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<blockquote data-quote="elwoodgt" data-source="post: 255679" data-attributes="member: 1077"><p>Boomer, I get it. We don't have the horses to play aggressive press man in the secondary. We shouldn't have to.</p><p></p><p>The idea of the option offense is to take the best defender out of the play by leaving him unblocked. You don't play fair, by matching up your players to theirs one on one. You "option" their best defender, leave him out of the play altogether, and create a numerical advantage against the rest. Maybe our 7 small and slow guys can't win enough battles against their 7 big and fast guys, but if we bring 8 we can. </p><p></p><p>So back to defense. I get that we can't expect our guys to play press man coverage head to head against the best receivers in FBS and win. That's not a winning strategy. If we play "fair" we lose. So how do we not play fair? How can we, for example, create a numerical advantage at a specific point of attack, leaving their best player out of the play during the critical moment?</p><p></p><p>It's true that I love me some Zone Blitz, but that's what it did. It would change assignments at the last minute, leaving blockers with no one to block. Some all-American left tackle would be all set to pancake our defensive end, then the ball would snap and he'd find that DE back pedaling into shallow coverage while the linebacker shot through the gap to chase the QB out of the pocket. Sure, that left tackle beats our DE 10 times out of 10 straight up. But if he's got no one to block, what good is he?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="elwoodgt, post: 255679, member: 1077"] Boomer, I get it. We don't have the horses to play aggressive press man in the secondary. We shouldn't have to. The idea of the option offense is to take the best defender out of the play by leaving him unblocked. You don't play fair, by matching up your players to theirs one on one. You "option" their best defender, leave him out of the play altogether, and create a numerical advantage against the rest. Maybe our 7 small and slow guys can't win enough battles against their 7 big and fast guys, but if we bring 8 we can. So back to defense. I get that we can't expect our guys to play press man coverage head to head against the best receivers in FBS and win. That's not a winning strategy. If we play "fair" we lose. So how do we not play fair? How can we, for example, create a numerical advantage at a specific point of attack, leaving their best player out of the play during the critical moment? It's true that I love me some Zone Blitz, but that's what it did. It would change assignments at the last minute, leaving blockers with no one to block. Some all-American left tackle would be all set to pancake our defensive end, then the ball would snap and he'd find that DE back pedaling into shallow coverage while the linebacker shot through the gap to chase the QB out of the pocket. Sure, that left tackle beats our DE 10 times out of 10 straight up. But if he's got no one to block, what good is he? [/QUOTE]
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