Someone asked Bill Connelly a really good question on Twitter yesterday in response to his article about how the spread has “won” in college football and is now the strategy. I have a lot of thoughts on this, indeed I wrote an entire book before the season on the topic of what’s been driving offensive … [Read more…]
Every year there’s always a lot of debate around various quarterback prospects. There’s a ton riding on these guys, if you pick the right one you may have set your franchise up for a decade and a favorite strategy these days is to take advantage of having a solid quarterback on a rookie deal to … [Read more…]
It’s been something of a fad in football for people to talk about RPOs, but now we also have PROs and PPOs emerging as “the next big thing.” If you need to back up multiple steps because all of those acronyms have completely left you behind don’t worry, this doesn’t have to be all that … [Read more…]
Gary Patterson is a nut when it comes to scouting opponents, I’ve heard from multiple offensive coaches at B12 media days that game planning for Gary Patterson’s defense is one of the toughest challenges in the league. Naturally, his defense is designed to be flexible within the constraints of playing four-down, base personnel. Here’s the … [Read more…]
Over at Inside Texas I have a piece up I’ve been putting together since Big 12 media days with quotes from Tom Herman and Sam Ehlinger that have illuminated the apparent strategy for the Longhorn offense in 2019. In short, the plan is to put a greater emphasis on RPOs this coming season, giving Ehlinger … [Read more…]
Over on Twitter I built a long thread filled with GIFs from Tim Tebow’s 2008 campaign where the Gators won the SEC and national championships. Here’s where it begins: It’s really something to behold the Gator O creating time for Tebow and advantages for their receivers every time they run play-action off their counter schemes … [Read more…]
In this piece over at Inside Texas I was aiming to explain how Big 12 run games work on a foundational level and why Texas has sucked at defending them despite consistently boasting of having the biggest, most athletic LBs. Now, setting aside the issue of whether Texas’ LBs are actually the biggest and most … [Read more…]