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What a Mark Richt offense *might* look like at Miami (long)

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"One back, 3 WR base sets combined with some Power-I and shotgun formations."

We need to run the I formation more often. Great write-up.
 
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AutoCANE said:
JimmyJohnsonsHair said:
ghost2 said:
Gatorhater said:
Wait, I did not see "bubble screen" mentioned. How the heck are we going to live without those? What is a RB screen? Is that the thing where you throw a short pass to a RUNNING back and have him RUN? Did we ever use those? Do they work? RBs are allowed to catch behind the LOS? I thought only WRs could do that. Someone should have told Coley about them.
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lol he does run the bubble screen - it's just not 70% of his playbook.
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WR screens are not inherently bad if they are used sparingly and well executed. As you noted, they were neither under Coley or Nix.
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Agreed, it has been proven so. It's a building block play of the Baylor offense and I would say they can move the ball. But it has to be part of an overall bigger picture.
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My theory is that since we can't defend them worth a crap, our OC calls them at practice and the always work. That deludes them into thinking he are the god of bubbles.
 
Gatorhater said:
AutoCANE said:
JimmyJohnsonsHair said:
ghost2 said:
Gatorhater said:
Wait, I did not see "bubble screen" mentioned. How the heck are we going to live without those? What is a RB screen? Is that the thing where you throw a short pass to a RUNNING back and have him RUN? Did we ever use those? Do they work? RBs are allowed to catch behind the LOS? I thought only WRs could do that. Someone should have told Coley about them.
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lol he does run the bubble screen - it's just not 70% of his playbook.
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WR screens are not inherently bad if they are used sparingly and well executed. As you noted, they were neither under Coley or Nix.
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Agreed, it has been proven so. It's a building block play of the Baylor offense and I would say they can move the ball. But it has to be part of an overall bigger picture.
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My theory is that since we can't defend them worth a crap, our OC calls them at practice and the always work. That deludes them into thinking he are the god of bubbles.
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Great stuff, ghost. What I love most of Richt is his inclination to field 2 RBs at once in the backfield. He did this at FSU (Dunn, Preston, Feaster, Mcmillon, et al) in a shotgun or pro set. Love what he brings to the table
 
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Totally agree, AU. Excited to see Yearby and Walton together. He's even used some "Elephant" formations with 3 RBs on short yardage - lots of versatility there as well.
 
link to those playbooks? I would love to read them!

Thanks in advance!
 
I like that it lists the same play vs. a bunch of different defensive looks. Gives you a feel for how the blocking schemes might work.
 
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AUcane said:
Great stuff, ghost. What I love most of Richt is his inclination to field 2 RBs at once in the backfield. He did this at FSU (Dunn, Preston, Feaster, Mcmillon, et al) in a shotgun or pro set. Love what he brings to the table
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Awesome stuff, man. Appreciate the work.

I'd like to dig in a little into his passing concepts. Love the shallow crossing routes and ADORE the combination routes. I've long said that these are the routes that make Safeties worry. And, that's a good thing. Coley would kill it on the route over the top (corner, post, go) in a combo and against zone.

However, I'm not sure why I have this memory of failure to stretch the field consistently (UGA, as of late). I've seen some others note that UGA was highkly ranked in yards per play. Have you taken a look at their conversion history? Any patterns? Will start looking at actual games soon enough.
 
It's my favorite style of offense and is very similar in philosophy to what we ran in early 00's. Davenport on wheel routes, Shockey down the seam, Andre & Santana on shallow crossing patterns, RB screens to McGahee, go routes to Dre, etc.

I really hope he continues to use a fullback in the run game. I like the smash mouth, wear em down run games. It always opens up the passing game (especially with So Fla RBs), and it's a fall back plan when your QB and offense are just having one of those days (see BC in 01, etc)

Richt likes more up-tempo than what we saw in early 00s, so i think that'll be the big difference.

But thank the lord Richt has already said QBs won't be looking to the sideline, etc. THIS is how you develop your QBs so that they can learn to make decisions on their own.

Coaches in todays game micromanage every **** play, it's insane. Richt's QBs, just like Dorsey, knew what to do against certain looks and blitzes.



Oh and the 4-3 2 deep safety is back in Miami. Jesus, thank you.
 
LuCane said:
Awesome stuff, man. Appreciate the work.

I'd like to dig in a little into his passing concepts. Love the shallow crossing routes and ADORE the combination routes. I've long said that these are the routes that make Safeties worry. And, that's a good thing. Coley would kill it on the route over the top (corner, post, go) in a combo and against zone.

However, I'm not sure why I have this memory of failure to stretch the field consistently (UGA, as of late). I've seen some others note that UGA was highkly ranked in yards per play. Have you taken a look at their conversion history? Any patterns? Will start looking at actual games soon enough.
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Not yet but I will!
 
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2002 yards per pass - 7.7. Yards per completion - 13.4. 3rd down % - 40%
2003 ypp - 7.5. Ypc - 12.5. 3rd down - 43%
2004 ypp - 8.2. Ypc - 14.8. 3rd down - 40%
2005 ypp - 8.2. Ypc - 14.8. 3rd down - 37%
2006 ypp - 7.0. Ypc - 13.0. 3rd down - 39%
2007 ypp - 7.1. Ypc - 13.0. 3rd down - 45%

Pretty consistent.
 
ghost2 said:
2002 yards per pass - 7.7. Yards per completion - 13.4. 3rd down % - 40%
2003 ypp - 7.5. Ypc - 12.5. 3rd down - 43%
2004 ypp - 8.2. Ypc - 14.8. 3rd down - 40%
2005 ypp - 8.2. Ypc - 14.8. 3rd down - 37%
2006 ypp - 7.0. Ypc - 13.0. 3rd down - 39%
2007 ypp - 7.1. Ypc - 13.0. 3rd down - 45%

Pretty consistent.
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I just did it, but just for fun, compare some of those numbers with our own.
 
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Ghost2: great post ! My morale is climbing back out of the toilet with Richt. With a nod to our current
RB's, I'd like to see that big ****ing RB that mows people down like McGahee and Highsmith once did.
Oh, and a Frank Gore type. Too much to ask for Christmas ?
 
Lu Cane some of the problems "coach" had at the last few years at uga was a mixture of qb play last 2-3 years, wr's sucked (why I hope we keep KB), and injuries to the few decent wr's. Their only explosive plays came from rb's
 
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Lu Cane some of the problems "coach" had at the last few years at uga was a mixture of qb play last 2-3 years, wr's sucked (why I hope we keep KB), and injuries to the few decent wr's. Their only explosive plays came from rb's
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Again, going from memory, the games I've watched made it seem like they played within a box. We used to hate Patrick Nix for that reason. I've seen Richt's offense's explode out of that box at FSU and other times during UGA. So yeah, that's what I'm asking: what's been going on lately and why.

Thanks for the feedback.
 
I agree about the WR talent - outside of AJ Green, I don't remember a whole lot of difference-makers at WR. ****, Stafford's main target was Mohammed Massaquoi for God's sake...
 
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