So, what are the Oregon Ducks going to do about their RichRod problem?

AZDuck said:

With an RB like Freeman, wouldn't Oregon be able to line up in some more traditional power running formations in appropriate down/distance and force the defense to adjust? Hell, mix in some 2-back sets with Marshall, and see how they respond, and if they overcompensate call a screen or a pass in the flat. We don't zone read every play.

It has nothing to do with zone reading, it's zone blocking in general. All a zone read does as far as blocking scheme is takes a man that would normally block first level and send him the second, which is the definition of option blocking. Power zone was effective during its creation in Denver, but Dick Lebeau invented Zone Blitzing and fucking crushed it.

Oregon's offense is built around being simple so athletes can just play and not think. Real power sets now employ different terminology, technique, and calls. It's a lot to ask for kids that only get 20 hours to prepare total and can't work with coaches in the off season.

The two back set and even three back sets (Diamond) can have some use in the option game but you put yourself in a disdvantage long term because any time a defense can bring another defender in without an offensive threat to fill that space the offense is behind in the numbers game.

RaceBannon said:

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Sorry, I forgot that no one actually talks about football on football boreds.

AZDuck said:

The way I see it, just like the Oregon offense makes teams prepare a bit differently, the results are making me think that our defense should do something for the 3-3-5, since it has given us fits.

I'm still learning to think in schemes.

Why, so we would have a permanent Stanford and USC Problem? The adaptive 4-2-5 is the wave of the future.

ToiletSeat said:

Mosster47 said:

The zone read/spread option against a front end 3-3-5 has two possible outcomes of either a fuck ton of points or very few. If turnovers are excessive that makes everything null and garbage time also doesn't count. We know Oregon isn't that much better physically than UA so a blowout simply won't happen unless UA turns it over a ton.

So is 24 points a fuck ton or very few?

Have you not watched football outside of the SEC? 24 gets you beat almost every night outside of the south.