    It didn’t improve FU’s win/loss record over the previous season.

    The Turds couldn’t stop the run and also got burned on explosive plays…maybe their defense was effective in this one stat but clearly they were deficient in a lot of other areas.

    With the exception of the SECC game, I loved how smothering our defense was in every game.

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  5. eethomaswfnc
    February 10, 2022 at 7:38 AM

    When your defense hamstrings the running game without a safety in the box, you can blitz in almost any down and distance if you want. If you can get pressure with 4 or 5, you can do anything you want on the back end.

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  6. biggusrickus
    February 10, 2022 at 8:27 AM

    This is only kind of related, but I was curious what Florida’s 3rd down defense was like this past year, and it was solid, 35.23%, barely worse than Georgia’s. However, they were 9th in the conference in actually forcing third downs. Georgia was 2nd, behind Tennessee, oddly enough, in 3rd downs forced per game. Not that it did Tennessee much good, as they had the second worse conversion rate allowed.

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  7. moe pritchett
    February 10, 2022 at 9:10 AM

    My uneducated fooseball mind looks at this chart and sees a balance.

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  8. archiecreek
    February 10, 2022 at 9:11 AM

    Was that a blitz when Cox was chasing Stet and pointed his finger at him?
    That Rich,
    is what we call a dumbass blitz! (in your best Deion Sanders voice)

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  9. godawgs1701
    February 10, 2022 at 9:44 AM

    Boy, look at Kentucky. Given the number of times they turned the ball over on offense and the way the defense managed to keep them afloat while apparently not sending extra guys to pressure the QB… they had themselves a strange year up in Lexington.

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  10. FlyingPeakDawg
    February 10, 2022 at 9:49 AM

    Curious how the SEC West is bunched together. With high success rate you’d think at least one of those DC’s would have blitzed more.

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  11. 123 Fake St
    February 10, 2022 at 6:53 PM

    I wonder what ole Todd is up to nowadays.

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