Spring Football 2024

[CAS4127]

It's a great start! They finally figured it out.

Why is it that what is so obvious to us fans is so oblivious to coaches? Think about it. I’ve often said that just because they are coaches doesn’t mean the see or know anything.

The main tackling problems Are angles and failure to wrap up. And the angle issue is most prominent. We absolutely suck at taking correct angles when pursuing and, more importantly, when blitzing from outside. The way we do that actually creates lanes for RBs. Difficult to explain “on paper”, but I could show you with films. Out attack of bubble screens is also terrible. Just maintain LOS for eff sakes.

[ByeSonBusiness]

Why is it that what is so obvious to us fans is so oblivious to coaches? Think about it. I’ve often said that just because they are coaches doesn’t mean the see or know anything.

The main tackling problems Are angles and failure to wrap up. And the angle issue is most prominent. We absolutely suck at taking correct angles when pursuing and, more importantly, when blitzing from outside. The way we do that actually creates lanes for RBs. Difficult to explain “on paper”, but I could show you with films. Out attack of bubble screens is also terrible. Just maintain LOS for eff sakes.

CAS needs to be brought in for fall camp.

[td577]

CAS needs to be brought in for fall camp.

As a tackling dummy?

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[HerdBot]

Why is it that what is so obvious to us fans is so oblivious to coaches? Think about it. I’ve often said that just because they are coaches doesn’t mean the see or know anything.

The main tackling problems Are angles and failure to wrap up. And the angle issue is most prominent. We absolutely suck at taking correct angles when pursuing and, more importantly, when blitzing from outside. The way we do that actually creates lanes for RBs. Difficult to explain “on paper”, but I could show you with films. Out attack of bubble screens is also terrible. Just maintain LOS for eff sakes.

Being out of position may be why angles appeared to be so bad. That goes back to playing slow which exposes bad tackling and lack of gang tackling

[G_Funky]

Being out of position may be why angles appeared to be so bad. That goes back to playing slow which exposes bad tackling and lack of gang tackling

Exactly. It is much simpler to get to the ball carrier if you are in the correct position...but if you're trying to rally and/or recover than you just forget all your technique and lay out to try to make a play. Even a half step too slow and it goes from being able to wrap up the runner and form tackle to just diving at their legs to try to cut them down.

If we can simplify some things, and get our d-line to eat up blockers and keep the backers clean, we'll be in a much better spot at the second level.

[scottietohottie]

As a tackling dummy?

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We don't want these boys getting hurt eh.

[BISONBRI53]

Seems to be a lot of "BIG HIT" attempts out there that miss. Back to basics...

[Bison Bridge Guy]

Why is it that what is so obvious to us fans is so oblivious to coaches? Think about it. I’ve often said that just because they are coaches doesn’t mean the see or know anything.

The main tackling problems Are angles and failure to wrap up. And the angle issue is most prominent. We absolutely suck at taking correct angles when pursuing and, more importantly, when blitzing from outside. The way we do that actually creates lanes for RBs. Difficult to explain “on paper”, but I could show you with films. Out attack of bubble screens is also terrible. Just maintain LOS for eff sakes.

There were many instances where I saw linebackers running to a specific spot near the line of scrimmage at the snap and kind of waiting there, regardless of what was happening. I'm not particularly knowledgeable on defensive schemes but it felt like they were being coached to do that rather than reading and reacting. I don't know, but it looked really odd.

[mtoutfitter]

Seems to be a lot of "BIG HIT" attempts out there that miss. Back to basics...

Yes, seemed to be a lot of attempts at a highlight play rather than just making the play. As said earlier a lot of it can be attributed to poor positioning.

[Bisman]

Coach Grant Olson:

“I know that was one of the things I asked the older linebackers about is what can we do better in practice and they said tackle every day,” Olson said. “So every

day, no matter what, we are either going to live tackle or do a tackling drill. So we’re going to get better at it by repetition and we worked hard already at it this

offseason in our winter runs when we had time. Instead of working on other techniques, we said we’re going to prioritize tackling.”