Quote Originally Posted by BB30 View Post
Up until the last drive against KY we brought pressure from different places most of the night. We just didn't connect and don't have the athletes. IE didn't get pressure but it was not due to not trying different things.
I'm talking more about how we've looked over the course of Mullen's tenure than this year. Our new scheme is going to look a little more aggressive by nature since a guy whose hand didn't start on the ground is rushing just about every play, and like you say it lets us bring pressure from different places. The period I'm looking at is the time from Diaz 1 to Diaz 2. Diaz 1 executed the philosophy correctly; play off with two deep safeties, but also rush 5 or more pretty liberally. Excellent defense that year (granted that team had 5-6 NFL players). Then we saw pressure taper off over the next few years, culminating in last year in which Diaz 2 didn't look much different from Collins. It seems obvious to me that our defenses have become less and less aggressive in a philosophy that demands aggression up front.