The Future of Offense?

Maybe this would be the perfect answer for you guys to get Colt McCoy and John Chiles on the field at the same time. Or better yet, Chiles and Garrett Gilbert. I bet this is the direction Mack heads in the future.

If we weren’t so good at recruiting and developing 0-lineman I would be tempted by this system. I’m sure some 1AA team will pick this up and later a 1A school will attempt it with some revision.

At first it is confusing but after a few series you pick up on the keys and know what they are doing just two steps after the play starts. If those wide recivers (glorified tackles) that are covered up don’t take off across the line of scrimage it is a pass and they are out of possition to pass protect. If they do cross the line of scrimage it is a run or screen. In this case you don’t need to cover any of the recivers that went down field beacuse they would have illeagle blockers down field so your entire secondary needs to haul a** towards the line of scrimage and find the ball. Again most of your players can’t make an open field block because they are out of position or not athletic enough. You favorite Coach Bob ran this against us his first year at OU and they killed us for two series. Then because we had a good defencive coach back then (RC) we made adjustments. They just beat us the old fashioned way after that. I’m sure against high school kids that are not prepared it could work for one or two games. But the in college it would give the defence the advantage on many plays.

That thought alone is enough to make us want to adopt it immediately.

Matt Stafford used to make that throw.

We’re going to line up in the A-11 one or two plays per game this season. It’s a great formation because you can have six receivers running 2-yard hitch patterns all at the same time. The Sooners won’t know what hit ‘em, especially when I follow it up with 8 straight rocket pitches to the short side.

I saw the throw dedfischer is referring to in person… and it was unbelievable. The kid has some things to work on, but that gun is something else.

Uphill.

Hmmmm…..

Ninja, used by Mike Leach @ OU in 1999 (they kicked our ass with it, several plays in a row, we couldn’t stop it) and @ Tech in 2000 (we were prepared for it, and stopped it).

—–X-T———LG-OC-RG———T-Z—-
——H—————————-Y—–
——————F–Q——————-

I’ve also heard it referred to as Lonesome Polecat. This isn’t new.

This reminds me of when Dale Weiner claimed that he created the Spin offense and an article was posted in AFM. He and the AFM staff were inundated by a deluge of mail from football coaches everywhere asking if they had ever heard of a single-wing motion series?

Sounds like another case of someone “inventing” something that has already been done before by someone else.

This question may be stupid, but:

Don’t seven players have to be on the line of scrimmage when the ball is snapped? Do six players just jump up before the snap?

Also, can anyone foresee any rule problems with this offense?

“Don’t seven players have to be on the line of scrimmage when the ball is snapped?”

Yes, 7 men have to be on the LOS on every offensive play. If you look closely at the video on the site, they make sure to have 7 on the LOS every time, although I don’t think the refs are trying too hard to enforce that rule.

From what I understand, this numbering rule does not transfer over under NCAA rules, so you can’t run it in the NCAA as is, i.e. with two TEs around the center.

“We’ll probably see a Division I team go to something like this, but as usual, it will first be attempted at one of the more obscure programs. ”

A&M-OU ‘99 and A&M-Tech ‘00, Leach ran what he called Ninja in both games.

It is basically the same formation, but with a lineman split out with trips receivers on each side, and one receiver behind the other two players.

BTW, my link above is mislabeled. That is Ninja, not Polecat. Polecat is different, although it too has been run recently in D-IA college football.

I don’t think you’ll see someone at the DI-A college level go to the A-11, but you never know.