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Outstanding content! Thank you. Would love to see similar content from you,after the Alabama vs Georgia game this weekend. Keep up the great work, really enjoying your channel!

is the part two of the nick saban vid series on patreon as well?

OL is wayyy down field on the play at 15:00. Rpos have been fun for the game but the lack of officiating on them is out of control

when is part 2 coming😁

Thanks, my nephew is playing at WF this season, and I wanted to figure out they're doing on O. This helps.

Grubbs running the same offense here in Seattle. Geno Smith said he's seen plays he's never seen in football before. So far in preseason in Seattle it looks like the same offense and it looks like it's going to be just as dangerous. It's extremely quarterback friendly I've never seen Sam Howell look so good. But we saw the same thing with Jake Hainer and even Dylan Morris to an extent.

Dude the amount of detail and research you do is incredible

The holy grail

Amazing! Exactly the type of content I've been searching for. I hope to budget a way to subscribe to your patreon my friend. Thank you for this wonderful free content

25:11. That's the farthest back I've seen a QB get the ball in a shotgun formation. It almost looks like a punt. lol

where do you ge this film??

good luck with your patreon thing. i always liked your videos.

35:38 the bones of the hank passing concept

get ready to learn sabanese buddy!

Wommack 4-2-5 Swarm development? Any interest?

Oh shit a whole documentary 🍿

We love you. Now we need Mike elko my Irish play a&m this year

we missed u bro😭

Play 7: 22m: last play - Great Example from P6 to P7 of similar sets with Flood Pattern Design - BUT .. P6 using R&S Option Routes and P7 using Air Raid "find grass" concept! DEFENSE - no blitz - in fact only 3 man rush that actually produces some pressure - EVEN IN 7 MAN PROTECT!! JOE MOORE AWARD WINNING OLINE??? - Ok, so it was a 7Man Check - but so was P6. I love this Max Pass Pro stuff from DeBoer. It destroys blitzes, but even with RB & TE checking then starting to bail as pattern check downs, Oregon still gets some pressure!! THIS is the Joe Moore Award winning OLine ! The voters were duped by DeBoer's great Offensive Designs making this OLine seem a lot better than it was. BACK TO THE SCHEMEs - So another great job by Coordinator Project in describing Saban's Mable 3Match coverage. This time DeBoer has designed specific routes. P6 was essentially a flood to the trips side. This time the flood occurs on the opposite side and from a very condensed classic Pro Set. The Spread occurs AFTER the snap (WCO) not before (PS). Flooding one side of the field overwhelms conventional zones and the Air Raid ideal of looking for grass is the way to combat match coverage (bracket + m2m principals after the initial zone). Again, not a great job by the Pass Pro, but nice anticipation by Penix!! Looked like Tua on this one! Release maybe a tad slow - but that is really picky. Last thing - GREAT EXECUTION BY DUCKS D - plus they are talented - so what's the problem? #4 gets sucked in by the quick Play Action (as we've seen, DeBoer does all kinds of different play actions) - that little hesitation is all it takes - no way he can keep up with the wr w/ a late start. THIS IS WHAT MADE THIS GAME SO AMAZING. Both Teams are well coached - schemed up well - and Oregon has a ton of talent - yet UW wins because DeBoer is unbelievable on Offense! All year - fans and media just didn't get it - everyone picked Oregon cause they do have great coaching and top notch talent. But DeBoer's OMind is insane! I was a huge fan of Sarkisian starting in 2008 when he tore a whole in a great Ohio State team while at USC. Using a lot of these prinicpals DeBoer uses. But DeBoer is Sark+ -- a whole other level. Nuff said.

Play 6: 18m-22m - DEFENSE=Zone Blitz Match 3 (Cover 3 w/ match m2m based on pattern distribution); OFFENSE= 7Man Protection - Trips Pattern Scheme to one side of the field - Option Routes by middle and wide receivers. DeBoer is becoming brilliant at beating these tricky match coverages with both R&S + AR principles in play and again maximizing the Option Concept. #11 I think has the Option to break inside or back out depending on the coverage. #1 is basically the AR vert route - deep if tight coverage - sits if off coverage. You make good points of the bracketing/leveraging that goes in in Match Coverage. Go listen to any one of Saban's Sermons - he's all about Coverage Leverage! That was the genius of his match schemes. So what does DeBoer do? He regains the Leverage edge. First with Max Protection vs the Blitz - then with Option Routes verse a tough Match3 coverage. With a little talent at QB and WR this is too easy. Win DeBoer against a great DMind in Lanning. And look at the Protection and Throw - not great - and late! Johnson stays back to passive against a blitzer with a full head of steam and gets crushed. Penix needed to throw that ball a tad sooner then couldn't step into the throw thanks to Johnson. Overall good job by Penix to make sure he took advantage of Oregon being completely out-schemed. THIS is how DeBoer gets the most out of his talent. Imagine him with Bama type talent. It's just a question of how quick his culture and schemes are assimilated. And at worse - will they be accepted or resisted. If he meets with a lot of resistance, then there's not much he can do - but he's great at winning people over. He's straight and intelligent in how he operates.

