Oklahoma State Fall Camp Practice No. 6 - Parker Robertson So Far From His Walkon Start

This "thinking" defense worries me. The last time we had a multiple (thinking) defense, they were slow to react and miscommunication lead to receivers running free.

No need to be worried about that part, I promise.

Can't wait for this season, I get more excited every day, thanks for the article Robert! Great read

Interesting year. Won't be surprised if we compete for conference championship or finish just below bowl eligibility. My guess is since our recruiting staff was good picking hs players, they will be as good or better with regard to portal since there's seemingly more useful college game video involving portal players. So I lean towards success.....but I am the eternal Cowboys optimist!

The Vikings and Broncos both had two of the best defenses in football last year where they have all the guys near the line of scrimmage and you either blitz a lot, or back out of the blitz and play 7-8 in coverage. From Robertson's comments we are going to be running something similar.

I'm really excited for this, it seems like where defenses are going in the NFL and think this could be huge for us as I don't think it's as big in college. If the QB doesn't know if you're blitzing 7 or only rushing 3 every play it creates a huge advantage for the defense. How do you set protections? Do you throw a quick pass to beat the rush, or something slow and developing?

Really excited if that is the direction of our defense, and sounds like it might be!

CowboyKip said:

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This "thinking" defense worries me. The last time we had a multiple (thinking) defense, they were slow to react and miscommunication lead to receivers running free.

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Agreed. That's why defenses with new coordinators at this level usually make a big jump in the 2nd year when players know the schemes well enough to react and not think as much. I like the direction but it will probably take a year to really produce. Hope I'm wrong though. Go Pokes!