Rutgers vs Michigan / Game Thread

[Knight Shift]

We are not a threat to pass AT ALL.

After watching the Eagles under Chip Kelly trying to run this same exact offense with a non-running QB, I've come to realize that better defenses can stop it because it's too damn predictable if your QB isn't a threat to take off for 20 yards on every play.

You just stack the box and play press-man. Google "Chip Kelly and the Vanishing Offense". Tremendous article complete with pictures and video explaining the main problems.

You should start a thread on that article. Key takeaway:

"Good coaching is about adapting. Kelly has failed to adjust."

https://theringer.com/chip-kelly-san-francisco-49ers-offense-f332f053870e#.c8vfjwmxu

And uptempo spread is plain stupid with the players we have the roster. All it is doing is generating quick three and outs and exhausting our defense.

 

[Knight Shift]

You should start a thread on that article. Key takeaway:

"Good coaching is about adapting. Kelly has failed to adjust."

https://theringer.com/chip-kelly-san-francisco-49ers-offense-f332f053870e#.c8vfjwmxu

And uptempo spread is plain stupid with the players we have the roster. All it is doing is generating quick three and outs and exhausting our defense.

And also from the article:
"a QB who is a threat to run alters the fundamental arithmetic of football."

We don't have that when Oden is not on the field.

 

[Knight Shift]

"Kelly once said that the shotgun inside zone “is not a great play if the quarterback hands off to the running back and everyone in the stadium knows who has the ball.” He was right,"

Kelly’s 2015 opponents were unafraid of his QBs as run threats and could accurately guess his play calls; it’s no surprise they were also able to exploit errors in his team’s execution. “You cannot just fool defenses with tempo,” University of Kentucky offensive line coach John Schlarman said at a coaching clinic, summing up the experience of middling up-tempo spread offenses at every level of football. “There is a difference in a fast playing team playing crisp and a fast playing team playing sloppy.”

“Chip Kelly is a friend, but I could not run the offense he runs,” Stanford head coach David Shaw said this summer at a coaching clinic. “If you run an up-tempo offense, you better be good at staying on the field. If you cannot get first downs, your defense will play the entire game.” Indeed, the 2015 Eagles defense defended an incredible 1,148 plays, while the team that defended the fewest, the Seahawks, played just 947 snaps. At an NFL average of around 65 plays a game, Kelly’s defense effectively played three more games than Seattle’s.
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