Prevent defense play calls

Almost cost us the game.

Agreed. It’s meant to eat clock. It didn’t do that at all and had the potential of costing us the game. It also gave them confidence and momentum when they had nothing going for them. Absolutely ridiculous.

I hear you, but if it wasn’t the statistically smart thing to do, Kyle wouldn’t be doing it. He pays a guy to stand there and tell him the right choice mathematically to make sure his emotions don’t get the better of him.

I agree, most of the time, if we keep our foot on the gas defensively, we come away with a win that looks better than the one we got tonight. HOWEVER, that doesn’t change the fact that playing aggressive leaves open the possibility of the other team coming back faster. Obviously, the prevent D was particularly atrocious this time around, so they scored fast anyway, but that doesn’t usually happen.

Yeah, I hate the prevent defense.
I understand wanting to limit big plays or whatever, but what is the point when you end up simply allowing the other team to march down the field at will?

However, I think I hate the ‘prevent’ offense Utah seems to run even more.
It is more like the “predictable three and out” offense.

You’d think I’d be used to it as a Utah fan, but it always grinds my gears. Why not just keep doing what was working? I can understand going a little more conservative to limit interceptions, but why make it so easy for the other team?

However, Utah won the game. What do I know.

The reason you see the bend but not break or prevent defense is because it is a better response to the desperate offense calls that throw caution to the wind. You might also ask why not play a desperate offense from the beginning of the game. The answer to why for both is coaches know what is best most of the time. In either case either strategy can look awkward or can fail. Still, if someone can come up with a better approach there is a very good living to be had. Until then we live with a lot of angst when it works with little margin.

It seems if they’d just played the smothering defense they played for 90% of the game that shut them down, we would’ve continued to shut them down. IMO, the obvious difference in the last several minutes of the game that caused the momentum swing was the switch to stupid prevent.

Agreed. I mean replace a LB for a Safety if you need to, but beyond that, play the D that sniffled them all day long.

What I have learned in life is, no matter what you do, a percentage of the people won’t like it. What I don’t understand in this case is why. We won a game in terrible playing conditions, on the road at a very difficult place to win with a back-up QB. Go Utes!!!!

Obviously, I’ll take the win. But, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. If the defense shut them down all day, even when Bowman came back in, why in the world would Scalley/Whitt stop doing what was working? To me, it would be like Apple saying, “Man, we are making billions on our iPhones, Air Pods, iPads, etc. You know what we should do? Let’s quit making them and start training breakdancers from Australia to compete in the 2028 Olympics.”

Bruhs, what game were you watching? I didn’t see a “prevent” defense. I saw a defense that was rushing the passer with 6 or 7 dudes and playing man coverage. You can say it was too aggressive, but that wasn’t a prevent defense at all.

Imagine how incredible our defense would be in Scalley could play it with hindsight like ya’ll do. You should have also bought bitcoin 10 years ago.