Nix’s offense is a drastic bordering on radical change from old scheme

[GEETEELEE]

The new features included:
• No-huddle: The Yellow Jackets went without a huddle on several drives. The move prevented the Irish from substituting and helped Georgia Tech build rhythm.
• Wide receiver motion: Star wide out Calvin Johnson lined up everywhere but in the backfield and often went in motion before the snap. The movement allowed Johnson to get off the line of scrimmage freely and confused the Irish defensive backs. Johnson caught seven passes for 111 yards and a touchdown. moving pocket on some pass plays and showed a diverse run-blocking approach. The offensive line mixed zone blocking, which allows the ballcarrier to choose a running lane, with the stunting and pulling plays they mastered a year ago.

Not sure I agree with Johnson "often" in motion, but yeah, there were changes. Except for the results. Maybe the changes were more extensive than I thought - I noticed at times the offense seemed tenative, especially on the no-huddle offense which did NOT seem tenative last year.


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[midatlantech]

I thought the no huddle was a failure after it's initial minor success. We were moving the ball against ND anyway at the time and I just didn't understand why go to the No Huddle when what we were doing was working.

 

[beej67]

Wild. Now I *really* need to see the replay. I missed a lot of that.

If indeed we did go no huddle, and did use motion, while only getting one procedure penalty the whole game, that shows discipline at the very least - something that's been lacking from Tech teams of the past.

Sounds to me that at the end of the day, offensive system is secondary to offensive execution.

 

[JTS]

We used no huddle quite a bit. The only motion I recall is moving the TE from one side to the other and occasionally motioning a RB out to WR position.

 

[midatlantech]

Yes, there wasn't a lot of motion that I remember. There was a lot of no huddle but it was fairly slow in getting it moving. But we did execute well in the first half but blew it when the game was on the line.
The James Johnson illegal formation penalty was dumb, obvious and a real killer for us as far as drives go (and there were others).

 

[beej67]

I thought the 2 men in motion was our only offensive penalty.

In any case, I don't think anyone can complain about dumb mistakes after this past game. We may not have played well, but we certainly played as mistake free as we ever have. Zero turnovers, and only something like 30 yards of penalties the whole game, on either side of the ball.

 

[ramblinwise1]

I agree we had some success, the sad part is that the success disappeared after halftime, otherwise the results would have been spectacular.

 

[TechGator1066]

Wild. Now I *really* need to see the replay. I missed a lot of that.

If indeed we did go no huddle, and did use motion, while only getting one procedure penalty the whole game, that shows discipline at the very least - something that's been lacking from Tech teams of the past.

Sounds to me that at the end of the day, offensive system is secondary to offensive execution.

Very promising aspect of our offense this year, no careless mistakes, if we can keep this up it will be very helpful in close games where one mistake can ruin us.

 

[beej67]

Yeah, that's good. But lack of, you know, points is bad.

Consider this possibility:
The problem is that Gailey built us into a team that could run without a big OL. I'm not sure Nix's system can get rushing yards without a big OL. That's especially concerning when we play two patsies, then UVA, because we won't beat UVA in the offensive trenches, and we will beat these two patsies. Which might get Nix thinking that some plays work when actually they don't.