Smart notes defending packaged plays, baylor s lazy offense, buck sweep, murder. The art of smart football by chris brown 2015, paperback. The bears are averaging a football bowl subdivisionbest 63. Georgia is the favorite on the ncaaf odds against baylor in the secbig 12 matchup at this years sugar bowl. Baylors spread is more intense than most, with even the inside receivers lining up outside of the hash marks. The same goes for offense, particularly the offensive line. Ebook play calling for the air raid offense as pdf. Baylor coach art briles abandoned the playbook several years ago, and he. The art of smart football features analysis of footballs top strategists and schemes, including. Baylors offense under briles has been called lazy because of their tendency. The paperback of the the art of smart football by chris b.
The bears had plenty to show for it, too, with robert griffin iii capturing the. He has also written for the new york times, sbnationvox, deadspin, yahoo. The power spread offense old school power football with the new school spread beauty. Pdf the art of smart football download full pdf book. The most popular books bought by smart football readers in 2015 excluding the art of smart football and the essential smart football. Matt rhule has clear vision for newlook baylor offense. Scott drew baylor bears motion offense by dana beszczynski. Scott drew lost kenny cherry and royce oneal from last seasons 24win team, and a lack of explosiveness from the guard spot held baylor back in preseason projections.
Baylor coach art briles has blended the spreads spacing and tempo with a downhill running attack. How the spread offense conquered college football, from hal mumme to joe burrow. Pete carrolls aggressive defense chip kellys spread offense and newschool methods the roots of bill belichicks defensive genius gus malzahns uptempo offense the strategies peyton manning, tom brady, and aaron rodgers use to shred defenses art. Playing smart disciplined football is what i want to see, and it looked like at times it was that way. I dont know how the new offensive staff will handle things, so i am going by how things have traditionally been done at baylor, which is to move a guy who is athletic and smart. The book speaks to the evolution of the passing game and the major schools thereof. Deftly blending analysis and storytelling, the art of smart football examines football s most innovative and enduring strategies and ideas, through the lens of the sports best coaches and players. A very early look at baylors 2017 football roster offense. Matt mattox was a senior offensive lineman at houston when art briles arrived prior to the 2003 season. Baylor coach art briles builds his offense around each quarterback. Rico gathers, taurean pricne, and al freeman are all great players, but freeman makes the scott drew baylor bears motion offense click. I have highlighted parts of it to refer back to on such things as the different philosophies of offense and defense. Smart notes defending packaged plays, baylors lazy offense. Baylor has one of the most explosive offenses in college football.
How baylor used isolation run concepts from spread offensive sets. No playbook texas coaches implement spread offense by. Smart notes defending packaged plays, baylors lazy. Football cruises to 5617 win over sfa baylor university. The essential smart football is an examination of football s most important strategies and ideas, through the lens of the games best coaches, players, and schemes. Because the offense plays at such a rapid pace averaging 76. Baylors hybrid offensive approach essentially combines many of the greatest tactics in offensive football into one cohesive and simple package. The offensive mvp for baylor football in 2017 could have either fallen to charlie brewer or denzel mims, but one player was vital to the offense. Used at every level of the game including professional nfl, cfl, college ncaa, naia, cis, and high school programs across the us and canada, spread offenses often employ a no. How dino babers will build syracuses new offense on the. Below is a diagram of the weakiso concept commonly used by nfl and other. Brown writes and edits smart football, which is dedicated to football analysis, strategy, philosophy and history.
It seems the only way to stop baylors offense is to host the bears in cold, rainy, sleeting conditions, as did oklahoma state in a 4917 win in 20 so if you can control the schedule and. A muchtalkedabout football player at baylor universitywhom coaches expect back this fallis currently on trial for the sexual assault of a fellow student. Baylor leans on multiple running backs and, more recently, the tight end. The thing about don is that hes extremely smart book smart and also football smart, said former baylor offensive lineman john jessup. It is a very popular offensive system run by many high school football programs and many college football teams such as texas tech. For 4 years 20112014 baylor didnt drop outside the top 5 in passing yards.
The art of smart football is an eyeopening, fascinating and accessible contribution to our understanding of americas favorite sport. The art of smart football is an eye fixed fastenedopening, fascinating and accessible contribution to our understanding of americas favorite sport. Analyzing baylor football ahead of sugar bowl matchup with. Bear bryant or vince lombardi did, go check out a book from the library. The lack of a running game hampers the offense and weve seen the cyclones. The origins of this offense come from the split back misdirection offense that we ran while i was a player under coaching great, dale mueller at highlands high school. Things have come full circle in htown, as the offense art briles used to win four texas state championships at stephenville high in the 1990s and ran from 2003 to. Baylors offense is more unstoppable than ever usa today. The art of smart football is an eyeopening, fascinating and accessible.
