re: Jet Sweeps are trending

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Yea it worked great against Miss St and Alabama didn't it

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It worked a hell of a lot better than any running plays we ran the previous few years against Bama. And as I've said before, our longest rush in history against Bama came on a fake jet sweep run by D Williams.

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Yea it worked great against Miss St and Alabama didn't it

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His offense worked a hell of a lot better against Bamas than Einsmingers did. Solid logic.

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Jet sweep with Dillon was a solid play last year.

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And Gage. Once he learned how to run them.

One thing Gage would do that gave me flashbacks to JJ was drift away from LoS. JJ used to do that on option plays; you can't run away from LoS as QB on option, it completely screws the RB. But enough of memory lane.

A slight variation in Canada's design on jet sweeps is the first cut is supposed to be just off the OTs hip, not out wide. In that sense it's like a QB read-option. Gage had a tendency to string it out. Not running away from LoS, and off the tackle's ankle, kept them from being big losses.

And therein lies the "won't work in the SEC" comments. Most jet sweeps, like Spurrier ran at UF, are meant to go to the boundry and are 3yds behind center. Canada's (and others) are just outside runs, not wide and hence not so long developing. They are actually faster developing, if run correctly, than your standard GT pull, or the toss dive for that matter.

"so won't work against SEC speed" was proven wrong in it's execution, and it is wrong in theory. It is designed to be a relatively quick hitting run play, off-tackle, based on DEs tendency and pre-snap read of S/LBs.

Not a long-developing "sweep" to the sideline. However, even when Gage would drift away from LoS, and go wide instead of making the designed cut, it still worked fairly well. When it didn't, Gage would lose more yards than he was supposed to because he'd drift backwards.

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WR's aren't RB's. Why injure them?

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there's lots of holes in this theory.

- then why throw to RBs?
- the only injury I saw on a jet sweep was Bama's Fitzpatrick.
- so should WRs fall down after catching the ball?
- being a RB is an immunization to injury behind the line?
- so fear of injury is reason to limit touches by your best athletes? No coach in the history of coaching has ever thought that.

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I’m just saying Canada was ahead of the curb in terms of exploiting defenses with a way to get easy yards on early downs...

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Ahead of the curb? Florida was running this with Percy Harvin over 10 years ago, it's nothing new or revolutionary.

I hated Canada's offense last year. I think having some of those plays in your pocket are needed. But the gimmicky motion every play drove me crazy.

Now I think jet sweeps, option, screens, WR screens, RB pitches, more quick slants need to be added to the scheme when playing the big boys. I'm hoping these sort of plays will be added.

The quick timing routes, hooks, slants, need to be used often, just get the ball in the WR hands in a one on one space. Don't continually run the ball on 1st down up the middle and then force a 3rd and long for Burrow. The OL can't handle the time that it takes to run the longer routes and Burrow can have a tendency to hold the ball too long.

Short timing routes need to be implemented to help Burrow and the OL.
I do like that Burrow is still getting under center and not always in shotgun. Hopefully it helps sell some play action pass eventually.

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I like the overload one one side every once in a while. Remember in the 07 NC when Crowton did that and we threw a quick pass to Dickson on the weak side for a TD?

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One of my biggest gripes with LSU's offense, past and current, is lack of misdirection. If LSU's alignment says they're going left, they're going left. Defenses just flow to the strong side with very little concern of misdirection.

Canada exploited that some, but now we are back to the same old shite.