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...personnel Murphy has at his disposal to combat Lafayette’s option offense gives him good reason...
...defense is a team defensive concept,” senior linebacker Bobby Everett said. “With stopping the option, everyone has a job to do. It’s all a team concept, and we have to play together...
...They’re the first team we’ll see that runs the option exclusively,” Everett said. “So we’ll have to be ready for it and identify certain formations they come...
...because the Crimson’s most immediate opponents in the Ivy League run pro-set offenses similar to Murphy’s—not option sets—familiarity will be lacking. Should a single player fail to make an appropriate read, the entire defense will be left vulnerable...
That’s not to say Harvard is coming in blind. Watching game film always helps, the option isn’t unique to Lafayette and the Leopards exclusive use of the scheme removes some of the guessing. And the Crimson defense sure wants to silence those detractors who won’t stop talking about that void...