Comments on: Smart Notes 9/25/09

By: MTK

MTK — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:13:08 +0000

It helps that they are getting a huge surge from their tackles and great down field blocking to boot! Formation and splits give the QB great visibility of the read. That’s good stuff.

By: dguenther18

dguenther18 — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:58:52 +0000

VMI used to run the “ski-gun” or something quite similar to muskegon
except VMI is nowhere near as fast as muskegon

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By: PSUGuru

PSUGuru — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 08:09:38 +0000

What the heck was that jelly roll maneuver by the defensive lineman in the give read video clip? I don’t think I’ve ever seen such an odd move…

By: BC

BC — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:35:18 +0000

We (a high school I was coaching) ran the flexbone veer out of the pistol a couple of years ago. We went to it because our QB had trouble taking snaps and it gave him just tad bit more time to read the end.

By: OURog

OURog — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:19:38 +0000

It is pretty easy to look like a horrible OC when your QB is under that much pressure.

By: headsigh

headsigh — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:53:07 +0000

There’s some more good Ski-Gun/Ske-Gun footage during Muskegon in the playoffs at http://bit.ly/MA3Ij and the related videos. Florida has also used some flexbone-esque motion plays from the spread at http://bit.ly/222TJ, albeit not exactly Pistol.

By: EarthyTechnoPop

EarthyTechnoPop — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:58:49 +0000

In Spurrier’s defense (actually Spurrier, Jr. was calling most of the plays these days), Carolina had a quarterback who was gutting it out with bruised ribs and an offensive line that was just getting killed. It definitely limits what you can do when you can’t run (and risk 3rd and long) and struggle throwing the ball more than a few yards downfield.

By: cbd

cbd — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:58:10 +0000

But Spurrier’s playcalling seems to get very tight late in games.

Agreed, and I think this dates back to 1999 or so. In his last years at Florida, I remember the same plays being called, or the same players targeted, over and over again. Drove me crazy given the diversity which had worked so well for Spurrier in previous years.