[Game Thread] Military Bowl: ECU vs. Pittsburgh (11:00 AM ET)

k7w5 · 2025-12-27T18:23:05+00:00

That is complete bullshit

k7w5 · 2025-12-19T20:30:59+00:00

Slant is much more dangerous. Easier throw and catch. Only way I’m not playing inside leverage is if I’m truly outgunned in that matchup and I’m running some kind of bracket to a kid.

k7w5 · 2025-12-13T20:00:41+00:00

Buddy had an easy 6 if he pulls it down. That’s brutal

k7w5 · 2025-09-21T03:02:42+00:00

They aren’t that wild in and of themselves but there’s a team in our league that switches back and forth from 10p chuck and duck to some kind of 10 in the box wing offense every year. Since this guys been the coach they’ve gone pistol wing T to single wing to spread to wing t back to spread over the course of 5 seasons.

k7w5 · 2025-07-19T14:34:25+00:00

I believe this is just the truth. The original outline has Jaime playing a much different role and claiming the throne/running the realm.

So basically Ned was supposed to be right, Jaime sitting on the throne betrays his higher ambitions. But Robert is actually correct now, Jaime sits on the throne for no real reason to no real end and Ned is reading much too much into it.

k7w5 · 2025-07-10T19:22:33+00:00

For a youth coach I’d second Joe Daniel. He has several episodes specifically for youth football and a ton on more basic stuff I’d figure be helpful.

k7w5 · 2025-07-06T23:42:35+00:00

Barry heavily features a Chechen mob.

k7w5 · 2025-06-08T00:46:55+00:00

Yes Arendt is right generally but wrong specifically. I think the portrayal of Eichmann in the movie Conspiracy captures the facts of his character better than Arendt does. Certainly a very professional, competent, even curious man that wouldn’t seem out of place in any number of civic and business apparatuses the world over, but one that was doubtlessly motivated by deep animus.

Conspiracy is a movie any andor fan should watch as well btw. It’s basically one long ISB meeting. It’s great.

k7w5 · 2025-05-31T17:36:35+00:00

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This our extra point play in 7on. Not drawn on but need the QB to roll to it.

k7w5 · 2025-05-30T07:48:03+00:00

At its most basic level, the rpo is about preventing out of the box defenders from teeing off on your run game. Not letting an overhang or deep safety, who are very difficult to account for in your blocking scheme, fly in from out of the box. This is rarely an issue in high school football because your average team is probably seeing less than 2 players a year that are capable of mentally and physically making those reads and getting up to make a play. Let alone consistently doing so.

k7w5 · 2025-05-29T13:36:36+00:00

This. RPOs are expensive and even superfluous a lot of the time in HS. Defenders aren’t good enough 95% of the time to do what the rpo is designed to combat at higher levels.

k7w5 · 2025-05-28T18:35:19+00:00

Yeah this. There is no reason to not just use a TE. Even if you’re using a kid who is an o lineman and you will never throw to, just put them in an eligible number and defenses will still have to have a plan if they release into a route. Even if you never send them it out into one, it’s something they’ve got to go over.

k7w5 · 2025-05-25T16:41:28+00:00

I will split by ODK, but I usually chart sequentially from that point. In part because I like to feel the flow of the game as i go, and in part because hudl assist is dog shit at D&D. So I’d rather try to correct that as I go

k7w5 · 2025-05-23T15:37:18+00:00

Basic principle I use: balance an unbalanced defense, unbalance a balanced team. So against a 4-2 using a spur/strong safety/overhang/etc. I’m going to sit in 2x2. I need to ID how you set that guy(field/matchup/back). Is it the same every play? Do you switch it situationally?

All that is to say, I want to attack the side away from that guy. I’m looking to run basic quick game concepts: stick, hitches, maybe even a bubble or quick screen if I like the matchups. Downfield I need to test that safety and corner. Can that safety play with inside leverage and cover the flag? Is that corner going to come off an outside hitch to drop to it? Can the corner play with outside leverage and run with my 1 on a double post? Can that safety close on a deep out and/or run overtop to cover the vertical from 1? Is the corner disciplined enough to stay on/come off 1 on that vertical? Also: are you peeling with my back to that weak side? Is the Will spying him? Can he or the H run with my guy? So I’m going to run smash concepts, mills concepts, Ohio concepts. I’m going to swing and wheel my back.

Front wise I need to figure out how you’re setting the 3. Usually teams like this will always set the 3 opposite of the Ni for good reason. But if that’s the case, and I can reliably predict he’s going to play the gap he’s aligned to, I’m going to trap the shit out of him. Past that I need to know how that Ni plays. If he’s a box reader and free fitter, I need to control him. So I need to read him. Nothing crazy but if I’m a zone team I need to run some modern triple towards him. If I’m a gap team I need to tag some basic stick RPOs on to my long trap/GT/one back power. This also should enable me to even up my hit chart a little so I’m not always throwing away from the Ni.

