K-State Film Study: Run Defense Against Lamar Miller
by TB on Sep 29, 2011 12:00 PM CDT
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PrintComing into last Saturday's game against the Miami Hurricanes, one of the biggest questions for K-State was how it would handle Hurricane running back Lamar Miller. The sophomore Miller was averaging more than 150 rushing yards per game before last Saturday and, given K-State's well-documented struggles with the running game last season, questions remained as to how the Wildcats would match up with a solid running attack after games against body-bag teams Eastern Kentucky and Kent State.
While one game does not a season make, K-State's defense answered its critics by holding Miami as a team to 139 yards rushing on Saturday. For his part, Miller had 106 net yards rushing, but 59 of those came on one play so, for the most part, K-State kept the speedy Miller in check. The play-by-play broadcaster hinted that Miller may have been dinged up, and from watching the broadcast it appeared he may have been right. But if he was, it didn't show up in Miami's first two games the way it did last Saturday.
In this play, Miami faces first and 10 from the K-State 43. The Hurricanes line up in 21 personnel, with quarterback Jacory Harris under center and the running backs aligned in an offset "I" formation to the strong side (left). Miami's two receivers are split right. For its part, K-State is in its base 4-3 alignment, but with the extra defensive back lined up at the line of scrimmage on the weakside. K-State's strong side linebacker is lined up on the line of scrimmage just over the strong side DE.
Harris takes the snap and turns to hand to Miller on a sweep right. As you can tell, Miami's line got no push and Arthur Brown is flowing freely to the ball from his middle linebacker position. K-State's strong side defensive end has gotten upfield and will force Miller to turn back to the middle...
...where he'll be rudely introduced to Brown, resulting in a tackle for loss on the play. The speed we've seen from Brown, Tre Walker and Emmanuel Lamur at linebacker has resulted in much better running-game containment thus far this season. While everyone talks about Robert Griffin III and his magical passing ability, the Baylor Bears rank 15th nationally in rushing offense, picking up more than 240 yards per game. K-State needs to limit the Baylor rushing attack without committing extra men to the box in order to have a fighting chance against Griffin and Kendall Wright. If the defensive line can hold its ground like it did in this play and allow Brown, Walker and Lamur to roam the field and make tackles, the defense has a fighting chance to slow down the Bears.
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Miller's TD
Can you explain to me why AB left the gap on the long TD by Miller? It looked like he was positioned perfectly to stop him for maybe 3-5 yards, but he moved away. Just fell for the fake?
Coach Snyder mentioned in the weekly presser that "one individual" was out of position on that play.
I’m assuming he means Arthur, but just didn’t want to embarrass him.
"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come." *Victor Hugo*
In that play it looked like we were in a goal line defense in the middle of the field.
And then everyone was sealed completely. Also the safeties were nowhere to be found.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will. - Vince Lombardi
Goal line defense, in the middle of the field, on something besides 4th down?
"If you don't want to work, become a reporter. That awful power, the public opinion of the nation, was created by a horde of self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditch digging and shoemaking and fetched up journalism on their way to the poorhouse." - Mark Twain
Ironically I was drinking Guinness while watching the whole thing unfold.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will. - Vince Lombardi
I don't see the pictures
And from the html it appears that they aren’t there to see.
Yeah, something happened to the photos.
"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come." *Victor Hugo*
Damn, sorry
Somehow the photos got eaten. I’ll fix and repost when I get home later.
We'll carry the banner high!
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by TB on Sep 29, 2011 1:54 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
Can someone confirm this?
Just read this over on the WWLIS:
Just finishing up watching the Miami game on DVR, and our suspicion from the stadium is confirmed: Miami took 4 timeouts in the final 2 minutes.
When the Cats got the ball back, we looked at the scoreboard and were confused, because it showed Miami had 2 timeouts left, and we knew they’d already taken 2. On the broadcast, they used their first timeout with about 2 mins left, just before the pass interference penalty, and their second timeout before the fourth down play. After the fourth down play, during the review, a second timeout is put back on the board (the “3 yellow lines” that ESPN uses to track them gets the middle line lit up again). The ESPN announcers don’t notice it at all, and Miami takes 2 timeouts when K-State runs the clock out.
Interesting stuff there.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will. - Vince Lombardi
It was pretty hinky, but I remember what happened.
