perhaps but afaik nobody is accusing anybody of anything. we have much much more incompetence and ignorance than we have graft.

For anybody else that finds this thread, yet another great post from ACTW

citythatworks.substack.com/p/should-chi...

i'm a casual but yeah i thought it was well known at this point that active management is largely not worth it and odds are poor that _you_ are good at picking an active manager.

surprising to me to find that was a small but significant drag on Chicago's finances in that City That Works post.

would it be correct to say that Patricia isn't super multiple in the back end and wants to solve his problems with front and personnel?

What's their default response to 12?

So this is true 4-3 personnel vs 12?

They were running it a bunch to start the year and it went pretty badly, is my recollection. Michigan’s smaller OL makes it a bit tough but their WR blocking has improved a ton so having one lead up maybe not the crime against football it was earlier.

Yeah I think they have a lot of pieces but nobody is really popping, unfortunately.

I can see a real dedicated offseason like the OL had paying off. And I wonder what the D overall was doing while the O was grinding in May and June.

Also hadn’t thought about Duo vs Penny. I don’t love our personnel for Duo but agree that it makes sense to go with the extended surface vs such a symmetric D look.

I haven’t watched them enough to know, are they playing it with double 4i and then wide 9? Or do they have a few variations? Much prefer the way M runs their wide zone (mid zone if you want to call it that) vs 4i/9 than a 3/5.

Yeah DMoore just never really found a running mate this year.

While they haven’t been a super multiple gap team this year, they’re still plenty capable running Counter and that’s a common Penny front beater. OSU usually gets its 8th in the box rotating a safety to the TE. So run counter away from the TE and don’t let the DL cross face, you get numbers.

The front is also very useful in taking away OZ but I’m more optimistic there bc like @spacecoyote.bsky.social it plays much better what our OL is best at. We don’t have huge mashers that crush down blocks at the POA or get a ton of vertical displacement in IZ. But they’re smart, tough, and mobile.

This isn’t the first time Jyaire has done this this year. It’s usually against shitty competition. Michigan State game another really obvious example.

beware the ghost of Joe Gibbs

we ran it like shit all last year bc we didn’t control the back side DE. but against Odd looks I think it makes a lot of sense. have 3 for 3 on the DL and then you test how well those LBs can fit. can move around the TE and try to mash the front side or control the back.

I like the wide splits