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<blockquote data-quote="Boomergump" data-source="post: 18715" data-attributes="member: 639"><p>ATL, I think there are some opportunities to do this, but it depends greatly on a lot of factors.</p><p></p><p>The advantages of going hurry up: 1. Limits the ability of the defense to substitute based on down and distance creating mismatches sometimes. 2. Gasses the opponents defenders making them less effective. They can't sub out and they have to play a lot of snaps quickly. 3. Confuses the defense and limits their time to get lined up correctly against changing formations. This disadvantage of hurry up is that if you are unsuccessful, you are putting your defense right back on the field. More than likely, they will play at least 20 more snaps a game if you choose to play this way.</p><p></p><p>Now, lets look at GT. Most teams don't sub against us based on down and distance anyway. They might play their safeties back a few steps on 3rd and long, but that is about it. Also, when you consider the small number of formations we run compared to most teams, we lose the time based confusion advantage anyway. They are most likely playing assignment football out of a simple and repeating alignment. I have seen games played against us with a single alignment ONLY, with the exception of pulling corners towards the hashes when we go bunched. They are going to get lined up against us, fast or slow. So, you can see, some of the advantages of this philosophy evaporating, given our system. Now, the one huge advantage would be the fatigue factor. We are already a punishing and tiring offense to defend. If we are able to be successful going fast, I feel this factor would be even greater for us than for some teams. If we end up running a lot more diamond type stuff mixed in and add some formations, then hurry up might start to look more attractive to me. We have shown defensive improvement this season, but let's be honest, our defense has been hanging by a thread. Going hurry up on offense now, IMHO would not be wise given the state of the defense. If we can somehow make the defense the strength of the team, then I say let's give it a shot, but not until then.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Boomergump, post: 18715, member: 639"] ATL, I think there are some opportunities to do this, but it depends greatly on a lot of factors. The advantages of going hurry up: 1. Limits the ability of the defense to substitute based on down and distance creating mismatches sometimes. 2. Gasses the opponents defenders making them less effective. They can't sub out and they have to play a lot of snaps quickly. 3. Confuses the defense and limits their time to get lined up correctly against changing formations. This disadvantage of hurry up is that if you are unsuccessful, you are putting your defense right back on the field. More than likely, they will play at least 20 more snaps a game if you choose to play this way. Now, lets look at GT. Most teams don't sub against us based on down and distance anyway. They might play their safeties back a few steps on 3rd and long, but that is about it. Also, when you consider the small number of formations we run compared to most teams, we lose the time based confusion advantage anyway. They are most likely playing assignment football out of a simple and repeating alignment. I have seen games played against us with a single alignment ONLY, with the exception of pulling corners towards the hashes when we go bunched. They are going to get lined up against us, fast or slow. So, you can see, some of the advantages of this philosophy evaporating, given our system. Now, the one huge advantage would be the fatigue factor. We are already a punishing and tiring offense to defend. If we are able to be successful going fast, I feel this factor would be even greater for us than for some teams. If we end up running a lot more diamond type stuff mixed in and add some formations, then hurry up might start to look more attractive to me. We have shown defensive improvement this season, but let's be honest, our defense has been hanging by a thread. Going hurry up on offense now, IMHO would not be wise given the state of the defense. If we can somehow make the defense the strength of the team, then I say let's give it a shot, but not until then. [/QUOTE]
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