Plays 1-5: RPO or not?? It is so hard to tell if DeBoer is running an actual option or straight up run or play-action pass. Traditional RPOs are easy - just see if a part of the OLine is run blocking and part is pass blocking. You can also look to see if any receivers are actually looking to catch the ball. In DeBoer's offense - it's a HARD SELL! A lot of times the whole OLine looks to be run blocking and every once and a while they set to pass block and its a run! (RPO Draw). A lot of the WRs are blocking in the plays shown here - but one is ready for a quick flair screen. P1 - They didn't have the #s but ran it anyway - to the boundary vs a hesitant D due to the Play Action. I THINK this was a fake RPO power counter. The OLine was firing out - no pass block. P2 - #s were even (it was earlier in game when Oregon in more base scheme geared towards coverage), but there was slightly heavy personnel up front (xtra DT). This may have been an RPO cause the LB was vacating for the WR flair screen - but again - no hesitancy or pass blocking on the OLine. The mesh is held a bit - but it looked like Penix was always going to give it and was just carrying out the play action to freeze the D. I THINK again this was a power counter fake RPO. Didn't work this time as the RT &pulling LG were knocked back and OR seemed to have run eyes this time on the DLine. P3 - Now here I think we have an OPTION to give,keep,or pass - TRIPLE OPTION - RTO. Now again - it's a power counter blocking scheme and no hesitancy - this is what makes it so hard to tell and so hard for the D to know. DEBOER IS A MASTER AT CREATING HESITANCY IN THE D TO GET THE LEVERAGE - Sarkisian was great at this as well - in different ways - all the way back to USC. So in this play there is a man in motion - making a 2x2 set - a little different than the previous 2 plays 3x1. This spreads the Ducks and evens the #s again. THE HUGE DIFFERENCE FROM P2 IS THAT NO ONE IS BLOCKING THE EDGE PLAYER! This is the Read Key - essentially the QBs block. This now gives the #s edge to the Offense. CLASSIC POWER SPREAD READ OPTION CONCEPT. So unlike P2 - with #s the OLine wins even though again they aren't getting much push. You can see Penix carry out the keep after he gives to hold the edge and then carry out the fake pass to hold the DBs. DEBOER SUBTLETY - add a motion - 2x2 - and actually run an Option - but not an RPO - an RTO... I do believe Penix had the Option to run or pass as well as give. You can also see the OLIne isn't firing out as hard. More of Pin&Pull action. So they don't get caught downfield. P4 - Back to 3x1 but more condensed Pro Set - LOVE THIS ABOUT DEBOER - he runs Spread and Condensed Sets - R&S, AR and WCO route designs and concepts - does it all without too much complication. Incredibly hard to do! GREAT JOB BY YOU on the examination of the blocking scheme. More Pin&Pull type of action - but you describe it well - cross-block. Two pullers with the illusion of one. Magician DeBoer. The RB isn't doing any Counter Action on this one - just pure power P&P. Also, look at the LT/C - looks like Pass Block action more - I THINK this is RPO. Penix doesn't hold the mesh as long because I actually think he's really making a decision on this one - NO FAKE - and once he decides he has to give right away to avoid issues on the mess and turnovers. The execution on the Oline is excellent - but the push it seems they are getting is due to the confusion of the D. I have nothing against these kids - don't know them - just calling it as I see. Not a bunch of talent - amazing teaching (technique/fundamentals) and scheme. P5 - Now you call this an RPO - BUT IS IT?? Or is it a Play-Action Pass Fake RPO. It looks exactly like P4 on Offense, but not on D. This is later in the game and like P1 (which was later in game), Oregon is loading the box more because they felt they couldn't be gashed on the power runs and let UW eat clock with the lead. Situational Football. BTW, another great piece of DeBoer's Offense - is Time - not just Space. He will run HUNH - Slow NH - Huddle - or eat clock - again - does it all. And loves to sub on both O and D - USE ALL THE PLAYERS - TIME - SPACE! So with the #s edge and also the DBs are backed off the WRs unlike P1. So this is looking like an RPO because it's obvious the decision is to pass here. Let's look at the OLine. Same blocking scheme as P4 (P&P cross block w/ another puller) - no Counter Action by RB again - and LT/C look like Pass Block setup. Have to go with RPO as it's an easy read for Penix with Box#s and DBs off coverage. BUT.... I've seen straight up Play Action Pass by DeBoer with pulling Lineman - called a Hard Action - or Fake. But it all looks like RPOs or RTOs. Options and Fake Options - gotta love it!

