Patrick Peters on AJ Green
by Zandor435 on Oct 4, 2009 3:08 PM CDT
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Got back from Athens this morning from the game. Great game. There were so many things to be very encouraged with. JJ had another solid performance. He came up big down the stretch. The D looked soooo much better than they have all year. I was very pleasantly surprised by a lot of aspects of the game.
There was one thing in particular though that drove me nuts. The first half, PP shadowed Green and did a fantastic job. He broke up at least 2 passes and made things difficult for Green the entire half. Then for some reason in the second half we went back to a base D w/ PP playing on the right side and Hawkins on the left. Poseur said it best in the pregame analysis. We should have kept PP on Green the entire game.
I firmly believe PP would have stopped AJ from catching that last ball in end zone that AJ plucked over the top of Hawkins.
Can someone please give me a valid reason why our coaching staff would not mandate our best defensive player to blanket their main offensive threat in Green?
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I think they were trying to keep things changed up and not be predictable..
they wanted to run a bunch of different defenses on Green. Man with Peterson; zone with whoever he lined up against; safety help; underneath help. Peterson may have taken down that last throw, and probably would have. They took a chance throwing to him, as it was perfect coverage. If the ball had been a little lower, Hawkins probably intercepts it. It wasn’t a perfectly thrown ball, but Green just made a great play on it.
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by why over complicate things
Peterson was awesome yesterday. He is better than Hawkins…not by a lot maybe, but still better. Why would you change something that was clearly working very well. Peters stopped the exact same play earlier in the game when Cox threw a jump ball on PP’s side. I have no doubt that PP would have stopped it a second time.
I am not bashing Hawkins, but am simply confused why the defensive coaches would change something that was clearly working.
Danielson mentioned that Cox was probably reading man vs. zone
on where Peterson was lined up. Just guessing, but when Ealey (sp?) starting tearing off big runs in the third quarter, Chavis may have been adjusting coverages to provide more run support.
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You may be right...
But Chavis switched the plan before Ealey started doing well. I have thought that maybe this was done b/c it allowed our D more flexibility b/c it would be easier to do things out of our Base D than to have a special case w/ PP following AJ all game.
However, despite any valid reason I can come up w/, I think it was a very poor decision by our coaches to not have PP blanketing AJ.
Glad we won, but not happy about a seemingly glaring error.
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