Seriously, what a move! Now this is big-boy football. This will help immensely.
Gary Darnell
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The death of Bob Elliott this summer forced shuffling on the NU defensive staff, with Scott Booker moving to full-time status to coach safeties and handle special teams.
Nebraska has also added another veteran college football coach to its staff as a defensive consultant for the start of fall camp, Nebraska247 has learned.
Former Western Michigan head coach and Texas defensive coordinator Gary Darnell has joined the Husker staff as a defensive consultant.
Nebraska defensive coordinator Bob Diaco worked under Darnell at Western Michigan in 2004 as a linebackers coach. Darnell served as head coach at Western Michigan from 1997-2004, before moving on to Texas A&M for 2006 and 2007. Darnell also coached at Texas, Florida, Kansas State and several other stops during his coaching career.
The 68-year-old Darnell helped turn around Texas A&M’s defense when he was hired in 2006, taking an Aggie defense that had been No. 107th in total defense in 2005, to No. 37 in 2006.
Darnell has been a head coach at Tennessee Tech and Western Michigan, and served as an interim head coach at Florida and Texas A&M.
Nebraska has also added another veteran college football coach to its staff as a defensive consultant for the start of fall camp, Nebraska247 has learned.
Former Western Michigan head coach and Texas defensive coordinator Gary Darnell has joined the Husker staff as a defensive consultant.
Nebraska defensive coordinator Bob Diaco worked under Darnell at Western Michigan in 2004 as a linebackers coach. Darnell served as head coach at Western Michigan from 1997-2004, before moving on to Texas A&M for 2006 and 2007. Darnell also coached at Texas, Florida, Kansas State and several other stops during his coaching career.
The 68-year-old Darnell helped turn around Texas A&M’s defense when he was hired in 2006, taking an Aggie defense that had been No. 107th in total defense in 2005, to No. 37 in 2006.
Darnell has been a head coach at Tennessee Tech and Western Michigan, and served as an interim head coach at Florida and Texas A&M.
A fantastic hire. This is the type of stuff Saban uses to keep a bunch of high-end coaches on deck. Any advantage we can get.... I'll take.
LOVE the defensive staff and all of the moves since last year on that side of the ball! All the makings of a majorly improved defense this year and a top 10 defense next year.
Love it. I got so tired of seeing catch and patty cake in the Pelini's two gap. Parella has got this right.
Diaco's defense also has 2 gap principals designed to eat up blockers.
If the philosophy of the two gap is to distract the offensive linemen by playing patty cake with the defensive lineman so the backer can make a play, I'm not for it. The opposing coach has probably warned the offensive linemen about engaging in such activity and they will easily slide off the dlineman and engage the backer rendering the defense useless...and the D line guys cry cause no one will play patty cake with them.
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Thats the battle. Use some stunts and force the o line to use two one one with a combo block to the lb. hope the lb gets to the ball carrier before the block since they have to double the d lineman first, or the d lineman gets leverage after one lineman leaves.
Its a system, like any other, if properly played and coached will work. It might not be perfect but there is no perfect system.
if one slides off the d lineman should have leverage on the other and be able to make a play.
Thats the battle. Use some stunts and force the o line to use two one one with a combo block to the lb. hope the lb gets to the ball carrier before the block since they have to double the d lineman first, or the d lineman gets leverage after one lineman leaves.
Its a system, like any other, if properly played and coached will work. It might not be perfect but there is no perfect system.
The internet is a valuable tool if you want to educate yourself on Diaco's defense. When you familiarize yourself with the concepts you can see there is more to it than "patty cake".
I don't want to tell you your business, but Diaco calls his d-linemen technique 'Patty Cake.' The LB technique is 'Pillow Fight' and the DB technique is 'Hand Holding.' I suppose you are unfamiliar with is 'can't we all just get along' style of defense....
I never said Diaco's defense was patty cake. I never said all two gaps were played the same way. If you read, I was talking about Bo Pelini and his two gap system. Other than Crick and Suh (who were at times chided for not playing within the system), Bo's d linemen were ineffective because 1. They did not continue to occupy the lineman who was hoping to slide off to the backer, and 2. once he slid off they gave up instead of realizing they now had leverage on the one olinemen to then go make plays. Bo's two gap neutered the dline.
I haven't watched Diaco's defenses closely at all (not a Domer or UConn fan) to know how he will play it.
Best just to move on from this one, Tom.
Then why bring it up Pelini at all? Diaco wasn't replacing Pelini. I believe you very well knew that Diaco ran a 2 gap and were being your passive aggressive self and simply trolling. So good on ya.
If you haven't watched Diaco's defense, then how do you know Parella's got it right?
Lastly if the players gave up in Pelini's scheme, how did the system neuter the DLine? That looks more like players playing selfishly and not playing within the system, no? Wouldn't that mean the DLinemen neutered the scheme?
IMO the most damning thing for Pelini's defense after Suh and Crick graduated was the crappy recruiting his crappy brother did for the D line. We paid handsomely for Carl's drunken tail chasing. When you're sliding DEnds in to play DT and one of your starting D tackles lines up at 265. you're in trouble in the B1G. Pelini's 2 gap worked fine when he had the Dlinemen to play it.
Do you read? Parella has it right in that the dlinemen are called to do more than just catch and patty cake in a two gap. Tom talked about this quite often during the Pelini years. After a defender engages an oline player there still has to be the concept of shedding the o linemen to get to the ball carrier which no defensive lineman after Suh understood. Maybe Diaco will get this right because Bo and his henchmen certainly couldn't do it.
Our D linemen knew they needed to shed the blockers but were physically unable to do it. It takes special D lineman to do it effectively.
Pelinis defense was too complicated and forced too much thinking, even for the d linemen. Believe me, I looked over the defensive scheme book. WOWZA.
Perhaps...but we have two guys playing in the dline on Sundays and they weren't all that good at shedding while at Nebraska.
Tom who?
Are you speaking in 3rd person or are you referring to some of your fireside chats with Tom Osborne?
