Yep. Raiders should sign Vick IMO and run a 3 QB system with J-Marc, Vick and McFadden all in the same backfield. Championship
Good idea, just forget the very much needed upgrades to the Oline, WRs, and the whole D and let them run for their lives.
John Williams, a redshirt freshman cornerback, and senior walk-on running back Phillip Pigott are helping give the LSU defense looks by playing as key Georgia Tech rushers. Miles said Williams is “doing a great job” and that “Pigott is a great fullback.” http://www.2theadvocate.com/sports/lsu/36369594.html?index=14&c=y
No, I'm saying that big aggressive NFL linebackers would punish quarterbacks severely running the option. The quarterbacks would not survive the season. The NFL drafts quarterbacks to throw the football. One-dimensional running offenses will never work in the NFL.
One of my concerns about our defense this year is the linebacker fundamentals. It is imperitive that linebackers understand the inside out philosophy. Our linebackers overran so many plays and took themself out of it with no need to block them. As a linebacker you must keep a inside out position and use the outside marker as your friend. If you overpursue the back can cutback and it happenned repeatedly this year. And our safeties did it too. Very poor pursuit angles and tackling skills. The key to stopping the triple option starts with your defensive tackles getting penetration. It will totally disrupt the play and throw the timing off. Linebackers keep an inside out ratio to the qb until pich and then take a proper angle of pursuit. String the play out and make sure defensive ends keep a good position to stop the cutback or reverse play. It is a very effective play against an overpursuing defense. You must have a good qb that makes good quick decisions to run this. Their are 2 ways to defense it once the qb keeps the ball from the fullback and you can either string it out making the qb keep it until there is no more sideline or make the qb pitch immediatly eliminating the options and dedicate to stopping the pitch man. Discipline is the key and keeping fresh lineman in the game to control the line of scrimmage. If the dive play is picking up 4 or five yards then your defense is going to have a tough time stopping the other two options as well. The key is pressure at specific points that will cause turnovers. If your outside DB can break down the pitchman the ball will be sitting there waiting to run the other way for the touchdown. We ran the veer in high school and the problem was our qb couldnt run out of site in a week so teams dared him to run.
John Williams has been the scout QB for all the athletic, running QBs this year. He is, if for nothing else, an amazing athlete -- and has been a very good sport to volunteer to take a beating all year long. I am pulling heavily for this kid to make an impact of his own.
This is what DD wrote about him today: I have been told that Coach Miles has been very impressed with several members of the scout team during preparations for GA Tech. ... I have been told that redshirt freshman John Williams has been very impressive running the GA Tech option offense for the Scout team. Williams was a running quarterback at Breaux Bridge High who ran an option offense somewhat similar to Ga Tech's offense. Comparison of John Williams to GT's QB Josh Nesbitt John Williams -- born Jan. 18, 1989 Josh Nesbitt -- born April 15, 1988 John Williams -- Rivals 4-star, #19 ATH, Rivals 250 Josh Nesbitt -- Rivals 4-star, #8 dual-threat QB, Rivals 250 John Williams -- Scout 4-star, #8 CB Josh Nesbitt -- Scout 4-star, #9 QB John Williams -- ESPN scout grade 76, #48 S Josh Nesbitt -- ESPN scout grade 77, #38 QB John Williams -- ESPN scouting report: Williams is an excellent overall athlete who plays quarterback full time because the team wants the ball in his hands as often as possible... He has adequate size and a nice blend of speed, quickness and explosiveness as a runner. He is at his best when running the option or creating plays on his own. He throws the ball well enough to keep defenses honest. He is a smooth athlete and shows a second gear when in the open field. Josh Nesbitt -- ESPN scouting report: He is a great athlete playing quarterback, and he is a much better passer than he probably gets credit for. He is a fantastic fit for the spread, read-option shotgun offense because he can do it all -- run, throw, scramble -- you name it. He has good size. Is well built and strong. ... a tough, competitive runner who will break tackles and find the first-down marker. Ability to make people miss is excellent. Has enough ability and speed to play WR/RB/S as well. In the right system, Nesbitt will be a tough to handle for opposing defenses. Picture of John Williams playing QB in high school -- http://media.2theadvocate.com/images/john+williams_f06.jpg
Red and CO Tiger must be coaches. Speed and discipline are the keys in stopping the triple option. That is why it is used rarely when you compare back to the late 60's and 70's when it exploded on the scene in college football. The speed of todays college linebackers and linemen make the triple option much easier to defend. That is why it was never used by anybody in the NFL. The triple option is predicated on getting to the corner first with the most and todays defensive speed makes that very difficult.
You act like the speed increased on D, but not on O. If the triple option can't make it with today's athletes, then why has Paul Johnson been so successful with during his coaching career, so much so that Georgia Tech hired him? Why has GT (ranked #14) been so successful this year with the triple option? Why are schools with sub-par talent successful with the triple option, like Air Force (8-4) and Navy (8-5)? Nowadays, so few teams use the triple option that nobody has any experience playing against it (I imagine the real reason the triple option died out was because it was a gimmick offense that too many teams started using, so it "saturated the market" so much that the gimmick didn't work anymore). The reason the triple option is so successful is because it neutralizes the advantage of superior athletes, by refocussing the game on decision making and execution. When a team with BCS-conference athletes (like GT) runs the option, the triple option is even more difficult to defend. If you want to read what a coach has to say about this, this is what Terry Bowden wrote: There are a lot of great story lines heading into the 2008 college football season, but the best one involving X's and O's is whether Georgia Tech can be successful running a one-dimensional triple option running attack at the BCS level. New head coach Paul Johnson will implement the same offense that brought him so much success at Navy and Division I-AA Georgia Southern. ... So, will Johnson be successful running the triple option at Georgia Tech? Absolutely. ... Want to know why? First, Johnson is an outstanding head coach at any level of football. He was highly successful at, not one, but two different schools running the triple option. While at the Division I-AA level, like Jim Tressel, Johnson led his team to multiple national championships. Second, the triple option is a tried-and-true system that has been extremely successful at the highest level of football. Head coaches and offensive and defensive systems might have changed many times over the past 40 years, but the field is still 100 yards long and 53 2/3 yards wide and you can still only use 11 people at a time to play the game. More specifically: • The triple option is a unique system that other teams will not see week in and week out making it much harder to prepare for. • Johnson has run the offense almost his entire career and he will be able to make on-the-field adjustments twice as fast as the defensive coordinators he will be facing. • He has a vast array of splits, formations and motions to alter the appearance of the exact same plays. • Because this is a system that is based upon creating as many third-and-short yardage situations as possible, they are in their comfort zone when it comes to executing critical short yardage and goal-line plays. • Since you win championships with defense, no offense in the country has the ability to control the clock better than the triple option. The more you control the clock with your offense, the more your defense is resting on the bench. ... like the impact Rich Rodriguez made in the Big East and Urban Meyer in the SEC, it is just a matter of time before Johnson has this [triple-option] team contending for championships. http://collegefootball.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=831054 For another good post on the triple-option, locoguano made a good post above:
