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Redshirt junior linebacker Carl Bradford had 11.5 sacks in 2012, helping ASU rank No. 1 nationally in
tackles for loss per game (9.0) and No. 2 in sacks per game (4.0), but the Sun Devils also surrendered
182.9 rushing yards per contest.
photo courtesy Arizona State University
Devil-May-Care Defense
Every action has an equal and opposite reaction, or so says Isaac Newton's
third law of classical mechanics.
Applying it to defense in football, it
can mean that if you have a bend-butdon't-break approach, be prepared to
give up a lot of completions and yardage (but not necessarily points).
The opposite reaction is if you play
an aggressive, big-play style of de-
fense, you might get burned with the
run. The latter applied to the Arizona
State Sun Devils in 2012 and in the
early part of 2013.
The good news for the 2012 Arizona
State defense was its "Devil-MayCare" defense did finish No. 1 in the
nation in tackles for loss per game
(9.0) and No. 2 in sacks with 52 (4.0
per game). Headlining that aggressive
approach were consensus All-American lineman Will Sutton (13 sacks)
