Badgers` new defensive alignment produces mixed results
(WorldNews Sport)

Leonhard Jim Leonhard wanted to change the look his University of Wisconsin defense gave opponents. Knowing the struggles the Badgers defense had against spread offenses with mobile quarterbacks, like the one UW faced at Nebraska last week, Leonhard tried a new personnel package with his unit´s nickel defense. He mixed his traditional package of two linemen, four linebackers and five defensive backs, with a grouping of three linemen, three linebackers and five defensive backs. That 3-3-5 defense - used on 21 of the 60 plays Nebraska ran - had mixed results. It allowed some big plays both on the ground and through the air, but it also yielded a turnover and some of the shortest runs of the...