Spread Offense vs Pro Style Offense
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Definitely a pro style offense with a good percentage of spread worked in. Of course, you must include a run heavy option attack that co-mingles I formation and wishbone schemes. Use the veer or wing-T in short yardage situations.
Call it whatever you want as long as we can use the diamond formation.
What if I told you that most offenses are running the same concepts, just out of different formations and personnel groupings?
One is not inherently superior to another. It's a question of how well your guys can run it.
One is not inherently superior to another. It's a question of how well your guys can run it.
The game of football is always changing. When the game first originated the forward pass didn’t exist. Sixty years ago you didn’t pass the ball a lot because it was too risky. Then Walsh came along and everybody realized you could complete short passing routes and that was more effective than running the ball so long as you had an efficient QB. That as far as I know is the origin of our current idea of ‘pro style’ offenses.
In the last twenty years coaches have realized, especially at the college level and below, the best thing you can do is get the ball to your athletes in space where lesser athletes can’t keep up. That advantage is more or less neutralized in the pros because everyone is a great athlete.
So I think it makes a lot of sense to run a spread offense, especially in college. That’s said, any offense can be effective and plenty of ‘pro style’ offenses use spread elements. The Patriots have for a long time.
In the last twenty years coaches have realized, especially at the college level and below, the best thing you can do is get the ball to your athletes in space where lesser athletes can’t keep up. That advantage is more or less neutralized in the pros because everyone is a great athlete.
So I think it makes a lot of sense to run a spread offense, especially in college. That’s said, any offense can be effective and plenty of ‘pro style’ offenses use spread elements. The Patriots have for a long time.
Exactly. The spread isn't impervious to a really good defense. Look what Ohio State did to it in the 2014 season. It wasn't completely emasculated, but it was inching towards soprano.
Watch Auburn and Wisconsin, I think you will find similarities in their run games. But if I said Gus Mahlzahn and Paul Chryst, people would think polar opposites. But both love a power run game.
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Spread. Higher probability of creating mismatches. My opinion of the pro style is you simply must have the best talent (see Alabama). Spread, you can have good talent but narrow the talent gap relative to your competition. From a simple mathematical sense, spread makes the most sense. As does an option offense over pro style.
Unless the rules have been changed on inelgible man downfield, drop back passing (and line blocking) in a typical pro set lack the advantage of spread/rpo.
Give me spread/rpo with no second thought.
Give me spread/rpo with no second thought.