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Ethnicsands
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Spreading unclogs, reducing pressure, and speeds up the decision options and hence reduces the time OL needs to maintain blocking integrity.
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It does no more than any other offense when used for that purpose. Dan Enos and his offense could have helped the offensive line but he chose not to. Take a trip down memory lane and look at the first drive against UF. It was up-tempo and fast-paced, which protected the offensive line. Again, Dan simply chose not to use it beyond that first drive. Truthfully, Dan simply could not process the play calls quick enough to go up-tempo consistently.
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Also believe the spread spreads out the D so maybe only 5 in the box. No exotic blitzes.
BigJoeGrizzly
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Well I’ve been watching football for over 40 years and I can honestly there isn’t a single person in The Gables that knows jack **** about football that is painfully obvious by now.
When you finish 129th out of 130 teams on 3rd down trust me there is no where to go but up at this point.
When you finish 129th out of 130 teams on 3rd down trust me there is no where to go but up at this point.
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If I recall there were times, when we were great, that the defense was on the field a lot because the offense would score in less than a minute.
There were also times when I hated Erickson's offense because good blitzing teams would neutralize our offense pretty well.
There were also times when I hated Erickson's offense because good blitzing teams would neutralize our offense pretty well.
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It will help some. However, at some point in time you have to block someone. Scheme NEVER overcomes poor fundamentals. We have decent WR and RB but, our OL and QB play is terrible.
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The main thing it does is spread the defenders outside the hashes so you now have less defenders in the box for the oline to worry about. It especially helps with blitz pick ups because with less players in the box now there’s only one or two linebackers left you have to worry about since both your cbs and safeties are out wide covering there assigned men. It also takes CB and safety blitzes out of the ball game to an extent because with them out so far wide coving there guy, that makes there blitz/run to the QB that much longer to get home to the QB which gives the QB extra time to diagnose where the blitz is coming from and make the defense pay.
MedleyCane
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So true!
Arehel
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More downs and possessions so statistically, yes.
We’ll have to get used to using the yards per play statistic or points per possession to gauge the Defense now.
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It doesn't like people think it does without WRs getting separation and catching balls.
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OP has come to the wrong place.
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Pure gold.From Lance’s amazing post
Upon Further Review- Rhett Lashlee
It feels like it was just a year ago I was sitting here pouring over film and data of offensive coordinator candidates for Miami and new coach, Manny Diaz. Now, after a disastrous 6-7 season that included a shutout loss to Louisiana Tech in the bowl game, I am back to take another swing at it...www.canesinsight.com
There were times this year when I wanted to jump through my television while watching the QB take 5 and 7-step drops all games with an OL that was not able to protect that long. Other times I watched a true freshman LT be asked to block an experienced pass rusher on the edge while the QB tried to get to a fourth read in their progression. An OC has a responsibility to put his players in a position to succeed (rule 1) and the play-calling is a big part of this process. The quick-passing game should be a staple of any college offense and an air-raid with power run concepts is once again my choice.
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Using the Central Limit Theorem you are able to take a sample mean and get a good approximation of what the average time for the entire population is. SMU got the ball out in 2.32 seconds on average, while Miami took 2.66 seconds on average. This might not sound like a big deal, but the accepted timeframe to get a pass out of the QB’s hands is 2.50 seconds, which means Miami was making things harder on their OL on average, while SMU was making things significantly easier on theirs.
To take this even further, SMU got the ball out of the QB’s hands in an average of 2.33 seconds (virtually identical to passes anywhere else on the field). Miami got passes out in an average of 3.55 seconds, which is absurdly high and helps to explain some of their issues in the red zone. Even taking out any outliers (passes with 2 standard deviations above the mean), Miami still averaged an outrageous 3.10 seconds to get the ball out.
This shows up in their sack numbers, as they allowed a sack every 29.5 passes, while Miami allowed one every 8.5 passes (wow).
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I'll take a stab at this. Honestly I'll take it from a quarterback standpoint then you'll see it trickle down to the offensive line.
In that clip you'll see When you spread 3 wide receivers with 2 out side the hash it has a propensity to take defenders with it. In this case it takes 4 defenders to cover when you consider the safety shades over the trips side.
So 7 left in your box available to blitz. Now you flex motion a tight end out side taking a lb in coverage. There's your easy 1 on 1 matchup.
So now only 6 left in your box available to blitz.
So as a qb I know where the bail is going I have a 1v1 I'll hit my third step and bye bye ball. (Smu held the ball less than the national average- thanks lance roffers) offensive line does not have to block as long. AND they don't have to worry so much about blitzers in numbers. Because simply there are not there.
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Now you have 8 available defenders who are in good range to blitz. The #2 db defending press man vs. Your slot receiver just crashed and blew up your play. Offensive line looks bad.
Simply said, the spread will be able to alleviate this phenomenon by putting defenders out side their preferable blitzing zip code.
(And qb reads are easier in spread offenses thus speeding up the time it takes for the ball to come out)
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It doesn't. A bad O line is a bad O line. You can't throw the ball quick every frickin time. DBs will read that all day. Eventually you have to drop back 5-7 and scan the field without the O line being swiss cheese
