Diaco Hired as Purdue DC

[IrishLion]

Technically speaking... Bend but don't break should work just fine against those spread teams. They like to score quick, looking for big plays. If he can force them to sustain drives, that's where spread teams struggle.

That's the philosophy Stanford has used against Oregon with success. We look at Stanford and think of a hard nosed defense, which they are. But they force Oregon into taking small yardage. Gaining 4, 2, 4, 3, 1, 0 yards and so on. Then, with less field to work with Oregon stalls and settles for a field goal, or even if they do score a TD, they've wasted a lot of clock, which plays into Stanford wanting to grind it out.

I'm not saying Diaco's Nebraska D can be Stanford, but I would assume it may match that kind of production against the "less good" teams in the BIG that run a spread.

JMO

I agree with you on the theory/principle, but my opinion comes from the experience here, at ND.

His defenses were lights-out against pro-style teams (for the most part), but spread/option teams, or teams that strictly wanted to air it out, gave him fits.

 

[Luckylucci]

I wish Bobby-the-D every success, but do not believe that anything great will happen, unless he has markedly evolved. That "clockwork precision" defensive "geography" that he insists on playing only worked because of a team full of superb defenders (Manti, Tuitt, Nix, KLM, HSmith, Zeke). I rather remember what happened to that predictable "clock" when a team with excellent athletes had a coaching staff capable of fine-tune analyzing it. Bama knew exactly where we'd be on every formation snap. Several B1G OCs will too, unless he's evolved to throw more deception in.

The stud programs are going to have a dedicated analyst studying him all season before their practices against him. Most of the time, one hopes to see "tendencies." With Bobby-the-D you "discover" ironclad laws.

Still, I liked Diaco and hope he has become trickier.

So Saban is a bad defensive coach because Clemson has lit them up two years in a row? Putting any coachs entire resume on a game or two is childs play.

That didn't happen week in and week out. Just like every team EVER, there were obviously some poor outings, but his defensives consistently kept the points down, especially, relative to other DC's of the last 20-30 years at ND. He is literally our best DC over that time period.

Also, to the players you named, since when does a coach not get credit for development? Under your scrutiny then, again, Saban/Meyer/you name it of college coaches, are only good because they have really good talent. So there is no such thing as good coaches, just coaches that are afforded good talent.

 

[Irish#1]

It's very simple. BD will bend until they get inside the 20-25. Then he'll bring a corner or safety blitz from the edge.

 

[GowerND11]

I agree with you on the theory/principle, but my opinion comes from the experience here, at ND.

His defenses were lights-out against pro-style teams (for the most part), but spread/option teams, or teams that strictly wanted to air it out, gave him fits.

Looking back at his seasons with ND, it seems like it was really a mixed bag. We all know that for some reason he struggled with Navy's triple option. Otherwise, it seemed that the only team he really consistently struggled with was Michigan (thanks Denard). I'd say we had the hardest time stopping two pro-style teams in USC and Stanford. 50% of our losses while he was DC came against Michigan, Stanford, and USC. Honestly tells me more that we couldn't bang around in the trenches and stop the run moreso than being able to stop a spread in general. We all know about the need for Calabrese at NT against Stanford because we had no one else.

Not trying to say Diaco didn't have his faults, but it was more about being tougher (except for 12 of 13 games in 2012) than the opponent than spread attacks.

 

[stlnd01]

I'd say we had the hardest time stopping two pro-style teams in USC and Stanford. 50% of our losses while he was DC came against Michigan, Stanford, and USC. Honestly tells me more that we couldn't bang around in the trenches and stop the run moreso than being able to stop a spread in general. We all know about the need for Calabrese at NT against Stanford because we had no one else.
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Also, if I recall, those USC and Stanford teams had highly efficient quarterbacks. Andrew Luck, Hogan, Matt Barkley. Those guys didn't make the kind of mistakes an bend-don't-break defense relies on in college football, and could make a play when the running game did get bottled up.
That may be less of a problem in the Big Ten West.

But Michigan, OSU and Penn State should shred him for awhile.

