All of those concepts are really nice and I love to see them in any offense, but you have to have a plan for what you're going to do with it.
Like Pease at UF, we did everything but were good at nothing. We ran jumbo sets, ran counters, sweeps, zone, pistol, 5 WR, 4 WR, etc. and the result was really no identity. Seems like we just picked a bunch of formations and plays we liked and just ran them with no idea of what we were setting up or what our plan was gonna be. I don't watch y'alls offense enough to know but hopefully Coley doesn't fall into that trap as well.
Exactly why I asked my question above. A grab bag ends up sucking more often than not. A lot of people like to cite Auburn's creativity, but Malzahn will literally run the same play on you over and over. I love his concepts and, actually, can't wait to see what he does with a passing QB later on, but they have a clear identity.
Found it. Starting at 4:15, you'll see three plays in a row with the backfield action that I'm talking about. The first is a waggle, the next two are jet/power plays.
Depending on what you classify #35 as (I see him as a H-TE, not a FB) they're in either 11 or 20 personnel. In relation to us. We can do this out of 11 or even 12 (I don't see us doing that in 20 with Tucker as the H [do we even use 20?]). It's been mentioned that Coach Coley likes pistol. Auburn does it in an offset pistol look. We can do the same or from a traditional pistol look. Same thing.
In 11 personnel we can bring Stacey from the slot -- like in play 1 -- or even from a wide flanker alignment -- like in plays 2 and 3.
In 12 personnel we can do the same as in plays 2 and 3, only the slot would be a flexed TE.
Like I said earlier, all we need to teach is the backfield timing and footwork. Every team knows power blocking schemes, here they use a power-G look. At that point, it's up to Coach Coley to make it fit in our gameplan. We have no idea what we're going to look like this year. They made it pretty clear that they weren't showing anything during the "spring game."
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By play 3, Saban started blitzing the corners, lol. That's a common strategy used to stop that play. It was made popular by Belichick when the Dolphins were shoving the wildcat down everyone's throat.
TCU uses a check that is tagged to any call -- blitz or base -- called "cheat." If they see any jet motion, the jet side corner comes on a contain blitz, while the back side corner run to the opposite deep 3rd. They even apply it to cover 0 blitzes. Sounds nuts, but it seems to work.
