Watching Florida's Offense

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Was anyone else noticing a lot of similarities between the Gators and our offenses?

There is no mesh read between the QB and FB, but they ran a QB dive and options to both sides numerous times.

I would love to see that inside pitch that Florida ran, where they ran a different version of a triple option. QB rolls out, with a pitch man out wide, and the QB pitches to an inside slashing back. It worked very well.
 
I'd like to see the shovel pass to the strong side A-Back!
 
Wouldn't be surprised if CPJ has something like that deep in his playbook of a mind.

Just for giggles, here's how I'd do it:
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1 example where this might work is when the defense does that VPI thing with practically 2 Nose Guards crashing in and the playside DE swings wide creating a huge space between him and the closest DT. The BB, instead of running a dive right at the DT's, could attack that outside gap.
 
That inside pass was to a trailing tight end. I guess you could maybe do the same to the B Back, but normally in our offense they are keying on that back. So I don't think it'd be much of a surprise.
 
So switch the play a bit. Instead of the BBack taking the inside route have the right side A back taking that route and BBack run the outside run.

so in the bottom pic it would be SB (at line) = left A back (Cox), SB behind QB is BBack (Allen), FB is now right side A back (Dwyer). Would prefer Dwyer in that role rather than Roddy, as it is a run up the middle still -- and there are some big bodies in there.

*Note -- would have drawn the play like BerryGT but my drawing skills on the computer suck.
 
augustabuzz said:
I think I remember reading that Meyer and Johnson are good friends.
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I didn't think 'good' friends, but I did hear that PJ spent an hour or two talking about option tactics with Meyer on the phone once, and afterwards Meyer told his AD never to schedule Tech.
 
beej67 said:
I didn't think 'good' friends, but I did hear that PJ spent an hour or two talking about option tactics with Meyer on the phone once, and afterwards Meyer told his AD never to schedule Tech.
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After watching the Peach Bowl I'd bet Myer changed his tune.
 
What would be funny, actually, is to run it out of a trick play. Nesbitt leans over to one side as if to audible, then the center direct snaps it to Dwyer. Have Nesbitt be the inside pitch guy and Roddy in motion the outside pitch guy, with Dwyer making the read to pitch inside or outside or keep.

That'd actually run faster than BerryGT's diagram above, because the QB and RB's paths never have to cross, and there's never a mesh read.
 
Urban's offense has more in common with Paul Johnson's offense then most other spreads. For fun, read this link:

http://smartfootball.blogspot.com/2008/12/florida-gatorurban-meyer-offense.html

PJ is mentioned a few times as well, citing the similarities between the two schools.

I noticed in talking to my coworkers today that most people who are NFL fans have fundamentally no real knowledge of how an option works and why it is successful. Most people seem to think about it in terms of traditional run based offenses. If only the DCs of the country thought the same way.
 
beej67 said:
What would be funny, actually, is to run it out of a trick play. Nesbitt leans over to one side as if to audible, then the center direct snaps it to Dwyer. Have Nesbitt be the inside pitch guy and Roddy in motion the outside pitch guy, with Dwyer making the read to pitch inside or outside or keep.

That'd actually run faster than BerryGT's diagram above, because the QB and RB's paths never have to cross, and there's never a mesh read.
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I like the sound of that, especially since I think Nesbitt might be faster than Dwyer in the open field. Main problem I could foresee is that it might not really trick people cause the defense is already going to be gunning for Dwyer anyway (if they aren't then they already have problems.
 
There's an explanation of the triple shovel pass thing on that blog too.
 
I think Nesbitt might be faster than Dwyer in the open field.
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Well you'd be wrong, there. But they're both fast enough to where I think they could be used interchangeably in the shovel triple option play we're talking about.
 
beej67 said:
Well you'd be wrong, there.
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Yeah now that I think about it that I had thought that back in the early part of the season before Dwyer was ripping off 40-60 yard runs most games. Didn't really update it
 
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