

The left guard straining just to hold on is one of my favorite moments of this game. Watch him “get skinny” at the snap and split the double team.
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This ball is handed off almost immediately and Jared Dawson is a full yard into the backfield when the running back gets the ball. Satt exploited JMU’s aggression here and it worked perfectly. Once they had everyone at the line, they just had to block it up. UofL had been getting four or five yards of yards before hitting the second level all game. The motion draws the safeties over and the second shift pulls one of them up to about five yards off the ball. This is zero coverage with every defensive back in man coverage. Look at how the defense reacts to the motion. I also loved this play because it seems obvious that Scott Satterfield and his offensive staff saw something on film to set this up. Isaac Martin gets his second highlight play as he takes out two defenders. Bryan Hudson, Caleb Chandler, and Trevor Reid do a great job of clearing their guys out and Chandler scrapes up to the second level before he celebrates his work. He goes completely untouched on his way for a touchdown and he really doesn’t ever have anyone come close to him. Everyone gets a hat on their guy and sustains their block until Tiyon Evans gets past them. This is the most well-blocked play of the season, in my opinion. Instead, they both beat the center and combine for the TFL. That’s important because Momo Sanogo is responsible for the gap on the opposite side and one of them will end up coming free. Not only do they generate the push but they also make individual plays to beat their block and make the play.ĭez Tell makes a great play here to push the center into the backfield but then get back to the center’s right side. Every player on the defensive front is behind the line of scrimmage by the time the running back gets the handoff. I kept it to one bonus play this week and this was my choice because it shows how they got things going on defense in the second half. They have to find a way to get these types of plays into the plan. The allure of Malik running the ball in is completely understandable when he put up 20 touchdowns last year but everyone is expecting it and he actually has the ability to do other things as opposed to being a one-trick pony. They also have plenty of options including the running backs to run these play-action and misdirection plays down here and they just don’t do it. The bobble by Isaac Martin likely points to the answer as you have to trust these guys to make the play because you only get one shot. This is one of the best goal line plays they’ve run this season and I’m not certain why we don’t see this stuff more often. A handful of plays were made to get this win and I clipped them below.
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The offense got a few easy touchdowns and the defense just closed the door on JMU’s offense. The offense didn't capitalize on their obvious athletic superiority and the defense allowed two long drives to give up points.īut, the players turned it on in the second half and pulled away easily. The game left me frustrated because they didn’t come out and put this team away even though they were begging for that to happen. I’m not sure I can think of a game that was dominated in this way by UofL that produced so few highlights.
