The five most important questions of Boise State football's Fall Camp

Sorry I can’t help you otherwise.

Was this local club with Al Berro’s son?

..Frank Robinson or maybe Keith Walk-Green.

As defensive backs and in order to to fit in the Kenny Keene time frame, those are two with the boxing body type, but I have never heard of any Bronco player going into professional boxing.

Do you remember what year it would have been. If it wasn’t a DB, I could see someone like Erik Helgeson or even Bart Hull going into boxing. (Although I believe Hull took a shot at minor league hockey after he was done with the CFL)

Boxing involves using the body and leverage; arm punching is not effective agaisnt a scientific boxer. This was most clearly demostrated by Ed “Too Tall” Jones. He got into a contract dispute with the Cowboys and went on a brief pro boxing career.They brought in harmless Italian heavyweights who barely weighed 200 lbs, but even then Ed couldnt do anything to them with his arm punches.In his last bout the italian spoke no English, and was trying to figure out how to throw the fight. He finally said “what the hell” and began tagging Ed until the ref disqualified him, probably for fighting.Ed’s boxing training stood him in good stead however; he was quicker, stronger, better foot work-he was a much better DT after that.

You know how when most teams go Nickel they bring in a 3rd corner to cover the slot or 3rd and long passing situations? That’s where I mean the terminology could be switched up some for clarification purposes.

What a base 4-2-5 team uses as their 5th secondary man is what most teams refer to as a Rover. Some teams call it Bandit or name it after their team (The “Dawg” position in UGa’s case if they were to use it). Whatever they call it, this position is normally a hybrid position. Sometimes it’s just a LBer who happens to have excellent athleticism and pass coverage skills but normally it is a Run Stopping safety who can cover middle zone areas, typically can hit hard, and has decent hands for the pick every now and again. At the HS level this kind of player typically played safety but are considered to be more of a “in the box” run support safety than a “coverage safety”.

As an example, Ronnie Lott and Roy Williams of the NFL would make excellent Rovers b/c they had the size, tenacity, explosive hitting power, and skill set you would look for in a LBer but also possess good pass defense skills while maybe not able to shed blocks quite as well as a pure LBer. This is opposed to guys like Ed Reed and Darren Sharper who are better suited to being ball hawks, capable of going man up on a slot WR if needed, and delivering solid hits on WRs and TEs in the secondary.

The idea is to keep the offense guessing as to what this guy will be doing on a given down. He should be strong enough to play like a LBer and get off blocks while being fast enough to play a traditional safety position.

The whole defense, along with the 3-3-5, was designed to combat the growing amount of spread offenses, probably the spread option specifically, which actually runs more than it passes, so it could have the flexibility to cover all the receivers while also able to play stout run defense. The inherent danger in running this kind of system is “getting too small”. Due to the kinds of guys you are recruiting it becomes a little easier to get a guy who doesn’t really have the size/strength to play in the front 7 but is terrific in pass coverage. This is what happened to Michigan under RichRod as I understand it. A good Rover will likely be around 215-225 pounds imo…typical 4-3 LBer size.

Hopefully that was informative…I just realized I rambled badly on this reply…which is a consistent tendency of mine :p

I <3 brotz but holy crap.

He’s covered by 3 guys, but gets it. In background you can see an Oregon assistant holding a clipboard, and as he realizes Child’s has it he slams it in frustration. another great one is on 3rd and long; Kellen gets nailed, but completes it again to Childs. He’s laying on the ground giving signals to the sidelines. childs made another great catch, reaching around player, but it was nullified when we fumbled the next snap.Vinnie’s 71 yard TD after Oregon had reocvered fumble and scored was another. I could go on. I was over there next week-Oregon fans still couldn’t believe we’d nailed there nat’l champ plans. Wait ’til next year. yeah.