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00:00 Welcome back to another week of the Docs Diagnosis presented by Centris Federal Credit Union.
00:04 You know Dr. Rob, Heinrich Harberger against Michigan State was sacked seven times.
00:09 A lot of people are going to say, "Well that's just poor offensive line play," but you're going to demonstrate here, not necessarily the case.
00:14 No, and it's one of those things where I think there was some very good preparation by Michigan State's defensive coaching staff.
00:21 So on this play, what you're going to see is essentially it's a play-action pass, you've got an RPO with the quarterback.
00:27 These guys are all going to block down and really do a hard job of selling the run on this play.
00:33 What you would normally see from a defensive lineman, the defensive end, the edge guy right here,
00:39 is that when he sees that run blocking, when he sees that offensive tackle come down,
00:45 the normal thing that you would expect him to do is come in really tight, hug his hip,
00:50 and just wait for a cutback in the run game coming back this way.
00:55 You don't see that on this play. Instead what you see is this guy here takes more of a vertical approach up the field.
01:03 On this play, he's reading the quarterback, he's reading the running back, he's checking to make sure that that handoff doesn't happen,
01:10 and then he's just coming straight for Harberg on this.
01:12 So I think it's a situation where he's actually been coached to not hug down like that.
01:19 He's expecting Harberg to come out here.
01:22 Obviously this is the play where you have the missed face mask.
01:26 Sparty and the officials go full K-State Eric Crouch on Harberg.
01:31 But it was a well-coached play, I think, and it was a well-executed play by Michigan State's defense outside of the face mask.
01:38 So this is one I'm just... I'm saying that the play was fine.
01:43 You just had somebody who I think was well-coached enough, and I think Michigan State knew this play was potentially in Nebraska's arsenal,
01:51 and they were prepped for it.
01:53 And you're saying the offensive line actually did the right thing there. It wasn't their fault.
01:56 You've got... it is. You've got to sell the run on this.
01:59 No, I'm not saying they had a great game. If you saw my grades, you know that.
02:03 But on this one, they're trying to sell that run look, and Michigan State's defenders did a good job
02:10 cueing not so much on the offensive line, but cueing more on what the running back, the quarterback, what they were doing on a given play.
02:19 Tomorrow on the Docs Diagnosis, we're going to take a look at two runs that actually did work and were pretty big plays for Nebraska,
02:24 about the only really good thing that came out of the Michigan State game.
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