Quit Fooling Yourself…Huey PSA

[sarcasm alert]Yeah but how many Super Bowls did Tony Dungy win? 🙄😆

When I called it, we were always in an Under front with one exception.  We had 3 blitzes for each ISLB, a couple of line twists, and based out of 2 high coverage.  I can't tell you how many times I would call "Base Read".  We did have a couple of change ups beyond that, but our base was run 75%+ of the time.

I always liked this answer by Belichick about this topic. There are various ways to do it.

www.patriots.com/news/bill-belichick-press-conference-transcript-183406

Q: You've talked about you guys being a game plan offense. Where was the idea of being a game plan offense born from for you? In terms of it being the right way to do it, compared to a team like the Steelers when Bill Cowher was there, that this what they do and you have to stop it?

BB: I don't know, I guess I've always had that philosophy. You try to do what you think works best against that particular opponent certainly within the framework of what you're comfortable doing, whether that's offense, defense or special teams, it's all the same. [Former Head Coach] Wayne Hardin at Navy maybe, if you want to go back a ways; Detroit, the Giants. I don't know.

Q: Would you agree with the thought that it's an ambitious thing to try to do because you have to be able to execute in all areas, as opposed to majoring in one thing?

BB: I'll just give you this example. When I was in high school at Annapolis, I played for Al Laramore, who was Maryland Coach of the Year, a Hall of Fame high school coach in Delaware and all that. So, he's a pretty good coach. We won a lot of games, we won a ton of games and we ran four plays. We ran four plays: 22 Power, 24 Quick Trap, 28 Counter and Sprint Right and that was it. When we ran them to the other side, we just flipped formation. The whole line flipped and the play went the other way: 22 Power, 24 Quick Trap, 28 Counter and Sprint Left. That was the offense, that was the entire offense and we won a lot of games.

Then the next year when I went to Andover and played for Coach [Steve] Sorota there, who again was a great player, great coach, played with [Vince] Lombardi at Fordham and was one of the most renowned coaches I'd say ever in New England prep school football or maybe high school football period for that matter. The quarterback called his own plays. They didn't send them in; they didn't tell him what to call. They got in the huddle and he may have asked for a suggestion from me or Ernie [Adams] or somebody, but he called whatever he wanted to call and that was the offense. So, that was about as opposite as you could get it from one year to the next year. We won just as many games. It was totally different, but both were very successful.

So what's the right way to do it? What's the wrong way to do it? I don't know. Whatever works, whatever you believe in.

But then it all has to line up that way. I got to Baltimore with Coach [Ted] Marchibroda, Bert Jones. Bert called all the plays. I want to say it was his second year in the league. He called all the plays. Call timeout, come over to the sideline, fourth-and-one, Burt would say, 'What do you want me to call?' Ted would say, 'We have 24 Hunch, we have 36 Bob, we have Play Pass 37 Y Flag, whatever you feel good about.' 'Alright.' Other players and coaches would come up and say, 'What are we going to run?' 'I don't know, it depends what Burt calls.'

There are other teams, Coach [Ray] Perkins, Coach [Bill] Parcells, those guys, called every play. Not that we wouldn't audible to a play or something but he called every play. So, what's right and what's wrong? I don't know. It can all work. If you do it right and you have the other things – if you do it one way, you have to have other things that are in place to do that. There's a reason for doing it. There are also some drawbacks to doing it that way.

When that happens, you have to have some way to counter it. That's the same way on defense. When I was with the Broncos and Joe Collier, there were game plans where we had 60 different fronts – fronts. It's hard to imagine 60 different fronts in a 3-4 defense really, but that what it was. It was 60 different alignments, which would include a linebacker that was blitzing so any one of the four linebackers were blitzing so that was part of it.

I got to the Giants when Bill [Parcells] came in, we put in a 3-4 there. We played one front with one adjustment. We reduced the end on the weak side from a four-technique to a three-technique and that's it. Then I'd say 95 percent of the snaps that we played from '81 to '90 that weren't nickel snaps; over 90 percent of them had to be either base or reduced front, maybe 95 percent. It might have been higher than that. Two good defenses: the Orange Crush, the Broncos defense, that was a great defense. The Giants defense, that was a great defense. The same 3-4, two totally different philosophies. So what's the right way to do it? Both work.

Right. There is a difference in the guy is open and the guy is uncovered for a TD/big play.

Chances are there is a play that you already run and its simply the fact that you are over-looking something that is an easy fix. Fix it and it will be your best play next season.

For us, it's Trap.

Just need to clean up a couple of things and we will be in business.

So many parents and other gurus in my area say that I don't "get kids out" because I've never coached a D-1 player before. Who cares about the fact that I've never coached a player who was D-1 caliber. 

Nothing to do with you larrymoe or 3rdandlong or anyone else... those kids I had were going NFL from the time some women said yes 15 or 16 years before I ever came in the picture.

I just got the opportunity to coach them. I'll argue all day that there are coaches going 2-8, 1-9, 3-7 that are way better coaches than some of them going 10-2, 11-1, 9-2. Some guys getting a roster to 2-8 is a better job than the guy who got their roster to 9-2.

Look at the NC game last night. There are gonna be people who think GA staff is "better" than the TCU staff... that game looked like it was won (for the most part) 18-24 years ago, not because of anything either coaching staff did. GA was a much better football team and after the scare last week, I'm sure were as focused as they have ever been for a football game. TCU staff did a hell of a job. People are too quick for praise and too quick for dumping on dudes.

I coached a LOT more the past 4 years at a school with 0 college football players than I ever did at the school with all the NFL players. I just had to not screw it up at the other place. I had to coach my @ss off to get to 10 wins in 4 years at the new place.

I get that, the argument is that there are a significant number of mental errors at the pro level, relative to their experience and time spent in the sport. And that much of that is, from our end, being attributed to having a massive amount of coverages, adjustments, and checks, that often leave the defenders confused or in a state of miscommunication.

We all understand that the game is being played by humans. 

Some probably. Some may be attributable that a guy is just dumb. Some happen because a guy who knows better bites on a run fake or a pump fake. You know why we notice them at that level? Because they don't really happen that often. 

Central Illinois. Schools ranging from 230 kids(2 school coop), 325, 370ish, 600, 750 (2 schools around this size) and 800+.

Coached at schools in the 1-4A playoffs in Illinois. Illinois has 8 classes.

I coached against maybe 3 or 4 D1 players in that time frame.

If you’ve ever had a “great option Qb” he probably just guessed right half the time.

And was athletic enough to out run the qb player.

When the powerhouses used to run triple in my league it was TERRIFYING watching their qb fake the pitch and juke out our qb player... or simply run him over.

The answer being that they would greatly simplify if they were at the HS level? Like Kirby Smart saying he believes living in Cover 3 is the best answer for [most anyways] coaches at the HS level?

If you ever hear him speak at a conference you can tell he's oddly enthusiastic about C3. Just a few weeks ago, at the Alabama HS football coaches convention, he spent a good half of his time talking about it (interspersed with a rather ridiculous number of F bombs...).