Huddle question....possible offensive game plans utilizing strengths and cover weaknesses

[footballisasport]

with all of the RBs we have and with Cam...i say we line up and run nothing but triple option, zone read, option out of the pistol and sprinkle in play action bombs

 

are you talking about the same RBs who can barely outrush Cam or are there other RBs this team is hiding?!

[magnus]

I don't know that you do a significant amount different for Stewart.  He can take the inside handoff on the triple option, but Tolbert can, too.  Both can do the short burst bit to the hole that DW sometimes struggles with, i.e., they can take that shotgun draw and make more of it (think about every first down run under Chud - they were all seemingly shotgun draws to DW for two yards).  Stewart can do a lot, but all three can do it all.  You could split him wide, and have him take one of the screen options at the edge that come in our most-used packaged play (read option/naked screen Smith/that looping Ginn screen on the other side), but that's again something that's just a different look, not something that would've been unable to pull off in games Stewart wasn't in.   

I'd also go as far as to say, with Stewart just getting back, I wouldn't make these broad plans to gameplan him in specifically anyway.  You want to suit your players but it's not like he'll be playing 40 snaps. 

 

It doesn't seem worth saying "this is what you do with Smith in the game."  Review game tape of 12 of the last 13 years.  Do most of those things.  You've seen them, you know them.  

 

They went to slants and dosed up the corner routes more with Smith gone, and I don't know if that would or should keep up (it suits the WRs but not Cam, especially if he's tense).  I'd work in a fair bit of Olsen in 2 TE sets, having everyone else set him up in the traditional F-post, I'd have him get a couple shots down the field, but otherwise I'd have him work the middle at 15 yards behind the clearouts. 

 

Overall, schematically, I would run more 3 WR stuff, and more 3 WR looks from base personnel or 21 personnel (Hartsock stays in, Olsen splits).  You have to be able to run on the 9ers and you have to set it up so they have fewer LBs on the field.  You achieve both, to a point, with 3 WR sets.  With a little more spread, if necessary, pull LaFell to crack a LB with that zip motion Moose always ran (and turn it into a few drags when it's pass).  

 

 

Alternately, with the base defense being pretty strong, I'd play the 9ers' game and go 22 personnel against it a bit.  If needed, pull Hangartner in the game.  Big on big, so to speak.  They're a good pursuit team but if you can find a seam on the outside zone after making them account for 8-9 gaps, you're going to bust one. 

 

I tend to elaborate on stuff like this on the link in my sig closer to gametime.  I'm kinda into formation maniplation of a defense, and this offense does well in doing that. 

 

 

[ThunderKatt]

Let's go back to the Coryell hybrid read option plays.  No one can game plan for plays from the first year.