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One could make a case that Grantham's defensive approach is a actually THE MOST APPROPRIATE for today's challenges. Whether he and/or CDM anticipated this, and so got to this place by deliberate choice, is also debatable.
Here's the thinking:
Alabama's offense, which historically has been Run First, has in more recent years has the personnel, and mentality, to absolutely tear up other team's a***s throwing the ball.
Georgia's offense, which historically has been Run First, has in more recent years has the personnel, and mentality, to absolutely tear up other team's a***s throwing the ball.
LSU's offense, which historically has been reasonably balanced by design but sometimes hampered by QB inconsistency, has of late had the personnel, and mentality, to absolutely tear up other team's a***s throwing the ball.
Those are our most formidable SEC rivals. You CANNOT stop those teams by lining up your standard heavy defense on first and second down. (Unless, and maybe not even if, you have 2-deep NFL quality talent everywhere in the defense.)
What you must do therefore, to have any chance, is gamble. Like Grantham. If you can put the offense in a third and long, then they have a less than 50% chance of converting.
Old concept: Success is a 3-and-out.
New concept: Success is forcing a punt on one of every three series.
(What Fromm did against us in 2019 with 3rd and long beat the odds. he had a career-best day. Doesn't prove that the strategy was wrong. Sometimes the runner gets thrown out trying to steal second. Doesn't invalidate the approach.)
Discuss.
Here's the thinking:
Alabama's offense, which historically has been Run First, has in more recent years has the personnel, and mentality, to absolutely tear up other team's a***s throwing the ball.
Georgia's offense, which historically has been Run First, has in more recent years has the personnel, and mentality, to absolutely tear up other team's a***s throwing the ball.
LSU's offense, which historically has been reasonably balanced by design but sometimes hampered by QB inconsistency, has of late had the personnel, and mentality, to absolutely tear up other team's a***s throwing the ball.
Those are our most formidable SEC rivals. You CANNOT stop those teams by lining up your standard heavy defense on first and second down. (Unless, and maybe not even if, you have 2-deep NFL quality talent everywhere in the defense.)
What you must do therefore, to have any chance, is gamble. Like Grantham. If you can put the offense in a third and long, then they have a less than 50% chance of converting.
Old concept: Success is a 3-and-out.
New concept: Success is forcing a punt on one of every three series.
(What Fromm did against us in 2019 with 3rd and long beat the odds. he had a career-best day. Doesn't prove that the strategy was wrong. Sometimes the runner gets thrown out trying to steal second. Doesn't invalidate the approach.)
Discuss.