HD says people won't get used to defending the TO

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Ed in Chesterfield, Va., writes: Hey Heather how are you? I'm a VT grad but have a question about Georgia Tech. Do you think that it's been overlooked, by yourself and others who expect GT to contend next year, that ACC teams were new to facing Johnson's offense last year but will now atleast be aquainted with it and find weaknesses? I agree the Jackets have a lot of talent in the backfield but LSU showed what can happen when you have time to prepare. Thanks


Heather Dinich: Definitely not, and the reason I say that is because this isn't the NFL -- there are constantly new players rotating into the programs who will be facing the Jackets for the first time. And remember, even veterans only see this once a year -- unless you're Wake Forest and make a habit of playing Navy. So regardless of how good a coach is against Georgia Tech's offense, he still has to teach it to his players, usually within a week. Also, I expect the offense to run even smoother this season.


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Its not like we run the fumbleruski every single play or even the Annexation of New Mexico. This is not a trick-play system. It is a system designed to create one on one match-ups in different manner than most other systems. This works very well in college, because there are many many more one-on-one match-ups to exploit at this level of play.

Anybody acting like this is Tecmo bowl football where if you call the perfect defense there is no way the offense can run the play is an idiot.
 
If we execute it efficiently, only superior athleticism will have a chance to stop us. Period. If we fumble and do not execute, then Gardner Webb happens. Period.
 
JacketDan said:
Everybody acting like this is Tecmo bowl football where if you call the perfect defense there is no way the offense can run the play is an idiot.
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You can't stop the Bo Jackson sweep even if you pick the play.
 
JWE37 said:
If we execute it efficiently, only superior athleticism will have a chance to stop us.
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And even then, there's no guarantee our opponent will win. Superior athleticism is great but they have to execute, as well.

Duke didn't have superior athletes but they understood what it took to stop the TO. Unfortunately for opponents (in most cases) is that it leaves the pass wide open.
 
JacketDan said:
Its not like we run the fumbleruski every single play or even the Annexation of New Mexico. This is not a trick-play system. It is a system designed to create one on one match-ups in different manner than most other systems. This works very well in college, because there are many many more one-on-one match-ups to exploit at this level of play.

Anybody acting like this is Tecmo bowl football where if you call the perfect defense there is no way the offense can run the play is an idiot.
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And furthermore . . . . . this is not just the triple option---as it is more and more completely implemented, it is going to become the "Paul Johnson Option Offense". Everybody that saw us last year will think that they have seen it once, but the offense they will see this fall will be run better, executed better, plus will have (estimating) a dozen more formations, a dozen more motions, a dozen more blocking alignments and a passing attack. Plays will develop more quickly. Plays will be called for no other reason but to set up subsequent plays. These opposition fans WANT to believe that their defenses will grow to a point that they can stop it. Notre Dame plays Navy every year and couldn't stop it, Army and Air Force were baffled, Wake plays them a lot and wins, but they don't stop the offense.
If you watch the Peach Bowl LSU did an okay job stopping some sets, but, by and large, our execution was the major problem. We still had eight or ten big gaining plays--just ended up shooting ourselves in foot. When and if we get to the point of flawless execution, with a quarterback that is born to run the option it will be a beautiful thing--and every team in our league is going to dread facing us.
 
If this logic were true, then no one would run the pro style offense because everyone would know how to stop it by now. People are stupid.
 
Why don't folks ever feel confident about beating a team running a pro set or variations from it? They see it week in and week out but pro set teams still will . . . and lose. Must be a little more to it than familiarity, don'cha think?
 
I like our offense because it is just like playing poker.

You practice and practice and do what you do best. Over time you'll win enough big pots (long runs and 12 passes a game) to cover your small losses (+/- 3 yd gains).

Then you have the ability to do occasional goofy stuff to keep people from knowing exactly what you are doing. Your base offense is so repetitive and simple that the goofy stuff is even more surprising and thus likely to succeed when you do it. Over time, people know to expect something goofy occasionally but they don't know when, so that affects their ability to play your straight up game.

I wonder if CPJ plays poker for fun - wouldn't surprise me a bit.
 
Can someone go back and watch the first quarter of the CFA Bowl and tell me where LSU stopped us? They were shutting off the middle, but we were torching them on the edge. We made two drives deep inot their territory, to the 32 and then to the 11. What stopped us in that game was giving them 28 points on non-offensive screw-ups in the 2nd quarter while we gave away two posessions. A 7-3 game became a 35-3 game at the half.
 
stinger78 said:
Can someone go back and watch the first quarter of the CFA Bowl and tell me where LSU stopped us? They were shutting off the middle, but we were torching them on the edge. We made two drives deep inot their territory, to the 32 and then to the 11. What stopped us in that game was giving them 28 points on non-offensive screw-ups in the 2nd quarter while we gave away two posessions. A 7-3 game became a 35-3 game at the half.
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Exactly right. I'm still looking for who stopped us last season, and we really never did figure out what we were doing.
 
ncjacket said:
Exactly right. I'm still looking for who stopped us last season, and we really never did figure out what we were doing.
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We had 97 yards in the 1st, 47 in the 2nd, 85 in the 3rd and 87 in the 4th for a total of 316 yards. Add in about 45 more yard on two drives we gave up in the second, and you get 361 yards, which is only 11 yards off our season average of 372. And that's w/o being able to play our smash-mouth game the whole second half. We passed 24 times in that game, almost 2x our average/game.

The moral is: Don't sweat guys, we're gonna be OK.
 
You can not stop an avalanche and you can not stop a DIESAL powered TO--GO JACKETS!
 
They may stop the triple option. It has been done before.
But can they stop the triple, midline option, freeze option, and the toss? Can they stop the fully installed run-n-shoot?
I pray every day that all teams prepare for is the triple. We will own this league if that happens.
 
GTBandit22 said:
They may stop the triple option. It has been done before.
But can they stop the triple, midline option, freeze option, and the toss? Can they stop the fully installed run-n-shoot?
I pray every day that all teams prepare for is the triple. We will own this league if that happens.
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GTBandit, did you ever consider, with reference to your sig, that if we had been playing VT rather than Miami, that JD would have been called for a head-to-head?

:p
 
JacketDan said:
Its not like we run the fumbleruski every single play or even the Annexation of New Mexico.
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Annexation of Puerto Rico?

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Annexation of Puerto Rico

A glorious football play popularized in the movie "Little Giants." Its is pretty much a center sneak. The QB hikes the ball, and pretends to run the play while the center, who actually has the ball, runs toward the end zone. This play won the game for the Little Giants in their final game against the Cowboys. Will go down in fottball history and lore.
 
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