Good points....I haven't seen much of Baylor in depth, I saw snipets of the KState game and when Baylor overmatched Rice....It seemed they scored alot outside of the red zone, on bigger plays. Does anyone know what Baylors red zone stats are for the year?
16 trips so far.
12 touchdowns
2 field goals
2 trips we did not score.
- Backups stopped on 4th down carry against Rice in the 4th quarter leading 56-24
- 3rd down at the SFA 20 yard line. RG3 throws to TE Jerod Monk for a 1st down and he then fumbles it away.
I think if LJ is ok and can play, you let him go man-man and cheat the saftey over on whoever is on the other side. Everyone is picking on Reeves, who I like cause he plays hard, but he's no LJ on pass coverage. Have linebacker spy RGIII and have d-line play contain. Make they have 12 play drives on us to score. If our O has a good game, a whole game not a 2nd half, we win.
The 1 on 1 reeves and double the other wideout leaves a slot WR in 1 on 1. I would not do that with Wright and Reese's track record this year.
If you match that with D-Line playing contain and a spy you will simply see RG3 and the slot WR and TEs get completion after completion after he has all kinds of time to throw.
You are right on the 12 play drive thing, thats how you have to handle any explosive offense and limiting the big play will be key.
Leave the short middle open. Bring heat early and often with man on the outsides and help over the top. They want to go deep. Take that away and make him make decisions quick.
He's been very good. He has thrown 1 pick where our center botched the protection scheme and our RB couldn't block the DT who came free well enough to keep RG3 from the hit. It wasn't a bad decision, simply didn't see the guy coming to hit him.
Usually I can remember a bad set of throws or a guy forcing passes to make a play, not so with RG3 this year. He's literally been making textbook reads in the passing game and throwing accurately as well.
You hope RG3 is a little inaccurate on saturday for starters.
The highlite reels will have you believe RG3 just chucks it deep a lot, but Baylor tests you with quick bubble screens and short range stuff. Good tackling is very important. Griffin doesn't run too much. He sets up in the pocket and looks to throw...really don't recall him looking to run a lot unless he gets flushed out. He can be sacked.
I think its key that the lineman always get their hands up to try and deflect some of the screens and short stuff as they like to throw that a lot.
Give up the short stuff and try their damnedest to not get bitten deep.
Best opposing description I have seen. Well done sir.
RG3, I still think will make poor decisions. He can run, there is no doubt, but he doesn't want to. he wants to throw. I have a feeling Wally will try to disguise some things in the short to intermediate but in the end I think it will come down to how well we can man up on the outside. Containing Wright is huge. If he's open, he will catch it and he will score. Griffin throwing it accurately just seems like a given at this point. We have to have guys in the way. Here's to us knocking him of his Heisman perch.
Really disagree here. It is rare that he does that even when he was a freshman. He's been very wise with the ball this year and what evidence do we have that this will change?