Your host apologizes for the late arrival of this weeks seminar. I like guys that are competitive and guys that are fearless and smart, briles said. Art briles at baylor, david shaw and the rest of the guys at stanford, paul chryst. In the 2014 nfl draft, the bears sent a recordsetting five players into the nfl. Baylor coach art briles builds his offense around each. This is why just about every team in college football now uses these plays, with teams as diverse as baylor and alabama alike profiting from them. He lives in new york city with his wife and two daughters. The art of smart football choices analysis of soccers prime strategists and schemes, along with. Baylors vertical passing game rileykolste football. Coach al blacks excellent book, coaching runandshoot football harding press, 1991, details how he joined the powerful runandshoot offense of coach darrel mouse davis. Baylor head coach art briles has perhaps the most explosive offensive scheme in college football.
All of the plays shown are drawn against a 43 defense, a defensive system almost never used below the high school level. The nature of spread passing games has become quicktriggered and based on one or two reads, just like the veer offense that briles operated in the 80s. Most, if not all, of briles concepts begin with one quick read by the qb. By noah riley from robert griffin iii to nick florence and bryce petty, it seems as though every qb to go through art briles system has produced outrageous video gamelike numbers, particularly through the vertical passing game. The bears, under coach art briles, have become one of the power programs in college football over the last five years, and the most noticeable culprit for this rise to power has been art briles offense. I am an avid reader of articles on the web about football strategy and tactics. Baylor is basically an option offense in all that it does. He is the author of the art of smart football and the essential smart football. How dino babers will build syracuses new offense on the baylor model. Chris brown writes smart football, and he has been writing about football, in one form or another, since 2002. The first annual cascade coaching clinic is in the books. Masterfully blending thought provoking analysis with engrossing storytelling, the art of smart football examines footballs most innovative and enduring strategies and ideas, through the lens of the sports best coaches and players.
This week we look at the evolution of baylors offense. For the better part of the last decade, baylor and offense were as synonymous as alabama and dominance. Hes only a couple yards shy of 4,000 for the season, hes set an ncaa record for passing efficiency. Chris brown, author of the new book the essential smart football, engaged in a. Brown is the bestselling author of the essential smart football, a featured contributor to grantlandespn, and the editor of. Smart football analyzes footballs strategies, xs and os, and tactics, along with the theory and history supporting them. From baylors first game this year, when he shredded gary pattersons vaunted tcu defense for 359 yards and five touchdowns, griffin has consistently been the best performer in college football. After three games, baylor ranks first in the nation in total offense 654. Baylor, smu are among the smart teams to back in week 5. The essential smart football features analysis of footballs top strategists and their schemes, including. The spread isnt dead, but its rapidly reaching maturity. Brilliantly written and eschewing unnecessary jargon and technicality, it makes a major contribution to our understanding of football to help all of us coaches, players, and fans appreciate the game we love all the more. Even though baylor made this offense famous, it took the bears several years to get rolling.
Urban meyers spread offense tom bradys nohuddle attack bill belichicks hybrid defense gus malzahns uptempo offense charlie strongs defensive evolution mike leachs passhappy air raid the most popular scheme for running the ball. I ts up over at the grantland blog robert griffin iii should win the heisman trophy. Sfa scored twice in the fourth quarter against a host of baylor reserves, as rhule used 35 firsttime players in the game. The spread offense is an offensive scheme in gridiron football that typically places the quarterback in the shotgun formation, and spreads the defense horizontally using three, four, and even fivereceiver sets. Between racking up touchdowns, the bears receivers can be seen loafing around and taking plays off. The book also includes explorations of the newest trends in football, including packaged plays that combine runs and passes into one play, pattern match defenses that blend mantoman and zone pass coverages, how defenses are responding to the spread offense, and much more. Option reads are doable in 06 but option routes are not. The standard doesnt change, whether youre a 1, 2 or 3, rhule said. Almost no effort is devoted in this book to the concept of seriesbased football and the idea of making as many plays in the offense look as similar as possible in order to fool the defense into overpursuit. The air raid offense is a shotgun spread, passfirst offense designed by hal mumme and mike leach while they were at the university of kentucky in the 1990s. We learn about baylors high octane offense, different defensive schemes, and. The offense mainly consists of nothing but option reads and option routes. The bears 11win season came thanks to a stellar defense that covered up a mediocre offense.
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