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gatorpower
(65.5.200.181) on 10/17/2010 - 11:58 a.m. says: ( 267 views
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"Urban: "We run a 'break - two - tackle' offense"" |
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CONTEXT ADDED BY ADMIN: END OF CONTEXT Late last night, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Florida head coach Urban Meyer and his top man, the higly-criticized offensive coordinator, Steve Addazio. Following a heart-breaking loss to unranked Mississippi State, and their third straight loss, in a highly dramatic college football season, both coaches felt the need to 'set the fans straight', as they put it, in a candid interview. Gatorpower: "You said in your press conference that Florida is not very good and that you don't have any running backs, would you care to elaborate?" Coach Meyer: "Thanks and yes. We are not a very talented team at any position right now, but especially running back. I'm looking at you Mike Bellamy and Mike Blakely." GP: "Wait-- what?" CM: "Our facilities are top-notch, our coaches have NFL experience and I'll treat you guys like my own son. You just can't beat 90,000 screaming your name in the best conference in America. If you can find a school better than Florida, then I'll follow you there." GP: "Can you talk about the game? All your kids are highly-recruited, why didn't Mack Brown play?" CM: "He hasn't earned the trust of the coaches. Our offense is extremely complicated and our playbook sometimes can take 2-3 years to learn" GP: "It takes 3 years to learn how to run 10 plays?" CM: "Not the plays themselves, but the offensive shifts we do pre-snap, before the play runs. They're meant to lull the defense into thinking we have more than 10 plays. It was really effective when we had future HOF players like Tim Tebow and Percy Harvin. We also have about 100 pages dedicated to the proper foot positions for our backup QB when signaling the plays in. They have to learn all of these or they do not see the field." GP: "So Mack Brown doesn't play because...." CM (interrupting): "...Is not ready to drive the Florida Ferrari: the most complicated and imaginative offense in the history of the entire world." GP: "Other teams run the spread offense too and they do not seem to be struggling this much..." CM (interrupting): "....they run a different type of spread." GP: "What kind of spread offense do you run at Florida?" CM: "We run a 'break - two - tackle' offense. Basically, from five yards behind the line of scrimmage, to five yards in front of the line, we call it our 'kill zone'. We spread players into every conceivable corner of this kill zone and effectively distribute the ball to them." GP: "...but why do you call it the 'break - two - tackle'?" CM: "It requires the ball carrier to break two tackles as soon as they get the ball to reach the maximum designed yards for the play." GP: "So what is the maximum yards you except for most of your plays, as drawn up?" CM: "Well, that's a complicated question, so many permutations and option reads and..." GP (interrupting): "..ball park figure" CM: "About 2-3 yards, but we're hoping for a touchdown each and every time" GP: "So they have to break two tackles just to get 3 yards from the line of scrimmage" CM (interrupting): "two to three yards, yes, but we're hoping someone on the defense falls down, makes a mistake, wiffs on our guy, two guys run into each other. We put all the pressure on the defense to not screw up a sure tackle." GP: "You said this had to do something with our lack of talent?" CM: "We expect the players we bring into the program to break at least two tackles when they have the ball in their hands. It's not too much to expect. A guy we recruit should win a 2-against-1 battle 100% of the time. If he can't, he can sit on the bench and we'll recruit someone better" Steve Addazio: "We also love to run up the gut in a battle of men against men. Turns me on to watch our line push against their line, maybe one of our boys pops out for a huge gain. Maybe not, but we've proven ourselves. We're f***ing men out there!" CM: "Exactly!" (Coach Addazio and Coach Meyer stand up to chest bump, repetitively, for about 2 minutes) SA: "Hell yeah!" CM: "ewww-rah!" Gatorpower: "So Coach Addazio, why haven't we moved Mike Bouncey back to Guard, his natural position?" SA: "ewww-rah??!!" GP: "That's a real question" SA: "chest bump?!" GP: "No" SA: "A bra! Saaaa! bra! Ewe-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh. Owwwwww-RAH!" GP: "What the?" Coach Meyer: "He's already reached his word limit for today. I'm sorry. Got a pack of hot dogs? He responds well to those" GP: "I guess I'll just ask you, this is your team anyway. If your offense can not run without 5-star players at every position, then why do you have it? It just seems gimmicky to require such loop-sided athletic superiority to make a play work. You're not going to get that in the SEC year-in and year-out. We face lots of teams who match up better than us. You don't win chess by having bigger pieces, but by using those pieces better than your opponent." CM: "Can you play quarterback?" |
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-- Starred by: BabySister CoachTony -- 
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Urban: "We run a 'break - two - tackle' offense" gatorpower 10/17/2010 - 11:58 a.m.
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