One very small subplot to this offseason has been the degree of change that’s coming to TCU’s offensive strategy in 2019. Gary Patterson had a presser in the spring in which he noted that they were “changing some things in their passing game” and that new WR coach Malcolm Kelly had been helpful towards this … [Read more…]
Over at Football Study Hall I chronicle how things are going for the various Briles-tree coaches around the college game. The situation in Houston is pretty interesting. If you’re a fan of conspiracy theories there’s some reason to believe that the pro-Briles Cougar boosters are working a hostile takeover of the program. First pushing Applewhite … [Read more…]
Dino Babers branched out from Art Briles relatively early and has been developing his own version of the offense in locales far from Briles’ realm in Texas. Of course now Briles is gone and there are two major branches of the offense running through Philip Montgomery and then Dino Babers. The version Babers used at … [Read more…]
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 … [Read more…]
The Briles-era Bears were defined more by anything by Art Briles’ own, unique “Veer and Shoot offense.” There wasn’t another offense quite like it across college football and his disciples still have particular access to some of its secrets even as some of the tactics and style of it have proliferated across the country. I … [Read more…]
It was really an eye opening moment when the Patriots snagged Eastern Illinois signal-caller Jimmy Garoppolo in the second round of the 2014 NFL draft. They took him fairly high, for one, which indicated that they really liked his skill set. Also interesting, he was coming from a “Veer and Shoot” offense at Eastern Illinois … [Read more…]
I was honestly a bit surprised that Charlie chose to bring Sterlin Gilbert and Matt Mattox with him to USF and it should be very interesting to see how they adapt to making the most of athletic quarterbacks there like Quinton Flowers. I broke down what they’re facing in terms of turning the USF Bull … [Read more…]