New football offense

I prefer my tailbacks to go around end with a lead blocker if we're not going with a veer-style attack

 

For those of you who don't understand how it works.

The team in Calif. using it went 7-2 last year, winning seven in a row, before losing in the playoffs.

 

Before anyone gets carried away, I covered a high school team in southern Maryland in 1978 where the coach used two QBs and four wides. Seems like that offense was pretty much like the A11. There's really nothing new on offense. Just variations of the run and shoot and shotgun.

 

This quarterback thinks his offense is better:

 

Stick to the basics!!

 

We need to get a seal here and a seal here and run the ball in the alley.

 

Righto. You can scarcely even call this football.

 

Somewhere, Mike Leach just creamed his pants.

 

Running the same offense as everyone else makes things easier for opposing defenses, on the other hand, if a coach does something drastically different than everyone else, he'd better win or it will be his fault for using a different offense.

 

So correct me if I'm wrong, but this high school has a huge shortage of fat kids to play on the o-line? Also you gotta have two QB's who can actually run something in the neighborhood of a 4.6 40 and throw semi-accurately on the run or you're going to run out of pivots pretty damn quickly.

just my 2 cents

 

The "inventors" of this offense say it's innovative. It's only innovative in the sense that everyone is wearing a "receiver-eligible" number. That formation of three linemen, two in the backfield and six wides have been used before, many times last year by Florida (to set up running lanes for Tebow).

Anyway, that being said, I watched their video on rivals and I gotta say most of what I saw was horrible defense. Like receivers catching balls in double-coverage, or the QB breaking four tackles at the LOS. I think the only time I had a WOW moment was when the quarterback threw a backwards pass to the other QB, who then threw it across the field to a receiver. But that play still only gained 12 yards.

It kind of reminds me of that college basketball team that jacks up 130 3-pointers a game. Sure, it's kind of neat to watch once or twice, but ultimately it's not going to win you a championship.

P.S. If I were coaching against this team, I'd have my middle linebacker blitzing off the edge every single play and laying out the quarterback. I think after about 4-5 hits, they'd consider going into a traditional formation.

 

Well, there's an image.

Sometimes, even Leach is too smart for his own good.