I really think the HUNH is crap school yard ball. It takes advantages of rules that completely favor the offense. The defense should be given a minimum number of seconds once the play clock starts to get in their alignment. Having said all that, I believe the answer is still discipline and power. We bit sooooo many times last night on their fakes. We had them contained the VAST majority of the time, but they scored on huge busted plays. Even then, their O scored 28 points with 14 of them coming on totally blown plays on our part - not their skill. At the end of the day, our offense should have been able to score more than 28 points before that field goal attempt against their crap defense. We did not execute when it mattered most and we shot ourselves in the foot on offense wayyyyy too many times and it wasn't just missed field goals. Two 99 yard drives should have netted 14 points, instead we get penalties and we flub a fourth and one (should have called time out to get that play right). And, yes, Amari dropped a TD and Cade missed three FGs. I would say that in light of that, it wasn't so much bad defense or bad defensive scheme. Their HUNH can be contained.
Phil Savage was talking about some of the "advantages" it gives the offense. Like the offensive line being able to go up field a certain amount on those read option passes and it still be "legal." Its easy for me to be disparaging towards Cyrus Jones and HaHa Dix for bailing on the receiver on that game tying TD and going after Marshall, but at the same time when it looks like the entire offensive line is running up field blocking can you really blame them for selling out against the run?
Pretty easy. Get players to start getting more penetration in the middle. Ivory was getting absolutely blown up. I hate saying this, but we need a guy like Fairley who could get up field quickly and disrupt the plays. Then the outside pressure. Eryk Anders or Upshaw type player. Maybe Jonathan Allen can mold into that kind of person in the future.
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