[Husker] Defensive Scheme and Speed

[Kurt Holst]

>
>>So do you mean that this year the same dbs couldn't
>> run the same type of d they ran so successfully last
>> year?
>
>What I'm saying is that db's can not ran a good man to man D. The db's ran 
>zone last year and why was that ? Is it because the db's are to slow or they 
>just can not play man to man for what ever reason. And probably can play 
>zone better.
>

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