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You don't have to tell me that this is un-conventional and reckless football....I know it is but what the heck. And you don't have to tell me that I am not a coach, I get that. We might get beat worse but it would be a heck of a show.

1. Let the receivers play a major, major role in the offense all game long by doing the following: Prothro under center all the time with lots of scramble, wide receiver options, reverses, double reverses, reverse passes receiver to receiver, option, option passes, half-back passes, go for it on 4th down if past the 50 yard line. Mix this in with some conventional bread and butter when needed such as 3rd and 1. Also, can you say Hook & Ladder ? Direct snap to the tailback. On all special teams returns you lateral, lateral.

2. Get 2 walk-on players to initiate a brewhaha with Jason Campbell and Caddy.... then wait for the ejections. Pawn for a Queen! (just kidding with this one, I know this would be terrible... so just kidding. Too dirty, but would better our chances :).
 
Expect the unexpected

Nothing wrong with thinking outside the box. Coach Bryant used to suprise everyone with things like quick kicks on 3rd down to gain field position. My favorite surprise of his came in a Miami vs. Bama game at (then) Denny Stadium. MIami was up 3 - zip at the half. The Bama D had chased QB George Mira all over the field that day and never could corral him. Midway through the third quarter Alabama was backed up on their end of the field with 4th and long and the punting team went in with Joe Willie as the short man on punt protection. He took a direct snap and threw for a big gain over the middle which led to Bama's first score. I think the final score was like 24 - 3 Bama. Sometimes the opposition has to be put back on it's heels and required to think about what these guys are going to do next. We did that in the first quarter with LSU with the long bomb that led to the TD. We had them perfectly confused and settled back down to business as usual. Now, I think a team and staff has to be together for a while to be so comfortabe with the offense that a coach can throw in "specialty" wrinkles like that. I expect to see more "outside the box" type thinking in the last game of the season. We've got to have some advantage and I think the element of surprise is the one that's left to us. Remember Manteets having Bama onside kick the ball in the first OU game in Norman? That one ultimately worked to our advantage. Just remember not to crawl all over CMS if something like that backfires.
 
Spot Dailey said:
My favorite surprise of his came in a Miami vs. Bama game at (then) Denny Stadium. MIami was up 3 - zip at the half. The Bama D had chased QB George Mira all over the field that day and never could corral him.
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I think that was the game when Jackie Sherill told Coach Bryant "If you put me out there I'll intercept that thing." Bryant said "Well git the h*** out there then." And sure enough on the next play he intercepts it.
 
I remember BAMA running two plays against Penn St. in the 79 Sugar Bowl lined up like this:

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Or something very close. Anyone else remember it like that?
 
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Boclive said:
I remember BAMA running two plays against Penn St. in the 79 Sugar Bowl lined up like this:

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Or something very close. Anyone else remember it like that?
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So - did we get away with running the play with 12 men?
:BigA:
 
Capstoner said:
You don't have to tell me that this is un-conventional and reckless football....I know it is but what the heck. And you don't have to tell me that I am not a coach, I get that. We might get beat worse but it would be a heck of a show.

1. Let the receivers play a major, major role in the offense all game long by doing the following: Prothro under center all the time with lots of scramble, wide receiver options, reverses, double reverses, reverse passes receiver to receiver, option, option passes, half-back passes, go for it on 4th down if past the 50 yard line. Mix this in with some conventional bread and butter when needed such as 3rd and 1. Also, can you say Hook & Ladder ? Direct snap to the tailback. On all special teams returns you lateral, lateral.

2. Get 2 walk-on players to initiate a brewhaha with Jason Campbell and Caddy.... then wait for the ejections. Pawn for a Queen! (just kidding with this one, I know this would be terrible... so just kidding. Too dirty, but would better our chances :).
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i'd say do all that crazy stuff if you want it to get ugly. IMHO, we need to do what we do best. make them play our game. they dont want to play physical. they want to finesse us to death. they may be able to do it. i think lsu was the only team to hit them in the mouth and they should have won the game. i think our defense is the only one in the sec that compares with lsu. we will probably lose this game, but i have a feeling, that come next week, we'll be talking about a couple of plays that we should have had that would have won us the game. (just like other close games we have lost this season, i.e. UT, LSU,Ark, & USC)
 
oh goodness...

Capstoner said:
2. Get 2 walk-on players to initiate a brewhaha with Jason Campbell and Caddy.... then wait for the ejections. Pawn for a Queen! (just kidding with this one, I know this would be terrible... so just kidding. Too dirty, but would better our chances :).
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this owns me to the floor.. i dont know who you are but you are my new favorite on this board.
 
Tsunami_RTR said:
So - did we get away with running the play with 12 men?
:BigA:
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Touche', Tsunami.

12 is close to eleven. Maybe there was only one back behind the QB.

I had to edit it 12 times cause what I drew wasn't what posted. Now I have to edit it again.

I ain't makin it up though. Rutledge took the snap on the first one and passed (lateraled) to Nathan out on the right sideline and he tried to run.

Next play he passed (lateraled) out to Nathan and he tried to pass.

At least that's how I remember it. I haven't seen that game since I watched live (on TV).
 
"THATS THE BEST GAME PLAN"

Lets play the game backwards or lateral !!!!!

wide receiver options, yes
double reverses, definately
triple option reverse passes

T C

RTR




Capstoner said:
You don't have to tell me that this is un-conventional and reckless football....I know it is but what the heck. And you don't have to tell me that I am not a coach, I get that. We might get beat worse but it would be a heck of a show.

1. Let the receivers play a major, major role in the offense all game long by doing the following: Prothro under center all the time with lots of scramble, wide receiver options, reverses, double reverses, reverse passes receiver to receiver, option, option passes, half-back passes, go for it on 4th down if past the 50 yard line. Mix this in with some conventional bread and butter when needed such as 3rd and 1. Also, can you say Hook & Ladder ? Direct snap to the tailback. On all special teams returns you lateral, lateral.

2. Get 2 walk-on players to initiate a brewhaha with Jason Campbell and Caddy.... then wait for the ejections. Pawn for a Queen! (just kidding with this one, I know this would be terrible... so just kidding. Too dirty, but would better our chances :).
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:biga2:
 
Really Big Bama Fan said:
It is the last game of the regular season against The Barn. Now is the time to go for it on fourth-and-short instead of always punting!
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Don't hold your breath. :rolleyes:
 
Thinking outside the box!!

We could let Ryans and Roach play tailback, behind the blocking of Fullback Jeremy Clark............
 
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