The referees—after Golden CLEARLY called a timeout—claimed that there was an injured player, and that this, for some reason, meant that Miami wasn’t charged with a time out. It made no sense to me then, and it makes no sense to me now, but that’s the explanation that awful crew gave for the decision.
"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come." *Victor Hugo*
The referees were bad...on both sides.
Spotting the ball was dicey…the touchdown call was almost as bad as the salute celebration penalty.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will. - Vince Lombardi
by Catbacker98 on Sep 29, 2011 10:36 PM CDT up reply actions
I would perhaps say the TD call was worse.
It would have cost us the game, had it not been for instant replay. And having watched it from the back angle (basically, right over the guy who threw his arms up’s shoulder), it doesn’t even look that close. Before I saw it from his angle, I was willing to give the benefit of the doubt. After seeing it from that angle, it was a completely homer call, that he apparently was hoping the replay guys wouldn’t have enough evidence to overturn. I was proud of our guys, though. You could tell they were mad, but I didn’t see any of them getting up in his face or anything.
"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come." *Victor Hugo*
it was a Big 12 crew though.
First to identify a TEWWT (so what if it was unintentional)
by Jeremy Sharp on Sep 29, 2011 11:01 PM CDT up reply actions
Was it the Mizzou-Colorado crew from years back?
The infamous 5 down variety?
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will. - Vince Lombardi
by Catbacker98 on Sep 29, 2011 11:05 PM CDT up reply actions
That's just sad, then.
"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come." *Victor Hugo*
I actually find that unsuprising.
I have never been especially impressed with most Big 12 crews.
Would you like some Freys with that?
by ChrisP Wildcat on Sep 30, 2011 9:34 AM CDT up reply actions
Ding ding
on this comment – I frequently think this when I watch non-Big 12 crew games…
'Fact. Bears eat beets. Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica.' --Jim Halpert
I'm still trying to figure out why there are different crews for each conference.
Why aren’t there just “NCAA officiating crews”?
First to identify a TEWWT (so what if it was unintentional)
by Jeremy Sharp on Sep 30, 2011 12:05 PM CDT up reply actions
I've never been impressed with any crew
I’ve either been ignorant of them or pissed off at them. Invisibility is part of a ref’s job.
Bobby Hill: What's a meat examination team?
Hank Hill: It's like a debate team, only instead of doing something useless you get to grade the cut and quality of meat!
This is so true.
The worst referees are the ones who think it’s about them. In my 10+ years of coaching basketball, I’ve gotten four technical fouls. Three of them came from this one showboat ref, over a 12-month period, spanning two seasons. Super confrontational guy, who was looked for any excuse to make a flashy, controversial call, and then to argue with a coach about it. Those type of referees are the absolute worst.
"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come." *Victor Hugo*
Paging those douche-muffins at Big 12 basketball games...
Paging those douche-muffins at Big 12 basketball games…
I’m sure Bracket can name them off. I think one is Higgins.
"If you don't want to work, become a reporter. That awful power, the public opinion of the nation, was created by a horde of self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditch digging and shoemaking and fetched up journalism on their way to the poorhouse." - Mark Twain
Has anyone been able to tell if the ball crossed the plain before we stripped it?
They keep showing the angle from the side where you can’t really tell, but I bet it would be clear from above.
Strangely, the view from behind the ref who made the call seems to show pretty clearly it didn't.
"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come." *Victor Hugo*
That's why I said in another post that:
His knee was down.
The ball never crossed the plane.
The ball was fumbled and recovered by KSU in the field of play.
Pick your poison because all 3 stop that from being a TD.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will. - Vince Lombardi
Even further
KSU recovering the “fumble” ANYWHERE (in field of play, or endzone) would be the ultimate trump there.
But since the order of progression was 1) Knee down…everything else that happened afterwards doesn’t matter.
First to identify a TEWWT (so what if it was unintentional)
by Jeremy Sharp on Sep 30, 2011 12:08 PM CDT up reply actions
That ref should be embarassed
I’m glad instant replay is around.
Without watching it again.
Didn’t they call a timeout to get something reviewed? If so and it gets reviewed they get the time out back.
Have no idea if this was the case for our game. I watched too much ball to remember which game this happened in.
When life hands you lemons, make grape juice. Let them wonder how the F*ck you did it.
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