Our Offense and 'Eye Candy'

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http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/fl-mississippi-state-orange-bowl-1228-20141227-story.html

"It's basic, but it is very hard to stop," Holmes said of Tech's triple option offense. "[Yellow Jackets' quarterback Justin Thomas] is tremendous at it. He's small and he hides behind the offensive line. The line cuts so he can see. There's a lot of motion for eye candy. It tries to mess with your eyes and keys [to reading the offense.] Other than that, it's a basic game plan that they execute very well."

Holmes said Tech has mastered the art of "eye candy" as well as anyone.

Using Tech as an example, Holmes said once a tight end gets in motion, he'll be followed by another receiver who gets in motion. Then, the same tight end, will motion again before the play starts. He said that coupled with Thomas, who is 5-foot-11, can make things complex.
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Someone inform the AA. I'll delete this post in an hour.
 
Mississippi State fans might be more delusional than all of Miami, Duke, UNCheat, and VT combined.
 
You know, the Sun Sentinel isn't a bad paper. But the writing I've read so far from it, for its Orange Bowl coverage, has been godawful. It's either bad writing or bad editing or most likely a combination of both. Seriously ... tight ends? Has this guy not seen one second of Georgia Tech football? It's not like we play Miami every year or just played FSU in the ACCCG or are the No. 12 team in the country or anything?
 
swampsting said:
You know, the Sun Sentinel isn't a bad paper. But the writing I've read so far from it, for its Orange Bowl coverage, has been godawful. It's either bad writing or bad editing or most likely a combination of both. Seriously ... tight ends? Has this guy not seen one second of Georgia Tech football? It's not like we play Miami every year or just played FSU in the ACCCG or are the No. 12 team in the country or anything?
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My dad has season tickets and watches every game and was talking to me about our tight end going in motion this morning.

I'm not really sure who he was talking about, but didn't want to get into a whole big thing.
 
andrew said:
My dad has season tickets and watches every game and was talking to me about our tight end going in motion this morning.

I'm not really sure who he was talking about, but didn't want to get into a whole big thing.
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I'll cut your Pops a break since he, and I'm going to guess, is probably older than even I am.

I guess it gets to me since I've been around this offense since 1985 and I've known PJ for a long time. Plus, dude writing the story ought to do more than just cursory homework, such as records when trailing at halftime. He can look at a Tech roster and see no one is listed at tight end.
 
Miss State needs to really work on stopping our tight end. He is like a phantom out there. Several teams don't even know we have a tight end.
 
Is this like when Bobby Bowden was trying to figure out how to stop our "dadgum wishbone" offense? How'd that work for ya?
 
swampsting said:
You know, the Sun Sentinel isn't a bad paper. But the writing I've read so far from it, for its Orange Bowl coverage, has been godawful. It's either bad writing or bad editing or most likely a combination of both. Seriously ... tight ends? Has this guy not seen one second of Georgia Tech football? It's not like we play Miami every year or just played FSU in the ACCCG or are the No. 12 team in the country or anything?
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The author of that article isn't using the term tight end. The MS State player he is quoting/paraphrasing is.

Edit: Of course, I am assuming that he is paraphrasing accurately, but with today's media you never know.
 
The way I read it, I thought the player was trying to compare the AB motion to how other teams will motion a TE pre-snap to get the defense to reveal the coverage.
 
I hope we line up in a bunch formation just to see helmets looking at the sideline before hammering the ball behind Shad Mason, again.
 
"It's pretty complicated because it's so compact," Brown said. "You really can't see what's coming. You try to spot the small things, which should take you to the ball."

Mississippi State hasn't faced a triple option since 2009. Many of its players haven't seen it since high school.

"We're used to playing either power teams or spread offenses," Brown said. "So it's hard to really look at everything. It's compact — reading what you're supposed to read and tackling who you're supposed to tackle."

MSU coach Dan Mullen spoke Saturday about the importance of identifying the fullback in order to stop the triple option. From that point, each player needs to stay true to his assignment.

"It's the same thing, but there's a lot of different motions," Brown said. "Defeating the cut block; it's so compact, it's hard to see and everything gets up on you so fast."
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Let me help you Dan.

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Just hearing that they're spending so much effort on seeing the play that's coming from pre-snap visual cues gives me tingles.
 
it's too bad archie isn't here to comment on our offense and its veritable Smörgåsbord of eye candy.
 
Maybe it's just me but it sure feels like they are saying all the rights things that will lead to us just torching their pants off.
 
WreckRod said:
Maybe it's just me but it sure feels like they are saying all the rights things that will lead to us just torching their pants off.
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Could be saying things to get us over confident and then they sucker punch us. I hope they believe the SEC tripe and are over confident themselves and do a Sooner Boomer appearance.
 
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