We're joined by special guest Coach Robbie Compton for an in-depth breakdown of what to expect from Coach Pry and his staff on the offensive and defensive sides of the ball. We are analyzing scheme, philosophies, play calls, and tendencies to attempt to predict what this team will look like once Spring Practice begins next month.

0:45 Welcome back to the boundary Corner podcast. I am Curtis Wilson, I'm Brian seagull buddy. We're here on a Wednesday night. How you feeling tonight, man? Happy winds-day, happy hump day feeling, good man, excited about this episode, dude. So for example, this has been one, it's been. I've been cooking for a while, cook it for. What about five? Six weeks. Yeah, you guys are pretty sweet. You guys got me. Kind of hyped last night when we chatted about 20 minutes about some of the things, y'all are seeing and which are expecting. So I can't wait for this episode, man. And let's not even, let's not even wait, let's go ahead. Let's bring on our friend coach Robbie Compton. What's up?

1:37 How you doing, man? Hang in there, man. Where are you? Dude, I am, I am in my in my office in the field house at the high school that coach at North Wilkesboro, North Carolina. Whole may be threatening, a hold of this shit. The North Wilkesboro Vikings are truly. This is truly going to be chalked out there like you're in the element where I'll bring Michael. Yeah, a couple bodies around.

2:17 They give us a little demo. Yeah, let's do the deal man. I'll probably stay up as long as I can. I got get tooth pulled in the morning so I want to be as tight as possible on. Hey, I don't blame you do that. Yeah. Abscess tooth right there, so so we'll stay as well. We will prolong this episode as long as you can, so we can send you to bed. Late, get you up early. All right, so guys what we're going to be doing here about two months ago after Brent Pride was hired, Brian obviously has an offensive knack for the game.

2:59 You played offensive line as did Robbie but Robbie ever since he's pretty much been coaching has primarily focused on defense. So what we wanted to do was robbing took a look at Brent prize defense, obviously something you are already familiar with because of who he was, where he plays a bit. Robbie looked Brown looked at Tyler Bowens offense from the Fordham days with Little Joe Moorhead. So what we're going to do guys is we're going to dive into this and we're going to start with the defensive side of the ball. So Ravi let's start with this. Give me some ideas of what type of schemes Brent, pry, or Chris Marv will give Chris Marsh out because he is the defensive coordinator in name. We just get a Fields, can be a lot of Brent pry handprints on this defense.

3:48 You what kind of scheme are we looking at here, I'm gonna be honest with you, looking at it reading a lot of things, trying to figure some stuff out. I know I've got a lot of influence from Bud Foster, and I've done a lot of things in my coaching, career, looking at a lot of things he does for his for, for his original 44 and how he adapted, so many different things and The big thing you'll notice with brick Pride, as he was a ga at Virginia Tech. And when when coach Foster started a lot of that, a lot of his original 44, and He coach Foster got a little bit into the 4-3 away from before, for give it a little bit, he always had that hybrid type player moved around. He can still see you some of the same principles and then as the game adapted, offenses, started spreading out, more things like that, you meant more to a 42.

4:54 Well, as we all know, we had, you know, coach Hamilton come in in Virginia Tech. He had that same Bud Foster. Flavor to it. Yeah but he was much later into the career. Okay, so he had a lot of influence from the later for two principles. I think we're coach cry, you going to see a lot more of the A lot more, the original, okay 43, and it's going to be very aggressive. It's going to be, you're going to have three true linebackers. Now, you may see them aligned differently and it looks more like a 42 but the way the way they're going to align will see later.

5:41 I'll show you a couple things later. The alignment is going to look more like a 42. They're still going to play with a lot of for three principles. And you're going to see that from position group to position group that that that really going to play true. And the reason I talk so much about Coach prize part in it is you do have Chris Martin. Who's the defensive coordinator? Okay, Mark played under Brent prior at Vanderbilt. Yep. With Vanderbilt with Coach Pride was defensive coordinator under Franklin. Who's now Penn State where you just came from they travel together? Marcus is, I think you're stuck a lot to those same routes a lot to what he was taught there.

6:28 and, In a game of football with it. Comes a defense. There's It's not so much a selfishness but what it comes down to is Bargains, gonna Mark knows that he played under prior and he knows exactly what he expects. Prize will have a hard time to give it up that play-calling after doing it for so many years. Fry knows that it's his job you know when the gate when it comes down to it, if the whole team is successful they don't come. And look at the offensive coordinator, defensive coordinator and say, you guys are what happened. They go to the head coach.

7:09 So he's going to keep his hands on those dates and bars are good, enough, coach, and good enough, he's played in the system, he knows what is good expect and you could, I think you're going to see that there. Recruiting group with Coach probably energy a earlier and you got a certain defensive line coach, who was a player at that time, he's been through that system. Marv was taught that system as proud as teaching. It you've got two safeties coaching Pearson Prelude, who played in that system. The system's going to stay pretty consistent to what pride is used to and I think Mars going to tend to work towards that. That that's what I'm thinking.

7:57 But everything. I've read everything. I've looked at you, you see a lot of that flavor that Pride always put out there and what more does. Now, Mart has some athletes at Florida State and some other places he had. Add that were a little different that he could do some other things with those were adjustments, every defensive coach of the world should be making some kind of adjustments depending on the Personnel. They have. So you have to take those things into effect, but I think when you really look at it, you're going to, you're going to see that old school aggressive, you know, filling gaps, get to the football attacking football and going to let the secondary. They're going to stop the run first. Secondly, they're going to stop the run. Third, they're going to worry about somebody to Bike, Run option and stop that run.

8:53 And then they're not going to let big plays beat a very deep. I need that. That's what you get to see. You're not going to see a lot of a lot. I don't think early, especially early on, you're not going to see a lot of weird coverages and robbers and things of that. Nature you go see some split coverages you'll see a cover, two on one side to cover for on the other. But you'll see. I mean you got to see the basis of what Virginia Tech remembers as hard-nosed football or defensive side. That's what I feel like you're going to see. And his philosophy is that hard.

9:37 Those get to the football to fill the gaps. Simple. Get to the football. I mean, that's his philosophy. That's his, that's what they're going to do. Is it what everybody's going to buy into that? Is it one of those things where, Where you talk about robbers different zones. Is he, one of those guys where it's I'm keeping it simple because I don't want this to type these feet. I want to sway fast Christ. It's not going to be Yummy, you're gonna get, you're gonna get some things that are gonna like I said, with Personnel that are going to help them that they'd be able to do better than other teams to do this and that but you're not going to get these exotic blitzes and crazy.

10:22 Rolling coverage has all the way across fields to cover certain things. And in some cases, people doubt, you know, in today's game where offenses run rpos and things like that, rpos may give this defense trouble earlier. It is what it is because they're going to be focused so hard on shut down that wrong. And when you get, when you get that run read, he pops the throw it. You might have a linebacker that's going to have to learn how to slow play a little bit more instead of attacking full speed. But you're going to, he's going to start finding those that linebacker that can play down and recover quick. Arabic.

11:07 You just the Personnel is going to make those make those things easier and I think it's I think that's a lot of where they're headed and very fast flow team. You're not going to see a lot of sitting on the heels and and you know waiting to see if it's pass or run. Is we're going to play to run right now we're going to get you is that always seemed like magic I expect. So, especially the front five or six going to be anymore anymore, half penetration and, and widen things out. It's we going to get football, Buddy. Oh yeah.

11:49 It's it's going to be Darryl Tapp and and that crowd going to get stuff. I mean, you look, if you look at the staff and the people, they've hired they're going back to what Virginia Tech has and they're bringing the influence in the West. That used to be praline. A DB has been added as an analyst. Yeah, I mean that kind of football player. I mean if they could bring back they call it be a lot of in salty. Be a lot of people crying. I mean you might instill dress those two out and play. I know coach tap and I've seen him lately. I know he could dress up. Yo, yeah, you're right now. Seen him to and looking at a DB doesn't look if you'd like he's far off either. Oh my God.

12:34 No, it doesn't know. It doesn't. It and it's sort of funny because you do have to from the 95 team where Wooden Boats Bud started that to be in the co DC and it was slowly built but let's get it as Robbie. You did everything in one great thing that you got skiing we talked philosophies where her Tendencies about attacking. Let's start looking at the individual Parts. I want to get some ideas. I want to start on the d-line. Let's talk about JC prices group. Let's start with the defensive tackles. All right. What is the base alignment going to look like like against 11 personnel? You're gonna I guess it 11 personnel. You're going to see and it's funny because we were just talking about I was just having meetings with our Middle School coaches. We had my head coach here and you know we said we're 11, personnel people don't understand that. That's a, that's a tight end and a running back personnel. You're going to see.

13:32 You're going to see a basic more than likely you're going to see a basic. It's a 4-3, but you're saying backers going to be a little wider up front. You're going to have a 2 IQ, a shade depending on probably where your where your weakness is on the offensive line. You know, if you've got a if you've got a monster guard That's killing things. You're not going to shade the center because it's going to give him to angle D. Take your TT. You're going to move him over and make it harder for that monster block. All right. So is this me both defensive? Tackles are going to be two shades know. We're talking about, what would they would?

14:13 They would they would probably call the nose, okay? Okay, he's going to be, I would say he'd probably be able to, I To a shade. The pit at the sitter's. The one that's the horse for the team. If the guard is he's gonna move around a little bit there. Okay. You go. See a three technique opposite in the tackle position. You're going to see more traditional defensive line, but I think I'm talking used to 330s Big Boys at filling holes. I mean, unless you can find a I'm here a Donald is gonna blow that thing up into three technique.

14:55 You're going to get big boys at a filling holes and going after stuff. You're going to, you're going to see The Return of the the old Tim settles and those tight guys. The big guys that can fill in gaps and wreak havoc in there. Alright, I know the last couple of years, you've had some little bit smaller guys that were little more athletic and try to stretch a field up front. We're going to we're going to see The Return of those. Those big defensive tackles and hard rushing defensive ends. All right, so give me your kind of hitting on a dare with is the defensive tackle run. Responsible, is it just going to be too clogged the gaps to essentially make it a to Gap?

15:37 Like simply take off. They're gonna they're gonna penetrate those gaps. Okay, they're gonna get some penetration, they're going to try to play, they're gonna try to get it. Try to get that guy covered up and and catch it from the back side. while there while they're running through gaps, I'll be there going to be chasing balls down because that guy's when we try to get away from everything up front, But they're going to close it in albion's. You're going to have a five technique with a tight end. You're probably going to have a seven baby at eight. It may be May line up on the inside shoulder to fight him. Maybe head up depending on whether they're counting on that tight end a lot. In the past game.

16:19 That's what we do. You know, if the tight ends in the pass game, a lot of and put them in his face. Slowing down. He's a Blocker of a sudden, a guy inside of him. Make sure I got Gap responsibilities today outside. Make him block one day on. He can't take care of the guy outside of it. That makes me feel. Yeah, makes sense running five and seven techniques on defensive end, running a to shade of three technique online. I'm if you're out there and you're listening to now, he's gonna have some video and stuff later. Go to Google. You can find where these techniques are and you'll understand the alignment. Rob, he's talking about here. I'm gonna go back to defensive tackles real quick. You talked about what they're going to do in the Run game. What are we going to see from them and like a pass rush game, what are they are going to be other going to stun?

