Ok.. so we have seen it so often it hurts. Prevent defense really means prevent yourself from winning. VTech was a perfect example last night. 4 man contained them all night... went to 3 man and BC was able to slice them up in the back field.
2007-10-26 03:49:38 · 13 answers · asked by Beagle 3 in Sports ➔ Football (American)
i agree that defense should only be run on the last play of a half, game or anytime it is 3rd or 4th and more than 20. It is a useless defense for everyday plays. if you can't get pressure on the QB, you might as well handcuff your dbacks. anyone, anyone can pick apart a defense without a pass rush,
2007-10-26 03:55:07 · answer #1 · answered by irish398 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
The purpose of a two minute drill is short gains for first downs and trying to get out of bounds to stop the clock without using time outs. A prevent defense allows it to happen. A good coach would have run the same defense they had run and shut out BC with the entire game. All BC did is take what VT gave them.
I don't know if the coach just looks at the name and thinks "oh man... this sh!t sounds like it will work. All it does is "prevent" the long ball... or at least make it more difficult. The two minute drill is an offensive strategy. In my opinion, the defense generally shouldn't do anything differently, except sub players in and out when they get the chance.
2007-10-26 10:59:31 · answer #2 · answered by American Gladiator 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Like the announcers say sometimes, the only thing it prevents you from doing is winning.
I can't stand the prevent. If you're going to play that D, you might as well just put 11 men in the box and tell them to remain stationary. That loss last night is completely on the Tech coaching staff, whose nerves got the best of them at the end of the game. They were so worried about one big play that they instead allowed BC to pick them apart 15-20 yards at a time.
Prevents should almost never be used, and certainly not when you're only up by a touchdown in the last few minutes.
2007-10-26 10:59:59 · answer #3 · answered by Craig S 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If I owned a team, I would make it mandatory for a coach to promise publicly that he will NEVER use the prevent defense, before I would hire him.
VT also played the prevent offense by punting late in the game instead of trying the field goal. Had BC not scored the TD, that field goal could have been the difference. Everybody knew they were just going to let BC go 80 yards for a TD anyway, so try for the points!
2007-10-26 11:56:12 · answer #4 · answered by clone1973 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Boston College struggled the entire game against the same team LSU beat soundly (48-7) earlier in the year. Everybody said it was because Virginia Tech was over-rated. But when Boston College manages to win on a fluke there wasn't any talk about Virginia Tech being over-rated but that Matt Ryan was the best quarterback in the country. When the game was over Matt Ryan was on the sideline puking his guts out because his nerves were so shot. Boston College was owned all night long. They don't even belong in the top five.
2007-10-26 11:20:28 · answer #5 · answered by Calill C 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, the Texans tried it last week with under a minute left and wound up giving a 30 yard pass play that lead to the game winning field goal for Tennessee.
2007-10-26 12:01:08 · answer #6 · answered by The Official Texting Pro 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What drives me more crazy about that is how ESPN news talked about how Matt Ryan turned it around in the last 2 minutes, showing how great his stats were during that time vs the rest of the game... and not even mentioning the fact that it was against the prevent.
2007-10-26 10:56:55 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it drives me incredibly insane. I've seen it used way too often, and for as much as many times as it works, it doesn't work just as often.
I hated that VT stopped putting pressure on Ryan, because it was that pressure that was causing him to play poorly. As soon as they gave him some time, he picked the VT defense apart.
2007-10-26 11:25:47 · answer #8 · answered by Kyle H 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
YES. Whoever invented it should be shot, even if they were already dead. The fans should get a free punch on the coach who uses it, do like the punch buggy thing, one free punch on the arm. That would get it ended.
2007-10-26 11:12:16 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The prevent defense and squib kicks......
they both drive me crazy
2007-10-26 10:58:04 · answer #10 · answered by retired 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