Palouse Posse v Option

[etowncoug]

Lost 21-3 in Corvallis to Pettibone's option attack. Just food for thought.

 

[chugspig]

What defense did they run?

 

[FnuLnu]

Are you f'n kidding?

Chad Davis was QB in the rain. (Also weeks later just 10 points in Alamo Bowl vs Baylor)

Pettibone did get what Walden was trying to get for Wulff after 2011: a contract extension

 

[LoneStarsGhost]

Lost 21-3 in Corvallis to Pettibone's option attack. Just food for thought.

We had excellent speed laterally. OSU had a great game plan and gashed us between the tackles.

 

[sellas]

2 stud DTs, 2 Stud DEs and 3 stud Linebackers that could fly and hit like bricks.

 

[LoneStarsGhost]

What defense did they run?

We were 4-3 until Leach, as I remember.

 

[etowncoug]

My point isn't to trash the posse, the best D in school history. My point is that option football can be an equalizer.

 

[CougPatrol]

I was at that game.

 

[Observer11]

We had excellent speed laterally. OSU had a great game plan and gashed us between the tackles.

We also had Chad Davis.

 

[CougEd]

We were 4-3 until Leach, as I remember.

Well in ancient history ... I remember in 79 to about 81 Padilla ran a 3-4 with guys like Brian Flones at 220 manning the nose. Then some dude after that started running a lot of 4-3 cause he had Millard Williams Howard and “Milfred” Hodges. That was the dawn of the 4-3

 

[BraindeadCoug]

Back in the 1979’s the 5-2-4 was a very standard defense with the two defensive not being in the down position. Their roles were to take 3 steps trait up the field and square up to force everything inside of them.

 

[Cougsocal]

Well in ancient history ... I remember in 79 to about 81 Padilla ran a 3-4 with guys like Brian Flones at 220 manning the nose. Then some dude after that started running a lot of 4-3 cause he had Millard Williams Howard and “Milfred” Hodges. That was the dawn of the 4-3

Except we didn't run a 4-3 until after Millard, Lynch and Williams graduated. And Hodge was Lynch's back up at the time. However, we did have an LB cover up the TE, so may be we ran a 3.5 - 3.5

 

[Cougsocal]

Lost 21-3 in Corvallis to Pettibone's option attack. Just food for thought.

However, let's not forget that the same Posse also played in 1993, 1992 and 1991 and the they beat the same option offense 51-6, 35-10 and 55-7. I think the much dreaded word was the "overconfident." We even beat them in 1995 40-14, post Posse.

 

[CougEd]

Except we didn't run a 4-3 until after Millard, Lynch and Williams graduated. And Hodge was Lynch's back up at the time. However, we did have an LB cover up the TE, so may be we ran a 3.5 - 3.5

Sort of incorrect. Del Wight did have them play a lot of 3-4, but he also started to morphed into something he really liked which was a 4-3 with Williams and Millard on the end, with Lynch, Howard and Hodges on the inside.