Williams & Blum: Projecting Iowa State’s Depth Chart

[Clonedogg]

Didn’t he have preseason accolades coming into last season?

Ya right I thought he was preseason all conference.

 

[Clonedogg]

From camp/scrimmage clips, it looks like Patton is starting.

CB Williams/Coffey
CB Bell/Taylor
S Cooper
S Patton
S Neal

Cummings-Coleman
Surges
James
Van Dinter

I'm not up on our exact safety positions, but Neal is Freyler's replacement? Cooper in his usual spot. And Patton replacing Verdon?

I like our depth at safety, but Verdon was really good when healthy. I don't trust Patton at this point. I like Neal and Cooper.

Agreed I'd like someone like Woody to do a deep dive into how our safeties correspond to Stong and Free.

 

[Clonedogg]

Agreed I'd like someone like Woody to do a deep dive into how our safeties correspond to Stong and Free.

@Aiden Wyatt here's a pod episode idea

 

[Aclone]

Agreed I'd like someone like Woody to do a deep dive into how our safeties correspond to Stong and Free.

It doesn’t take a deep dive.

The boundary safety is the SS, that was Verdon’s spot.

The middle safety, or the Star, is where Freyler and Eisworth lined up.

I think you can figure out the FS, where Cooper plays. “Free” and “Field”.

It’s just different terminology, indicating which lines up to the short side of the field.

They’re doing the same thing with the ends. The strongside is the Boubdary End, the Field side the Rush end.

They haven’t seen a need to do it with the Sam, Mike and Will linebackers, perhaps because it’s implied.

Boundary = Short side
Field = Wide side

That help?

 

[cyclone1209]

It doesn’t take a deep dive.

The boundary safety is the SS, that was Verdon’s spot.

The middle safety, or the Star, is where Freyler and Eisworth lined up.

I think you can figure out the FS, where Cooper plays. “Free” and “Field”.

It’s just different terminology, indicating which lines up to the short side of the field.

They’re doing the same thing with the ends. The strongside is the Boubdary End, the Field side the Rush end.

They haven’t seen a need to do it with the Sam, Mike and Will linebackers, perhaps because it’s implied.

Boundary = Short side
Field = Wide side

That help?

Pro's with our defensive scheme with safeties:

- 3 safeties get to play. They also get to produce a lot as one of them is usually close to the line of scrimmage and near the ball.
- We've had some safeties really shine with producing INT's, Jeremiah Cooper comes to mind here

Negative's to our scheme (3 man front) for safeties:

- We make our safeties play like linebackers essentially
- Safeties are asked a ton to line up in the box and stop the run.
This gets our safeties hurt plenty (see Malik Verdon, Jeremiah Cooper has had injuries etc).
Sometimes I wished we'd mix it up more with 4 down lineman to give the safety room a breather, but Heacock seems fairly dug in. Heacock was adament on 4 down linemen last year and I never saw it in one game.