Put Your Game Plan Where Your Mouth Is

If Fat Cody and company prevent that from happening on the inside, go to the outside with quick options.

If that still doesn’t work, abandon that gameplan and start firing the pigskin, nickel and diming them down the field, with the occasional deep ball thrown to anybody whose last name doesn’t end with -oll.

This is why I am not an offensive coordinator by the way.

to show how GD is criticized too much. The most almost any of us can talk about (myself included) is basic offensive philosophies that any football fan can recite. “if they load the box, play action.” “if the corners play deep, quick screens.” “press coverage, call a play with double moves.” “if they jam the middle, run outside”, etc etc etc.

I think if any of us sat in an offensive meeting with GD and the rest of the Texas coaches, we would immediately realize that criticism of these people is well beyond our pay grade, at least in the “I could do better” department. I’m not saying that GD is a great coordinator. I happen to think that he actually is a better than average one, albeit incredibly boring, and that he has been taking entirely too much heat for the fact that our offense doesn’t always execute properly, but I would also quickly agree with anybody who says that there could be better options out there. I just think that the notion that any of us could do his job better than him is a joke and an insult to offensive coordinators.

Assuming we play Bama’s base defense, I say we call this game plan.

1st play from scrimmage: Bama in 4-3-4 Base, shading LB to their left, our right. We bring out 3 Wide, 1 RB (Newton) from shotgun, EBS lined up left of Ulatoski, trips right. Colt fakes WR screen right, hands off behind his back to Newton (Statue of Liberty). Ulatoski and EBS stay home and open up a lane for Newton on the left side, while the rest of the line slants right to block for the screen.

What this does is tells Bama that we’re not going to hold anything back.

The rest of the game needs to be based on situations that we will face. We have certain tendencies that we need to break because we usually are quite predictable; however, Greg Davis usually does our best after we get exposed.

The main thing we need to do is capitalize on mistakes by Bama, and the best way to do that is to strike immediately after a turnover or a huge penalty by them. Thats what we did so well in 2005. We should be using Malcolm on a post and Jordan on a hitch and go to open up the field, leaving Kirk to work the middle of the zone coverage. All of this needs to come from PA of course.

Speaking of using Kirkendoll, lets keep doing it. He’s a much better receiver than people give him credit for and he is excellent in open space. Open space doesn’t mean a quick out pass to the sidelines, but rather finding holes in coverage.

To hell with our running game.

Tell Colt….“no sliding” we’ll get him a job with a Texas Exe if he gets hurt. An occasional pump and go might be nice. Everybody jumps those dink and dunks.Pass rush will be nasty…better be ready for it.How about Chiles dropping back to pass and then take off running..not really a draw…let Bama defenders get away from the lone of scrimmage.

You know the bubble screen where one of our receivers takes a step backwards to wait on Colt’s throw while one or two other Longhorn receivers pick up and block the incoming defenders?

Well, every time Greg calls that bubble screen (I’m guessing that it would be a couple of times each quarter), I’d have one of our “blocking receivers” bump the incoming defender and then sprint down the sideline for a deep pass from Colt. Meanwhile, Colt should pump in the direction of the “backfield receiver” (faking the screen), and then when the sideline receiver has separation, hit him while he’s streaking to the end zone.

I think they are setting up the fade (after the block for the y) for the x receiver. I do agree with poolflood, Texas should at least script a few plays, when Colt sees the Tide in a defense he can expose, then go no huddle, no sideline watching mode. We may be able to gain 30-40 yards before Bama has to take a timeout. When they adjust to quick passes with their nickel & dime packages, hopefully Buckner & Newton are in the line up and we can run the ball.

The key, in my mind, is not being so predictable on offense & shut down their running game on defense. McElroy is good but I have to believe we should win a game when both running games are shut down (likely). When the MNC becomes one dimensional for both teams, I’ll take my chances with Colt.

Colt may not have won the Heisman, but I witnessed Suh and the rest of the D line for Nebraska play on a level that was almost superhuman. I realize Bama’s secondary is better than NU’s but I have confidence our line can give Colt a whole second or two more to scan the field and use his most valuable asset, his accuracy.

First I want to say congrats to the Horns and the coaches. Secondly I want to know how many of you have coached or played in a sanctioned season and gone undefeated due to your superior intellect and insight??? Dont get me wrong I dont how many times I find myself asking what in the hell were they thinking but lets give them a little more credit… they are 13-0 & playing for the Nat Championship.
 HOOK’EM !!!

“They ran a bunch of stuff I’ve never seen before.” I’m paraphrasing Colt’s remarks after the OU game.

How about this: First play, line up in the wide receiver screen formation, pump fake the WR screen and then spin and hit Newton or Buckner in the flat on the opposite side of the field. Bama will have seen our tendency to run this play on our first play from scrimmage for, what, 13 straight games? If we’ve been setting anybody up, now is the time to pull the fake.

Next play (assuming we don’t score on the first due to Bama’s complete and utter shock that we didn’t do what we were supposed to do): screen to Newton. We almost never run a true screen play (shovel passes don’t count), and it almost always works when we do finally pull it out.

Third play until ’Bama calls their first time-out: Our regular offense, with a few new wrinkles sprinkled in, run in non-stop no-huddle fashion, no looking at the sidelines, no pocket passing. Line up, snap the ball, roll the pocket, throw. Line up, snap the ball, zone read. Line up, snap the ball, roll the pocket, throw. Do it over and over and over until Cody throws up, passes out, or Saban calls timeout. Get some Gatorade & do it again.

Some good game plans on today’s Roundup thread.

On out-of-bound and out-of-endzone kicks, the Flash would just take the snap on a QB keeper and put it in the endzone within a second. On defense, he could get to the QB and strip the ball within a tenth of a second of the snap, and put the ball in the endzone.

Colt is going to be shell shocked from the speed of this secondary. Nowhere in the Big 12 is there as good of LB’s and safety’s as what Colt will face in Pasedena. Not to mention Bama has two shutdown corners one of which is an All-American. Wanna bet he’ll be Shipley’s new friend? Speaking of friends when Colt tries the QB draw play he’ll meet a great guy. MLB and 2009 Butkis Award Winner Rolando Mclain.
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Let the games begin…bwahahaha !!!!!
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Roll Tide Roll !!!