Paul Johnson Wrinkles

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Every game there is a new wrinkle in the offense, without adding any radical new plays. Half the fun of the first offensive series each game is seeing how PJ has decided to screw with the opposing Def. Coordinator. The trips formation with the motion coming from the slot is just pure genius. How long until he starts having to recycle these "wrinkles?"
 
I was really surprised that we didn't see any B-back draw plays that gained huge chunks of yards against UNC and MSU. I'm also surprised we didn't run any toss sweep plays in the red zone.
 
alpha said:
I was really surprised that we didn't see any B-back draw plays that gained huge chunks of yards against UNC and MSU. I'm also surprised we didn't run any toss sweep plays in the red zone.
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Never seemed to need to run a toss sweep. With FSU's speed and as tired as we were getting, it seemed the right choice. It also helped that I think we had the greatest success up the middle this game more than any other this season.
 
I thought CPJ's wrinkles were much less noticeable than CBB's wrinkles. 'Course, when you are a hundred friggin' years old, your wrinkles will show up much more often on HD TV.
 
alpha said:
I was really surprised that we didn't see any B-back draw plays that gained huge chunks of yards against UNC and MSU. I'm also surprised we didn't run any toss sweep plays in the red zone.
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Last week we passed effectively which opened up the draw. I believe FSU was scouting the sweep and with their speed it may have not worked well. Most of the yards were up the gut tonight.
 
Well once we implement CPJ's entire offense (which would be all these wrinkles you are seeing added on each week), there will be so many formations, motions, and plays that it will be more difficult to gameplan for us. AND much easier for him to adapt our offense to the defensive game plan.
 
alpha said:
I was really surprised that we didn't see any B-back draw plays that gained huge chunks of yards against UNC and MSU. I'm also surprised we didn't run any toss sweep plays in the red zone.
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PJ runs what he sees will work right now, not what has worked or what he's usually done. That's why he's the master of this offense.
 
I liked the pitch to Roddy/Peeples with the 'normal' tail motion at the start--then A back stops, takes the pitch and sweeps to the same side. It wasn't particularly successful, but it has to be accounted for by the defense in their preparation. The trips motion adds a blocker for the qb keep option, and it moved the chains time after time. We don't talk about 'smash mouth' football much, but that play seems to epitomize the concept--we are going to run this play, you know we're going to run this play, try to stop it. FSU could not. five yards, four yards, five yards, eight yards. CPJ will run it til somebody stops it. Defensive coordinators have tried to take Dwyer away, and have had some success. Now they will scheme to take Nesbitt away and something else will be available. I would not be surprised to see the A backs run wild against VPI.
 
we haven't thrown it away. CPJ doens't sleep; he waits.
He is 14-5. If you have film on those 19 games, there is already a lot of successful plays that have to be defended. We are becoming a nightmare for coordinators.
 
At some point in the game, either the lightning delay or halftime, they talked to Bobby - he said something about how we brought out a formation that they had not seen or practiced against and that we caught them off guard. I imagine we have something like this for next week as well, but the great thing is that the more of these wrinkles we roll out, the less time the opposing defense can spend preparing for each one. Everyone complained last year that the triple option was so difficult to prepare for - I can't imagine what they'll be saying after this year...
 
ncjacket said:
PJ runs what he sees will work right now
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My original point was that there was a trend of CPJ running the same couple of formations and same set of plays all throughout last year. It's a breath of fresh air to see our offense come out with different wrinkles every week

ncjacket said:
... not what has worked or what he's usually done. That's why he's the master of this offense.
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That's contradictory. He's the master of his offense because he DOES run what has worked and what he usually run. Although I do think that he "invented" several new plays this year in order to get the ball to specific players (ie. Jon).
 
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