The ACC Championship

[Spence]

Nothing wrong with playing cover two to lesson the blow if you miss, but I still like the old FSU defense. Cover 0 lets see who has the best players. You get beat sometimes, but you get lots more defensive scores.

[WoVeU]

Spence...I had to watch the replays to see the play.

Many times, two defenders would miscommunicate in the zone and take the same man...leaving a receiver running through a seam alone. Another time, two defensive backs collided as their recievers did a "brush off" route.

If Stoops can get that zone defense going (this is first year) so that the defensive backs understand coverage responsiblity, the athletes are there to execute it.

At the half, it was still a game. The two VT strikes early in the third Qtr broke the game open. I can see FSU getting better next year...the Noles are very young.

I thought it was probably a pick a couple of times. The DB's will take the same man sometimes, but generally when someone is that wide open, that often, someone is throwing a pick and knocking a DB out of the coverage. I just didn't see the pick happen, because TV won't generally show you the backfield except on replay. I was watching the Neb-Okla game too, so I didn't watch much replay action.

Is it the NCAA's and the casual fan's love of offense (not that I dislike it) that props up this stuff? Increasingly less and less are called, especially coming out of the slot and about 5 yards down field. You can't watch many scoring drives where this doesn't take place in some form. Well, at least it seems you see one on any drive tat has 4 pass plays over 12 yards or so. Some aren't so distinct but others are very obvious.