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Originally Posted by tk13
Maybe I shouldn't have said "nothing", I guess I forgot it was most definitely McCleon and Warfield's fault Portis ran for 5 touchdowns.....
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actually on one of the portis runs Vermeil SAID that Warfield took the wrong gap that led to the 60 yard portis run.
1. Good Corners can go man on man ... which allows safeties to play closer to the line of scrimmage and cover tightends
2. with safeties on tightend instead of linebackers(see shannon sharpe for 200 yards) you get better tightend coverage.
3. since the linebackers don't have to fall into coverage they can attack the line of scrimmage with run support and blitzes.
4. when we blitz with a linebacker we don't have to drop a defensive lineman into coverage because the safeties are closer to the line of scrimmage and can slider over instead.
5. that means we now have 7 defenders(4 DL,3 LB) playing the run instead of just the 4 defensive lineman. Just the numbers alone will clog more lanes and improve the run defense.
all these things started with better corner coverage
not to mention the 140 tackles the cornerback got on our team last year