What's Defense ?!?! - Corliss X's Blog

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What's Defense ?!?!

Posted on August 8, 2013 at 11:28 PM.

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What's Defense to an Offensive Coordinator

What's Defense to an Offensive Coordinator, Offensive-Minded, or Offensive genius? Most coaches wouldn't respond. I've noticed for the past couple of seasons in college football that most High-Powered Offenses have little to no defense. This seemingly applies to the NFL also. You can look at teams from Oregon to Oklahoma State to West Virginia to Baylor to Arizona. These defenses can be reliable sometimes but are hardly the POWERhouse defenses of teams such as Alabama, Stanford, and Notre Dame. But these defenses at times had something in common even if this only lasted a season. I've realized, for a team to be generate a High-Powered Offense and survive on defense, the defense must be:

Lucky
Able to shutdown in the RedZone
Have many turnovers on Defense

Although, there are other tangibles that apply these normally lead to success. A perfect example of this is the 2011-2012 Oklahoma State Cowboys Football Team. They were on pace the record of most turnovers in a season!!, but their defense was never ranked in the Top 100, why? Their defense didn't have to worry if the opponent scored because their offense had Justin Blackmon and Brandon Weeden. I'm starting to believe it's actual a mental psyche. A defensive player will either play care-free or with less effort, because they know their offense will score. The problem then goes to time, Offensive turnovers and who has possession last. Who care's if your defense is not ranked high when you had 44 turnover's in a season (FYI: for comparison Alabama only had 29 this past season)! So I eventually injected these thoughts and beliefs into my gameplay. But how do you make a defense lucky or redzone shutdown or a turnover machine? You need decent playcalling and the right players for your playcalling!

My Defense

I rarely ever use a 4-3, 3-3-5 or 4-2-5 defense. I prefer to combine all defense schemes together. Now I don't edit a playbook for defense like I do for Offense and I rarely make Depth Chart Subs. Normally, I just switch personnel groupings on defense. I run my defense how I run my offense fast-paced, a lot of speed and different personnel groupings. I might have 6 LB's one play then 6 DB's the next. I try to mirror my defense to Will Muschamp's dominating defense at Florida. Florida has great speed, a lot of depth, and some thumpers on the line; those are some of the reasons I use them in online play. My defensive playbook I use is Multiple or 3-4 Multiple. I love the multiple because of the Run-First formations it supplies with the 5-2 and 4-4. I rather use those over Goalline Defense because the players seem to cover more field. I like to run most of my blitz with a lot of DB's on the field. I assume my opponent will think Pass-First with several DB's and either run something quick or run the ball.

Something to speculate on

My defense isn't the best by far online! I probably have a B- on defense, and that's being lenient. But I do depend on my defense to keep the opponent from TD's and more field goal situations or in online case, more 4th and long situations. I like to press a lot on defense and often run "Packagae" defensive plays. I'll put one side of the field in zone and the other side in man. It confuses the hell out of most opponents. I honestly just want to stop the opponent from scoring at least once, for I know I'll definitely score in return (I average 25.4 pts a game online). Even in the game where I won 67-49, my defense was able to get 4 turnovers which turned into 2 scores.

Here are some of my favorite plays to use on defense:

I like to put some of the blitzers in man on RB's or TE's my opponent favors.