Should Vols use all four receivers in the offensive set and one tight end ?

[SPRINGHILLVOL]

With four wideouts Tennessee will be very effective in forcing one on one coverage. Speed kills. What defense can cover the four receivers one on one ?

 

[Tman44]

CJH will put the personnel on the field that give our team the best chance for success at any given time.

So yes and no, depending on the situation, just like previous years.

 

[The Ron Mexico]

They should do whatever Heupel thinks is best. He knows more about offense than all of us combined.

 

[Concept]

That's been done by other teams, with some success, but it's a completely different system. The QB is the only person in the backfield, and you need to look for quick release, so the long ball threat isn't there, the rpo isn't there except on a keeper, nobody can pick up a blitz.

I mean if coach wants to try it, we will, but we're getting open receivers now, and we have other threats, so it seems unlikely.

 

[TAF]

Depends on if the O-Line can keep Milton from being murdered!

 

[IndianaVol]

The Saints ran this a lot when Sean Payton was running the show.
At times it was successful, but you have to have the people to run it effectively.
I think we might have those people this season, but as others have stated it's not a set where you are going to get a deep ball look.
The point of running a basically 5 WR set is to spread the field and force 1 on 1 in the short to mid-field area since the ball will have to come out quickly.

 

[supersmo18]

I say use whatevery personnel we need to to beat our opponents by a hundie

 

[volmandu]

It may be done in a very specific, pass only, medium gain type situations. As pointed by others above, you need to protect QB and you won't have time to go deep due to protections.
What you can expect to see more is a 3 WR set where the RB basically becomes a slot receiver on passing downs.

 

[VolInDayton]

If we go 4 wide, I think having a RB in is more important than a TE. I'm worried about TE depth thoughout the season so if Warren gets dinged up, I could see them trying to get the 4 WRs on the field.

 

[RDU VOL#14]

I think we stay mostly with 3 wideouts, 1 te and and 1 back. It’s gives us much more versatility, especially given the fact that our O-Line is reportedly having issues so far at camp.

 

[OffTackleVol]

I think we stay mostly with 3 wideouts, 1 te and and 1 back. It’s gives us much more versatility, especially given the fact that our O-Line is reportedly having issues so far at camp.

Good point(s).
It may be that our offensive line issues can be blamed on our defensive line.............

 

[RDU VOL#14]

Good point(s).
It may be that our offensive line issues can be blamed on our defensive line.............

I hope that’s the case.

 

[TennesseeTarheel]

I’ll have what Coach is having.

 

[Sarms58]

It might be an option sometimes, but keep in mind we are not set up to substitute during our offensive series so it would probably be a case of the RB shirting out to the slot vs using our 4 WRs. Not sure which of our RBs would be the most effective extra wide receiver - they all have good hands so it's a matter route running.

 

[Sarms58]

I think we stay mostly with 3 wideouts, 1 te and and 1 back. It’s gives us much more versatility, especially given the fact that our O-Line is reportedly having issues so far at camp.

It will be interesting we use a speedy TE - one who can beat the safety deep.

 

[RDU VOL#14]

It will be interesting we use a speedy TE - one who can beat the safety deep.

As long he can still block I’ll be happy. I’d love to have another hybrid TE. Fant really turned into a Swiss Army knife last year . I don’t know that we have that, maybe the new kid that transferred in.

 

[OrangeTsar]

Out threat to run is the secret sauce for getting one on one matchups downfield so I expect us to have a RB in the backfield the majority of the time. We might do the 4WR/1TE set occasionally just to give DCs one more thing to prepare for; but I don’t expect we will see it very often

 

[IndianapolisVol]

With four wideouts Tennessee will be very effective in forcing one on one coverage. Speed kills. What defense can cover the four receivers one on one ?

4 receivers
1 TE
1 QB
5 linemen

Horrible idea. We’d be showing our hand, there would be no mystery without a running back. They’d drop back into a prevent defense, rush 3, have 8 in coverage.

 

[Special Ed]

Sometimes too many receivers is not enough.

 

[OrangeTsar]

4 receivers
1 TE
1 QB
5 linemen

Horrible idea. We’d be showing our hand, there would be no mystery without a running back. They’d drop back into a prevent defense, rush 3, have 8 in coverage.

Keep it in your back pocket though. Always have a few unexpected looks to throw at a defense. You might catch them with inadequate speed at corner and burn them when they can’t sub. Maybe you at least make them burn a timeout.
But agree with you 100% in principle, the empty backfield does not play to our strengths enough to make it part of our regular play book

 

[ankh83]

If your QB is a legit run threat it works as it forces everybody out of the box. Jacob Warren chimed in on the subject a couple days ago which leads me to believe we will see it this year.

Time stamp - 12:12

 

[Voltopia]

With four wideouts Tennessee will be very effective in forcing one on one coverage. Speed kills. What defense can cover the four receivers one on one ?

... uh ... that's ... I don't, uh, know how to break this to you, but that's exactly what they're already doing in some cases?

Or is this one of those "just run Four Verts from the the Madden playbook, it works online" kind of ideas?

 

[SayUWantAreVOLution]

With four wideouts Tennessee will be very effective in forcing one on one coverage. Speed kills. What defense can cover the four receivers one on one ?

Gee. I wonder if Coach Josh Heupel, who had the #1 offense in college football last year, has considered your idea? My God man! Call him!

 

[J C Higgins]

With four wideouts Tennessee will be very effective in forcing one on one coverage. Speed kills. What defense can cover the four receivers one on one ?

After thinking about it I've decided to defer to CJH

 

[87&91ALUM]

I dont care what CJH does with his team as long as he produces wins. Are we really nit-picking his offense? LOL.