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<blockquote data-quote="Thirteen Below" data-source="post: 1034452" data-attributes="member: 18006"><p>I'm positive that won't be happening.</p><p></p><p>I've seen some coaching clinics by Hafley on Youtube, and read a transcript of one that I found on the internet, and he is the anti-Barry. His mantra is get right in the receiver's face first step off the line; punch him in the first stride, don't let him get a clean start, disrupt him, make him go around you - study your opponent's route trees so that you can anticipate where he's going to make his break, and don't let him do it. Get your hands on him, make him focus on fighting you off instead of counting the strides to his break... break his rhythm, slow him down... just basically interfere with every single thing he tries to do, so that he has to do something he didn't want to do. Make him go somewhere where the quarterback wasn't expecting him to be; just do everything you can with your receiver to keep the passer from getting a clean shot at him.</p><p></p><p>You get him talking about this, and he immediately goes straight to preaching it like an evangelical pastor. He's passionate about it sometimes. It's worth googling some of his coaching clinics; he's just on fire. The man seems to have an enormous animosity toward quarterbacks.</p><p></p><p>It's like Lafleur looked at every single thing Barry did and said "I want someone who will do the exact, 180-degree opposite". And the defensive coordinator fairy left Jeff Hafley under his pillow.</p><p></p><p>Now, granted - NFL-level receivers aren't going to make that an easy task. But to the extent that he can get his entire defensive team bought into the philosophy of doing every single thing they can at all times to make the quarterback's job harder (which is, basically, the ultimate goal of every defensive player on every snap), the net effect is going to make a difference.</p><p></p><p>Edit: Oh, and I had to laugh the other day while binging all the interviews and comments Gutekunst has shared with the press since the draft. A number of times, while talking about what it is he expected from the individual players he'd drafted, I caught him using the exact same language that Hafley was using as far back as 2019 when giving clinics to his coaches at Ohio State. Almost word for word. I think they've been talking, and Hafley has sold Gute on his defensive philosophy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Thirteen Below, post: 1034452, member: 18006"] I'm positive that won't be happening. I've seen some coaching clinics by Hafley on Youtube, and read a transcript of one that I found on the internet, and he is the anti-Barry. His mantra is get right in the receiver's face first step off the line; punch him in the first stride, don't let him get a clean start, disrupt him, make him go around you - study your opponent's route trees so that you can anticipate where he's going to make his break, and don't let him do it. Get your hands on him, make him focus on fighting you off instead of counting the strides to his break... break his rhythm, slow him down... just basically interfere with every single thing he tries to do, so that he has to do something he didn't want to do. Make him go somewhere where the quarterback wasn't expecting him to be; just do everything you can with your receiver to keep the passer from getting a clean shot at him. You get him talking about this, and he immediately goes straight to preaching it like an evangelical pastor. He's passionate about it sometimes. It's worth googling some of his coaching clinics; he's just on fire. The man seems to have an enormous animosity toward quarterbacks. It's like Lafleur looked at every single thing Barry did and said "I want someone who will do the exact, 180-degree opposite". And the defensive coordinator fairy left Jeff Hafley under his pillow. Now, granted - NFL-level receivers aren't going to make that an easy task. But to the extent that he can get his entire defensive team bought into the philosophy of doing every single thing they can at all times to make the quarterback's job harder (which is, basically, the ultimate goal of every defensive player on every snap), the net effect is going to make a difference. Edit: Oh, and I had to laugh the other day while binging all the interviews and comments Gutekunst has shared with the press since the draft. A number of times, while talking about what it is he expected from the individual players he'd drafted, I caught him using the exact same language that Hafley was using as far back as 2019 when giving clinics to his coaches at Ohio State. Almost word for word. I think they've been talking, and Hafley has sold Gute on his defensive philosophy. [/QUOTE]
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