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Below is an awesome article that outlines four different schools of spread offenses and gives examples of each. When we say we want to go to an "up tempo spread" offense, let's think about whose offense we'd most like to emulate. Personally I like the "pro-spread" of LSU and the Chiefs/Rams, but if you have some time to browse the article, it'd be cool to get some consensus from the board.


Defined by intention: What is the “pro-style spread?” and what differentiates spread offenses? – Concerning Sports

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ghost2 said:
Below is an awesome article that outlines four different schools of spread offenses and gives examples of each. When we say we want to go to an "up tempo spread" offense, let's think about whose offense we'd most like to emulate. Personally I like the "pro-spread" of LSU and the Chiefs/Rams, but if you have some time to browse the article, it'd be cool to get some consensus from the board.


Defined by intention: What is the “pro-style spread?” and what differentiates spread offenses? – Concerning Sports

sportstreatise.com sportstreatise.com
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Agreed
 
--Uptempo
--Balanced, but tilted toward gashing teams on the ground
--Incorporates the QB in the run game enough to keep the defense honest, but not so much where's he's getting unnecessarily bludgeoned
--Adaptable to the talent on the roster

Most importantly, we need a coach who knows how to recruit to the scheme, hire good assistants, coach up the kids, and be able to adapt to what defenses are doing.

Something like what LSU is doing would be optimal, but I'd even accept a cruder version where the QB isn't as polished, so long as we're stressing out the defense and scoring as ****load of points.

Whoever we bring in should be able to get insane production from our stable of RBs.
 
paksat said:
run what clemson runs
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Per this article at least, Clemson is running more of a smashmouth spread or power spread when they go deep. Personally if I had unlimited control of the offense I'd want to run what Greg Roman is running in Baltimore. 3 TE, 3 RB, power/option spread that opens up huge windows in the pass game. Thinking of our recruiting base and the types of QBs bred in South Florida (along with still being TE and RB U) I'd love to see it. Failing that, give me pro-spread, move the pieces around and exploit those mismatches all day long.
 
ghost2 said:
Per this article at least, Clemson is running more of a smashmouth spread or power spread when they go deep. Personally if I had unlimited control of the offense I'd want to run what Greg Roman is running in Baltimore. 3 TE, 3 RB, power/option spread that opens up huge windows in the pass game. Thinking of our recruiting base and the types of QBs bred in South Florida (along with still being TE and RB U) I'd love to see it. Failing that, give me pro-spread, move the pieces around and exploit those mismatches all day long.
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Winner-Winner-Winner.

Baltimore's offense, but even faster. Utilize our TE's and Rb's, which is the strength of the offense.
 
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I've been screaming for more tempo for years. If we start running 70+ plays/game during those noon kickoffs I'd bet that the inexplicable losses to less talented teams start to shrink and disappear by default. Conditioning alone should be able to win us the coastal most years...
 
The first step in deciding on a system should be we run more actual mother****ing plays. That'd be a **** of a start!

Watching us struggle to get plays in and snapped was almost as painful as watching us run plays regardless of a defense's overload.
 
So can some gurus help me out on what type Yost, Lashlee, Johns, and some other candidates run? I know Yost is run heavy, and Johns appeared to be yesterday, but took plenty of shots downfield. Thanks
 
Balanced spread that is a consistent threat both passing and running. I don’t want to see something that is heavily skewed towards one over the other. Give me an oc that will operate up tempo and run 75-80 plays a game that can stress the defense. None of this pro style or pro spread nonsense. Also a spread offense that correctly use Spacing to their advantage
 
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Canesfreak said:
So can some gurus help me out on what type Yost, Lashlee, Johns, and some other candidates run? I know Yost is run heavy, and Johns appeared to be yesterday, but took plenty of shots downfield. Thanks
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Lashlee seems to run some of Malzahn's power-spread concepts. Yost is right out of the Air Raid offense (pro-spread but with more WRs, fewer TES, and working the outside screen to open up the inside zone run.)
 
ghost2 said:
Below is an awesome article that outlines four different schools of spread offenses and gives examples of each. When we say we want to go to an "up tempo spread" offense, let's think about whose offense we'd most like to emulate. Personally I like the "pro-spread" of LSU and the Chiefs/Rams, but if you have some time to browse the article, it'd be cool to get some consensus from the board.


Defined by intention: What is the “pro-style spread?” and what differentiates spread offenses? – Concerning Sports

sportstreatise.com sportstreatise.com
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Common denominator with all these is that you can compensate to some degree with a crappy OL but none of these work without a smart, quick decision making QB.
 
Trav said:
Common denominator with all these is that you can compensate to some degree with a crappy OL but none of these work without a smart, quick decision making QB.
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Quick decisions yes, smart? Well also yes but the advantage of all of these is that much of the "decision making" aspect of the QB's job is built into the scheme itself. So the QB still has to find the open guy quickly but you won't see him sit back there for 5 seconds trying to go through 3 reads.
 
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