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The best defense is a good offense- why KW’s defensive scheme is the problem

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The best defense is a good offense.

I can read this in two ways:

A: A good offense will control the ball, prevent turnovers, shorten the game, and give the defense good field position.

B: A good offense will score points, put the opposing offense in “must score” situations, and increase the opportunity for opponents’ offenses to make mistakes and yield turnovers.

Kyle Whittingham’s physical 4 man front and press coverage is built to capitalize on situation A. In situation B, the defense is prone to breakdown, give up big plays, and is not very efficient at generating turnovers against teams that get the ball out quickly.

KW’s defensive scheme mandates that our offense is a risk averse, conservative, and therefore low scoring one. We can’t have a KW D an an explosive O at the same time. They are imiscible.
 
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