Dick Harmon: Mendenhall now faces Long's 3-3-5 defense in bowl

Published: Thursday, Dec. 20 2012 7:24 a.m. MST

If the Aztecs do so, BYU will have to take advantage and deliver the ball to someone else and make them pay.

Said Cahoon, “They do play a lot of man coverage and that part of it isn’t hard for our receivers to figure out, it’s a matter of getting open against some great athletes. That is their comfort area, though, playing man coverage.”

Both Mendenhall and Long agreed on one thing about the 3-3-5, which transferred to the 3-4, or whatever defense is played. Everything is executed much better when the players are asked to give everything they have as long as they can. “When they do that, you can’t fault them,” said Mendenhall. Long seconded the motion.

In the end, it’s that, not schemes, that matters.

Dick Harmon, Deseret News sports columnist, can be found on Twitter as Harmonwrites and can be contacted at dharmon@desnews.com.

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