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Originally Posted by Paintrain
At the 35 minute mark JLC talks about Briles and the possibilities for him as the coach.. I'm still not sold on him being the best decision based on the issues it may cause but if he stacks his staff with NFL vets and has a strong DC and front office guy, I could get behind it.
I'm mildly concerned about if/how his offense will translate but maybe GTripp or someone can speak to that.. |
I don't think it would look that similar to what Baylor's offense looks like right now. I think he'd put more emphasis on protecting the QB and emphasize the TE more. But the unique things that Briles brings are that he lines up his receivers really wide and tries to get safeties trying to play the football over their shoulder...that will work wonders in the NFL.
Baylor does do some zone running, but the blocking would be more man-based than it has been since 2007. I think for the game he plays where he tries to reduce the number of players in the box, man blocking works better for that kind of offense. And I'm a zone blocking proponent.
No defense in the NFL is prepared to defend the offense Briles runs. You would need to start drafting cover safeties in bulk, and that takes years to adjust to. Plus, once teams start to get cover first safeties, Briles would adjust to that.