I was watching HardKnocks at my buddy's place tonight and halway in he turns to me and goes, "Oh you're running the BLur! The Ducks run this. You're gonna love this offense!" So I got home and googled it and here's what I found.... http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page...1012_tuesday_morning_quarterback&sportCat=nfl - The tempo sounds like us, but I don't think Philbin uses the same formations at the Oregon blur. He took the BLur concepts, and borrowed some while keeping some WCO formations. - I do expect to see a lot of playaction, and a lot of formations where the look is like option-football, where one of several things could be happening. Even the fullhouse/inverted wishbone could feature a fake, then an option for the QB. Another blurb on the Blur http://articles.latimes.com/2011/aug/05/sports/la-sp-0806-oregon-offense-20110806 - The two hour condensed practice sounds like us. As does the zone blocking. More... I think the benefits of this offense start becoming clear. - easier for WRs and QBs to learn - fast pace pus tremendous pressure on defenses, who can;t even switch players. I don;t know HOW similar our offense will be to the Ducks' BLur... but I hope the answer is "a lot".
Interesting stuff worth keeping an eye on, BPK. I do know that Texas A&M ranked 5th nationally with 80.9 snaps per game (almost 7 more snaps that Oregon). How different or similar is the Blur compared to what Sherman ran at TAMU?
Sherman used an up tempo offense quite a bit. He'd put it in there as a change of pace, and if the defense had issues adjusting to it, he kept using it providing there wouldn't be greater value in slowing the game down a bit, like chewing clock in the 4th quarter. But he did use it effectively while at Texas A&M.
That's a great question. I don't know. Maybe one of our guys who knows College football can lend a hand?
I don't think they are that related. There are some similar basic elements(some spread, no huddle), but I don't think the Dolphins will use them as heavily as Oregon does. There's also fundamental aspects of the offense that the Dolphins probably won't use at all. I think the key thing is that there are some basic football things that teams are putting together as a package that work well together, and the Dolphins are seemingly on that bandwagon.
Thanks Disgustipate. Which things are teams putting together that work well together, from what you've seen?
They better hope Sherman can change up plays like Chip Kelly can because he didn't do it well consistently at A&M.
Schematically I don't think there is much similarity. I think how those schemes are applied will be similar though. Here is actually a good article that is relevant to this topic: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/02/s...=1&_r=1&sq=oregon ducks offense&st=cse,&scp=1
I think you right here. Timeing, score, conditions, field placement will dictate when this hurry up offence is put to the test.
I think Sherman is more 'open' in his passing game than Chip is. Chip's offense is built around zone and power (specifically Power concept) running game while also utilizing tempo. Chip tries to use the width of the field in basic pass concepts off play action while Sherman is more pass based and runs more of the whip, comebacks, digs and china routes that you typically see. EDIT: Wrote this on Sherman's O a few months ago -- http://blogs.thescore.com/nfl/2012/...w-mike-sherman-and-ryan-tannehill-will-click/
Well, I merely hope we have good personnel fits for this scheme, it sounds great on paper. Would love to hear Richie I's thoughts on this after playing on that high powered Rams offense in 06/07.
Well, I don't know that I'm in a position to describe macro trends in football like that, but I think the Dolphins are putting together a handful of complimentary things. Combining zone rushing with play action and bootlegs isn't new by any means, but I like that the Dolphins have combined that with an emphasis on no huddle/quick tempo stuff, and I think that works really well in terms of the heat/humidity. They're going to be able to make defenses have to run a lot, and then try to take advantage of fatigue/mental errors. I think what also works well is they've got a lot of position flexible guys. They can put personnel packages on the field that might work pretty well in pretty disparate formations- They can put what looks like their standard starting offense on the field and switch between an I-formation and an empty backfield and have it work well both ways without a guy out there who isn't doing much for you. Combining that with the no huddle and the fatigue factor is a lot of complimentary elements.
