[bbm233]

Husak was adamant on the radio that we have to stop pulling guards: defenses have figured out that they can just shoot the gap vacated by the pulling guard and blow up the play before it gets started. We faced a similar dilemma a couple of years ago when defenses (esp. WSU), figured out that they could blitz off the edge and catch our back from behind before he could get to the hole. The counter to that is the toss where the back goes up the middle - the QB's job after the toss is to get in the way of that backside blitzer.  Shaw needs to develop a counter to the gap shooting we are seeing - or he needs to stop calling those plays, as Husak was calling for.

[bbm233]

Husak was adamant on the radio that we have to stop pulling guards: defenses have figured out that they can just shoot the gap vacated by the pulling guard and blow up the play before it gets started. We faced a similar dilemma a couple of years ago when defenses (esp. WSU), figured out that they could blitz off the edge and catch our back from behind before he could get to the hole. The counter to that is the toss where the back goes up the middle - the QB's job after the toss is to get in the way of that backside blitzer.  Shaw needs to develop a counter to the gap shooting we are seeing - or he needs to stop calling those plays, as Husak was calling for.