Coming into this game lot of the media was talking about UWs vertical pass game and some social media guys were calling it an Air Raid offense. Everyone seemed to be saying it was Grubb's offense. ALL of this was a misnomer. As I said below - DeBoer been running this Multiple All Inclusive offense way before Grubb joined. Yes there are Air Raid principles and routes at times but by far this wouldn't be the root of his scheme and I'm not even sure I would include it in the description, PS Pro Multiple...Full PS Pro -- something like that - but no PSAR - because it doesn't have enough rooted in just AR concepts. As far as the Vertical pass game -- ridiculous. DeBoer is very Gillman like -- ALL THE FIELD - ALL THE LEVERAGE. In other words SPREAD & POWER. He does a lot of wr screen stuff (I think thats part of why people say it's Air Raid) - horizontal stretch that looks very wco - and then he will hit deep - and of course the QB has options on all of this - and many times the WRs also have options. More importantly - DeBoer loves the power game. He will use the vert&horiz spread to set up power - but many times he will use the power to set up the spread. And as you expertly showed in the run game - he has many ways to leverage the blocking. Even in these few plays it's easy for the trained eye to see the struggles the Oline had with the Oregon talent. This Oline won an award due to DeBoer's coaching and scheme! And his coaches of course. But this was not a super talented OLine by any stretch. So yeah - as I've been yelling to anyone who will listen - DeBoer does it all. The PS - Pro - and everything in between. A master of Offense. And not bad at overall Culture either..

Some Subtleties of DeBoer's O: Play 1 - This is a Fake RPO - DeBoer loves to play around with the RPO looks. You can fake a pass or run. In this case, the pass. Advantage is in the lack of hesitancy and quick power momentum when you really want to bash a hesitant defense. This is one of many ways that DeBoer makes a seriously average to decent OLine look like the best in the country! And a good RB look great. Penix is taught carry out the fake to freeze the D. This is CRUCIAL as Oregon has the #s in the box as they are light in coverage. Even with #s, the D is aware of all the space to the wide side of the field. SO ... we fake an RPO there and have zero hesitancy in a non-option counter run to the boundary side. Brilliant simplicity. This is the magic of DeBoer. He understands the simple ways to recover the leverage and momentum by mixing VARIETY in looks, misdirection, play-action and option. Subtle - looks normal - it aint!

I've been studying DeBoer since EMichigan. Check out his stuff back to Sioux Falls. It's his offense. Grubb came along a lot later. I've tried to connect with the guy at Sioux Falls who actually changed the team from power based to a pass spread mixed with power in the 90s. He hasn't replied to me, but this is where DeBoer first started to see the way Power and Spread, Run and Pass can all synch together into one cohesive Option Ideal. No one does it better than him. Aggressive with a ton of variety, yet simple and easy to execute for the players. His players always have Options - in the gameplan - pre snap or post snap.

Sid Gillman. That's the offense Marchibroda was running. All the top offenses in the 60s-70s were Gillman - then Coryell and Walsh exploded on the scene. They were both Gillman proteges. BTW, George Allen was a Gillman/PBrown guy as were many at the time. Yes he's a Defensive guy - but Gillman and Brown had a lot of great ideas for football that included Defense as well. Special Teams too - which was something Allen loved. Before Allen was coach of the Rams it was 2 coaches before him that both coached/played under Gillman who was the Rams coach in the mid 50s. Marchibroda was definitely the innovator of the NoHuddle and I'm glad you pointed that out. He was a top OMind and had a lot to do with morphing the R&S Kelly was in at the USFL and turning it into a Shotgun 11 Personnel with pro concepts and using the NH and Tempo -- awesome - and he never gets enough credit. But Gabriel's ideas, along with Marchibroda and the influence on Whipple (before he learned the Walsh stuff in the nfl) was Gillman all the way.Whipple's NH stuff was most likely Marchibroda (Wyche as well).

