How the option is supposed to be run: Navy vs ND

Notice how fast the QB scales the LOS and reads the end. Navy's option looks far more deceptive than ours.
 
One thing I am curious about is the effect of the military background of the players. In Navy the players are trained regularly to follow rules in an exact fashion and function as a unit. How much does this experience help the players in executing the involved pitches and blocking schemes? And how much of it can we expect in a non-Navy school.
 
cyptomcat said:
One thing I am curious about is the effect of the military background of the players. In Navy the players are trained regularly to follow rules in an exact fashion and function as a unit. How much does this experience help the players in executing the involved pitches and blocking schemes? And how much of it can we expect in a non-Navy school.
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Well CPJ taught it pretty well at GSU...
 
damn they were running the hell out of that toss sweep
 
I watched Tech beat the ever living dogsnot out of Johnson his first year at Navy. I don't think he got a first down.
 
Actually, we haven't played Navy since he got there.

beej67 said:
I watched Tech beat the ever living dogsnot out of Johnson his first year at Navy. I don't think he got a first down.
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That 70-7 game was against Charlie Weatherbie. Johnson's first year was the next year.
 
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getwrecked said:
That 70-7 game was against Charlie Weatherbie. Johnson's first year was the next year.
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Wow, I didn't realize Navy won ONLY their first and last games in 2002. They beat a cupcake, then NOBODY for the next 11 weeks, then absolutely destroyed Army. hmmm.


Anyways, HERE you can get all the box scores for PJs first year at USNA.
 
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getwrecked said:
That 70-7 game was against Charlie Weatherbie. Johnson's first year was the next year.
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If O'Leary and ND had consummated their relationship a few weeks earlier, we could have hired Paul Johnson back then instead of Navy. Maybe Bilbo would have fit the QB model better than he did for Chan.
 
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WracerX said:
If O'Leary and ND had consummated their relationship a few weeks earlier, we could have hired Paul Johnson back then instead of Navy. Maybe Bilbo would have fit the QB model better than he did for Chan.
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Bilbo was not as mobile as you seem to recall. He wanted, and was best suited, to be a "drop back passer" but could never really get accuracy on his cannon of an arm
 
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BuzzCzar said:
Bilbo was not as mobile as you seem to recall. He wanted, and was best suited, to be a "drop back passer" but could never really get accuracy on his cannon of an arm
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I don't know, he was moble enough to be a receiver. He may not have been very elusive, but he certainly wouldn't be taken down by an arm tackle.

The point was really about CPJ anyway. I don't know if Braine would have taken the leap to get Johnson. But he was coming off back to back I-AA titles at GSU. We also had some option already in the playbook.
 
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beej67 said:
Someone murder me, quick, I switched a couple dates around from when Kyle was in diaper training.
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You said we beat PJ's team 70-7. Huge mistake, pal.
 
You said we beat PJ's team 70-7.
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Actually, I wasn't even thinking of that game. I was thinking of the previous one, where we played them at BDS. I can't remember the year, but in retrospect, it was definitely an O'Leary team, so it couldn't have been PJ.
 
beej67 said:
Actually, I wasn't even thinking of that game. I was thinking of the previous one, where we played them at BDS. I can't remember the year, but in retrospect, it was definitely an O'Leary team, so it couldn't have been PJ.
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I remember the game. Wasn't that during Gailey's first year?
 
No it was O'leary's games. The 70-7 game was two days before 9/11 and Tech's big season became a mess with delays, moving games, etc.
 
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