17:04 There's it going to be slant so we because that's definitely remember from Bud offensive. Tackle slamming a lot. You're going to see, you're going to see a lot of movement, you're going to see a lot of Swanton and maybe some twists and stuff but I think early on, you're going to see a lot of You got to see a lot of basic slanting, not a lot of twisting, my lot of Crossing early on because you are going to want to be Gap responsible. Okay. When you start to twist into things like that, why would start moving and exchanging blocks Lima start pulling on twist. You start to lose Gap responsibilities in places. I don't think you're going to see a lot of that early own. I've got one.

17:54 If you want to pull it up around here, the Personnel here. I think that's what's going to be a basic look for. And you see here, there's a lot of Slayton into the gaps are taken away and be gaps. With the with the liner and you have the linebackers ready to play through a gap and C Gap here. Just Gap sound football and I think that's going to be the biggest thing. And the thing is that they're going to play fast, they want to be aggressive. And I want to play quick to the ball, not anything messing around and wondering.

18:34 If they say, if you know, a seven of the three-star twisted and one guard pulls, you lose a gap, you know, at least things open. You won't have that with a lot of this stuff here, that's what I mean. This is something that prize run a lot at Penn State. This is a lot of his base look and don't be surprised to see them. Run a lot of bass early. I don't expect a lot of different things especially how to describe ring until they can get this base stuff down. And it shouldn't take long because it should be simple. Yeah, I'm gonna do a quick shout out here. This is Robbie comfort in loves, Brandon Patterson at Tech Sidelines, because Riley didn't have to draw all this stuff up.

19:17 When he had read his article and find the video. So shout out Brandon Patterson, the text Sidelines. All right, Brian. We'll all right, rob, you got it up here. You've already talked about the 5 and the 7 techniques. Give me a little Run game responsibility for the ends. Give me a little what we're going to see. Earthwise from these guys, the five home pass rush wise. I mean they're going to go after it now, they're going to be getting after that quarterback. If he if he's if he's spending a lot of time in the back, looking for anything down field, he's gonna have a hard time they're going to come after. As far as the Run game goes, like I said with it with the rpos and things of teams like to run now. If you look at this particular base formation with the wheel, coming around that edge as well, trying to help seal, you're going to get some Blitz out of that. But you think that our po you know you got this boundary Corner backing up and you having sex come in on a slant, what a Wheels evacuating right there, the slat could be there. But like we said before, we've got a man. Now coaching safeties, who's playing this system? Who knows what to do this safety coming down. He's going to meet it quick.

20:36 You're going to give some catches in here, but you're going to you're not going to get a lot of yards hoping for not a lot of yards after the catch. They catch you. They're gonna pay for it. Yes, we're getting, we're getting five guys coming to the football and try to get after the quarterback. He cried bargain either one or afraid to Blitz. Anything? If you're not going to see I expect you will see probably 60% of the game that it is at least five people coming after thing at all times. Damn, let me ask you this. We talked a little bit about the pass game in the Run game. If they're playing a heavy, read-option team is the defensive end. Are they attacking the mesh Point? What are they doing?

21:23 Are they slow playing it? By the looks of what we've got here. I'll be expecting. The, the five, the five of the seven are probably going to be probably going to be attacking the mesh and going after the quarterback. Okay, going back to that point. I'm thinking that the free safety coming down to help. And this say, I'm that split wider who's playing this hookah curled in the past, he's going to be, he's going to be a Blitzer sometimes out of this area. He's gonna be the guy going after. That picture. Let me ask this Robbie about, you talk about Brian asked about the mesh point, and you say, hit the quarterback. You think this is just a philosophy thing from prior that says, don't worry about the running back. We've got guys behind you.

22:09 They can clean that up. Make that quarterback think, every time he touches the ball, and it's a read, I'm going to hit you. I don't care if you give it to the running back, I'm going to pop your ass. What? It's a it's an option, it's option. Just like that. We tell our players all the time. I got a certain player, every play. If you've got a certain Gap, you've got the quarterback in an option. And they'll ask me all the time. Well, if it's not an option, what do I have? Will you still make you a lot of that quarterback that mesh point? Just in case he comes out and runs his, he comes out and runs as far as I'm concerned. It's just like he's running an option. Yeah, it's also about force of them.

22:51 Predictable outcome, right? So if you if you're running at the mesh Point, more than likely that's going to, if the quarterback is reading properly, he's going to give and giving creates a little more predictable outcome and how your defense is aligned. And if we if we force him to give it because he don't want to get popped from that guy, come In that then I've got three other guys outside of that mesh point that are there to make it play on that ball. Anyway. Yep. So I forced them into exactly what I wanted. But I've got myself covered, if he pulls it, good deal. I mean it's it's going to be back to a lot and the front Ian's, not a lot different than what they've been doing, but we haven't seen Virginia Tech. Play that option.

23:41 Look, the triple option look and stuff like that, where they used to play every year, Georgia Tech and things like that in the last couple of years. Georgia Tech's kind of gotten away from it. Where are their coaches? Right out here with us right now, he's helping a local high school out of here in Western North Carolina. Is it is Paul Johnson really doing that. All Johnson is innate, he lives in Avery County, which is up the mountain here and do you want to play him next year from a little bit? Are you having to play him next year? No, we spend it with the beginning of this year. So they're still giving the same type of look just in a different option, believe it or not.

24:47 All right, let's jump into this because you've already mentioned will mics? And let's talk about the linebacker group a little bit. And luckily you got this up here, is this going to be kind of the look? We see all the time with that saying, far out, or is this a more of a movable piece? This here. If you ask me, just judging the way. He's done so many things and I've got some of the same things. You're Sam is going to be To a typical coach Sam backer is your strong backer, he's standing beside the Mike, he's playing strong inside against the road in this particular scheme is a little different.

25:31 That's Sam Is going to play to the wide side of the field. He's going to be the athletic guy. He's gonna be the one that they can play out wider. He can Blitz from wide and still get there. He can play the hook to curl, which one is what? I call hot too. He can play a Zone there and still recover. It's like for an RPO, it fake, the Run, he comes down, he can get back. They're going to be that kind of guy good prototype for that. If you really look, you go back to some of his Penn State stuff and Michael Parsons The guys are Cowboy, please stand the fact that he's a Cowboy is a phenomenal football player.

26:20 And he can play, he could play in any of the three positions on the field. But he's athletic enough to play coverage, Glazer, run and play both at the same time, kind of, he needs to, that's the kind of guy that they're going to look for it. That's a spot. So, what would just recently happen with tech in the last, I guess, two or three weeks as they moved to kid? Kids who were in the secondary. They're out of Salem. The McDonald twins. What do they 63-64? Brian about 220? Yeah. Yeah, pretty athletic. Kids long and lean. And they were expected to be like playing safety or maybe even playing Corner based on their size. But prize immediately moved them it does that shock you based on what you see with him want to do with like the same with the that position that's possible. But the thing is, they can also be, they can also fit in the wheel position the way they run it because the will backer is not your typical.

27:23 Drug stuffer kind of guy either. He's athletic. He's he's going to be able to play some coverage, but he's going to be, he's going to be a Blitzer. He's going to be a guy running around the edge. He's going to be a More of a hybrid defensive end linebacker type guy. Okay. I mean so you can see those guys in the you said they're twins, there's two of them, there's two of them so there could be one of each side okay? They can be printed one for each. I mean you know the only thing I feel 100% confident about is that Mike players I could tell you who is going to be the and he's gonna wear number four, he is going to crush. I've been watching this kid, I've been coaching at North Carolina for 11 years now, People in North Carolina? No hudak's Holyfield is In this is this is the system that was made for him.

28:28 It's why he can't want to play in Bud system. He plays for a couple years, but leaves, he does not have the best two years in ham system. I'm assuming because of the difference in responsibilities for the mic for ham versus what sighs. What if it's a guy that played out of position in Bud system than two years, he was in it and then as you please? Yeah, and then now he, you know, didn't really find a good fit in in ham system, Oh yeah, we're finally probably going to get a look at what the essentially the the maximal version of deck solid feel like necklace from the sevens in inside butt. Cheek to the fires outside butt cheek and make any play two tries to come in there.

29:15 He covered that. I mean, he's a damn, he'll attack thing football player. It is that looked like is in this system. Yes, we'll tighten versus am field of tap. Now he's gonna have some coverage responsibilities and you know things are going across his face in the middle. He's going to be he's going to remind you of those old-school linebackers that they had in there. I mean he that's Holyfield can can make it anything on payday. This year with a great season at that my position. Hey my opinion. Okay. And he's going to her, I think he's going to redeem himself, and he's going to be.

29:59 He's the guy that I feel confident is going to make the rest of this work with these linebackers. Like I don't know a lot about their defensive linemen and who's back, who's coming back and who sits where? But I know that's only field and I know that's gonna That's going to play well for them with little. I know they've got a couple of good recruits from out here in this area. The gossip Mill kid that had played right here in our backyard for a couple years at Surry County. Now he's a Carroll County in Virginia, it's whole family moved up there That kid, he could be a, he could be a sad guy.

30:46 He could be a defensive end guy. I don't know what their plan is with him. He could be a tyrant Andrea I mean he's played he played on both sides of the ball he played a couple different positions on defense. Yeah, it's not my back outside linebacker and run it back. You David, had kids played it. So let's talk about another player that I know we've kind of talked about a lot on here and we talked about a little bit with you. Let's talk about Alan Tisdale. Is he somebody you think that can be that kind of Sam type backer in this new system? I think he I think looking at it, he may be there.

31:27 He may be the most prototypical of what they have right now, okay? But like we said, he's had some up and downs but he's played in multiple different systems. He come in looking at Bud, Foster system, and they had him in places and moved them around and they switch to Hamilton system. He may have been out of position and moving around some inconsistencies. Some of those may have come from just different positions and the different Aunt types of offenses, they require Look Bob that with with some mistakes and and some inconsistencies in other positions and it makes everybody look bad. Yeah, whatever he's playing. Well, everybody looks good but guys when one person plays bad and nobody looks good.

32:14 Yeah. I mean it's as bad as that I mean it could have been the safety could have been having a bad game. Linebackers may have been a good position but they look bad because of the safety wasn't where they were. We we talked about Over here all the time. If safeties bad on the field and everybody else can be doing everything. Perfect. But now you got to 30, 40 yard, gain on the run. I mean, it worse thing in the world of football player can do is try to play two positions of one time. Okay. I'm playing my position, but I know this guy is not doing what he's supposed to do. Then you try to fill that you take away from yours. Then, both of you are wrong. Yep. I mean, but I think I think it's an opportunity. To, he can really redeem himself. I think he and I think he could play will I think he could play either one of those spots but I think just by looking at coming back which coming back there.

33:10 He probably fits that mold more than more than others. Okay. And I said it, because I coach linebackers. So, I see I've seen more of their linebackers and things, that's why I'm not quite as You know, up to date on the on, who's coming back, who's playing with the other positions because I see a lot linebacker stuff. I use a lot of that stuff on a daily basis so you talked about will a little bit. Let's talk about that. 11 other backer in that group kishan artist is he going to be a guy that you think it also filling it will? I know he's got a little bit of a heavier shoulder than it is Dale. So might be a little bit better against the run and those responsibilities.

