I think that, for most, "drop 8" is a euphemism for "didn't bring pressure".

Sep 1, 2014
8:05:39am

collie418

I don't know that anyone (except you) took the phrase "drop 8 every play" to mean that on literally every play of the game UConn brought only 3 players on the rush.

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UCONN dropped 8? Here are the numbers...

combblai

9/1/14 1:15am

Awesome post. I'd love to see the charts

Shimmy

9/1/14 1:17am

I was extremely impressed with the O-line. Hill was hardly touched

flyusaf

9/1/14 1:32am

I think the point still is that most of the plays, there was 7 or 8 people

fattycoug

9/1/14 1:40am

Confirms that they didn't bring pressure. I expect differently from Texas.

byubyu

9/1/14 1:40am

You're missing a pair of parentheses in your formula

Sale

9/1/14 2:01am

You are correct. Thanks. I should have been

combblai

9/1/14 9:34am

Agreed. Thought our line played great.

It's a Jelly

9/1/14 9:50am

Which myth was exposed? Over 1/3 of all pass plays they dropped 8.

Metallicat

9/1/14 3:55am

CBers have been acting like UCONN dropped 8 on almost every play.

flyusaf

9/1/14 4:01am

I guess I haven't been paying enough attention to the discussion then.

Metallicat

9/1/14 4:09am

7 is base. It's playing straight up.

BarraCouga

9/1/14 7:37am

I know dropping 7 is base. 5 OL should be expected to block 4 pass rushers, no?

Metallicat

9/1/14 8:10am

If it were as simple as that, there wouldn't be many sacks.

BarraCouga

9/1/14 8:25am

You are caricaturing the "discussion" based on semantics.

collie418

9/1/14 9:55am

Words have meaning.

BarraCouga

9/1/14 10:12am

And yet, on over 75% of plays they didn't bring an extra man at all.

collie418

9/1/14 8:08am

Interesting... TH scrambled on only 1/6 5+ man rushes.

flyusaf

9/1/14 4:00am

Don't forget this was against UCONN before making conclusions about our OL. IMO

byutx

9/1/14 7:13am

I think that, for most, "drop 8" is a euphemism for "didn't bring pressure".

collie418

9/1/14 8:05am

Do you just look both ways or do you have one of these cameras when you back up

It's a Jelly

9/1/14 8:57am

Lol. Haven't heard that one before.

collie418

9/1/14 9:48am

I think that's the point - it's hyperbole.

It's a Jelly

9/1/14 9:56am

Pressure is great if you can keep containment.

collie418

9/1/14 10:02am

I have been wondering about this all weekend - nice post

Dr T-bone

9/1/14 8:38am

And therein lies the difference between JSwag and Hine

BarraCouga

9/1/14 9:16am

Since these are only first half stats, I'm curious to see what the second half

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