drylo
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I’ll admit I’m not a sophisticated enough football brain to get too far in the weeds on all of the chess match that goes on, but it seems evident to me that Heupel is an offensive genius. At the end of the day, it’s about creating space for the guy with the ball, and Heupel is a magician at doing that. Always has been.People have always misrepresented what Heupel's system is about.
It's not a tempo, throw it all over the yard offensive scheme. It's not Air Raid either. It's efficiency, most deep ball shots are single coverage where the defense is usually slow to react or out of position or just flat tired.
The most efficient offensive play is still running the ball for 5+ yards a carry, we go about getting there with tempo and spreading defenses out. Other teams like Army and old school Nebraska went about it with size, strength, numbers and scheme.
But on a pass play more things can go wrong, no pass protection, bad throw, WR runs the wrong route, QB throws a duck, etc. etc. on a run play you just need a few things to go right and you're moving the chains.
If you can get a Jalin Hyatt running wide open behind everybody, you take it every time. But if you can spread people out and get Jaylen Wright 7.4 yards on every handoff, you do that too.
It’s always going to be tougher sledding when you go up against a UGA or Bama, who also have not only great schematic coaches but also loads of analysts to help game plan (especially for games against guys like Heupel), and by the way, absolutely loaded rosters.
You’re not going to win every time, but I’m more convinced than ever that we will be very happy (or should be) with Heupel + the right QB + a good enough roster everywhere else.