Simulated Pass Defense

[jhunt26]

I am the offensive coordinator at MTSU, and as of year 2022, my team is fairly dominant. The past few years I have been amongst the top schools in terms of both recruiting classes and polls. My offense is consistently ranked near the top. However, the problem I am having is that my defensive coordinator seems to lack any knowledge of how to defend the pass. Oh, he's great at run-stopping, but he is quite horrible defending the pass (i.e. #1 run d, #120 pass d).
Is there anyway to make this guy do his job better? If it has to do with coaching sliders, which side of the scroll bar should I want the meter to be closest to for him to start defending the pass more?

Thanks in advance for anyone that can help.

[jweaks]

Quote: Originally Posted by jhunt26

I am the offensive coordinator at MTSU, and as of year 2022, my team is fairly dominant. The past few years I have been amongst the top schools in terms of both recruiting classes and polls. My offense is consistently ranked near the top. However, the problem I am having is that my defensive coordinator seems to lack any knowledge of how to defend the pass. Oh, he's great at run-stopping, but he is quite horrible defending the pass (i.e. #1 run d, #120 pass d). Is there anyway to make this guy do his job better? If it has to do with coaching sliders, which side of the scroll bar should I want the meter to be closest to for him to start defending the pass more? Thanks in advance for anyone that can help.

If your team is near-top ranked and your offense is near-top ranked, then I assume you are winning most of your games and scoring a lot of points, correct?

Could it be that the teams you play have to "air it out" against you? The reason your defense is great against the run may be because you are usually ahead and your opponents "have to" throw and throw against you, hence the lower pass defense. It may be a "quantity" issue and not really a quality issue.

#1/#120 is about what I would expect if you are that dominant on offense.

[stratospaly]

I have not tried it but possibly hire a D-coord that had a top 10 pass defense team the year before. Then when recruiting secondary go for coverage instead of run stopper. Out of those, recruit speed. CB\FS\SS, look for 90+ spd and 90+ ACC, if you are a top team this should not be a problem. Changing your D from a 4-3 to a 4-2-5 a few years after you recruit heavily for those positions could also help.

[Pmoney327]

Quote: Originally Posted by stratospaly

I have not tried it but possibly hire a D-coord that had a top 10 pass defense team the year before. Then when recruiting secondary go for coverage instead of run stopper. Out of those, recruit speed. CB\FS\SS, look for 90+ spd and 90+ ACC, if you are a top team this should not be a problem. Changing your D from a 4-3 to a 4-2-5 a few years after you recruit heavily for those positions could also help.

As the HC you have no say in who gets hired as OC/DC. It's really a shame the CPU does their best picking someone for the job, which can just be awful.

I've had my DC get hired to become a HC elsewhere, and the CPU hires a guy who runs a 3-3-5 defense when I have the personnel for a 4-3. I know as a HC it's my say, but a HC wouldn't bring a guy on staff who has completely different game philosophies.

[jhunt26]

Quote: Originally Posted by jweaks

If your team is near-top ranked and your offense is near-top ranked, then I assume you are winning most of your games and scoring a lot of points, correct? Could it be that the teams you play have to "air it out" against you? The reason your defense is great against the run may be because you are usually ahead and your opponents "have to" throw and throw against you, hence the lower pass defense. It may be a "quantity" issue and not really a quality issue. #1/#120 is about what I would expect if you are that dominant on offense.

I never thought of it that way, but that is a fair point; it just sucks that I can never have the #1 Defense because my team gets thrown on so much.

Thanks.