Who actually enjoys watching this offensive style?

How do you feel about the triple option offense?

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This offense is fun to watch when we have big plays. It's like watching paint peel if all we have is a 3 yard at a time death march, even if it works. The death march is okay if mixed in with other big play drives. If it's all we have, then no thank you.
 
TampaBayJacket said:
This offense is fun to watch when we have big plays. It's like watching paint peel if all we have is a 3 yard at a time death march, even if it works. The death march is okay if mixed in with other big play drives. If it's all we have, then no thank you.
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Disagree totally. It is the height of awesome when we open up a quarter, slice off 11 minutes of it for a TD, then hand the other team the scraps. Subtext is everything. Knowing the other team is over there trying not to let the existential dread set in while they are keeping their knees and arms loose, and counting the number of times they get to hold the ball in the rest of the game on a dwindling set of fingers as the drive grinds on is just a thing of beauty. If running fast and jumping high is all you need, we've got a track and field team. Football is war, and war is psychological as well as physical. I don't think there's any other offense that does the psychological aspect so well as ours when it's really going.
 
ThisIsAtlanta said:
Disagree totally. It is the height of awesome when we open up a quarter, slice off 11 minutes of it for a TD, then hand the other team the scraps. Subtext is everything. Knowing the other team is over there trying not to let the existential dread set in while they are keeping their knees and arms loose, and counting the number of times they get to hold the ball in the rest of the game on a dwindling set of fingers as the drive grinds on is just a thing of beauty. If running fast and jumping high is all you need, we've got a track and field team. Football is war, and war is psychological as well as physical. I don't think there's any other offense that does the psychological aspect so well as ours when it's really going.
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I agree with this, but when did we last so this? I guess there was a little bit of it against Miami, but I don't think they were very demoralized when walking two fumbles in for TDs.
 
savbandjacket said:
I agree with this, but when did we last so this? I guess there was a little bit of it against Miami, but I don't think they were very demoralized when walking two fumbles in for TDs.
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I don't know. But I remember holding the ball for over an hour's worth of real time against NC State in 2014.

Smoked a cigar at Highland Cigar while watching that. Fine scotch, good cigar, the soul-crushing taint-grinder offense slowly strangling the life and love of the game out of an opponent - the only thing that would have made that game better would be hearing the lamentations of Wolfpack women.
 
savbandjacket said:
I agree with this, but when did we last so this? I guess there was a little bit of it against Miami, but I don't think they were very demoralized when walking two fumbles in for TDs.
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We sorta kinda did it to FSU last year, when we took 12+ minutes holding the ball in the third quarter over two drives, even though we only netted a field goal on it. It's difficult for me to remember anything else that happened on the football field in 2015 because I had those brain cells exterminated.
 
When it works, it is the most elegant and enjoyable style of offense I have ever laid eyes on.

It is the most interesting and intellectual system from an Xs and Os perspective I have ever heard of.

But it is awfully damn complicated, and muggles are never going to understand the details.

It sucks when it doesn't work.

All systems suck when they don't work.
 
I love it. It's brutal when we're out gunned, but I still love it.
 
I enjoy watching this offense when it is run correctly. The triple option, the play-action pass, with rocket toss, midline dive and counters thrown in and occasional wheel route to a back is beautiful football. I love the big play potential and the time consuming death marches.

I prefer this offense to the spread option, one-back offenses so many used.

The most fun to watch was the Ross/Friedgen I with multiple formations and lots of motion.
 
Welp, this poll shows unequivocally that the whiners are a vocal minority.

Our offense was super boring last year, but 2014 was the most fun offensive team that I have ever seen. Funny how that works. Personally, I enjoy all the in-play reads we make. Makes it almost impossible to effectively scheme against, if run correctly.
 
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