This week we talk with longtime FBS defensive coordinator DJ Eliot about the defenses of Kentucky, Texas A&M, and Iowa and Penn State. We share what those defenses do well and how to incorporate some of their concepts and strategies from game planning to practice to in-game adjustments.

Kentucky:

-Cloud to a receiver

-Star vs top receiver

-What are you looking for in game plan

-What can hurt cloud

Texas A&M:

-Brackets coverage

-Playing the run with a “light” box

-Games for run and pass

-Jab and Go and Deep and Slow

-Using Line stunts to push everything to safety

-Calling a run or pass stunt and training DL to redirect

-Structuring the terminology for games calls for run or pass

-Teaching games in practice

-Using special teams time with the offensive line to work games

-Every pass game has to look like a rush

Penn State vs. Iowa

A game of adjustments and clock management

Iowa defense:

-Over-quarters

-The balance of enough vs too much

-Getting doubles on vertical when #2 eliminates himself

-OLB grab #2 to flat and safety double #1

-How to adjust when key player is out of the game

-Stoppers” on the call sheet

-QB change - how does their game plan and calls change

-Rush mentality and games and pressures change vs running QB

-Game planning - identifying and knowing how #2 QB is different

-Example - facing Lamar Jackson

Penn State:

-3 Buzz

-Under 1

-Making front looks and pressure looks look the same

-Responding to sudden change

-Installing sudden change in practice

-Sudden change is a critical situation

-Philosophy staring 11 in regardless of where a rotation is

-Message of optimism

-Sudden change in practice

-The emotions of sudden change

Related:

Week 1 of Defense with DJ:

https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/evolution-of-bama-uga-defenses-stems-creepers-complimentary-ball-dj-eliot-defensive-coordinator

Interview with DJ Eliot - Part 1:

https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/player-development-and-the-race-against-time-dj-eliot-defensive-coordinator-kansas

Part 2:

https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/player-development-and-the-race-against-time-part-2-dj-eliot-defensive-coordinator-kansas

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