33:55 I think about I think I think Tuesday in my opinion looking at the way they do things, I think I would start with just a leader will Holyfield in Mike and I mean artist and then we'll only filtered to Mike and his day lat the Sam just because I think kids there's a little bit more of an athlete. Yeah he's going to be better to mix it back and forth and artist is going to be artist is going to be a guy that can They can really help and support things cutting back. Really feel it. In the back side, he can Blitz off rounded Edge. I mean I really think he's he fits their of those three guys in the coming back that they can they can count on. Can I can I say some or as something else? Rah, because you mentioned this yesterday. We didn't see all three of those guys on the field. A lot in J Hamm system, but something you said yesterday about, Brent prai, is he maximizes? Who's on the field?

34:57 He would rather have his three. Best linebackers then. Well, here's my best fit for Mike. Here's my best fit for will. Here's my best fit for sammis. Like, no, screw that. These are my three best linebackers. They're going to be on the field. Yeah. They heat, he's very much. We can get the best out of things with what's on the field rather than changing a lot of things around, okay? You're going to get teams that are going to go out there, they're not going to have the tight end, they're going to be in a spread, we might need them nickel set, okay? You're going to start to look at. Can we get that out of the Sam and cover that, that hook, the curl area and keep our safety?

35:42 A little deeper to help us there and keep the wheel covering the edge rather than switching out of nickel and doing that. Okay. But one thing you will see from what I've seen is, when they go to a nickel, the say I'm a wheel. That comes out. The nickel is going to go into the corner and their best corners probably going to go in on the slop. It sounds weird but I think what they're doing is not times out of 10, you're going to find the most athletic receivers probably going to be at slot. You deeper guys are set by boundaries there, more possession, type guys, or blow the roof off of things. So they're not, you know, they're running two outs in the verticals.

36:29 And the things like that the slot receivers are the guys running to The Comebacks in the pigtails and curly cues. Whatever the hell you want to call all these crazy little routes? They come up with now and you got to have you put that vest corner on that guy. He's not gonna get away from that stuff as much. Okay. All right. Well I mean but yeah you got to see a lot of three linebacker sets. Good deal. You're not going to see him change. A lot of personnel, a lot of and you'll see some defensive line rotation because he you're going to be penetrating so much. He's got coming up and running and it's a 300 310 pounds.

37:11 You know, three or four plays, we got to get some more out there and keep it going. That's the big thing that's not changing from what we saw in J Hamm system to what we're seeing with prize that they're going to be rotating defensive lineman at a regular basis. We're probably going to need at least 10 Deep at d-line guys that are going to see significant steps in a given game. I would I would say so good. Deal you mentioned it already. So let's let's let's kind of let's just get it back in there in the secondary. First of all, you Told us you know, Derrick Jones the cornerbacks got I coach Jones and I have had some conversations a few times. He spent he was at Duke for a while.

37:52 Yeah, we had a few players while I was in wrote at Rose and Greenville that Duke recruited pretty hard. So I particularly wide receiver may be a defensive lineman. A couple of the guys, we had some other guys that they recruited to because we had We had some very intelligent young men to that, they did some some walk on stuff with. We never got anybody to Duke but I mean, he was always a great one to deal with great one to talk to I'm glad to have him on our side now. He's he's a phenomenal DB coach now and that's one thing back in the Heyday of Virginia Tech's best defense is they are Ways had always had a great DB coach coach. Gray was a phenomenal individual when he getting those DB ready. And I think From knowing coach gray and and now coach Cheetos, a lot of that same personality.

39:00 He's, you know, very positive upbeat but but he's they're going to be aggressive, they're gonna be playing, they're gonna be ballplayers and he's gonna have him. He's gonna have those, especially, those Corners. I think, is where he's gonna spend most of his time. Folks, here is those quarters. He strictly Corners coach, They're Gonna Be Ready. They're going to be football player. You're going to. Virginia Tech's got to be back to that DB you feel pretty quick. I expect the deal. I will come down to that recruiting part which is one of his best assets by far. The guy got four stars to do that yourself. You don't need to say anything else. It's like he got talented players to do cats. Yep let me ask this because you talked about him being a phenomenal coach, you know what are we going to see from this back-end on the corner in?

39:54 Are they They zone. Is it a lot? Amanda's Pride, more mix it up. What do you expect to pick me up? There's going to be a lot of. I think you're going to see some split coverage. You're going to see some cover for one side cover to to the other. You're going to have corner and safety probably on the boundary side. So you're going to, you're going to see a lot of boundary Corner field corner and bouncy. Safety field. Safety, not so, not as much free safety, strong safety because of the way they play their will and saying Both on your safeties are going to be able to play deeper but they're going to be able to come down and play in the mix around.

40:36 It linebacker area as well. Okay, I got 12, I would love to see The Edmonds kid that plays for the Steelers Back In This Crowd. Because that that kind of safety is going to be amazing. They could play well in coverage play like a free safety, but doesn't mind coming down and hitting people as a strong safety. You go back in for junior text history. You find a lot of those. You find that kind of guy. You look at Kam Chancellor who could Rock anything. But he could play sideline to sideline as a safety to Pearson.

41:20 Pray lose the same way we use. Not them. You got that history and safety, and now, that guy's coaching those safety. So, let me, let me ask this our I know early, in, in buds, tenure Or the corners. Swapped depending on where the, where the ball was on. The hash are the corner switch inside, or they switched responsibilities. I think the quarters are going to. It's hard to say, right out front, right up front. In some, in some cases with Coach pry, they've switched responsibilities. In some cases he said him switch sides.

42:04 Marv has been more of a switch responsibility guy and not switching Corners as much. Okay, you have this responsibility in the boundary, this responsibility in the field. Gotcha. Both of them had the tendency to flip the safeties. Yeah, well, it easier, the safety of a field safety little bit easier to do without having to run run, sideline to sideline. Yeah. That'll give you more of a true strong safety. Free safety. Look. But sometimes they'll leave the safeties and they fought the corners. It's just going to depend. But like I said, you're going to see in a nickel set. They're going to take that best corner and put them on a nickel and bring the number three quarter in and put it on the outside and see. In some cases but coconut and when you notice every wise, I think you're going to see a lot more Zone coverage early. And because of that split coverage Concepts, they like to run, it's going to be a lot more split coverage, so a lot more Zone and this zone is going to help them to with the Blitz and packages and play in fast.

43:12 Can I ask a quick question kind of an obvious question here, you're talking about the safeties moving kind of, you talked about Darrell Edmonds where you need do it alls. So for the safeties, are you almost looking like There's not going to be a strictly Rover, strong safety, strictly free safety. You're going to have maybe almost Mirror Image guys because of what he asked them to do because of how it rotates or is. It always going to be one guy? Maybe six. 2205 one guy 63 200. Its range here. I think you're going to depending on who makes that call and I think it depends on kind of who how the recruiting goes.

43:56 Okay. I think you could see a little bit of both I think you can see one guy dominant. They're going to they're good. They're going to be a group that's going to use what's best available and If the best available is the long-range, you free, safety. You're going to see those safeties clip. You're going to have the field safety and the boundary safety. If you have, two guys that are so much alike and they can do both things, you may not see them flip, you may see them just switched responsibility, go get it. No, it's not to feel himself. That's going to be the biggest thing with him. And the best part is with Coach Prelude is some people are going to doubt him at the beginning because if I'm correct he's got what a year or two coaching experience High School coach down at Radford High School for two years and he's been Player Development.

44:49 Okay. So a lot of people, a lot of people are they question that higher because he had no real prior College coaching? perience, although the guy played in the NFL close to 14 years for numerous to very well I walk. I'm a I'm a Washington fan. I've been a Virginia Tech fan for a long time, Pearson Prelude. Has been heralded, he played a buffalo, he played in Washington those guys, heralded him as a leader on the field as a coach on the field, he always knew what was going on. Two years of high school in one year, in the college, ranks of coaching that cat's been coaching a long time at 14 years in there.

45:37 I know it Washington towards the end of his career. People talk about how he could we could guide and set up a secondary and help a lot of young players. He's been coaching players long before he started coaching. Yeah, yeah. Say yeah. Yeah, yeah. Oh, he's going to understand. And especially being back in the system that he played me in and he knows he's going to be able to provide the insight to what they're seeing show them the things that he knows that he can see. Okay, we always had, I've always had college football players and coach at high school level and it's the hardest thing in the world to get a college or professional level athlete. The coach at high school level.

46:26 One thing because they can do things that some kids can't do. Yep. And they have a hard time teaching it to the kids because the kids not athletic enough to do it. He's going to be at a level now where he's going to be able to show kids that are as athletic as he ever was and he can get them to do those things. He is immigrated situation. So I mean with all of those I think you know, a lot of is going to come with, they're going to find it. Best 11 athletes put out there in those positions. And whether you're flipping or changing responsibilities as a going to depend a lot on coupons out those positions as what I feel like, gotcha.

47:12 Good deal will Robbie. You got a few of the few videos there. I know some of them were from Tech sideline. So show us a couple that you want to just kind of highlight to say, look for these plays, like this is going to be a staple or a base. Okay, right here. This is from Penn State. You can see. Their basic alignment. You've got to set a, you've got your, your, your five technique over here, and your 7 inches a little bit wider. There's just no tight in. You got your will dancing in I think this might be against Ohio State, it is or lasted just four fields of quarterback. So you've got a phenomenal Center and a phenomenal going. You're going to get a big-time double team here on this too. I anyway, so might as well play me to. I get a little wider.

48:13 Make this Center move over to work as double-team, possibly give us a hole in here to work with You can see the wheel walking up to Sam's out of the picture over here and then we've got our Mike in here. It's just your base, okay, you're going to see them. Get the penetration, you're going to see the will drop back in. They didn't get to double-team on this side but you're starting to see here that granted this is several years into their program. Yeah they're getting some twists and as I said with that twist, if you've got the two I and the end coming in their leaves, this Gap here.

48:59 Okay. This is the thing that they're going to want to make sure that they're not doing early. Oh okay. Now they've kind of figured it out. They know that they got two guys that can come in and feel it. It feels takes off but there was no running back back here to threaten that whole to start with. The Twist is not hurting them too bad. But you see how the you see how the might takes on right here in the hole when he drops back and they closed it in. Now the ends got to do better about getting across the face, to really, take away the Gap. In here, to make sure Fields can't take off, but he's looking to throw it anyway. So it works out.

49:45 Now, every defense I've ever coached, every defense has ever been coached, you're going to have a hole somewhere. You're not going to be to fill everything, so you got to put it in a place where it's not going to hurt you as much. They're just taking a chance with it. There he didn't send but for their I think you're going to see five a lot. That's just our, you know, their base defensive look. You'll see right here at the end of the clip. You'll see the say I'm over here dropping into the hole. coming across the safety's coming down there playing deep but you know Ohio State's a teammate like to stretch a field pretty good and So they're going to be playing a little bit deeper. Yep.

50:35 For those who are listening this. On the podcast, visit our YouTube site, you can actually see the videos. Robbie's describing pointing it out. Is there a blitz on there Robbie? You can show maybe one of the staple blitzes that we should see this upcoming season. Yeah, I've got to go to the other article. One other thing I want to show you, you were asking earlier about the defensive ends. And about their Russian and things. Here's one. Against Pitt. You'll see the defensive end. He comes in underneath coming down, hard running right into it. He takes on.

