Friday, November 25, 2011

Arkansas Defensive Gameplan vs Lsu Analysis

Watching the Arkansas-Lsu game today, I had to ask myself one question was Arkansas even prepared for this game? When I see Jordan Jefferson throw for over 200 yards I question a teams secondary.  I apologize if you think I'm hating on Jordan Jefferson, but for a kid who came in to college promising four Heisman trophies I view him individually as a failure.  Is he a winner? No question, his record speaks for itself and he's won some very important games but as nothing more than as a game manager.  The way I see it, even though Arkansas has a very subpar secondary they could have neutralized him very easily.   Lsu's strength offensively is no secret their clearly a powerful running team who can either beat you with scat backs such as Alfred Blue and Michael Ford or with the power running game with Spencer Ware and the mammoth Lex Hilliard.  So, how I make them ineffective and force Jordan Jefferson to beat me is simple, load up the box and disguise coverage's!! I want Jordan Jefferson to have to beat me with his arm, today I saw a lot of soft man to man coverage's that made it easy for him to make simple reads and rather elementary throws. As a Defensive coordinator my game plan is to disguise coverage's force him to think, he's not one of those quarterbacks who mentally comes in prepared every week and can dissect a defense, that's not his M.O. and even though he has a very capable receiving core I'm not worried about them beating me.  As we saw Arkansas has a pretty skilled front four so I'm going to allow my d-line to match-up against their o-line and allow my linebackers to focus on stopping the run, the only thing I want them to do is in passing situations show him different looks make him read the defense.  Arkansas didn't do that today so in turn they allowed too many 3rd down conversions and got dominated 41-17.

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