Great research on Whipple! Not a widely known background. BTW, Belichick went to UMeyer before Whipple to learn about this new "college" offense. The quick pass spread game, eventually with the no-huddle element, suited Brady to a tee. Brady was not nearly as good at the old pro drop back game that was being run at Michigan. I remember his games there (osu fan) and one of the biggest shocks in my life is that Tom Brady became a great NFL QB. Anyone who tells you they saw greatness in him at Michigan is flat out lying.

Cool look at the RPO. I'm sure you must have DeBoer studies in your archives. He's a master at the subtleties of the RPO. Just simple things. Like an RPO Draw - or Fake RPO. Both of these make the OLine and skill players not have to deal with Options after the snap - thus zero hesitation. Their options are pre snap or even pre-call based on the sequence and situation in the game. With DeBoer, he plays around a lot with his Line Blocks so it's really not easy to tell if he's really running an RPO or if there is no option after the snap.

Only 5m in, so forgive me if you mention it later but Ruggiero's background interesting. Tubby Raymond protege KC Keeler was one of the big early spread guys at Rowan and Delaware (Joe Flacco). Rugg graduated 5 yrs after Keeler, but a cool sidenote. More interesting is that he replaced Rich Rod as HC at Glenville St. Of course, this is where RRod started the Read Option (staple of Power Spread Football). Most interesting is all of the R&S at Hofstra - but truly it started as an early version of PS Football by Manny Matsakis. Triple Option out of R&S 4 WR sets - Triple Shoot. Later Rob Spence was OC there - another great OMind. Thank you for the tidbit on Mumme's daughter at Elon and his connection to the Air Raid. I had always wondered how these concepts leaked into his Spread Passing Scheme. I knew it had to be something more than just film study of the other AR schools or even a visit. Great Info! oh and Hank Small - big Gillman - Coryell guy and then Walsh. He was always studying so I'm sure somewhere along the way he started studying the BYU offense based off the Gillman>Walsh stuff. BTW, I played LB at Bucknell - but the film you have is little after I graduated. :)

Remember that Jon Heacock's (3-3 at Iowa St) bro is Jim. Jim Heacock was DC for a long time under Tressel after DAntonio then Snyder left. So not surprising that Fick went to this D. Plus Fick was always creative with his blitz packages and Defenses when he was allowed to be at OSU - which wasn't a lot. Also, Wisconsin's had 2 really good DMinds in Aranda then Leonhard, so Fick has to be up on all the really cool stuff Aranda runs vs Power Spread Offenses.

BTW, its a big misnomer - but Qtrs is NOT Cover 4. 26:20 - even the Withers off-Qtrs (not press) has aggressive Safeties. See where they are lined up. Almost parallel to the CBs. In traditional C4 (run long long ago) the Safeties are exactly what they are called -SAFEties.. in Quarters they are far more aggressive with thei ssignment to attack downhill immediately on any runs. Thus, the reason they can get burned on play action. (see 32:39 - simple pitch action - agg safety burned! - this happened to all the qtrs guys eventually - no matter how much talent) The brilliance of Qtrs is the balance to protect with a C4 Shell yet, have 2 of the 4 ready to crash down on the run. Better run support than traditional Cover 3. Better deep support than traditional C1, C2, C3. Notice who makes the tackle on the run from this less aggressive Withers Qtrs. The Safety, who crashed down hard!

Withers was a quarters guy. BDavis - Wannstedt - started playing around with this. Unrelated were Mallory/Shafer/Narduzzi in another part of the country. The second group were more aggressive with their Qtrs as you detailed. Press Qtrs if you will. The problem w/ OSU's defense w/ Withers wasn't necessarily the type of scheme, but synching up with the players. As you showed - they were doing a lot more than qtrs. Mixing in a lot of blitz looks - maxing the box w/ C1 or C3 - Qtrs -- it was too much. Kids were out of position and hesitant. Really bad the first yr. A little better the 2nd. Ash came in as a pure qtrs guy. Learned from the second group. Maybe not as much blitzing and loaded boxes - but in Press Qtrs that isn't necessary as you pointed out. Problem w/ such aggressive safety play (which is opposite of pure C4 where safeties sit back deep) is it's so easy to get burned on Play Action and Mis Direction. All staples of the modern Pro and PS offenses. Now Qtrs is used for Variety but not as a base defense. It's just another type of Match Coverage for teams to use.