51:22 Just the way it is annoying. But you'll see him here, he comes in underneath. The the tight end or the tackle here. Yeah, and he takes on the pool. Where it should be kicking out and he gives it will back her time to come in and attack it. He is right off the pool to it has to go around it. Yeah, he makes the hunt disrupt. A lot of things he got underneath the day, en, Bloc and still was able to wrong arm. The puller Ass. That's tough stuff. Do they? And you talk about that mesh Point go back.

52:03 Just a couple steps. We talked about mesh Point earlier, Nothing load, watch one. The number six comes off. Watch right here. He's here, he's not hesitating. He's going right for the quarterback. He does not break inside until he knows that balls off. Like so his ears are down. He's going to hit Kenny Pickett, right? If that is Kenny Thicket, he's going to hit some bikini pigment. Can you pick a play? Five years? Has got to be kidding frigate. In this situation, it would be You talked about it earlier angle is aimed at the quarterback.

52:44 Once he sees it there's the hump and he's right there to clean it up. That's right. And I say what I said tight end to tackle he's number 77 but he's the third man over. Yep, he's technically in a tight end position. So we got 27 technique. He's coming underneath it hard and will is coming over it. Tommy and the wheels running the wheels running right here. Right. At the back. This man right here is running right at the quarterback in that mesh Point. Yep. Every season he forces him to hand it. He hits it right in the mouth and that guy comes right through. Again, go to you.

53:29 Go to our YouTube channel CDs. Let's get that Blitz. One up, Robbie one more video. And then I've got one more question. Ask you before we head to break one more? Sorry, Brian you're good. I love your questions. Ma'am. You know me, let's see. Let's see. One of those blitzes. and, What we might as well say, it's going to be a two-hour episode. Here's if you pull this out here's some of their coverage. Looks this is their simple over cover. It's a cover three. Like we said there have the two safeties, what you're going to see that one safety come down underneath to help out.

54:10 So you'll have the for underneath in the 3D. It's just it's just a simple over cover. Three you're going to give one of the safeties here. It has the boundary safety in the field safety with the corners dropping. The field safety coming down. The boundary safety coming over. This one doesn't have the Sam quite as wide. Sometimes the same will be a little bit wider because you got a balanced set. You got the tight end opposite of a tight ends on this side. You're more likely going to have its am a little bit wider with the free safety over top of it and you might get some opposite role there. Then you got your over cover to where basically you're sending the corner and the safety in the coverage and you're dropping five Out Underneath.

55:04 But this one, I cut we call it cover 62. They're running a cover two on one side, cover for on the oven if you really think about it. Cover six, four and two. Yep, you six we run at my high school. We run. We're going to we're going to man this guy up on a single receiver side and played the safety over top, like a cover one, on the other side, we're going to play cover for. You can call it quarter half, you can call it. Over six, you know? Yeah. I mean, they're they're going to play, they're going to leave the man in the flat area here with the corner and let him go. It opens the hole for a quick pop through here. But, you know, like I said, everything has a hole, you just, you just have to find it.

55:55 You have to be quick enough to find it in that place. Yep. And when you talk about aggression, the fact that you're being aggressive means you're you're limiting the time that they have to find those holes absolutely. But when these four right here and one of these, two guys, if not two of them are running at your quarterback, you ain't thinking about that whole, you're thinking about the one that you got is about to be split, open her further, there we go. That's what I'm working on this year with are guys, as we have to be able to get more pressure and that's why we're going to run more of a three like a stack. Look the 33. So I've got six guys that I know. We're going to fill holes, but I've got, you know, five linebackers.

56:42 You don't know which ones coming when so you offensive lines and High School. I'm not very good if they do do it. I'm not very good at doing reading. And Blitzen coming from, you know, one guy coming from this Edge and one guy coming from, stop over here. Yep, it's hard to read them. Somebody's gonna get their the uncovered guys. Not good at picking up both reads. Yeah, now our head coach, he's office of my Guru. We've got are kids do reading amazingly. We gave up in our in our 10 games last year, we gave up three sacks and 10 games and high school.

57:30 It's impressive that you tell you something. But now we're out of the gun and we're catching balls, throw the ball. We're not five-step dropping were throwing things quit, we're throwing screens hitches. You know, that kind of thing. We're Tom Brady in this thing. Now, we don't want our quarterback getting Hit, we're playing teams that are taken by step drops. I got to get a man down there and make him move around. Okay. Yep. Some of the blitzes and stuff we see here. Cute, choose one, choose one that you like the most in one you might use this year. This, this I think is what you're going to see more of, okay.

58:15 Sprite coach Marv as a five-man blitz. Don't go too fast. You see, you got your, I mean, they're overloaded and tap the tight ends here, tackles moved over doesn't change anything. You still go with your alignment that 25 technique on the tackle. I mean, really tight in keeps him from releasing hard, but it we're not changing their alignment too much if you see here. Now, we went to a shade and we went to the guy inside here instead. And of him being that instead of him being a little wider, he's down inside.

58:57 He's a Type 3 instead of being a little bit looser and we've got to stand up guy here. Well we brought the Sam in a little bit more. Now we've got that for three, maybe even a 3/4 look, 34 looks he's standing up. just because of the way, it's blitzing the same person, Elder this is still your will, then you slide these guys over You get to squeeze inside, you get it coming inside and you get these guys coming in and around. Hey mr.

59:41 Pickett has a hard time getting away because he's old if he's been there since Marino left as a safety Blitz in it. Because that comes in, right? Watch. He's waiting. 36 comes down. Oh no that's a linebacker. That's a lion. 36 replaces the saying he was coming down in something. You said that some Pearson Prelude did back in the for four days and he'll probably going to happen as this one comes over to please.

1:00:26 Don't worry that 3 over the top and then they'll bring these linebackers. But even here, something told them to drop the wheel here. In this situation, to cover the hole over there. Probably the way they like the fluid. As you can see with the guy the back out, they floated it. So they got to take it away. Quit with the back. Five man stuff and then you got, you got numbers on that side because they were overloaded goes the flood. So you got, you got too many too many guys to block on that tight.

1:01:09 Inside one more your six-man, blind, they're probably they're bringing the for the bringing, the Sam, they drop the rest of them. And he steps up and there's no way to go because they plug app, so for the stuff and everything in there. And so you got you got pressure coming from both Hedges. They're plugging and pushing the Gap. Yep. It's Michigan. And right there. Got him. Yep, it deal. High pressure. Pressure is going to be big for him in a lot of situations. Do you think we'll see even more pressure this year being you? I don't think so just just one of those things where it's more attacked on.

1:02:01 Don't let the back in on 20 covered just attack. Yeah because they're going to be so focused on stopping that run and we so focused on getting penetration up front and the linebackers coming and filling that it's going to turn into to pressure situation when they get to the, when they get that pressure. When they get that penetration, then they see a past, you might see Yes, I am got a bad back out of it a little bit, but if that will is taken off and Will's going, he might have to run it down from the back but he's going to get things because they've already replaced him with that safety coming down. So you're going to see them those four and five guys really going after the quarterback could do well Robbie we appreciate you going over this diving looking at tape reading articles using your own knowledge of Brent price system to give us some more info.

1:02:56 I'm going to shout again. Brandon Patterson over at ESL with those, with the videos with some of the drawings. I'm sure that made your life a lot easier than ever to figure that out of element draw it. But what we're gonna do right now is we are going to take a quick break from our digital partners and we're going to come back and it's going to be the big guy talking about the offense because we take a quick break. We'd like to tell you about getting your free website report from our digital partner, Grassroots, digital marketing Studio. They'll tell you how your website ranks on Google The on-site SEO and social media. No commitment to buy anything, you can get your free report by visiting. Grassroots digital studio.com forward slash free Dash website, Dash report. Now back to the episode All right, Brian. The show is yours.

1:03:46 My friend. Let's start and take a look at Tyler Bowens offense. Let's first of all, let's look at the scheme and the philosophies in the Tendencies from your reading and reviewing of tape. What you're seeing from what we should see next year. So based on everything that I've seen from calling back and forward them from calling the Penn State bowl game. After Ricky Ronnie left, we're looking at a power or Smash Mouth RPO system, mostly going to be run out of shotgun. You're going to occasionally see some pistol. Use a lot of run to set up. The play action to set up that are po. Like to take shots off the play action versus straight drives. Usually a straight drop is going to be more of an intermediate route as the primary.

1:04:32 Whereas, if they're targeting deep down the field, it's going to be off those play actions. They do a solid mix of Gap in zone blocking Concepts, handful of elements of their offense, but they deploy them a lot of different ways. So you don't have a ton of plays but you have them deployed at a lot of different formations. Different looks and they're not very screen heavy. They are in their Arsenal, you'll see them run a handful of times a game. Usually it's going to be something that's like a swing out. Sometimes part of a our POS sometimes just a straight design screen usually to the running back, sometimes to the tight end into the slot, they love to attack the weak side of the formation, both in the run and the pass and they do a lot of check with me but not as exclusively as we saw. With Brad Carl Nelson.

1:05:26 It's a little more sporadic every play check. Yeah. It's not it's not that heavy. It's it's definitely a little more sporadic. But you know, depending on situation depending on game Flow, sometimes they'll go with their but usually when they when they're cooking, it's definitely, no huddle. Hurry up there, trying to get the play in, get to the line, get it run and keep that. Moving like philosophy wise. Are we looking 50/50 is this more call it? A power. Say it again. Howard power. Smash Mouth RPO.

1:06:06 Yeah, okay fifty-fifty I hear power, Smash Mouth. I think running the ball. We're going to run the ball more or less. You're definitely going to be north of that 50%. I think you're going to be close to like 55 60, but it's going to be still fairly balanced. It's not Not going to be all different. Yeah. You're not you're not going to see. You're not going to see it being you know that 6570 percent it's but it's still going to be something that they lean on to set up the rest of their offense in terms of personnel. I mean we're looking at a lot of 11 and 12 they'll occasionally go with a 20 look, sometimes split with the quarterback sometimes in a go-go set with twin running backs, either to the left or the right of the course. Back.

1:06:55 Usually, the tight end is almost always on the field and they're almost always either in a wing or split out Flex. They're not in line unless they go trips, the Titan will line up in line opposite the trips or if they bring in a second tight end when they go kind of offset, offset look with an H back and in line tight and that's really the only time you see The tight end line up in line. How often do we see in two tight ends? I'd say about thermal that 35% of the time? You're going to see them in in two tight ends sets, Okay? Usually it's going to be one tight end. Like I said, they're either going to be in the wing or split out as that.

1:07:43 Number two guy on the trip side, they will go unbalanced trip. So overload and you'll see that look sometimes he's as well. Usually they like to run out of that though. I good deal. Well, let's start here. I've got a document it and if this is the direction I assume you want to go. Yeah. Based on who you are. When I also heard you talk about gout or Gap in zone, obviously, they broke Rudolph in Robbie Robbie. You got your mic off me? I don't think we can hear you. Hey, Rudolph.

1:08:44 So let's intention with the interior offensive line in the Run game. What are we looking at with those three guys? I mean you're looking at a lot of like I said, Zach Zone and GAP scheme. Unique out of balance guys. In the middle. There you need a center. That's really smart. That's going to make. Those calls makes those checks. You need guards that are athletic that can pull that can deliver a blow on the run that can block some in space.

