Good Breakdown of Mike Leach Offense

[confucius say]

Can you expound on this a little?

If they make a guy wiff in one on one wouldn't they get through anyway? Yeah with 2ft splits a guy would be a little closer to help, but if the DT was that good wouldn't he get through a lunging attempt at help anyway. Is it mainly just a badass nose straight up on a center that you're worried about?

Do you not think it's helpful to have the ends much further away from the QB because of the splits? Or even the 3 tech further away? That seems like a huge benefit to me.

Wouldn't blitzing linebackers through the gaps set up well for mesh, shallow cross and y stick? I can see how that would be more difficult against press coverage, but generally only Alabama, LSU and maybe Auburn play that way and have the guys to do it. We aren't doing anything offensively against those defenses anyway, so I like the idea of trying something different. Something that's been proven to work against caliber of defenses we'll play most of the time, and something that will at least hopefully keep those elite defenses off balanced.

I was thinking the same thing with widening the edge rushers. I'll also add that I think spacing everybody out makes it less congested and easier to identify assignments for OL.

To 34s point, i guess having tighter splits would close down interior rush lanes though should an interior OL whiff on his guy.

[ShotgunDawg]

I was thinking the same thing with widening the edge rushers. I'll also add that I think spacing everybody out makes it less congested and easier to identify assignments for OL.

To 34s point, i guess having tighter splits would close down interior rush lanes though should an interior OL whiff on his guy.

I think it just gives the DTs more room to work & that's the issue.

Either way, I'm not really worried about it because Leach has been at so many different schools & conferences doing this that I'm sure he's seen every defense they can throw at it.

Does the SEC have more talent? Yes, but he's coached against individual players throughout his career that has needed to adjust for on the OL. So I'm sure he has a plan on how to handle things.

Again, 18 years of head coaching experience in different conferences, including the SEC.

I'm sure there will be adjustments, but there will be adjustments for the SEC DCs as well.

Are SEC teams going to put in new alignments & adjustments for the 1 week they play Leach? Well, if they do, that increases the chances that they screw up as well.

I'm sure every SEC DC will just watch the game against U Dub & implement that scheme. Shouldn't make it too difficult to prepare in the first half of the season