 

[Old Man Mike]

LL relax --- I said essentially nothing like what you heard. Definitely not with your emotional interpretation.

Their AA Center (Barrett Jones or whatever his name is) said after the game: "They're good, because they're simple. ... but they're simple." He then went on to say that BECAUSE ND was inflexibly predictable, they could fine-tune every running play to block its brains out. In the following week, this assessment of the clockwork mechanism of the ND defense was reinforced by several other players and coaches.

I seriously doubt that anything Dabo Swiney does is inflexibly predictable. ... nor his QB.

 

[Luckylucci]

I wish Bobby-the-D every success, but do not believe that anything great will happen, unless he has markedly evolved. That "clockwork precision" defensive "geography" that he insists on playing only worked because of a team full of superb defenders (Manti, Tuitt, Nix, KLM, HSmith, Zeke). I rather remember what happened to that predictable "clock" when a team with excellent athletes had a coaching staff capable of fine-tune analyzing it. Bama knew exactly where we'd be on every formation snap. Several B1G OCs will too, unless he's evolved to throw more deception in.

The stud programs are going to have a dedicated analyst studying him all season before their practices against him. Most of the time, one hopes to see "tendencies." With Bobby-the-D you "discover" ironclad laws.

Still, I liked Diaco and hope he has become trickier.

This is what I heard, and responded to, if you'd like to change your post be my guest but this is it.

The bolded is a majority of what I take contention with, if you stand behind it, I'd love to hear how or why. You could simply respond to the questions I posed to you in my last post.

 

[IrishLax]

In 2013 (I think) I actually charted how Diaco's defense performed against mobile QBs versus pocket passers and the answer is that it wrecked pocket passers (with some lone exceptions like the Bama NCG). Against mobile QBs it was substantially less effective because of the QB's ability to pick up a 3rd & medium with their legs when things broke down.

To this day, I believe Diaco's defense is actually fantastic IF you were able to recruit the right guys to play it... but holy crap was he horrible in recruiting inside linebackers and DL which made it completely unsustainable.

 

[zelezo vlk]

In 2013 (I think) I actually charted how Diaco's defense performed against mobile QBs versus pocket passers and the answer is that it wrecked pocket passers (with some lone exceptions like the Bama NCG). Against mobile QBs it was substantially less effective because of the QB's ability to pick up a 3rd & medium with their legs when things broke down.

To this day, I believe Diaco's defense is actually fantastic IF you were able to recruit the right guys to play it... but holy crap was he horrible in recruiting inside linebackers and DL which made it completely unsustainable.

And safeties too. Diaco's recruiting strategy: abandon the middle of the defense

 

[Dizzyphil]

In 2013 (I think) I actually charted how Diaco's defense performed against mobile QBs versus pocket passers and the answer is that it wrecked pocket passers (with some lone exceptions like the Bama NCG). Against mobile QBs it was substantially less effective because of the QB's ability to pick up a 3rd & medium with their legs when things broke down.

To this day, I believe Diaco's defense is actually fantastic IF you were able to recruit the right guys to play it... but holy crap was he horrible in recruiting inside linebackers and DL which made it completely unsustainable.

....and basically played a 3-4 in doing so. I find it odd that the last 'great' defense was the '88 NC team that played a basic 5-2 defense. The one item both defenses had in common was a good/great NT and a linebacking crew. I don't know how old you are Lax but the 'Three Amigos' on the NC team were studs.

 

[ACamp1900]

Against mobile QBs it was substantially less effective because of the QB's ability to pick up a 3rd & medium with their legs when things broke down.

I wonder how much of this is just typical tho... mobile passers are a nightmare for most defenses on third down and medium.

 

[Dizzyphil]

I wonder how much of this is just typical tho... pocket passers are a nightmare for most defenses on third down and medium.

my opinion - tight ends. two/three step drop, hit to defer DE-dump it to the big, usually good for 4-5 yards........

 

[zelezo vlk]

my opinion - tight ends. two/three step drop, hit to defer DE-dump it to the big, usually good for 4-5 yards........

Kinda sounds like Jason Witten's career

 

[ACamp1900]

I meant mobile... fixed it.

