Great post SOS. Do you coach currently? Very knowledgeable about the game and enjoy reading your posts!
I would say "nice" post but we have been suffering through these anti Kiko posts for over a year now.
That popped run by Oliver is on Harris not setting the edge.
Kiko is a liability in Pass Coverage, not news.
If you think he is that bad, wait until you see the rest of the dread we are about to trot out there for the rest of the season.
Mauluga, Hull, March, Anthony.
Will you slam the table and break down how awful the rest of the guys are or will we continue to be subjected to only Kiko hate?
That last zone coverage, isn't one of the safeties supposed to pick that up it was certainly deep enough. My read on that is Kiko has the short middle zone
Hey sons if you could and I know it's alot of work so you might not get to it. Create a thread about Mike Hull and some of those 9 completions. Was it really 9?
Is Kiko poor at our force philosophy because of blown assignments or lack of natural instinct?I've singled out Alonso b/c there is a constant and prevalent misconception that he is an asset to our defense. People notice his splash plays that happen every few or so games, but they don't recognize his many errors and lack of significance in all the other snaps that occur in every game. I have often been berated (see quoted post above) when I point out those issue in mere words, so I felt a thread with visual evidence was worthy to proceed with.
You're are correct that Harris is a culprit for attacking so strongly upfield and lacking awareness to a possible run (a knock on him in college as well), but that doesn't exempt the rest of the 10 defenders from following their assignments and making the proper play on the ball.
There are two types of run defense philosophies, Force and Spill. Our run defense philosophy is Force, meaning we contain the edges and funnel the runner inside to more help. A run defender's responsibility in our scheme is to have an outside-in relationship to the ball. In the play we are discussing Alonso must continue to pursue the outside edge in order to force the ballcarrier back inside to the help that is flowing toward the ball.
In that clip Alonso clearly does not adhere to our run principles, takes an inside path to the ball, gives up the edge, and allows a 26 yard gain. That's unacceptable regardless of whoever else might have missed an assignment.
At 2.12am in the morning SOS is on FH loading 12 videos to bash Kiko Alonso. While we love your passion for the Dolphins, all we're missing is SOS crawling on hands knees in the tiny Mexican village to join the brothers on Breaking Bad and replace the Heisenberg drawing with a Kiko pic.
The reality is that with the loss of Raekwon McMillan through injury and now Lawrence Timmons going AWOL and now suspended indefinitely, we need Kiko more than ever. SOS can derive his pleasure from constantly denigrating Kiko but he is needed. This was just the first game of the year after the hurricane evacuation and lots of Dolphin players needed the physical workout from playing a game.
El Bravo #47 is needed.