1:09:29 They're not asked to do a ton of that most of the screens even you don't necessarily have Lyman lead out on those, but with the amount of pulls that we have, you get definitely have to have Hers. Lineman, especially guards that can get around. Get up at the second level block, a linebacker and then do a lot of cloud. Kick-outs so especially with the guards there. So you know occasionally you're going to see the big thing for the guards especially when you're pulling on the on some of these are POS got to be aware of depth. That's one thing I know we brand some RPO in Corn system, this is a lot heavier, it's RPO, probably 65, 70 percent of the time. There's going to be some rbo element out there when there's a run call so line.

1:10:25 We got to be aware of their depth, especially on those gaps scheme rpos? We're yet Lyman pulling across the formation. All right, what about tackles and run getting? What are we looking at there? Because, you know, we did two years ago, have one of the better tackles in the entire country who proved his work this year with the Vikings. What are we looking at tackle wise doing in the Run game. So tackles are going to also need to be a little bit more balance because the tackles are going to be asked to do a lot more in the pool game as well. So they don't pull quite as much as the guards. But they are pulling a lot, they're kicking their rapping on the dark play, the power dark. So there's a lot of different things that they have to do, but they also have to be able to have good bend, be quick to be able to stop those speed rushes and guys that are getting low around the edge.

1:11:28 What's the mix that? You are singing between that zone in power because I think that's going to be Wisconsin to me. Did it so beautifully? Like like you know they be pulling a guard like on a pin and Pull and then the next thing you know, they're running some Zone play where it's like an outside Zone. You're like a it's impressive that a coach can teach both techniques and both techniques be really good but what do you foresee And with Boeing, I mean, he's got a guy at his disposal where he can, the guy can teach kids how to do it, but what are you going to be a 50/50, or do you think we're going to lean one way or the other? So it looking at the games that bow and called he really kind of goes by feel of it and how the defense is handling one or the other.

1:12:19 So I'll talk about it later. But just example in the bowl game against Memphis in the Cotton Bowl, in 2019, when he was calling Plays early on there was a lot of the more Gap Orient. It calls, Memphis was doing a pretty good job at those early second quarter. He started adjusting a lot more of the Zone, run calls more success, started popping off, some big runs with journey Brown and a couple was at Noah Cain. Had a couple big runs in that game, so you know, he definitely it's a flow thing and he was able to adjust pretty. Quickly to what Memphis was doing and kind of find a fit in the Run game because they really do want to lean on the run and let the Run setup what they like to do in the passing game, both in the rp0 and the drawback.

1:13:11 I know I know what are guys even at the high school level. I mean we were just talking about tonight with Adam touches the we run we have our track counter and power and got boys are hard power. Please then we have our insides owner outside Zone and I stretch looks that are all Zone looks and what we're doing is we're looking at what the defense is giving us. If there's if they're stacking guys then it makes things owns real easy. If you stack you can And and that those athletic guards help that regardless of their size they can, they can can push back climb to the next level while a man takes over.

1:13:51 We called Scoops the switch. Yep, we can hit those up but if you give a you get a defense, kind of like what I expect to be running, we're spreading out that front, it might be a little bit easier to kick out. You find that 3 and 7 and it gives you more space on that side. You can really pin and Pull and take advantage of some stuff. Having both of those in there is going to be. I think it would be great to see you. Again, it lets you pick your poison a little bit and you can kind of feel, how are they, how are they working for you? How were they trying to attack your line? And kind of adjust accordingly. It gives you a little bit more of an option where you're not kind of locked into. All right, well, I've got to run inside outside Zone all day.

1:14:33 That's my bread and butter. If that's not working, I'm going to have a long day. And as a defensive coach, we see a lot now. A lot of teams are going to Zone with their rpos because it gets that they get such a hard float, going one way and then they can pop it back to the back side. What if you got a team that's spread out? That's not going so hard with that flow, they keep that player they can can help them on the back side. Then it takes some of that RPO away. Why not go ahead and take advantage of it and run that that hard Gap pounded right in Manpower them with it? So I mean I have both of them with you if your exposure we have a hard time with it being able to prepare for both.

1:15:19 But I mean we're going to see teams that are going to do a lot of that. A lot of that zone and RPO. That's why we're stacking guys up there and it gives us a guys out of the edge that we can take away from her and once what what do you decide what you want to say? First, I just found it refreshing that he after one quarter, made that quick adjustment, Because a lot of coaches would continue to sit in say, this is eventually going to work. We're 15 minutes go by, you're not having much success. This was our initial game plan and I'm sure if I'm going against Memphis, the thought was were probably bigger than them. So running the gaps, we're going to be able to push them around obviously you know what are you know, Ryan was coaching that point one knee.

1:16:05 He was the interim head coach, right? I know it wasn't your old coach from Sydney. Yeah, he was in her head coach. That was his first game as a coach, as yes. He had. That thought of take that away, but Boeing instead of hesitating changes gears, I'm going Zone. And then the next thing, you know, I know they scored 50. Plus points was impressive in that game. Well, the big thing so they had one touchdown in the first quarter that came kind of late in the first quarter went into halftime with 35 points. They go All right, Brian. I'ma let you run through this pass game sets for the entire offensive line. What are we seeing inside and outside? So one thing that I like and you know we talked about this is that we've got the play action, we've got the RPO that takes a lot of the pin, their ears back moments for the defense.

1:17:00 You don't necessarily have a ton of that because you're not a team they straight drops or probably about 50%. Of the past plays they have the rest are either off play action or off our Po in some way. And I think it probably tens on the higher side of that, 50% that are our POS or play actions. You're not having a ton of straight drops where you're having your tackles have to bend kick and make sure that they're not getting. As there's Edge rushes for those. There's ears pinned back defensive ends so that helps a little bit to take some pressure off the offensive line for those speed rush has a lot of three Step drops, you're looking at slide protection, get ball out of the hands quick when it's not some sort of our po or a play action in there.

1:17:45 It's like I said, earlier, the center's. Got to make a lot of these checks, at the line of scrimmage. You see the center communicating with the rest of the offensive line, you know, whether its various checks for, depending on what site type of priest app. Look, the defense is giving, and as we talked about a little bit earlier, we got uncovered Lima, they've got dual reads on those straight drops. So they've got to read Multiple linebackers, if they're if they're the uncovered guy. Yeah. Things are going slow a defense now. Moving the quarterback out of the pocket, right? From the start rollout spread out. Screens which we've already said, you've already said, screams will be limited and then that that quickstep our po pop I mean it's going to help protect that quarterback. Yeah that's a lot of the rpos.

1:18:40 They like to do is kind of pressuring the defense inside and outside so the run is stressing them inside. Where is they've got like on a lot of them with a run to the trip side. They've got a slot receiver. The inside slot is kind of back pedaling, parallel to the line of scrimmage, and you got the two wide guys going up to block. So, you know, if you commit another guy to the box to stop the run, you're going to be vulnerable out there to the, to the RPO. If you're keen on the RPO, you got another band. It's not in the box to help with the run there. So it kind of widens the area that a defense has to cover on a given play, so that That that puts a lot of stress on the defense and it makes it so they can't just pin their ears back as well.

1:19:29 So, Yeah, I mean that's that's really it for the offensive line in terms of the the pass protection. You know, when we looked at the running game, we already talked about all the all the pulls and things from the guard of the tackle perspective. They're all right, let's get going to quarterbacks because Robbie made a good point about having a mobile moving, the quarterback around I don't think we will ever see as much running as we did with the quarterback last year. But how many times? I mean, I don't think we're going to have a stationary quarterback. Either. What is bowing showing I mean, are we running just a handful of times? Is it just broken scrambles?

1:20:12 Is it? What are you seeing from the Run game far as the quarterback goes? In terms of like kind of designed running runs or runs based off? Reads, you're looking about 10, maybe 12 carries a game. Game for the quarterback, this isn't a position where you have to have the quarterback be successful in the Run game for the Run game to be successful. The quarterback needs to be athletic, but we don't need an elite athleticism. We need the threat, the Potential Threat that that quarterback can get some yards can get some first downs, maybe occasionally, you know, bust a 20 plus yarder if the the circumstances are right but these More kind of move the pocket type things and give the defense something else to think about.

1:20:59 They're not, they're not wrapping the strength of the running game around. What the quarterbacks able to do on the ground. I got you. So it's more one of those things where I don't want to say it's like show, like it's just for show but it's Just when you think you've figured out all of our things, he's going to pull it, he's going to run for five yards now. Robbie what do you got a feeling that you are moving beyond that? It's a keep a defense artist. Kind of thing we can do is we can hit the running back, he can run it back in the running back because the minute we start going after that forget, the mesh Point, hit the running back, the quarterbacks can pull it out, take around the edge where there's nobody responsible for and the RPO adds another element to To that.

1:21:47 Because a lot of times there's there's two reads. If the quarterback tries to keep it, if the quarterback keeps it, he's still got potentially the ability to throw out there on the RPO on top of the option to keep it in get upfield himself. But the big thing for the quarterback, the most important thing for them is to be able to quickly diagnose what the defense is, giving them at that mesh point and get them in situations where they can maximize those defensive mismatches. Good deal. All right, let's kind of talk about the passing game and now what I'm going into specifics of what type of passes and you've already said it with the Run game, the guy's got to have some athleticism, but are we looking for athleticism with a big cannon, or is it soars accuracy more important in Bowens offense? Accuracy is absolutely more important than a cannon, but you need a quarterback that can still make all the throws and stretch the defense when necessary, but the most Portent thing again, just like in the running game, being able to maximize yardage with, those are po reads and get the ball in the hands of where they've got mismatches with their athletes in space.

1:22:56 And a lot of times that leads to missed tackles and big plays. So even when it's not a situation where, you know, the guys wide open to the guys running completely free, you're putting the defense out on the island where a good move the here there and all of a sudden a 5-yard gain turns into a 20 or 30 yard game. Because of One Missed tackle. From what you saw is it, what's the is it two to three seconds, getting rid of the ball as it more 325? It really kind of depends on the play. Like I said, the ability to make quick and accurate throws in the short passing game is important because that's where a majority of the RPO elements are in the offense and they got to be able to throw on the run and not just on those Sprint outs or roll.

1:23:47 Seems like Robbie was talking about, but a lot of times with the RPO, once they make that mesh, there's sometimes moving, you know, kind of towards where that are PO is designed to go. So they've got to be able to throw accurately on the run there. And they like I said, they got to be able to push the ball down field. That's usually going to be off a play-action. Usually, when you see those deep shots, those are coming off of straight play action, not necessarily rpos. And I think the bigger thing is that we need a quarterback that's not afraid to Best defense in the middle of the field because a lot of the primary routes are going to be plays going over the middle of the field, you've got to have to be able to make some throws there.

1:24:28 When there's a little bit of a little bit of traffic, a little bit of little bit of mess. You have to be able to make those throws. You got to have a special kind of guy to go across that and it'll catch that thing. All right, well, let's talk about it because something that's been kind of mentioned is this is going to be a heavy tight end. Obviously, y'all talked about Benji, go Cosmo. Some people project him at tight end, you've got your main, you've got Daquan right. You've got drink to Louis already on the roster, you got Eric Gallo on the roster, you get give a longer OST. We've already got a crap ton of tight ends. You have mentioned, they're not in line enough there a lot spread H back position. So what are their responsibilities in the Run game?

1:25:10 If they're not a lot of in line? So, on a lot of the, The Zone plays there either. Our kind of double-teaming on the end up to the next level or they've got kind of a split Zone where they're blocking back against the field against the play towards the defensive end on the backside. So they'll pull some they will again. Go in motion, pre-snap to get, get themselves a line for the split Zone. There will my favorite play and I'll show some video a little bit later. You know, the one of the plays that bow and likes is kind of I.

