Gap Scheme question...

[Cartervol]

It comes down to execution. It would work if everyone were doing their jobs. They don't have ideal personnel for this scheme. They're doing the square peg round hole deal. Instead of adjusting to what their personnel does best, they're forcing a scheme on them and it looks like crap.. I guess the question becomes.. How long will it take to get the right guys in here for this system? Unless we get tons better in the Oline and find a Johnny Manziel clone this off season i can't see it being worlds better next year..

 

[Dougie_D]

It comes down to execution. It would work if everyone were doing their jobs. They don't have ideal personnel for this scheme. They're doing the square peg round hole deal. Instead of adjusting to what their personnel does best, they're forcing a scheme on them and it looks like crap.. I guess the question becomes.. How long will it take to get the right guys in here for this system? Unless we get tons better in the Oline and find a Johnny Manziel clone this off season i can't see it being worlds better next year..

I would rather recruit the players needed for this system and have ranking of #50 in country than have players that don't with a ranking of #5.

Maybe our coaches are not that great in evaluating players, which should be a bigger concern for us than anything.

 

[Grappler]

Are these techniques more difficult to master at the collegiate and pro levels for some reason? Facing more complex defensive strategies, more athletic individuals on defense, timing is more precise for the offense to open up holes, etc.

Well yes and no....yes because you are playing against an athlete that is a least as good as you are and no because you are at least as good if not better than he is. The great thing about the spread is the amount of players that are actually in front of the O-Line is at most 7 and if we see 7 in the "box" that means we are one on one on the outside and the defense has no free safety in the middle of the field, so we are throwing. We can block 6 of those defenders (5 O-Linemen and 1 Back) 1 will come free. The main things are getting the ball out fast and the 1 defender who comes free comes from the outside not the inside. He has longer to get to the QB and with the proper splits (distance between the O-Linemen) he has a long way to go. If you complete a 5 to 7 yard slant it's a TD with no safety in the middle of the field.

 

[gogators13]

All this sounds great and I'm sure Butch knows what he's running. I watched and you can do the same of the replay (FL vs TN game). A read option works off the DE/OLB. No one blocks the DE/OLB and the QB watches to see if the DE/OLB stays at home or crashes/pinches down. If DE/OLB stays at home than the QB hands off to the HB. If the DE/OLB crashes/pinches down than the QB will pull it out and take it around that end.

After watching the replay, most of the time nobody was blocking the DE/OLB that the QB would be reading. During the game the DE/OLB would crash down on the hand off to the HB. Worley never pulled it and went around the end. If UT had an athletic qb I'm sure that they would of had the qb read the DE/OLB and make the right read. There's no reason not block the DE/OLB unless you are technically running a read option. After watching the replay a couple of times, I'm not sure why they aren't blocking the DE/OLB that's crashing down if thy are not faking the read option.

 

[agent|orange]

All this sounds great and I'm sure Butch knows what he's running. I watched and you can do the same of the replay (FL vs TN game). A read option works off the DE/OLB. No one blocks the DE/OLB and the QB watches to see if the DE/OLB stays at home or crashes/pinches down. If DE/OLB stays at home than the QB hands off to the HB. If the DE/OLB crashes/pinches down than the QB will pull it out and take it around that end.

After watching the replay, most of the time nobody was blocking the DE/OLB that the QB would be reading. During the game the DE/OLB would crash down on the hand off to the HB. Worley never pulled it and went around the end. If UT had an athletic qb I'm sure that they would of had the qb read the DE/OLB and make the right read. There's no reason not block the DE/OLB unless you are technically running a read option. After watching the replay a couple of times, I'm not sure why they aren't blocking the DE/OLB that's crashing down if thy are not faking the read option.

That's been the big question for many of us since last year.

Still no answer on why we're effectively giving the opposition a freebie.

Worley showed on his scramble that he isn't fast but he's got some decent wheels. Given how aggressive Florida was being, I do believe that if he kept the ball he'd have made some discernible progress.

Nope.

 

[volnation2217]

All this sounds great and I'm sure Butch knows what he's running. I watched and you can do the same of the replay (FL vs TN game). A read option works off the DE/OLB. No one blocks the DE/OLB and the QB watches to see if the DE/OLB stays at home or crashes/pinches down. If DE/OLB stays at home than the QB hands off to the HB. If the DE/OLB crashes/pinches down than the QB will pull it out and take it around that end.

After watching the replay, most of the time nobody was blocking the DE/OLB that the QB would be reading. During the game the DE/OLB would crash down on the hand off to the HB. Worley never pulled it and went around the end. If UT had an athletic qb I'm sure that they would of had the qb read the DE/OLB and make the right read. There's no reason not block the DE/OLB unless you are technically running a read option. After watching the replay a couple of times, I'm not sure why they aren't blocking the DE/OLB that's crashing down if thy are not faking the read option.

It would be nice if we had faith in Worley to give him the option with the play call pull some of those. I wonder if it's as much about fear of him getting hurt as anything else.

The back side defensive end is rarely ever blocked on any run play. He is only able to make those tackles because our plays are so dang slow to develop and has no concern about needing to keep contain. Read play or no read he is not blocked very often.