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00:09 Dr. Rob, everyone's been talking about this 3-3-5 defense,
00:12 and to be honest, it's performed quite nicely all season long.
00:16 Without this defense, Nebraska would not be where it's at.
00:18 And following a turnover by the Nebraska offense, which seems to happen quite often,
00:23 the defense continues to come up with big plays, and yesterday was another example.
00:27 It really was. I mean, they had a great game the whole game.
00:31 When you saw Purdue have those opportunities on offense,
00:36 it all came because of miscues by Nebraska's offense.
00:40 I thought the defense played great all throughout.
00:42 Now, kind of one of the things I wanted to point out here is just when you're looking at this defense,
00:47 the biggest thing that the 3-3-5 gives you is the ability to make person--
00:54 to create personnel matchups between the defense and the offense,
00:58 and it allows you to create those mismatches on the fly.
01:02 And so when you see the offense line up here, you've got three down linemen.
01:08 You've got three linebackers.
01:11 And then you've got the five guys for the five of the 3-5-5, and right here's Luke Gifford.
01:17 That's kind of the key guy on this particular play, because for that 3-3-5 to work,
01:23 you've got to have a pretty good player in terms of sort of this--
01:30 I guess I'd call it kind of like a--I don't know the technical term,
01:34 but sort of a hybrid rover safety linebacker type, and Gifford fits that role outstandingly.
01:41 Well, I've talked a lot about how JoJo Doman did it previously in Shenander's defense.
01:47 Luke Gifford's been playing great all year.
01:49 Now, one of the things that creates this is you watch the quarterback come up to the line of scrimmage here.
01:55 What you're going to see is Gifford shifts from basically coming up as a safety
02:00 to where he's going to creep up on the line of scrimmage right here,
02:03 right outside Sherman at that outside linebacker spot.
02:08 And the play's--it's a read option play by the quarterback.
02:11 Now, any option play, any read option play, you can have one guy come in untouched,
02:18 and on this play it's going to be Sherman would normally be the guy that the quarterback's going to be looking at
02:24 and keying on and saying, "Okay, this is the guy I'm looking at right there.
02:28 That's who I'm going to read off of is him, whether I keep the ball, hand it off to the running back."
02:34 It's going to be dependent upon what that linebacker does.
02:39 When Gifford comes up, the quarterback--I don't think he really notices him on this play,
02:44 but you pointed that out, that he's looking off to the right, doesn't seem to really notice that as much,
02:50 and keeps that option play on to the left, and you end up--because of that shifting personnel,
02:57 it creates that mismatch right here where you end up with two unblocked players on the play.
03:03 So you're telling me the quarterback here is this.
03:07 So this guy is right here, right?
03:09 He's actually reading this guy as the read.
03:12 He doesn't see Gifford come up, correct?
03:14 I don't think he does. I think he's looking to the right, and in my opinion,
03:17 when I watch this play play out several times, he's looking, "I'm not going to the right, I'm going to the left."
03:23 And right there, you see that Gifford's completely unblocked.
03:27 You've got an unblocked defender for the quarterback, an unblocked defender for the running back.
03:32 That play was dead in the water, no matter who kept the ball on that Gifford.
03:36 Gifford seemed to be hiding right over Sherman's hip, so I don't think he saw him.
03:39 And I think that was by design.
03:42 But it worked well.
03:44 That's the thing the 335 does, its ability to create mismatches like that with personnel.
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