We needed to hit the portal hard for DL this past offseason. We essentially

Sep 27, 2022
7:33:32pm

HBCoug All-American

made the decision to line up the exact same guys who were largely ineffective last year, only minus Leiataua. True freshmen like Fano and Moa were never going to turn the DL around on their own even though highly regarded.

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The Myth of the Three Man Front

Hotlanta

9/27/22 6:53pm

Now tell us how many times more than 4 guys rush?

RdF3

9/27/22 6:54pm

That's not the issue at hand. You may want to blitz more, that's a fair critique

Hotlanta

9/27/22 6:56pm

It happens a lot actually. I started documenting it bc of lazy posts like this.

YOHONOMOTO

9/27/22 10:48pm

Tell me you havent watched the games without telling me you havent watched...

panacablue

9/27/22 6:56pm

Follow the link. We put 4 or more people on the line in all but 3 snaps

Hotlanta

9/27/22 6:57pm

Putting four on the line doesn’t make a defense aggressive. You realize that?

BYU '80

9/27/22 9:55pm

No but it makes most of CB wrong about their critique of Tuiaki

YOHONOMOTO

9/27/22 10:49pm

You must not even read (or comprehend) what the criticisms of Tuiaki are.

ManicBlue

9/27/22 10:54pm

Should I make a compilation of posts complaining about drop 8?

YOHONOMOTO

9/27/22 10:57pm

Go ahead. Try reading the many others that go more in depth.

ManicBlue

9/27/22 11:04pm

And how many times did the fourth guy down immediately stand up and back up?

Phreddy

9/28/22 12:22am

We had 4 on the line vs WY but then only 2 LBs with 5 in coverage...

FMOCIE

9/28/22 2:05am

Your first point is correct but second is not.

Turnpike Lane

9/27/22 7:00pm

No one claims that we only rush three, we do it a lot, and if you don't see that

RenoCoug

9/27/22 7:03pm

How often is "a lot"? 75% of plays? 50%?

HarlemCoug

9/27/22 7:06pm

Re-watch the Oregon game. That would be my definition of a lot.

RenoCoug

9/27/22 7:10pm

Well... How often was that? You seem to know

rad dawg

9/27/22 7:11pm

Yep. They do against spread teams to get more speed on the field

BYU '80

9/27/22 9:55pm

We line up in a three man front

Archaea

9/27/22 7:17pm

CBers say this literally all of the time

YOHONOMOTO

9/27/22 10:49pm

My biggest concern with Tuiaki is his lack of recruiting top DL talent.

Coug Dude

9/27/22 7:10pm

Most of the 4* DL guys are freshman or on missions.

Turnpike Lane

9/27/22 7:21pm

Heard the same thing 5 years ago, how did that turn out. Fool me once...

cougaman

9/27/22 7:22pm

Not sure you did because we didn't have 4* DL guys on missions then

Turnpike Lane

9/27/22 7:24pm

Oh, so it's completely different that when they got multiple high 3* and a 4

cougaman

9/27/22 7:27pm

I'm not making excuses for DL Play. Just saying that argument didn't exist.

Turnpike Lane

9/27/22 7:34pm

So first, we need more than 2-3 good recruits, second, they need to stay healthy

cougaman

9/27/22 7:50pm

We needed to hit the portal hard for DL this past offseason. We essentially

HBCoug

9/27/22 7:33pm

SEVEN years in as DC and his top recruits are still on missions. Dang.

ManicBlue

9/27/22 7:43pm

Just imagine the advantage we would have with 25yr old freshmen

Jersey hunter

9/27/22 8:01pm

We weren't in the B12 and we had what was perhaps the smallest recruiting staff in D1 football until about 6 months

HarlemCoug

9/27/22 8:17pm

Why has the offense been able to recruit? Was the offense already in the Big 12?

ManicBlue

9/27/22 10:31pm

Do you have data that shows our offense has recruited better than our defense? Clearly our O is better than our

HarlemCoug

9/27/22 10:47pm

If they haven't recruited better, they've developed better. Either way it's an indictment on the defensive coaches and

ManicBlue

9/27/22 10:53pm

We're 24-5 over the last 3 seasons (including a defensive gem against the Yewts). I don't need excuses.

HarlemCoug

9/27/22 11:03pm

hahahaha ... no thanks to our defense

ManicBlue

9/28/22 12:15am

Lopa and Tofa are two highly rated guys that haven’t developed

BYU '80

9/27/22 9:57pm

Armchair fans, most of which never even played the game, much less coach it!

AzCugrFan

9/27/22 7:28pm

Don't focus so much on the 3 man front as the lack of pressure on the QB.

ManicBlue

9/27/22 7:41pm

All I know is opposing QBs have clean jerseys at the end of the game.

ColdFusion1989

9/27/22 7:53pm

There is a difference between 3 down linemen and 3 down linemen with 2 lbs

Boring

9/27/22 8:13pm

RE: The Myth of the Three Man Front

TJD

9/27/22 8:37pm

So the defense that is near the bottom of cfb in blitz % is objectively

BYU '80

9/27/22 9:53pm

Been saying this for quite a while. The criticisms are usually flat out wrong.

YOHONOMOTO

9/27/22 10:47pm

We are 37th in total defense right now with our schedule

YOHONOMOTO

9/27/22 10:53pm

Glad you could find one defensive stat that was above average.

ManicBlue

9/27/22 11:03pm

Lol. One game.

StantonMac

9/27/22 11:00pm

It’s pretty much every game.

YOHONOMOTO

9/28/22 12:03am

You know this is basically everyone here, right?

CrimsonCardinal

9/28/22 3:39am

Yes, but everyone is capable of reasonable criticisms

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