News Article: OJ Howard Indicates a Faster Alabama Offense in 2015
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I'm not a fan of the play cars, either. I get the feeling Saban has finally had enough with the HUNH offenses and decided "You want to play that game? I'll be glad to since I have better athletes than you do."
I would rather be more physical at the point of attack than worry about making the offense faster. We shouldn't have to out scheme other teams. If OSU can whip Wisconsin, Alabama, and Oregon at the LOS there's no reason Bama can't do the same thing..
I'm a firm believer that the HUNH should be a viable strategy.... BUT the play cards should go away. If you have a QB you trust to call plays at the line, let him do it, as fast as he wants. But the whole get to the line - stand up and look the the sidelines thing is exploiting the rules. I'd like to do away with the cards.
That said, the pendulum in college football has completely swung to the offense. If you're not doing something like this - or at least having the ability to do it when you want to - you're playing at a disadvantage. It can be overcome, but why would you do that as opposed to adapting?
That said, the pendulum in college football has completely swung to the offense. If you're not doing something like this - or at least having the ability to do it when you want to - you're playing at a disadvantage. It can be overcome, but why would you do that as opposed to adapting?
You can do both since the HUNH is just a quick-snap gimmick. It should have no bearing on the style of offense we play. Alabama can certainly quick-snap people & have a physical offensive style.
You may, but the HUNH is NOT an offense.... it's solely a quick-snap gimmick. You can quick-snap someone and run any type of offense you wish to run.
Technically yes you can do that. But, IMO, it greatly impacts the psyche of a team. It would be hard to sell the team on being a physical smash mouth dominate the LOS type team and then say hurry up and snap the ball so we can catch them off guard and trick them. Are we going to quick snap teams on the goal line and when it is 3rd and 1 or 4th and 1? Probably not. I would rather leave the cute offense stuff alone and focus back on dominating the LOS..
I understand incorporating the elements of the HUNH such as always have the option to throw a bubble screen to the WR if the defense is giving a big cushion or quick snapping the ball from time to time. It would just make me cringe if we started doing much more than that on a regular basis. Blake probably threw 30 bubble screens in the first few games last year and they worked great - against lesser opponents. Everybody was all excited that we were incorporating some of that stuff. Then we started to play real teams such as Ole Miss, Arkansas etc and none of that cute stuff worked. I guess that's my point. I don't see us winning a championship again unless we get back the main focus of dominating the LOS..
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Well, think about this. If we take care of things on defense like we have been capable of, we can do anything we want to on the offensive side of the ball. We can go fast. We can go dog slow. If we play great defense, what we do on offense has absolutely no bearing on what the other team does on offense. At best, a fast offense can help keep you close. Defense wins period.
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