The short hot routes that he was hitting there is really nothing you can do to defend that except keep them in front of you and prevent the BIG PLAY! which we did pretty good. But there were times that either players were not understand the changes in the protection OR just flat out missing their assignments. In the second half the players forgot to come out of the locker room and the fans got lost in the bathrooms.
If that's the case why wasn't our brain trust on the offensive side doing the same thing to them instead of run run pass punt?
K, thanks, what I was looking for. Didn't read any of the other posts really, you guys certainly hijacked my thread.
so you're saying there is nothing you can do to prevent 9 yard pass plays from completion? or even 6 yard plays? even if they run them every down? I am sorry I don't buy that. if that were so they'd run them all the time...OH wait...... they did! mostly, except maybe when they forgot and tried 4 times to punch it in on running plays. man no offense but if there was "no way" to defend 6-9 yard quick routes then that's all every college team would run and every pro team too for that matter. what really happened is phat fulmer wanted to run ball control on us and when it didnt work first half, he swapped QB's and went to the ASU attack plan, plan B, and let Riggs get a rest, then later he brought him back when our boys got tired. Good plan, it worked.