1:25:51 So with the tight end in the wing kind of going in B Gap, it up to the up to the mic, to get a block on the mic there. That's one of my favorite place to watch them, do always always a good Collision, usually got some pretty good yards on it. So Like watching that, but that's pretty much the primary responsibilities for them in the running game. Now they if they're outside flexed out, they're usually in that to spot to the trip side, unless they're going to buy 2 in which case they're you know, they're double Wings usually but in those cases there, you know, kind of stalk block and just like a normal wide receiver would There's two guys going to block everyone pack SG / ISO. Where's the flag?

1:26:41 Will you try to seek out? Those are used to block 1B can do that. All right girl Brian and I both know those offensive lineman. There's a flag on holding holding. You're probably right. Hopping around me home. There's like there's a couple times where I debated that fact, if you're not throwing the flag, every play. Is it better damn well be egregious if I'm holding, whatever, listen, you have to hold, is that the rule? Like you just have to hold wife. If you're not holding, you're not trying man, you made it to the number on the shoulder pads. You went too far still down the number on it. Chest.

1:27:27 You're Golden Keep Holding baby. Alright well use the Titans. Well you would say some of the tight ends in the passing game will say let's talk about because with bow and being a Penn State. He had two studs, I mean, just seki and for a move, our studs to seki, I've drafted numerous times and fantasy got rid of them numerous times in fantasy, but he has helped out and firm has helped out this year. What are we seeing in the past game and can gallo and Drake especially, you know, jump into that role this year. Yeah, I think they can and I'll tell you the big reason why I think they can is that a lot of, a lot of what they do is, what those two guys were both doing. When James Mitchell was still on the field, okay? So there's going to be a lot of opportunities for them to work from the wing.

1:28:27 Split out a little bit and run, you know, some hitches, some seams but primarily what they're running is the seam, they're running some, some quick outs and then they're either, you know, the drags and shallow crosses, that's really the bread and butter and you see that a lot especially when we're all what would I was watching? Friar Muth, I mean, he does such a good job after the catch. And I think that, you know, a guy, like, Gallo could potentially turn into something like that, where he gets some, some quality yards after the catch is because he's got a little bit of that bigger body that can absorb some of those hits kind of after the catch.

1:29:09 So it sounds like he goes simplistic right simplistic, I'm not going to try to overthink and do a ton with my tight ends in the passing game. I'm using it very basic, but what we're doing at the Run game and other things If these guys can get the ball in their hands, there's going to be space there. And is it does he like factor? Is it mismatches? Is he getting good matchups because of the alignments so it's mismatches. But sometimes it's just, you know, those underneath routes. There's a little bit more space sometimes to work from the line of scrimmage there and that gives them a little bit of an opportunity to get some run after the catch. So fryer.

1:29:51 Muth like I said in particular, I saw a bunch of opportunities where he caught the ball at about 45 yards, and turned it into a 15 or 20 yard gain just because of One Missed tackle. And he had that athleticism to kind of accelerate not quite wide receiver speed, but good enough to run away from some of those interior guys. Run away from the bigger guys and over the smaller guys, there we go. All right, didn't know. I'm going to just keep going down and we'll eventually get to the tape. So let's talk about the wide receivers because from what you're telling us here, tight ends on the field, a lot. Did I tell you injure on the field a lot there's almost always at least one tight in on the field and then 30% but they have to be able to line up at the wing in line opposite trips and then when they go trips with the tight end to the trip side, he's usually the number two guy. But then you're also telling us that about 30, you saw it about every third plague, you're going to get two tight ends. So obviously, you know, if you have a A 10-play drive, you're looking at probably two tight ends for X versus having, you know, three wives, you know, more, you know, more or less. But what are the tight ends doing? Let's talk about.

1:31:11 Let's talk about them in the pass game. First. What? What's kind of their route tree? Do we have a full route tree or is it like it used to be done with the wide receivers of the tight ends wide receivers? So the way they kind of structure their wide receivers is a little bit similar to what Robbie was talking about earlier. A lot of the exterior guys are more, got one side that usually more of a stick, mover one guy that's a little bit more of a burner, they usually put that guy on the same side, with the slot receiver and the slot receivers. The guy that really runs the full complement of the route tree and can take advantage of a lot of mismatches in the middle of the Field also has a lot more room to work, just because you could run a lot of stuff out, that's got space to run those outs, you got space to run those corners, but you can also run the post. You can run the dig the real full route tree is available to the slot receiver, and that's the guy that's usually the primary target on most of these pass plays. All right, as your primary target. So Reality is you're going to have a speech on the outside, Jane pay you right?

1:32:26 Yep. Who's our, why this year? You know, there's a Jaden blue, do you think I think Jaden blue is going to be your ex he's going to be the primary stick mover I think your Z is going to be pay, you he's going to be a burner and I think you're going to put Lofton at the slot and let him do a little bit everything. All right, but full complement route, Tree in just more specifics, right? So essentially Robbie what does that do when you have somebody Like Jaden pay you tues, a 44 guy who can just run by the defense, what does that do to the rest of the feet? As you shake your head and you've got to, you got to have that corner.

1:33:14 That's, that's got a mindset. Now, he's either got a mindset. I can run with him every step and I don't care. I can cover him down field or I noticed cats faster and I am, and I've got to be as physical as possible and knock his timing off as quickly as I can. Now you see it everyday, you see it all the time, then FL you get teams that take these big, physical wide receivers, like became a camp and say, okay, bring you a little 510 corner and see if he can do anything with it. And some of them take Tyreke Hill they go keep up with him. If you can. I mean it's a pick your poison you want to do with the safeties though. Because in that case, I mean I know you have confidence in your players but they're sometimes you know, I know you think you're fast but I gotta give you some help. What does that start doing to the Alana? Because from what I'm hearing Braun is, you can have the stick mover on the outside and you've got a guy going down field the slot guys going to do everything so it sounds like it's a 10. Essentially what Tyler bones trying to do is he's trying to manipulate the middle of the field to get his tight ends open and to let that slot kind of run havoc and dude whatever the slot gets to cook the tight end kind of gets to work when that where those holes are and then the outside guys are kind of your Outlets to move the sticks if nothing else. Is there, you're creating this

1:34:45 matches? Not man to man but space areas you're putting guys on the vine because you got that burner down the side is taking that corner or if you're playing the cover to the corners going to sit and take away something underneath. Okay, then you got that safety plane really deep stretch in that field. Now all of a sudden you got the tight end and the slot, you know, two tight ends run into drag and it's lots of running this, you know, dig over the top, well at linebacker. Now he's got to decide why come down to the, to the drag, or do I stay back on the, on the edge because I do the safety had to help on top.

1:35:26 Will you put that linebacker on the back? He's not greater coverage anyway so he's not going to make the best decision. A lot of times. I mean, we talked about, we talked about here, one of her best plays, we bring her outside receiver and replace the nearest linebacker, okay, we call it a stick. We take our slot and run him in a corner and then we take our back in the same side. Run a bubble. Okay, so you got to stick, you've got a guy coming in almost like an RPO running in replacing the linebacker and you've got the running back running out. Well, his coverage part is in that flat area.

1:36:09 So if he goes out to the running back, you got a free guy from the outside coming in right there to the hash taking the ball from you. If you stay right there, we'll throw the bubble because the corner dropped with the with the corner route. Wanted it back, so he's got 12 yards before he Buddies. We'll get to it. Give report cover two and the safety comes down to it. How many Corner comes down to it? The safeties got to go all the way to the corner of the field to catch that ball. Running the corner from him slot, man. It's the hardest thing in the world we haven't, we've stopped at practice yet. I've been doing this. What I'm hearing from both of y'all is the way Bowens offense is set up, is it's not misdirection anything like that. It's essentially Spacing game.

1:36:58 Yes, it jumped essentially, it's almost chest in a way to say this is what I'm doing my pieces. You have to pick your poison, I'm going to get somebody open. It might be short but you have to tackle them and their God has to choose the right spot. It may be short. And where's the next guy? That's gonna tackle the exactly yards after the carry, all right, and the wide receivers are big in the in the running game to, I mean, especially the The outside guys, because they are going to have primary responsibilities on a lot of these are POS where they're the primary blocker to kind of spring that are PO for more than just a, you know, two or three yard gain.

1:37:40 All right, that's going to be big for them. They also have some responsibilities on, on some of the Walling, some backers on some of the run plays and obviously some runoff and decoy looks on run place. And but primarily it's going to be that stop blocking type technique goes man when things get so heavy that is rpos, you get linebackers who are normally coming from their gift and colliding, those receivers as they come across. Off now and they're slowing down because they made that ball may be thrown really quick. And they have to try to break down and tackle a more athletic individual.

1:38:22 Hmm. Now all the sudden they're slowing down. This guys coming in. He's going up, it comes in our po but he's not rpoe. The balls going to break out to the side now, he's got an easy block because I got running full speed through it. All he's got to do is get in his way. He doesn't have to kill him, he's just got to make him go around. Yep, it's slows that flow down and gives it. It's a lot harder to move. Sideways changing direction and then go tackle with a running back to running full speed already dip and some of the and some of these, some of these route combinations are designed for like those pics and rubs. And some of them are just as we talked about some of that spacing where you trying to get.

1:39:06 Guys, where there's you got to pick your poison because you're on an island and you got two guys coming into your area. All right. But let's wrap up the last position group run. Yep. Um, now I'm going to ask you this before you jump into it. Who do you think is the starting running back game? One. If I had to put my money on somebody, I think it'd be Kenzie, Christian. Not Malachi. Not the guy that had a good season. I think Malik I will be heavily featured looking at Bo and he was using three running backs with a ton of carries. So three guys are going to get significant totes just in the bowl game.

1:39:57 We saw I think it was Ricky Slade had some carries along with no akane and journey Brown. So you had three guys that were probably around close to 10 or 10 or more carries in that game. So so there's going to be plenty of opportunities for a handful of guys to eat and you don't necessarily need to lean on a primary back in this type on offense, might as well give everybody. So exactly, yeah. So if we can find a Jonathan Taylor absolutely give him 20 carries a game but short of that especially with what we do.

1:40:40 We're rolling with more or less on this roster going into 22. I'm sorry 22. There's going to be opportunities for about two or three guys to get eight to ten, carries a game. All right, it's good to know that, but it's also what you talk about Jonathan Taylor because at Fordham. Yeah, Chase Edmunds. He found that kids somewhere and had him play at Fordham and get that kid to be drafted in the fourth round and he was still giving splitting carries even with Chase. There, there was another running, there was another Running back. That's still probably had eight to ten carries a game. When you had a Chase Edmunds on your Field playing at an FCS level, which is so there's still some opportunities out there for carries even when you do have that kind of elite player on your roster.

1:41:29 So there's going to be two to three guys that are going to get some significant opportunities here. So I don't think Malachi Compass not being one. A is necessarily a slight to him. I just think Kenji, Christian, skillset probably matches what we're trying to do on offense a little bit more. More than Malachi, obviously, with the caveat being that Kenji. Christian picks up the elements of the offense in time for fall. I tell you if I the thought of hearing you say that they could be two or three guys, getting 10 carries a piece. And the quarterback could possibly get eight carries. I mean I'm not I'm not a math. Magician three players getting 10 on the quarterback getting a that's 38 balls. Run the game.

