WEST LAFAYETTE – Watch Saturday night’s Oklahoma-Iowa State game and the number of tackles lost and careless play overshadowed what has been a night not to forget in Ames.
The Cyclones celebrated a victory in the primaries, the first on the show to oppose the Sooners at home since 1960 and that’s the one they won. The state of Iowa had its own problems, but not as much as the Sooners, who lost absolutely in defense. .
And returning to the first weekend of games, the Navy missed 14 tackles in its unequal loss to Brigham Young, to Pro Football Focus.
A misinterpretation is not new, but it has become more visual in this shortened school football season.
Is that what we can expect from Big Ten when its short nine-game convention season begins on the weekend of October 23-24?Purdue and the other Big Ten groups are aware of what’s on the school football scene.
But with limited or no spring practice, non-general summer conditioning and the start, closure, and restart of education camp can ensure that the basics aren’t as accurate, or at least that may just be the excuse.
Boilermakers paint the facets of tackles, even when they are in full swing.
“That’s the key detail of the game,” said supporter Jaylan Alexander. “You watch those games on TV and other people don’t take it well or don’t keep your head down and that sort of thing.
Indiana celebrated its first scrum on Saturday, and it’s time since spring when the Hoosiers were in the middle of a mattress.
“I think our turn was positive,” coach Tom Allen said on a Zoom call on Monday. “Obviously they are fighting each other, but our goal was to get 25-30 live shots (cliches). “
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Before Allen knew who the Hoosiers would play in the first game, that’s Penn State, he got involved in how his team would focus.
“From the first game, you have to go after the open midfields and catchers of the Big Ten and block the defenders of the Big Ten,” Allen said in September. looking for tactics to attack, block and prepare our bodies for this without passing in front of living individuals. It’s just going to be a challenge we all have.
The attacks have merit right now, partly because of the poor quality of the game on the defensive side. In a short season, the trend will likely remain one-sided.
“It’s hard, the lack of tackles now,” Penn State defensive coordinator Brent Pry said on the team’s press day on September 30. There are many opportunities to do so in practice.
“Believe me, I saw what you saw. We’re paying close attention to that right now and it’s reflected in our educational plan every day. In fact, we don’t need that to be a challenge for us. Week 1. “
Purdue’s first-year defensive coordinator, Bob Diaco, who also oversees the supporters, said the team is working on turning elements in each and every practice, even if that doesn’t involve contact.
“There are football moves worried about the take that you would never have to come into contact with any other player,” Diaco said. “There is a rotation and adjustment that can be worked without any of the other components.
“As the pads increase, you can mix those parts with the fundamental principles of assuming and assuming. But that’s one of the hardest things to do. “
The game between Oklahoma and Iowa State wasn’t the only one with a bad shot last weekend. An Oklahoma site had 12 shots lost through the Sooners, adding 8 punching line.
During Saturday’s game between South Carolina and Florida, Gators open receiver Kadarius Toney took advantage of the careless foundations of Gamecock defenders: Toney hit a short pass from Quarterback Kyle Trask and ran 57 yards for a touchdown, but was shot several.
During the game, Toney surrounded four South Carolina players as he approached the 30-yard line, two defenders attempted to arm Toney, who chased them away and a fifth player lowered his shoulder to Toney’s shoulder and the senior briefly unbalanced.
He was returned at his feet and ran to the finish line.
By jumping straight into the Big Ten game, no convention-free warm-up matches and stricter restrictions related to full touch practices due to COVID-19 disorders, league advocates will have to be sharp or go through embarrassing times across the country.
“Tackling a ball carrier is very difficult,” said Diaco, who played linebacker in Iowa from 1992 to 1995. “There’s a lot of area in the game, another area that I played in the early 1990s. It’s been used. and now full cash is used, which creates more demanding situations to meet. “
Mike Carmin covers Purdue for the Journal