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Cal Poly's run game

You can't stop it, you can only hope to limit it by playing mistake free assignment football and not over pursuing. After watch the second half of the Sac game, I'd make tackling and stripping the ball HUGE priorities in practice. Get that ball out again and again.
 
sunday said:
If you were coaching the game this week, how would you stop the run?
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Stack the box, I know they can throw it, but make them prove it. Run Blitz early and often forcing them to throw and when they do, jump the routes. Make them beat us deep.

We need to score early and often and build a lead, make them uncomfortable and have to throw the ball. If we can get up early we will run away with this one...
 
Ditto, you can't stop it. The only thing you can do is try to make them throw it more than they want to.
 
Screamin_Eagle174 said:
You can't stop it, you can only hope to limit it by playing mistake free assignment football and not over pursuing. After watch the second half of the Sac game, I'd make tackling and stripping the ball HUGE priorities in practice. Get that ball out again and again.
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:+1:
 
I should add, that getting Pulu, Cook, Johnson, and McCarrthy back would go a long ways to everything listed above. I guess we shall see.
 
EWURanger said:
I should add, that getting Pulu, Cook, Johnson, and McCarrthy back would go a long ways to everything listed above. I guess we shall see.
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Ditto. This should be an all-hands-on-deck week. If you ain't dead, you prepare for action. Any news on Evan Cook? I doubt Minnerly is back, but broken bones require a little more consideration.
 
I think all you guys hit the nail on the head. My BIGGEST beef about our defense against this opponent, is the 1st guy HAS to TACKLE! I'm not trying to be nasty...but I have watched SO many missed tackles is isn't :lol:
 
EWU best defense against Cal Poly's triple option run game is your passing offense. Put a lot of points on the board and it puts a lot of pressure on a TO offense,
 
This one is all about the linebackers. The Dline will be chop-blocked all day but with them on the ground in a tangled mess with the Oline that opens up everythng to the LB's. They need to be wrapping up and holding on. I'm predicting Hamlin with a HUGE game. Like 15 tackles huge....
 
Dozy said:
This one is all about the linebackers. The Dline will be chop-blocked all day but with them on the ground in a tangled mess with the Oline that opens up everythng to the LB's. They need to be wrapping up and holding on. I'm predicting Hamlin with a HUGE game. Like 15 tackles huge....
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Yup, as last year's Cal Poly game defensive stats attest, it is all about the LBs:

## Player Solo Ast Tot TFL/Yds FF FR-Yd Intc BrUp Blkd Sack/Yds QH
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18 Grant Williams 11 8 19 1/0 . . . . . . .
39 Ronnie Hamlin 8 8 16 1/1 . . . . . . .
51 Tyler Washburn 7 5 12 . . 1-0 . . . . .
99 Anthony Larry 7 3 10 2/4 . . . . . . .
95 Charles Moetului 7 3 10 1/0 . . . . . . 1
2 Allen Brown 6 4 10 . . . . . . . .
7 Jeff Minnerly 6 3 9 1/5 . . . . . . .

http://goeags.com/sports/m-footbl/2011-12/Statistics/11-12-11.htm#GAME.DEF
 
EWUeag said:
Just got word that Johnson will be back. Hopefully he isn't rusty and helps to shutdown the option.
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This is terrific news. Hopefully he wait until the next game to pull his hamstring again.
 
Rjones61 said:
EWUeag said:
Just got word that Johnson will be back. Hopefully he isn't rusty and helps to shutdown the option.
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This is terrific news. Hopefully he wait until the next game to pull his hamstring again.
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Totally.

When I heard the media wasn't allowed to shoot the team practice, I figured that meant you were going to see some of the injured guys coming back. Just a hunch.

The good news is that his issue was muscular, not skeletal. Therefore, the injury probably never stopped him from working out. He shouldn't be too rusty as he won't need any gym time to hit the ground running.
 
I'm going to say this before the game so that regardless of outcome, it doesn't sound like sour grapes, but I absolutely loathe the offense that Cal Poly runs. It relies primarily on chopping (diving at defensive players' legs/knees from all angles at all depths) to make up the lack of team athleticism. Those in charge of football at various levels have taken great pains to make football safer (in some ways to the point that at the NFL level the QB and receiver is protected like never before), and yet, chop blocking against defensive players is not only allowed, there is the ocassional team that builds it offense around it.

Rant over!
 
Cal Poly does not chop block, they cut block. Huge difference. Chop blocking is illegal and a 15 yard penalty. Cut blocking is not.
 
SloStang said:
Cal Poly does not chop block, they cut block. Huge difference. Chop blocking is illegal and a 15 yard penalty. Cut blocking is not.
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I call BS on that! They chop block on just about every play. They got flagged on it only twice. I talked to the D lineman involved on both those calls (and then watched him hobble to his truck as he could barely walk) and he "strongly" disagrees, says the refs could probably call it on most plays. It's not the O lineman he'd be directly in contact with, knowing a cut block is coming, it's the one coming over to "help" and laying a chop block... Sure, it's effective, but it's chickenshit.
 
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