Fwd: [Husker] Defensive Scheme and Speed

[Russ Volberding]

 From what I've heard on an Omaha sports radio program:  Some coaches [not 
NU] say that NU's safeties are required to cover man-to-man, especially the 
slot receiver, and they aren't able to do the job.  There may be many 
reasons for this but these coaches[the hated unnamed sources] blame man 
coverage for NU's dramatic fall in pass efficiency defense.
Maybe another example of putting personnel in a position to fail rather 
than succeed.


>Yes, there was a lot of zone last year, but the CB's were successful in 
>man coverage a fair amount of the time (although they weren't 10 yards off 
>the line-of-scrimmage very often when they were in man).  The biggest 
>difference in the 2004 version of the defense IMHO was the lack of speed 
>at OLB.  Demorrio and Shaw posted the two fastest times at the NFL combine 
>last year, this year Sievers and Bradley looked noticably slower.  Cooper 
>seems to have some speed but didn't get a significant amount of playing 
>time for whatever reason. Hopefully next year there will be a return of 
>the speedy OLB.
>
>Kurt in FL
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