Im sorry but I actually like the inverted veer, especially when our White quarterbacks just take it up the gut, even guys like Dalton were doing this last year. Its not much different from the old triple option that Nebraska was running, same concepts except the field is spread out (In fact Nebraska ran inverted veer with Martinez). It won't ruin college football. What we will see happen is teams recruiting "speedier" defenders but they will have to sacrifice in size. Then the next big thing will be power football teams, just line up power football and ram it own their throats. This is what Stanford does. The whole point of the spread/zone read etc was to create an advantage for lesser matched teams, but that is no longer the case since plenty of teams are running it. Teams already figured out how to stop/slow down the basic zone read, its only a matter of time before all spread teams are slowed down. We won't be seeing video game stats like last year when defensive coordinators struggled to catch up. Eventually they will because there are only so many running plays you can run out of shotgun, although the pistol is kind of changing that. The disadvantage I have seen with the pistol is that teams are still limited, they are able to run downhill but they can't run the stretch play successfully.
I just wish the concept was used more at Florida when Tebow was there. People talk about Newton because he rushed for more yards in a season, they weren't running inverted veer with Tebow like they did with Newton. It would have made perfect sense, have the midget guys like Demps the outside threats and have Tebow run up the middle. Instead they chose to mostly run regular zone read, speed option etc. With the zone read they had a 5'6 180 pound dive back and a 240 pound powerback (Tebow) running to the outside. At least they ran qb power etc, but I am positive if he had been in Auburn's offense last year the results wouldve been incredible.
offenses are always evolving, nothing we can do about it, just sit back and enjoy. Remember Spurrier's fun n gun? The NFL usually stays the same though, they might incorporate a few aspects (like Bellicheck sending McDaniels down to Florida before the 07 season to learn the UF offense and incorporate aspects of it into the Patriots offense).They set records that year.Brady threw 50 tds. Another plus with having spread formations (multiple receiver sets) is usually White guys get more of a chance at receiver, yeah it might be in the slot but what people don't understand is that in some of these pass happy spreads the slot receiver is just a runningback.
I just wish the concept was used more at Florida when Tebow was there. People talk about Newton because he rushed for more yards in a season, they weren't running inverted veer with Tebow like they did with Newton. It would have made perfect sense, have the midget guys like Demps the outside threats and have Tebow run up the middle. Instead they chose to mostly run regular zone read, speed option etc. With the zone read they had a 5'6 180 pound dive back and a 240 pound powerback (Tebow) running to the outside. At least they ran qb power etc, but I am positive if he had been in Auburn's offense last year the results wouldve been incredible.
offenses are always evolving, nothing we can do about it, just sit back and enjoy. Remember Spurrier's fun n gun? The NFL usually stays the same though, they might incorporate a few aspects (like Bellicheck sending McDaniels down to Florida before the 07 season to learn the UF offense and incorporate aspects of it into the Patriots offense).They set records that year.Brady threw 50 tds. Another plus with having spread formations (multiple receiver sets) is usually White guys get more of a chance at receiver, yeah it might be in the slot but what people don't understand is that in some of these pass happy spreads the slot receiver is just a runningback.
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