Running out of the Spread never worked!

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Running out of the Spread never worked!

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this is one of the dumber things that gets repeated on this board for some reason

We’re talking about LSU, and only LSU.

Oklahoma routinely has one of the best ground games year in and year out in CFB and is a pure spread shotgun team.

bullshite. Like the guy above said- the spread was invented to run the ball.

But it's more than just creating space by spreading people out. Yes it includes that, but there's other things that make it work.

First and foremost, your QB has to identify where the space is... or more accurately where it will be post-snap, and decide to take advantage of it through the air or on the ground.

Secondly, your QB also has to make reads effectively in-play. Such as a QB reading a DE and deciding whether or not to pull it from the basket and pass, or let the RB have it and run it.

In 2019 CEH got better as the year went on mainly because the reads by Burrow (and Brady/CSE) got better. Those reads got better as Burrow became more and more an expert at Brady's offense.

Last year and so far this year we're seeing what happens when your QB is just a QB and not an on-the-field Co-OC and how it lessens the benefits of a spread offense.

It wasn’t just Clyde or Joe’s threat with the RPO, ( they did help the line out in that sense ), most importantly they beat people in the pass game and that allowed favorable numbers in the run game.
Right now, teams are making Johnson try to beat them and he can’t, by crowding the LOS and have an advantage in numbers most of the time against the run. But, even when they are in favorable position to run it they still can’t and that has nothing to do with running out of the spread.
They need to steer away from the tight, bunch formations right now because it puts too many defenders around the LOS and the line and Johnson don’t know who is coming and Lord knows the line needs all the help they can get ( along with Johnson ).

There are plenty of offenses where all the adjustments are made in the booth and in the sideline.

Our running game is just boring and our OL sucks. Until last we ran Inside zone every play for 2 years. And it worked with a better OL and a good RB who could bounce plays outside if he needed to.

Now our OL
Sucks. We get no push and TDP isn’t a guy who will bust a zone read outside if he has to.

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So far I haven’t seen the opposing defenses make a costly mistake, which means we’re to easy to defend and adjust.

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You haven't seen LSU take advantage of costly mistakes by the defense. Even with the O-line issues, a senior QB would have made UCLA pay if they used that same game plan.

Imo to make it work you need
1. Downfield passing to keep the safety out the box
2. A RPO look from your qb

Both of those give you a man advantage on run plays. And max can’t provide either of those

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Running out of the Spread never worked!

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Don't tell Urban Meyer that!