Interesting comments from Nick Saban today.
“I think (offenses) are gonna come back to saying, ‘OK, you’re smaller, you’re faster, you’re quicker, you’re going to use this speed to pressure me and play in space — I’m gonna run downhill at you and see if you can take on blockers and defend the run,” Saban said Wednesday on McElroy and Cubelic in the Morning from the Regions Tradition Pro-Am in Birmingham. “Everything sort of goes through a cycle, and I think you’re going to see some of football cycle back to that.
“There’s a lot of things that have progressed through the way people are trying to defend spread out teams,” Saban continued. “Now, what’s going to happen in my opinion? You’re going to start seeing the squeeze come back, tighter formations, run the ball, get a hat on a hat, so that you can minimize people’s ability to pressure. It’s obviously easiest to pressure when they’re spread out, and harder to pressure when they’re closed in.”
Nick Saban predicts major shift in college football offenses: 'I'm gonna run downhill at you'
