Bama DL shifting

[Bulldogg31]

One thing I notice when watching Bama is how often their DL shifts once the center is over the ball.

I'd love to see an offense use their defensive shift as the snap count.

Just have the center and OL watch for the shift, and as soon as the DL moves, snap the ball. Catch them on their heels, hand off the ground, push them back a yard before they reset. Might help prevent false starts as well.



Obviously you couldn't do this all game, but on 3rd and short it be be cool to watch.

 

[BlueRidgeMtns]

Mullen?... is that you?


I have a picture in my head of Mullen posting on message boards to test the fan base on what they think about his gameplan.

 

[Bulldogg31]

Mullen?... is that you?


I have a picture in my head of Mullen posting on message boards to test the fan base on what they think about his gameplan.

Ah, well, ah, yeah! You got me.

On the strategy note, I'm not sure if it's still in the playbook, but I'd like to see us be ready to dump the screen pass behind the pressure Bama brings on every other snap.

Seems like we used to run that play a lot but I haven't seen it in a while.

 

[SyonaraStanz]

Ah, well, ah, yeah! You got me.

On the strategy note, I'm not sure if it's still in the playbook, but I'd like to see us be ready to dump the screen pass behind the pressure Bama brings on every other snap.

Seems like we used to run that play a lot but I haven't seen it in a while.

Did anyone else read this in Bob's Mullen voice in their head?

 

[Uncle Ruckus]

Yes. That’s how I always read Mullen quotes

 

[shotgunDawg]

One thing I notice when watching Bama is how often their DL shifts once the center is over the ball.

I'd love to see an offense use their defensive shift as the snap count.

Just have the center and OL watch for the shift, and as soon as the DL moves, snap the ball. Catch them on their heels, hand off the ground, push them back a yard before they reset. Might help prevent false starts as well.



Obviously you couldn't do this all game, but on 3rd and short it be be cool to watch.

This is an interesting idea. The execution problem however would be that, unless you knew exactly what their shift would be, how would the OL know who to block?

 

[Bulldogg31]

They like to shift down to the strong side (TE side) then bring pressure with a LB from the weak side. When LSU would send that TE in motion, the DL shifted toward the strong side, the LB on that side dropped to coverage, and the weak side LB stepped up to blitz. They did this all night. Damn near got Etling killed a couple of times.

 

[Junction John]

Speaking of patterns. Watch them eliminate half the field on kickoffs.

It seems like they put almost every KO into one corner, and every member of the KO team is already loaded on that side of the field. It's a pretty good strategy that tightens the field and basically eliminates long returns, if you have a kicker who can do it consistently without going out of bounds.

One of these days, someone is going to try to sling it across the field to a wide open back, which will be interesting to see. I might do it on the opening kick if it were me. Nothing to lose.