QB run game. I feel he uses it more than others.
I don't exactly know how to ask this question, but there was a Nebraska fan account earlier this week, I think Monday, that was talking about an article on the spread and basically said defenses have learned how to adjust to stop it and it's easier now since everyone runs a version of it, and that someone has to come up with a new way offensively to beat teams and change the spread.......what do we think is the next evolution? I don't know how you go any faster than Oregon used to, or have more playmakers on the field, or change up personnel groupings or variations of play calls....is it as simple as just continuing to watch athletes evolve over the years and get freakier and better through childhood development and try and win recruiting battles for them?
Sipple was talking about it earlier this week. Basically it was talking about the tempo aspect of it. The rules have changed and defenses have adapted to the tempo aspect.
I don't know that I necessarily agree with this. You maybe don't get the easy stuff as much as you used to and the schemes are more complicated, but I don't think there's a defense that has really figured out how to stop the spread. Our expectations of what good defense are have just completely adjusted.
Yeah I understand. I think Omar and Toure and Martin are probably enough to atleast create some attention to change some defensive looks. I mean on paper, the scheme sounds pretty good. My opinion after a few years now is that it's a little pretty boy, just my opinion, but I'm probably wrong on that too.
I'm not sure it's as much as the scheme per se and "stopping the spread" as it's just the athletes are better and faster and bigger and stronger over the last decade, than they were when Chip was killin it.
I listened to Rob Zatechka on their Doc Sports Podcast one night and he was talking about the spread blocking scheme compared to the one he blocked for back in the day. He described the spread blocking as more of deal where you just kinda "blanket" the defenders and your RB waits for a hole to open, while the ones he blocked for were more create holes for the RB by actually driving the defenders back and out of the picture. I know it's been debunked a few times on here but it's always been stuck in my head. I believe it was after the Minnesota game last year that he said that.
Probably just giving people what they want to hear then. What's the difference then if schemes are the same? I think probably execution the most.
Do you have the Athletic? If so, I can track down a really, really good piece they did comparing Cockeye's blocking scheme v. Wisconsin. Cockeye is all zone v. Wisconsin is pretty much all gap.