Power Spread Triumvirate of the 2000s - UMeyer / GMalzahn / Briles - coming out of Flexbone+Spread(R&S/AR) led by Manny Matsakis + RRod w/ a lot of help (Spurrier,Snyder...). CKelly was in the UMeyer line (RRod) and sliding over to GMalzahn and even the AR Briles line. Leach was a Pass Spread w/ Mumme that preceded Briles pure PS offense, based on BYU (wco) + R&S. Gotta include BKelly in there - UMeyer line as well which comes from RRod/Snyder/the Neumeir R&S guys (Erickson/Petrino etc) which really by the 00s was Pro Spread combo of Gillman (then Walsh) spread after the snap and the Neumeir Spreads before the snap.

18:38 I was waiting... Match Up Zone was the original version skewed more towards zone - the defender matches a WR in his zone area - passing off depending on his assignment. Whereas Match Zone = the defenders follow their WR all over the field based on assignment after pattern distribution...more towards m2m. Any match scheme is the unique balance between zone and m2m and can be done a lot of different ways skewed towards man or zone ..depending... Great early footage with your analysis. KU actually looked a little bit like a Match Coverage. It was definitely something cool by DAntonio, but the players screwed up their assignments. I could see why Saban would be interested., Of course DAntonio became famous with the Narduzzi Quarters which is really a Cover 4 Match Zone. BTW, Erhardt ran an early version of Pro PS (power spread) with the steelers. Very ahead of its time with personnel the way they used Kordell Stewart (slash).

#3 - Freeman - HUGE! These Coords can look bad or good depending on their synchronicity w/ the HC. This is why Chip Kelly w/ Ryan Day is potentially dynamic, even before you consider the talent on hand.

Saban=OG of Match Coverage - zone before the pattern distribution - locked up m2m after pattern distribution - easy for an athletic qb to exploit.

Check out Beck's background (Howard Fletcher)... it's what started BKelly thinking innovative w/ offenses. Love the Spurrier/Snyder acknowledgement. This goes back to Gillman, before Walsh became the end all in OScheme. Also the Flexbone guys had a lot of influence as well. Finally leading to Manny Matsakis Triple Shoot and the famous RRod Read Option. The mix of wco (walsh-I call Gillman's original that led to all the rest simply the WC) with these power spreads are what it's all about now. Pro PS or PS Pro - whichever is the base concept. (PSAR for those that still stick to all the AR concepts - though thats mixed in to the general spread ideal now)

Fantastic Breakdown w/ the history included! Im glad you call this channel the Coordinator Project and not the Play-Caller Project. Play Calling is the least of it. That term is for fans and media to feel in the know. The concepts - overall scheme - evolving schemes - gameplans are all the important stuff that creates the play calls. During the game there's Flow of the Game, Counters to Defenses, Tweaks in Gameplans -- all of this and more. THEN, there's the play call.

Super helpful. I wonder how this could work with a run oriented qb. Spread all the recievers out wide in an empty set and run similar concepts.

Briles sucks as a human being, but I've always been a huge fan of his offensive principles. Those 2012-2015 Baylor teams were menacing and it was always a fun if not scary proposition to watch my team (ok st) have to defend it.

Incredible research. I wonder what they teach their offensive lineman. If you got guys firing downfield off the LOS, you'd be running into a lot of ineligible calls downfield with that walk mesh. You can even see in one of the clips a couple of uncovered OL are slow to advance downfield, I assume partially because of this risk.

Coach BV as a lawyer? Now thats a scary thought lol

A big part of the story that’s missing is this offense was installed after wake forest found out it’s play by play guy had been leaking playbooks to opponents they found a copy of their playbook in the trash @ Louisville

Elite video

Watching this game two years later knowing our best two receivers knees eventually explode giving UGA the title 😭so depressing

beautiful stuff!

We were 12-1 going into the playoffs

You mean when Bama had their top 2 receivers out a RB and their starting RB was injured? LMAO!!!!

What are the chances of you doing a video on Phil Parker an his defense? I'd really love to see how he continually has elite results with relatively subpar talent.

Keep up the great work. Another potential vid you could is USC's new defensive coordinator D'Anton Lynn's scheme.