tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15377771.post8192713211520118289..comments2024-03-13T03:27:50.582-04:00Comments on Smart Football: Smart Links and Notes 7/27/09Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07204245083374821812noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15377771.post-41727416782868469492009-07-28T04:05:53.547-04:002009-07-28T04:05:53.547-04:00Please please PLEASE never post links like that US...Please please PLEASE never post links like that USC article again. The ignorance of the media and fans never fails to get my blood boiling.<br /><br />Really, posting that article is like a chess grandmaster taking time to seriously play a four year-old. It's unbecoming of you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15377771.post-16764720054787875642009-07-27T23:50:04.795-04:002009-07-27T23:50:04.795-04:00"This gets worse when you make claims like &q..."This gets worse when you make claims like "Sam Bradford proves that spread offenses can produce NFL players." As if what Oklahoma runs uses a quarterback that even remotely resembles a team like Michigan."<br /><br />Nevermind that Sam Bradford isn't an NFL player. By virtue of the fact that, you know, he won't play a single down in the League for a year at least. How wonderfully dull.AERosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15377771.post-41699794764872896032009-07-27T22:41:55.233-04:002009-07-27T22:41:55.233-04:00Please don't link Bleacher Report articles. It...Please don't link Bleacher Report articles. It hurts your sites image.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15377771.post-11626204733651566522009-07-27T19:26:52.063-04:002009-07-27T19:26:52.063-04:00VT doesn't run the spread. They have run more...VT doesn't run the spread. They have run more 3 receiver sets in the past few years, but this is not a spread offense.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15377771.post-13621312803991357402009-07-27T16:48:40.960-04:002009-07-27T16:48:40.960-04:00The draw works so good because the Irish are in se...The draw works so good because the Irish are in second and long all the time. So, teams can give up a yard or two extra, seeing them set up for a pass.<br /><br />Thus the number isn't as statistically relevant.<br /><br />It's like trying a sac bunt with two outs.Mr.Murderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01932924875363684259noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15377771.post-14782501508921472822009-07-27T13:42:28.713-04:002009-07-27T13:42:28.713-04:00Chris, you're too smart to waste time on thing...Chris, you're too smart to waste time on things like that USC article. I know you don't want to be high and mighty, but you addressing that USC article is like Kinsey debating a sex year old on whether or not babies come from storks.<br /><br />I, however, don't know as much as you, and therefore have no trouble pointing out a few more of the staggeringly horrible parts of the article (I had to check twice to make sure Mandel didn't write it):<br /><br />-Implying all spread offenses are basically the same by not distinguishing between them. This gets worse when you make claims like "Sam Bradford proves that spread offenses can produce NFL players." As if what Oklahoma runs uses a quarterback that even remotely resembles a team like Michigan.<br />-Lumping in Houston Nutt and Jim Tressel with the spread coaches. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I remember seeing them in the ace or I most of the time, and a handful of spread formations as a change-up is not the same as a full-scale offensive philosophy overall, as the article applies.<br />-Using Virginia Tech as an example of good offensive anything<br />-Ignoring obvious cases that contradict him (i.e. awful spread offenses)<br />-West Virginia is not a "powerhouse," and it's misleading to place WVU and Michigan as two different teams switching to the spread (why not use Oregon?)OldSouthnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15377771.post-54265787383204302822009-07-27T13:27:23.213-04:002009-07-27T13:27:23.213-04:00Chris, thanks for linking our post on the Irish dr...Chris, thanks for linking our post on the Irish draw plays, the 3rd article in a series where we just look back at every run in the playbook.<br /><br />It's not that we're down on this series of runs so much as we feel it's necessary to have a well-balanced running game. Last August Weis said he was going to "pound it," but then that didn't work and he was forced to adjust. <br /><br />In the past, ND has relied too much on the draw. In order to become a BCS bowl team, they are going to need to improve the running game across the board. The next article, on ND's stretch play, will hopefully show that. ND averaged less than 2 yards per carry running left with that, and yet they continued to call it time and again.Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07689064551192120403noreply@blogger.com