1:42:15 I'll take that this. You likes it, he likes it. Yeah and I mean the reason I say this about Kenji I mean I think I'm running back that's going to have success in the system. They got to have versatility, they got to have good patients. They got to have a good best response. Relationship with the quarterback. Obviously, Malachi probably has the advantage there just because he's had more on the field. I know we don't, I'm not returning every quarterback. He's taking Snaps with this season, but we are returning a quarterback. He's taken steps with this season. So, you know, I think he probably has a little bit of a leg up there. When we talk about Zone plays, we talk about bang, Bend or bounce.

1:43:02 So bang you're going right at the aiming point, right? Bend your bidding it baguettes that cutback lane bounce. You're bouncing it outside. I think Kenji cut probably has the best ability to do those three things. Well, okay, where is Malik, I think is more of a, more of a bang and maybe a little bit of a bin, but I don't know if he's quite got the bounce. And you know, you must have acceleration to get through those holes when they open up. And I think Kenji probably has the best combination of that as well. All right, hanging Pam of going to, you got skin pretty well too. Yep. All right. How much passing is it? I mean, I felt like the old regime. It was non-existent.

1:43:42 I felt like Laughlin before that non-existent and even Frank's years, it was not, you know, way up there is it, we're going to see it more. More or less, you have to catch the ball if you want to play running back in those, okay? And it's not just screens, they're using the running back a lot split out into when they when they go empty, the running back. Staying on the field. He's going out into the, to the slot to the, to the single trip. The single side opposite, the trips, he is catching balls on kind of swings, out of the backfield, they're putting him in motion, catching some swing passes.

1:44:22 Got to be able to get some extra yards off those two because there's usually going to be one, one guy, you're going to have to make missing that that open field. So got to be able to catch. You got to be able to make guys miss in the open field. It sounds to me, like it's gonna be a lot closer to what we're seeing more in the pros. Now, rather than The what most people look at is is spread College. Running back quarterback. Go. You know the kind of old-school Lamar Jackson kind of stuff. Yeah, they hit like I said, it's Smash Mouth RPO but they still use the running back outside of the, the The Tackle Box there to catch the ball and like I said, it's not almost exclusively dot on necessarily traditional screens. It's more of those quick swings or like I said, splitting the the back out, pre-snap and letting him run a slant or a Pitch or something like that to get into the ball quick and let him make some guys miss.

1:45:21 Yep. Also, all from to him and you'll have both got me completely jacked about this season. We're going 12-0. Now we got some place to run through. I'm going to I'm going to talk through some of the plays to expect. Man, you got it. Yeah, get hype about this and about the defense but we got to make sure that the right ones are there. I feel real good about one. Mike linebacker. And I feel like they're going to do a great job in putting the right guys, in the right places. Well, that's me. Let's take a look at the video in progress. Yeah, let's go talk through some plays first and as we get to ones I've got video on I'll pull that up. So like I'm gonna I'm gonna run through plays in terms of usage and kind of them being the bread and butter of the offense and then we'll kind of look it look at some videos as we go through. Things that I think most of the audience is familiar with. I didn't pull video for.

1:46:21 So, for example, I'm starting here with inside Zone Zone, read and Zone rp0. I don't really need to show you a ton about that. You guys kind of seen variations of that, that we've ran the last couple of years with with core Nelson. There's a little bit of a different action in terms of how they get the ball out to the receivers. But the Basic concepts are the same. The reeds are the same, same with the, the wide Zone read and RPO. That's kind of the, the outside Zone, look there. So, same type of deal, they run a dive RPO.

1:47:06 But the first one I'm going to show a video on is the the split Zone read and then the RPO that they run off of that. So let me get that cute up here for us. And again, for those listening, on the podcast, head over to YouTube to see these videos. We do have a YouTube account banned recorder podcast, subscribe. This is some organ tape here. Yep. So this is Oregon. So just a disclaimer of what I did here with the tape. Since we don't have a ton of video of Bowen calling plays at the power 5 level outside of one game. What I've done here is looked at all the games where he has called plays and cross-reference. Those with Joe Moorhead tape that's been cut up significantly on the web and it's available here. So first Here is with Oregon.

1:48:06 It's the split Zone. It's going to show you actually three different variations here. So, let's take a look. So this you got a little bit, you got the tight in Split out wide flexed, initially comes into the wing, comes across the formation and this is actually the RPO set up here. So notice that he didn't actually block anyone know. He went right through the guy. Yeah. So what normally would happen here is that the tight ends going to kick that back side defensive end.

1:48:49 But they run an RPO off of this where they kind of leak the tight end into the flat. So it kind of gives the, the outside linebacker puts him on an island. If the quarterback decides to keep it here, in this case, it's a give but let's watch it here. But if you got, if the quarterback it kept here, you see, you got the quarterback coming out with the ball. Quarterback will be coming out with a ball. You got the Titan out there, so you got a little bit of a dual read for, whoever the odd, man is here. But again, in this case, they gave it to the running back. It's about a nice nice touch down. There the blizzard coming in that probably made him. Read you again.

1:49:33 Yep. Here's another. Look at it here. Look at that. Look at the look at the difference in the splits with the linebackers. Are he brings them in right here? Takes Two Steps. Yeah, he saw two guys blitzing on that side. He knew that he had numbers with the running. Back in the middle there, they had numbers locking in the middle. So Good job giving their all right. And that's just, that's one of the base run inside zones, right? He called it split Zone, but it's a splits inside Zone.

1:50:13 Just the concept is split because you got the tight end. Moving back side. It would it's RPO he's leaking if it's just straight split Zone. He'd be kicking out the back side, D in. All right. So - if they have been more true zone is that it is split, it have been reading the other side and Yep. Went back to going one way and your quarterback will be going opposite. Exactly. Yep. Same side is a lot harder on Abby's. It's alright. So again the the next one I've already talked about a little bit.

1:50:56 Is the eye, so the eye so RP. Oh, that's tight in going. In that be Gap. Hey knocking the piss. Out of that Mike linebacker. Let's see it. I don't have a video of that one. I was just talking about that as one of the one of the key players here and it's amazing. No, they do not. All right, so the next one we're gonna have fun with this one so it's the duo. It's A lot of times called Power without a pull so it's essentially power scheme.

1:51:39 You just don't have the pulling guard rapping there, so let me pull that one up and we will take a look at that. Power without a pool. Just sounds like it shouldn't work. But you know what? It does. All right, if you're doing the effort it's play it's just a slow motion. Okay, we can't see it. Hang on, let's say are we good?

1:52:20 Let's run it back. Temple. The Lord is white, everybody clear. So it's a lot of downs, the tight ends kicking and then you're essentially asking the running back. In this case to make that one backer, missing the whole you got it. You had a good. Well maybe the opportunity this situation Temple. Takes herself out of it. Comes the Blitz and Backer. Here goes off opposite side anyway. Oh yeah. Nobody ever touches it. Yeah, the stroke is strong. Safety is the only player that can make a player. 44 runs itself into the wash.

1:53:05 Yep, let's see what you're talking about. It's a power because everybody's going One Direction and flattening out right here. So normally on a power, its Down and then wrap. And in this case, there's no rap, they're just down. And then the tight end is Walling, the place idea in normally that Gaara, cackle somebody's coming up on the back of it. But you said itself into there and it'll wash right there, should be there. Should have been like a TT, I like a down double team somewhere in the middle there and the backer just took himself out of it. And it just seems like a very basic play right there.

1:53:47 Just very simplistic, nothing fancy. Not a lot of eye candy just go out there. Block turn the guys in the room and it's definitely more old school. Was that old school spent a little more. Smashmouth I play. You know, will also see things that work familiar with. You'll see a counter counter sweet. They'll run that with the running back and the quarterback, they'll run. That kind of pin pull that kind of bucks, sweep or quarterback sweep as well. And I have to plug in. Yeah, you're good completely. We also have the return of the the power read or the inverted v r. But there is variances that we will run out of this and there is some RPO elements that that are added into that. But the next video I'm going to show you is the power Dart or po, so let me get that pulled up for you. This is the one you talked about. Did you said look at this?

1:54:48 Because some Brian mentioned to me, just lure earlier was we don't have a ton of run plays but the way they counter it is multiple formations and multiple ways to block those run plays correct. Well yeah, that and also pretty much every Run. Play can have an RPO element to it. It's not always called that way. So, you're, you're essentially any time you have a running play, you're going to at least, be able to run it for different ways, out of the same formation, you know, left, right, straight left, right RPO and then you're going to have different formations that, some of these plays will work equally well, out of. So you get a lot of different looks even though you technically only have, you know, a handful of Concepts, right? So you got you got about eight or ten run Concepts but Those are deployed to a lot of different ways. This is called powered Bart.

1:55:47 Yep, our dark. And then there's our po off of that, all right. So we got a tackle pull. Reading the outside linebacker. In this case, they gave it got a pretty good game there. See it from a different angle here. This is closer, there's a little different different action with the running back here, but the same same play design. Well, it's also where they're doing it. They just did. That would like to 40 and then the next one, it's inside the goal line. Yep.

1:56:30 Kind of showing the variation where it can be done at any point on the field and this is now Midfield. Yeah, and here's where we're going to get a throw out of this because you got The linebacker kind of sneaks inside. It catches a peek and now you got a big wide open Lane to throw it. To the wide receiver will slot scene. Yep. He took three steps of a skinny post little skinny post their. Yeah, one thing, you'll notice there defensively all three plays, same play with different alignment, by the running back and a different way. They took the steps to do it.

1:57:12 I'll put different players in the barn. The people man right there. I want to cross for the theme, so it pulled that guy down. In case, the quarterback came up, quarterback came up to run that guy had to come down and take the quarterback, so then he could drop it easily over the top. The same thing on the very first play was they had that running back cross the quarterback. So you always any kind of run it back crosses. The quarterback is a defense. I had to have somebody there for the quarterback. In case he pulls it takes off well, the one there when he stepped through the quarterback, got the ball and went up. We're not worried about the quarterback at that point. We got to attack the running back inside. They'll be right back in so it's putting different people in The Binding.

1:57:57 It's Some tough stuff. Yeah, you know, you shut your show and essentially if it's the same play but you're showing a little different window dressing that's causing some of those backers to flow. Yeah, different differently from the start of the snap. And then all of a sudden we got a lot of the same formation but guess where the back to? Yep, exactly. So I mean, some other plays that are, you know, Staples of the offense freeze option when they run that, it's they usually run it. Pistol. But it the initial look of it looks like pistol inside Zone. And so you get a little bit of a hesitation from those linebackers flowing Outside, The Tackle Box. So once they once they start that that that option, that freeze option where they're getting wider, The Tackle Box. It really, it really gives the opportunity for the quarterback to make a good read, and it gives a lot more opportunity for the quarterback to potentially keep their. If, if those linebackers have it flowed back over the top of the of the be in there.

1:59:06 So that was effective on a handful of plays. I saw the next one is one, I really like, because it's something that we actually ran it hand in Sydney, a lot, but they've added some RPO elements to it. It's the the shovel RPO. So let me get that cute up here for us. We run that similar to that option here and you run it limited times. It's very effective. Here we go.

