Phil Montgomery is back for another season of “junkyard wars”

At football study hall I explained some of Montgomery’s fun run game tactics at Tulsa and how they’ve been using the veer and shoot offense to torch opponents in the AAC.

There’s a pretty good chance he’s the head coach at Texas Tech in 2018 so Big 12 fans may want to read up on his stuff now to brace themselves. I think his ideal fit is at a program like that where he’s working with scrap parts in recruiting to build his offenses, this offense simply isn’t designed to make the most of blue blood recruiting resources, more on that notion coming next week.

If “veer and shoot” fails to catch on, perhaps I’ll keep throwing “junkyard wars O” or “scrapheap offense” out there to see if that sticks.

5 Comments

  1. Ian, I’ve been reading your stuff for years and I pay extra attention to anything “Veer and Shoot” related because of how simple and nasty the philosophy is.

    I’ve have always called this offense either the “Star Wars” or “Jedi” Offense due to the importance of “The Force”.

    This offense is the ultimate stress offense in that they will run the ball up the middle until it “forces or pulls” the D to bring their safeties up. Then they’ll just take deep shots until they “force or push” the safeties back to defend it. Then when the D thinks they’ve stopped both, the offense will just throw screens or short man beaters to the flat which “forces or pulls” the secondary to adjust to that. Throw in a running threat at QB and all hope is (almost) lost for the D.

    That is my corny was of viewing this offense but if I was a coach today, no matter what offense I wanted to run, I would make sure my #1 philosophy would be to stress or force the defense as much as I possibly can.

    As usual, you post great content, keep it up as I love using them in the video game world via my favorite game NCAA Football 06 and my blog ncaa06revival.com

    Thanks

    • ianaboyd

      Ha, nice.

      “The yin-yang killer” might be another one since it’s all about balancing extreme ends of the spectrum.

      • I would also call it the Triangle Offense as it only attacks the line, the flats, and deep. Draw those points on a football diagram and you’ll see nothing but triangles.

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