This week's Film Study shows us the basics of how Wisconsin's highly-ranked defense works & how it taps into coordinator Jim Leonhard's time playing in the NFL:
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Leonhard saw this approach up close from his free safety position while playing, but hung up his cleats following the 2014 season and returned home to Madison. There, the Badger defense was being led by a young and upcoming coach named Dave Aranda , who helped Leonhard develop the finer points of his own philosophy.
“You’re always paying attention to who’s doing well on defense, and they have been consistently very good,” OSU defensive coordinator Jim Knowles said ahead of the matchup between the Buckeyes and Badgers this weekend. “They have a system and they run it and they know what they’re doing. All the things that I think you want to be as a defensive coordinator, I think they’ve been showing it — having a system that you can count on and having answers.
Against the pass, the system can often look like straight, man-coverage with a free safety in the middle of the field . But in reality, it's azone with pattern-matching principles, meaning the defenders play the receivers tight once in their zone.
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