Defenders lose weight

Sure.

is that a still from thinner?

i read that book

huge,

 Yes.

 HJ,

 Losing weight can be a good thing until you run into a team that wants to pound the ball, like, oh, say, Oklahoma.

West Virginia didn’t seem to have too many problems with it.

Exactly, HJ. The fallacy that weighing more helps you stop the run in and of itself was pretty much disproven by crappy Nebraska run D for two years running with some of the biggest DE/DT combos in Big 12 history.
 
The best response to taking on Phil Loadholt and Duke Robinson isn’t to add twenty pounds. They’ll still be bigger and stronger than you. The best response is to run past them.

Paraphrasing Lou Tepper:

Do you think a 310 OL fears a 280 lb player more than a 240 lb player? It makes no difference to him. He fears speed.

When you take a speed player like Orakpo and try to bulk him up it just ruins what he brings to the table. It’s like Phoenix trading for Shaq. Jared Norton was never going to strike fear into and OLs heart no matter his size.

These days even the heavy rushing teams spread the field and present option looks, so you need to be able to cover ground. This isn’t Bill Parcell football anymore.

On a tangentially related note, let me suggest that Quan Cosby is a much better football player at 190 than 205.

Scip – absolutely right on the Husker D. All the conditioning in Lincoln this summer has been about dropping the all that bulk that Kennedy put on everyone on both sides of the ball. MLB Phil Dillard’s dropped from 270 to 238. Quentin Castille dropped 20 lbs. The O line have all trimmed down.

If the Horns are shedding the bulk too, that’s not good news for the South.

Whatever.

Ben Alexander makes Casey Hampton look svelte.

Ben Alexander makes Casey Hampton look svelte
—Yikes

“MLB Phil Dillard’s dropped from 270 to 238. Quentin Castille dropped 20 lbs”

 Mother of God.

 270 is what a strongside DE weighs, not a MLB.

HJ,

 When texas starts running a 33 Stack, let me know.

 OU had problems b/c it took them a half to figure out how to block West Virginia’s defense. They moved the ball on them in the second half. OU’s problem was their inability to stop WVU’s offense.

That skinny shit won’t work in the WWF.

Wasn’t speed over bulk decided over 20 years ago?

Somewhere Jimmy Johnson is smiling.

Depends on how you define “settled”.

Everyone was big, b/c they needed to stop the wishbone offenses. Miami came along and showed that you could stop a powerful running game with speed. Then teams start running the run-n-shoot.

Everyone starts getting lighter and faster to stop the run-n-shoot. So, Nebraska was able to pummel defenses that didn’t have the linebacker depth to stand up to them. So, you seem some schools like Missouri decide running the ball is what we want to do. So they get bigger linemen and start running the option, and teams start recruiting more linebackers than DBs, b/c they need to stop these running games. Then OU decides to bring the Air Raid to the Big 12, and these linebackers aren’t fast enough to keep up. So teams need to get lighter and faster to cover these receivers.
Soon, we’ll see someone decide to pound all these light, fast defenses with a running game again.

It is the ONLY area I thought Fran might have been right in.