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I really like this. What do you guys think? Is this something PJ also did at Navy?
 
Great idea. Not only will this help in cases of injuries, but it could lead to regularly switching up the QB and really screwing with the DC.
 
gt23eric said:
I was thinking the same GSU.
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Can you imagine Jaybo with Dwyer, Jones and Nesbitt in the backfield? Or maybe Jaybo with Dwyer, Nesbitt and Tevin? Can you say "mess with the mind of the DC?"

That just wouldn't be fair.
 
Didn't AA say that he'd learned all three positions that potentially handle the ball? Might have been in the ESPN interview. Sooooooo . . .

I can hear Wes now. "Tech breaks the huddle. What's this? Allen under center! Nesbitt at left A-back? Allen takes the snap and is sweeping left. No, wait . . . he just pitched to Nesbitt who's going right. Nesbitt is reading the defense. He makes a perfect option pitch to the Diesel who turns the corner. And he's gone. Touchdown Tech. Amazing, Rick. Only in Paul Johnson's offense!" :laugher:
 
yjack said:
Didn't AA say that he'd learned all three positions that potentially handle the ball? Might have been in the ESPN interview. Sooooooo . . .

I can hear Wes now. "Tech breaks the huddle. What's this? Allen under center! Nesbitt at left A-back? Allen takes the snap and is sweeping left. No, wait . . . he just pitched to Nesbitt who's going right. Nesbitt is reading the defense. He makes a perfect option pitch to the Diesel who turns the corner. And he's gone. Touchdown Tech. Amazing, Rick. Only in Paul Johnson's offense!" :laugher:
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And that wouldn't even be a trick play.
 
I think it goes very well with our offense. What we already often do is run the same play over with perhaps some slight variations until we find a crack and exploit it. If we start switching up players at A-back and B-back, we throw players with different skills and abilities at the same defensive players until we find one that breaks em. Plus we might have a defensive player who reads how a particular player acts after a while, then next thing you know there is a different player at the same position and all hell breaks loose.
 
This is going to be great.

Just string together some kind of defense so we don't have 50-47 games every week (one way or the other).
 
Even without the trick plays, we have some QBs who are simply great athletes and runners so why not give them some reps instead of holding clip boards? I think he did this at Navy as well.
 
Good Lord we are gonna be scary....maybe not this year but eventually we will be the top offensive team in the country!!! I'm so excited I just puked in my mouth a little
 
AA only said he's practiced AB and BB not QB. I don't think you'll see a RB line up a QB but you'll see QBs line up at AB or possibly WR. I heard CPJ say that he had several QBs at Navy play different positions early in their careers before switching them back to QB later after senior QBs left. Much like Connor Shaw did at FB.
 
BerryGT said:
AA only said he's practiced AB and BB not QB. I don't think you'll see a RB line up a QB but you'll see QBs line up at AB or possibly WR. I heard CPJ say that he had several QBs at Navy play different positions early in their careers before switching them back to QB later after senior QBs left. Much like Connor Shaw did at FB.
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Me thinks if David Sims ends up at BB or AB we could see him take some snaps from QB. Or Maybe if Tevin moves positions...other than those two I doubt any others move to QB for a play or two.
 
My first thought when I saw this wasn't so much that it was so that we'd see Josh line up at A-back, but that this would help the QB's understand what they need to do in terms of pitch-ratio and reads.
 
I went back and read that interview HD did with AA and I think I interpreted it differently. I took this quote, "There's three positions, really, that can touch the ball and run it," Allen said. "I was interested in learning all of them anyway." to mean the 3 RB positions on the field during our base formation. He might have meant the 3 seperate positions including QB, as was said earlier. That's even better.

Beej, I heard it in an audio interview, but here's some proof of all this. Check out Kaipo's player page and what he did during the 05 and 06 seasons. Played ST and backup WR in 05 and made a start at AB in 06.
http://navysports.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/kaheakuenhada_kaiponoa00.html
 
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