Football analysis and strategy from Chris B. Brown
Strategic trends for the next decade? Start with defense
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Strategic trends for the next decade? Start with defense
In their tag-teamed auguries for the next decade of college football, Stewart Mandel and Andy Staples reflect on the decade of the spread and look to the option offenses of the ’70s to predict what big things might come next: 8. The spread and pro-style offenses will learn to coexist College offenses constantly go in…
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Nick Saban on defending the wildcat
Thanks to reader Alex Bruchac, below are three videos of Nick Saban discussing how to defend the wildcat, which is something I have previously discussed at length. Let the master explain: The other two videos can be found below the fold:
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TCU’s inverted veer option
Reader Jay Miller passed along some great info from TCU’s victory over Clemson. Clemson’s defense this year has been stout, holding Georgia Tech’s flexbone below their averages and then completely crushing Boston College in one of the best defensive performances in recent memory. (Clemson held BC to 54 yards for the entire game.) Against TCU,…
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Defending the zone-read: athleticism and the “scrape-exchange”
Much of what is new in defending the spread involves giving different looks on the backside of all those “zone-read” and other read plays that spread teams are so fond of. For example, on the typical zone-read play, the line is responsible for blocking everyone but the backside defensive end; the quarterback “reads” him. If…
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