I present to you, Mr Sonny Dykes, your California Golden Bear Head Numbnut
On why Cal used a three-man rush so often at UCLA:
“If you go back and look at all of our defensive statistics, a three-man rush has been the most effective thing we’ve done on defense. … When we rush three on third down, our conversion rate is so much better than if we rush four. We have more turnovers; we’ve had plenty of sacks with the three-man rush. We’ve created pressure with a three-man rush. I think again, sometimes we rush three, and we complete a pass, and everybody goes, ‘Well, you rushed three people.’ We didn’t do a good job rushing four people. We didn’t pressure the quarterback near as well as we needed to. So again, if you sit down and you look at our total statistics through the year, like we do every week, those are things that we look at that we constantly update. Our three-man rush has actually been successful for us. I don’t really like a lot of three-man rush. I know (defensive coordinator) Art (Kaufman) doesn’t like it, but again, it’s something that we’ve been pretty productive with this year. It lets us be able to mix coverages on the back end and do some things that we can’t do if we don’t do it. That’s something everyone uses. Like I said, it’s been pretty effective for us.”
On why Cal used a three-man rush so often at UCLA:
“If you go back and look at all of our defensive statistics, a three-man rush has been the most effective thing we’ve done on defense. … When we rush three on third down, our conversion rate is so much better than if we rush four. We have more turnovers; we’ve had plenty of sacks with the three-man rush. We’ve created pressure with a three-man rush. I think again, sometimes we rush three, and we complete a pass, and everybody goes, ‘Well, you rushed three people.’ We didn’t do a good job rushing four people. We didn’t pressure the quarterback near as well as we needed to. So again, if you sit down and you look at our total statistics through the year, like we do every week, those are things that we look at that we constantly update. Our three-man rush has actually been successful for us. I don’t really like a lot of three-man rush. I know (defensive coordinator) Art (Kaufman) doesn’t like it, but again, it’s something that we’ve been pretty productive with this year. It lets us be able to mix coverages on the back end and do some things that we can’t do if we don’t do it. That’s something everyone uses. Like I said, it’s been pretty effective for us.”
