First scrimmage and it has already started:creepy: It's going to be a long season for you guys so you had better stock up.

 

At least run the Shelbyville pass off this!!!! I know you know what the Shelbyville pass is. That use to be Roger's favorite trick play to run as a coach!!!:laugh:

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No!!!!! it just drives me crazy when they do. It's no big deal, they come back the next play and run for a score. Just being an armchair QB. I'm allowed:D

 

Fair enough my friend! :thumb:

First scrimmage and it has already started:creepy: It's going to be a long season for you guys so you had better stock up.

 

Stock up what? Hall passes to the office!

Josh Connor has to be one of the best players in the state. I was amazed to see this youngmans performance against a program such as Beechwood. No disrespect to the Tigers, the Beechies have at least 5 DI players. It just seems to me that the Connor kid is a Bull. It looks as if he's about 6'1" 210lbs runs about a 4.5 and a flat out stud.

 

Tony Guidugli he has always been a good QB with a strong arm. When you can roll out to either side and throw the ball 60-70 yards on the run, and hit your targets. It's pretty impressive to see a high school athlete perform like that. It's obvious he's a Div I prospect.

 

The one big thing different from last years team is the Bird's have a major passing team, throwing to about 7 different targets When as last year they had Connor and Cecil's running attack and really not much of a passing game. It's going to be a lot harder for opponents to stop the 1-2 punch of the Bird's this year!

 

Defense of wise the Bird's have 5 out of their 8 inside players back from 2007. And an infantry of players competing for those other three spots, Martin, Newman, Abner, and Alford. Also to add to All-State DB Austin Collingsworth in the secondary, the Bird's will have Josh Connor back there with him, I can't believe the way these youngmen hit!

 

good Luck Boys! Bring one home!

You got me brother???? I have no idea why you want to lose 3/4 of the field....:confused::confused:

 

Why don't you boys just ask Dale your questions, rather than asking on here? Seem to me that it would be a much more efficient way to get your questions answered if that is your real interest and motivation.:D

Stock up what? Hall passes to the office!

 

Woodford. :thumb:

 

You'd have thought the second guessers would have learned last year as they posted on here and complained at the post game gatherings over and over again about how the Birds didn't pass enough and could not win state running the ball so often. Oh, they were SO right about that now weren't they. But hey, some people learn slower than others. :banana:

 

As for the question about why you roll out into the short side of the field, it ( a short side roll out) is called based on what is seen from the press box. Most teams stack their pass defense to the wide side of the field, often leaving the short side under defended. If that happens in a big game and you haven't ran short side roll out much, you aren't prepared to deal with the short side issues when you need to. Front side O linemen have to learn that they can't "give" as much in their pass protection; pulling linemen have learn the D rushing attack angles (different on short side vs wide side); qbs have to learn to make decisions quicker; receivers have to learn to look for the ball quicker coming out of their cuts. Makes sense to me to work on it during scrimmage game situations, but hey you guys may know a more about football than I do.

 

And folks need to keep in mind that it was a scrimmage and Dale often shows stuff that he has no real expectation of doing during a real game. But because he shows it, the coaches scouting the game write it down and then have to spend time practicing against it. Dale loves showing a bunch of stuff that he doesn't intend to do because he believes it forces the opposition to spend practice time defending against it. If you have to spend time preparing for a lot of things, you can't spend a lot of time on any one thing.

 

The problem is that opposing scouts often have a hard time knowing what is for real and what is for show. Will we run roll outs to the short side? Will we run the jet? Will we throw deep? Will we throw over the middle? Will we run out of the cornfield extra point or throw it or kick it? Are we really even going to throw the ball that much at all this year, or instead run the ball a large majority of the time like we did last year (we do have some pretty good runners back there)? Dale's somewhat unorthodox play calling style does present problems when you are preparing defensively to play the Birds.

 

Heck, if he has the experts on here questioning his play calling, I'm sure he has the other coaches wondering what in the heck Dale is going to do this year too.

 

Stock up on the Woodford boys. You're going to need it. :laugh:

At least run the Shelbyville pass off this!!!! I know you know what the Shelbyville pass is. That use to be Roger's favorite trick play to run as a coach!!!:laugh:

 

I honestly don't remember ever running something called the Shelbyville pass. Seriously, what is the Shelbyville pass? Heck, unless its another name for the slam pass, I doubt we ran it my two years with Roger as the head coach. DMZ, did we run another pass play other than the slam pass?

Roll-out passing to the short side is a common strategy in several scenarios: 1) to allow multiple targets of varying distance to run the out pattern when you need a first down and to get out of bounds. It is hard to run an out pattern and throw it well from the long side; 2) to allow a zone or man-to-man target to run the shake pattern on the long side; 3) to set up a reverse.

 

Rolling to the short side is a regular playbook part of USC's offense, and though you run out of room a lot if noone breaks open, the throwback plays to the long side often result in touchdowns because in man it gives your receiver longer to break open and in zone gives the DB too much room to cover backside.

 

Centre used to run this regularly back in the Joe McDaniel days as well, LN.