1:59:58 This is the trip. She talked about trips in line tight in. Yep, so yeah, let's run that back and take a look at that. So you got in line tight in at the bottom trips to the top. Running back offset to the tight inside. And You know, again it here it's going to be optioning, they're really putting that DNA on the island. Putting the DNA on an island also given, but look at the ARP the RPO element, watch the inside on the trips. It out. Yep. So if so if you run it back here, if that if the DN doesn't come up feel doesn't fly it field. He just kind of sits you're going to throw it out there to that that slot receiver and he got he's got some room and space to make some something happen there as well. So that it's almost like the what is it? The like the West Coast was the hard bootleg with the tight end Crossing Y'all know what I'm talking math for? I was watching a video.

2:01:10 What do you say? We run it back? Well saying, is you ever seen West Coast offense is like the Shanahan offense when he runs that stretch but it's a rollout for the tight ends Crossing. Yeah, it's kind of similar to that concept. Of. If you bite down, it's going to be a very easy pass the defensive end bit down in that suitcase. So as soon as he bit down, It's an easy decision for the quarterback. Flip it, right. Inside if we see the way it was blocked on the inside, they are turning those guys out. It was like, let the fruit. Let the defensive end rush you made the point hook made the point. If he stays clear. It's going to be tough to make that show. He's gonna be right there to make the play, but you're going to have a guy going out to the flats and it's only two guys up top tip. So it's a three-on-two concept where if he makes the catch and eat turns, somebody's got to get off blocks or somebody's got to come from the opposite side of the field to make the play. Well, Robbie, I know can speak to this. The one downside of the shovel is that if the defensive end doesn't fly field, you pretty much have to toss it in the day. Yeah, with this.

2:02:20 You don't have that. You have another option. Right. We want the absolutely. We run something very similar to this. But instead of it back, leading up with a shovel like that, we take our SWAT and he goes up to 7 and out and they're running back. We faked it there. If it back comes down to the running back, we throw it out there. Now, if he widens, then we drop it to the running back on a like a quick out. Okay. Okay. What about? Flips it out there. So I made the quarter back in the running back or three yards apart but he did he drops right to him.

2:03:02 They mirror each other down the field being aware that Ian takes it. We tried to shovel early in the year, a little middle screen we had to golf because there, we've got Goodreads because we're playing with guy's gonna 330 pounds. It defensive line there, they didn't know not to rush, they're just too slow doing it. Big bears, call it a gift. There's always risk with that one inside. So that's kind of the last of the rpos. That will look at we're going to look at some some route combinations and Concepts.

2:03:45 Now, the shovel FL was a good kind of segue because it's technically a pass. But it's also, but it's pretty much a run play fighting like this jet. My all, that is shovel. Yeah, yeah, we hand. But now if you had it to him and he gets, you know, he Ops the ball to Fumble but as long as you just kind of toss it in front of him and he catches it, if he doesn't catch anything. Ramsey complete, exactly, exactly. So, I mean, the first cock combination we're looking at if they run spacing. So you got, you know, the curls and hitches spread throughout the the feel their create spacing for quarterback to make a read, get the ball to the open man make and let them get up. Feel they're good, stick moving combination. Good way to kind of get guys.

2:04:34 Guys, make some tough choices for the, the inside of the defense there. But the first video that I'm going to show is the, the Portland concept. This is one of my favorites that I was looking at when I was reviewing. So let me get that one. Cute up for us here. Fixing to run a lot more Concepts mirrored or do they have a lot of rats? Do you think they're running off of Route 3? They're running out of Route tree and it'll be pretty evident on on this one here. So let me get it cued up here.

2:05:18 All right, so this is that that true trips look so it's not the trips with the tight end in line. But we'll look at this from top to bottom and you'll kind of see what I'm what I'm talking about here. So I'll play it a little bit and then kind of pause it as I'm going. All right, so from from top to bottom, we have a hitch. We've got a shallow cross. We've got the tight end in this case.

2:05:59 That was the third guy on the trip side, these will be running a corner. You got your wide receiver down at the bottom, running a post and then you got the running back. Running a wheel. Host wheel. Most deadly pattern in football, and that's a touchdown. Yeah, because nobody covers the wheel. It also helps when you have SE Kwang Berkeley as your running back. Yeah, well, the concept of because that's a few in the middle of fuel, he can't leave. He can't leave early because if he leaves early, it's an easier throw right.

2:06:43 Yep. Capone. And if that end of the post, or the wheel aren't open, look at the middle of the field who you got running pretty much wide open for a solid dish and yard game. It's a pit. But in this case, you can see That's actually one of the better we'll coverages. I've seen he still gets beat still gets people still gets be good tag and helps when you have say Quan Berkeley. Yeah that post is so important there though because that the safety has just stay there you can't. This is one where Wisconsin defended pretty well. Yeah, it was still a touchdown. It was still a touchdown in the other big piece on this is even if they had taken away.

2:07:27 Wheel. If he had wrote him out of bounds is that shallow cross Jack 12? Not there dump. There's no one on that side of the field, he probably gets to the 5, yard line was one of them, one of them, out of bounds, with the running, back in the other ones, running down the field with the with the post in safety at Levi. Yeah. It's still the safety. The safety still stand. In the middle of the field of take away the post. So the safety is the only one that probably can make the play and he's don't come from the middle of the field. All the way. What does that? Is that boundary side or field side as field side one?

2:08:09 Let's see. Ball was on was almost on the right hash, okay so boundary side? Yep. So the safeties have to come all the way to the boundary side from the middle of the field. What other what other passing Concepts you got here man. Is we get into our to? Yeah so let me go ahead and throw the The smash Corner in the smash feed. Why? So with the post wheel, what else do you need from this? Every time we got it, we got to take a look at the the smash cornering. The smash fade here. All right. Let's look at these two. This is the this will be the fade, all right. This is the this I mean this is your 2 by 2 with the tight end at the bottom.

2:09:06 Like I said, I mean this is this is the Personnel that they're going to be in the most in this is the formation that they'll probably use. The most kind of that two by two with the tight end. So let's let's look at the kind of a because this is kind of a Garth Kowski out wide. Yeah pro-spray pro-spray dip. And like I said, a lot of the action is going to be with that with that slot receiver.

2:09:51 So you got that curl to the top, we got the Wheatley fade route to the slot. That's the kind of thing right there. So many people are getting into pattern reading, so the corner and they're looking for number two. and when that number two goes vertical, the safeties Frozen And it kills you. There it is. Again, look at that shallow cross again. Yeah, it brings that safety down and the other thing.

2:10:32 Look at the other safety. I mean he's already 30 yards week, he's on an island and he's on the opposite. Yeah he's only he's on boundaries side in the place, feel tired. The shallow crosses a even if even if he was on the right side, the shallow cross is open again. And is this going to be a little? Is this the curl route again Brian at the 40? Play it out. Let's see what he does. Well, he's getting held. No, no that's an end. He's running a little in. Do that. Yeah, so they're running the the smash Fade To The Top. They're running, kind of a drive with the Dig and the drag. Yeah, to the to the bottom.

2:11:19 So even if that safety takes away, the Deep route, In this, this corner right here. The Courtney, the outside corner stays home with a little hitch. There's two guys open, as long as they're giving to their second or as long as they're giving to their third of their fourth. Read the way this thing is set up is its optimal spacing because you're getting such mismatches down there, which is wild well. Again, you're putting these safeties in very hell delicate situations. You put me in a very delicate situations.

2:12:01 We got one more. We got we got, we got one more. It's the the mesh mesh wheel. So let's take a look at that one. Hey, as a defensive coach I love a mesh. You've got to have some special cats that want to come in and play with those linebackers like that. But if you got those cats, you can hurt. Some people with a mesh is is Oregon again. Third and six top Edge.

2:12:44 All right, here we go. Is this trips? Or just somebody up that. See the Inland tied in rice or twins? Yeah, I think there's another receiver up top OKC. No, not it strips. I see down here at the bottom. So this is your line. This is your industry in line tidy, and look with the trips. Yep, at a pistol out of pistol. They are bringing it right here. We got people filling the gaps. They don't lay back.

2:13:34 Yeah. And I mean, there's this gives you a lot of options as a quarterback of where you want to go. That was primary. Your primary is going to be the the wheel. If it's there, you're going to throw that. But my question is right there, where's the corner? Tian is not the corner. There in clear in man. Yeah, I think the other Corner went to the trip side. Yeah. They're there in man coverage on this. There's think they're doing. They're playing a single. Hi.

2:14:16 I just put a defensive end on the running. Back of the wheel they should have got bird know what other linebacker or strong second hand brother no no no this guy this guy right here he's behind the be in the DNA I believe goes up feel they're trying to they're trying to Blitz right here. I tell you why. Yeah.

2:14:59 Offensive call against the Zone Blitz. Give ten years so dig and Jason at running back. He's like yeah I'm throwing it to the running for this man. He couldn't throw in soon enough. Oh my gosh. Well boys, this has been so fun. So educational as two hours and 20 minutes for real. We probably could go another hour.

2:15:39 I mean, I'm not even going joke because I got it. I think when talk about the trick plays, Claim. They run this thing where they run this thing where they swap the quarterback and running back and they run a different bunch of different RPO elements off of that. Oh my God. Wow.

2:16:20 What's his name? Maybe hope. BB hope. I don't know. Its initial cope when when I first got two rows and Greenville. He was a head coach at Rocky Mountain. High School out there. Okay. And he's since retired there, he's going to win this coaches and North Carolina High School, history, really good. Dude, has time out there. It's gone County, Rocky Mountain, those areas. I've got to know him a little bit. while we were out there, heck of a coach So we kind of talked last week about recruiting and stuff and you know you obviously have you known Derek Jones, you talk about Holt talk about Glenn who coach down and Carolina. Obviously, the Virginia stuff with pride in JC and and fontelle Minds.

2:17:15 It's a plan in place and I look forward to more and more of it boys. It's late. Let's wrap this up probably. Might have you back on a few months after spring game to look at some things. So get the hold of the ship, they're ready again, get the board, cleared off this time, going to draw some stuff to talk about the coaches and you're recruiting and all that stuff. One thing I want to bring up, I didn't think to bring it up earlier. Look at your defense of coaching staff that they brought in Outside of Prague lose three years of coaching and Barbs 8 there in another one, on the defensive side of the ball with less than 20 years. He's trust me, it's very true. Then very true and some of those times have been together so a true reality is going to be there. Yes, it is.

2:18:07 All right, so I watch can't wait for it, man. Well, that's going to wrap up this episode of The Boundary Corner podcast. I'm Curtis Wilson. I'm Brian Sigler. That's Robbie. Come tonight. That's Robbie Compton. Visit our website, boundary corner be t.com to listen to all of our episodes while you're there. Don't forget to follow us on Twitter, Facebook, subscribe to our YouTube account especially with this episode. So you can see those plays and some of the documents that Bobby had their from TSL, Robbie with that yellow hat there I brought a brown Wilkerson God Rest his soul definitely with us here tonight. So do not forget to subscribe on their favorite podcast source. Apple Amazon Spotify.

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Coach Robert Compton has been a high school football coach in the states of North Carolina and Virginia for 15 years. He coached current NFL talents such as Kentavius Street and Cornell Powell while at J.H. Rose High School in Greenville, NC. He is currently serving as defensive coordinator at North Wilkesboro High School in North Carolina. Coach Compton has also served as an evaluator at collegiate football camps throughout the mid-Atlantic.

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