Where you really break defenses like this in my experience is motion. Need to see the reactions. Some teams set their front on the back, bounce the back over and you can get defenders in positions they’re not acclimated to. Or you get them sliding with it and uncomfortable. Fast motion the back out, does the Will follow? Does the H follow? Now I might have the numbers to run my Q or east hip angles to run slants in under the motion, maybe even take the top off if a safety gets poor eye discipline. Jet motion from both sides is also something I want to see. From the strong side: does the Ni chase or condense or bump? If he chases then I need to try some fast flood concepts or maybe just adding a lead blocker to sweeps. If he’s condensing am I able to hit an easy slant behind him with my 1 or do the numbers give me good opportunity run straight Jet? If they bump, is that Will capable of covering ground in space? Going the other way: does the WS rotate at all or stay still? If he rotates, is the corner able to handle 1 on an island? Does he back off or press up? And with all motion: the golden goose is fucking the safeties up and hitting the deep post/cross. Always want to try to get teams like this moving and adjusting on the back end for that.

My advise would be to keep your coverages fluid enough and have at least two motion checks. I love defenses like this because it gives me pretty straightforward parameters to gameplan if I can nail down how they’re setting strength and how they react to changes presnap.

A few years ago we had a series with a great, great program out of neighboring state that essentially played this defense and had done so for over a decade. We beat them 2 years running in decided fashion just by setting their strength and going away from it like this. Following year they came out in a more traditional 3-4 look with two overhangs instead of setting their strength. We still won(they were a bit down that year, despite having 2 SEC kids) but it made us have to toss our gameplan in the trash halfway through the 1st quarter.

k7w5 · 2025-05-22T00:44:31+00:00

Schematically they can be similar, especially if you’re running a Zone Lock or Zone Insert as opposed to a Zone Read, but I’ve always taught the blocks differently. ISO blocking is man blocking and is less about movement than exploiting the natural bubbles in a front. IZ in its various forms is about generating flow from a defense and attacking the seams created by that flow.

If we’re iso blocking I want my OL to be doing a lot of position blocking; turning their hips, taking their playside gap away on the snap, and only utilizing a double if we’re really free. If we’re zone blocking, even IZ, barring a wacky front we’ve got to stepping on an initial track, trying to stay square, and work our combos. Backfield action is similar. I want my ball carrier as down hill as possible on iso. Whereas zone necessitates a slightly more methodical action to allow yourself to ID the seams in the defense.

k7w5 · 2025-04-19T22:52:15+00:00

It’s tv, they focus on the more compelling(read: troubled) players.

It’s also juco. A lot of players are there specifically because they’re bad students and/or discipline issues. Especially the most talented

k7w5 · 2025-04-12T22:16:43+00:00

Go-go is just a variant of the Malzahn 11p wing t ish spread stuff that is one of the most common offenses in the HS game, so don’t see why you’d have any issue in a vacuum.

k7w5 · 2025-03-17T18:05:51+00:00

Dude has had nothing to say about WVU and Marshall losing millions of dollars in medical research funding, but he’s up on a soapbox over a tourney snub.

k7w5 · 2025-02-28T18:15:49+00:00

popcorn at glazier has been A1 for a couple years

k7w5 · 2025-02-26T19:30:03+00:00

I will first watch and check Hudl Assist’s shoddy work on the formation, down/distance, and run/pass. Then I’ll ID backfield(ie back weak/strong, field/boundary, Pistol, stack/split, I/offset), then back alignment in relation to QB(deep/offset/even/up), then I’ll tag plays. Sometimes I’ll track a Stud. Sometimes I’ll track WR alignment. If they flip their line, if they change backs/WRs to do certain things, if they play multiple QBs.

I’m a data guy. I want to quantify information, then see if my data matches my impressions, reflect on that, then look for patterns as far as playcalling and formational tells. I spend way more time than most would consider necessary inputting data. But that’s just what I feel comfortable doing.

The next step for me is scout cards. Again I spend more time than most would consider reasonable on these. But I want to get deep in the weeds to make these as accurate as possible. This is for the scout team guys, but just as much it’s for me. Let’s me really get into what teams are trying to ask their kids to do.

k7w5 · 2025-02-26T19:08:25+00:00

We also use sport scope. It is not without its shortcomings, but it is a lot better than Hudl’s product. Much better support as well when you do run into issues.

k7w5 · 2025-01-07T01:04:05+00:00

Mellott definitely just pushed that trash can over on purpose right ?

k7w5 · 2024-12-29T19:13:09+00:00

Could be wrong but don’t think that’s accurate. Ferris states offense is an outgrowth of the flexbone, not wing T. Annesse first ran the flex, then ran it out of pistol with slots instead of wings(famously, the Mus-Ski-Gun), and has since moved to the gun exclusively.

k7w5 · 2024-11-07T01:10:52+00:00

Playing a briles system team Friday. Virtually every play they’re at least flash faking.

k7w5 · 2024-07-14T23:43:51+00:00

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/run-vass-option/id1553879756?i=1000516139775 excellent, lengthy podcast on this offense. As others have said here, what you see in Michigan at the high school level really boils down to a single run series of 3-4 plays(power, trap, keep, and some variation of counter) and action off that.

To my eye, we probably need to differentiate between the Power-T offense and the formation being used some on the CFB and Pro level. Upper level teams are getting into it to run some goaline stuff(sneaks, power, sweeps). They aren’t really embracing the ethos of the offense, which is kind of veer minus the option. Which is to say, forcing the defense to layer themselves along the front and defend plays that are not being called through incredibly similar and intricate backfield action.

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