 

[Dizzyphil]

Kinda sounds like Jason Witten's career

Bavaro,Casper, Eifert, Rudolph, Fasano, Olsen ...... etc... etc.....

Seriously, these bigs are usually 2-3 yards off the line of scrimmage once the ball is in their hands, getting hit, fall to the ground good for at least 2 more yards....

I sure hope Mr. Jones/Mack... Alize can do that this year..... Would be tremendous out for Wimbush if needed in a hurry

 

[Dizzyphil]

I meant mobile... fixed it.

Dang man...... just screwed up all the last 5 posts!!!!!!

 

[ACamp1900]

Dang man...... just screwed up all the last 5 posts!!!!!!

I wreck shit wherever I go...

 

[zelezo vlk]

Diaco led the Nebraska D to an admirable showing against Arkansas State, only allowing that powerhouse to gain 497 yards of total offense.

Next week the Huskers travel to Autzen

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[connor_in]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">isappointed in iaco's efense. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NoD?src=hash">#NoD</a></p>— Dirk Chatelain (@dirkchatelain) <a href="https://twitter.com/dirkchatelain/status/904156010738307072">September 3, 2017</a></blockquote>
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[ThePiombino]

Ouch lol

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[IrishSteelhead]

Not a good debut. #pinkshirts

 

[ab2cmiller]

Diaco led the Nebraska D to an admirable showing against Arkansas State, only allowing that powerhouse to gain 497 yards of total offense.

Next week the Huskers travel to Autzen

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To make matters worse, Diaco caught a lot of heat for skipping the post-game press conference. He responded early this week with the excuse that he was "under the impression I didn't have to do postgame media".

Regardless, 1 game into his time at Nebraska and he's left a terrible first impression with the fans and media.

Practice Report, Sept. 4: Bob Diaco responds to postgame criticism, says he's 'never run away from anything' | Big Red Today blog | omaha.com

 

[dublinirish]

its gonna be a total f'n blood bath against oregon isnt it???

 

[Whiskeyjack]

its gonna be a total f'n blood bath against oregon isnt it???

Good question. Does anyone have tape on Denard Robinson v. Diaco's defense?

 

[zelezo vlk]

Good question. Does anyone have tape on Denard Robinson v. Diaco's defense?

Yup

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[IrishLion]

its gonna be a total f'n blood bath against oregon isnt it???

Good question. Does anyone have tape on Denard Robinson v. Diaco's defense?

Is Taggert running the warp-speed spread at Oregon?

I know he ran a pro-style offense at WKU, and again at USF, though his USF offense evolved a bit because super-stud Quentin Flowers at QB necessitated it.

No idea what Oregon's offense looks like at the moment, though.

 

[dublinirish]

Is Taggert running the warp-speed spread at Oregon?

I know he ran a pro-style offense at WKU, and again at USF, though his USF offense evolved a bit because super-stud Quentin Flowers at QB necessitated it.

No idea what Oregon's offense looks like at the moment, though.

The Evolution of Coach Taggart's SMASH-MOUTH Spread Offense | FishDuck
The Counter Trey Arrives at Autzen | FishDuck

this guy is weird as heck but i always liked his breakdown's of chip kelly's offenses. he has some articles on taggart's spread/smashmouth scheme if you wanna nerd up

 

[NDdomer2]

So is calibraska dying a little bit every week?

 

[GowerND11]

Nebraska loses to Northern Illinois 21-17. Diaco's defense only gives up 7 points and 253 total yards. Held NIU to 3-13 on 3rd down, but there were two pick 6's.

 

[zelezo vlk]

In case anybody was wondering if Diaco had learned how to speak

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Many Husker fans have read & reacted to Bob Diaco's bizarre postgame quote on Nebraska's run defense. Here's the video: <a href="https://t.co/8CTQ0x4i4a">pic.twitter.com/8CTQ0x4i4a</a></p>— Kevin Sjuts (@kevinsjuts) <a href="https://twitter.com/kevinsjuts/status/927011485389393920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 5, 2017</a></blockquote>
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