Tight Ends, Cover 4 and Bonner’s adjustment on the ground – Cache Valley Daily
Photo by Clint Allen LOGAN – Another week, another loss for the Utah State football team. Where once there was plenty of optimism for an eight-win season, perhaps even more, the team is now left with one of its worst starts to the season this century. Looking forward in the schedule is much more depressing, with the line of questioning being not how many games the Aggies will win, but which games can they even possibly win. We’ve already been through the song and dance of talking about how the Aggies are struggling, so lets look at a few specifics from Saturday’s festivities. Most of those specifics revolve around Logan Bonner, the passing game, or both. The use of tight ends in the passing attack was a minor preseason talking point. In Tucker’s system, tight ends function quite frequently as glorified fullbacks. They pass block, lead block, pull like O-linemen and, occasionally, go out for a pass (the only thing missing is the I-Formation). UNLV took full advantage of this in pass coverage by basically not trying to take on six blockers and simply dropping eight players into coverage. A lot. On 28 of 42 dropbacks by Bonner, the Rebels
