Joe Brady? The spread really started to take root as a way for outmatched teams to overcome physical disadvantages in the trenches. The scarcest prospects in football are elite defensive linemen, specifically defensive tackles, and they tend to congregate at powerhouses. Spacing out players, leveraging advantageous one-on-one matchups and moving the action outside the tackle box helped level the playing field, metaphorically speaking.
Those days are over. The upper crust is now playing the same game as spread teams. The knock-on effects beyond offensive style are significant.
They are recruiting spread personnel and scheming to both run their own offense and to stop it. Consequently, a Texas Tech or a Northwestern no longer benefit from playing style the elites eschew. Baker Mayfield proved to be the better fit in the new offense by far, bringing far greater passing game acumen and accuracy than Knight while maintaining some of the dual-threat abilities.
Meanwhile Riley did indeed embrace the Sooner tradition of mauling opponents up front with the run game, but he brought a new approach to doing so.
Specifically he brought a counter-trey running scheme that took the Sooners a while to master but by had become a devastating component to their offense with a handful of different tweaks and features. Their most standard way to run it was with a QB keeper option attached to the backside to allow them to run the scheme from four-WR sets without getting gashed on the backside:. The play works like a zone read play, with the backside DE left unblocked for the QB to read and punish if he crashes too hard after the RB.
On the example above the unblocked Texas DE played it too aggressively trying to get upfield and consequently left the cutback lane open. Against the Houston Cougars they mixed in this nasty combo in which Mayfield reads the middle linebacker and either tosses a bubble screen to the running back or keeps it himself as the featured runner in the counter scheme:.
Against the TCU Horned Frogs they mixed in the standard spread counter play in which they pulled a guard and H-back and leave the tackle behind but they also ran this GT counter with the H-back releasing upfield on a quick POP route:. Again, the linebackers are crossed up and you can see the TCU middle linebacker hesitating to deny the quick hitting POP route to the H-back and then be unable to arrive in time to make the tackle on Perine.
In one more example we see Riley anticipate West Virginia crashing their DE to stop the RB on their standard counter play and then dropping the boundary safety to make the tackle on Baker Mayfield if he keeps it:. Mayfield is looking for this to occur and has a backside slant option now attached to make the Mountaineers pay for their aggressive, run-stopping tactic. Buzz Baviello well presented and inventive stuff Apr 15, 21 AM. Post a question. Related courses students are learning.
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