Sure there are games where the offense gets bogged down but you can say that about any type of offense. If the players execute CPJ's offense it's next to impossible to defend.
Last night, PJ's new wrinkle involved sending the A-back in pre-snap motion coming from a trips formation. Hat tip to Steebu from BBuzzoff for his analysis:
The trips formation makes the D play man coverage, and FSU obliged by putting a man on the "Trip" A-Back and the WR.
Watch the first drive where the "Trip" A-Back goes in motion. Never once does he go in "normal" tail motion (where he continues his arc path through the heels of the B-Back). In every case he shows "twirl" motion (where he reverses his arc) or he immediately pivots and becomes a blocker on the midline.
The man covering the motioning A-Back takes a few steps inside, and releases him to someone else. Never once does he completely follow the A-Back.
BINGO.
They did exactly what PJ figured they would, and watch what happens on the first play of our second possession:
- 1st and 10, ball on the right hash mark.
- Same trips formation (trips left). Roddy at left A-Back. AA in the slot and starts that "weird" A-Back motion to the right
- The safety covering AA, #20, merely takes a few steps to his left and releases him to somebody (there is no "somebody", btw). He doesn't follow AA's path. When the ball is snapped he is on the far left hash (from the offense's point of view)
- Uh-Oh! AA doesn't twirl or lead block for the midline! CRAP - IT'S SPEED OPTION AND NOW AA IS AT FULL SPEED ON THE FAR CORNER!
- CW's three-back proof comes back to bite FSU in the butt big time. If all goes well it's a 2-on-1, and that's assuming that the D is manned up. In this case, there's one less defender on that side so it makes AA's 69-yard romp even easier.
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