Because the offense plays at such a rapid pace averaging 76. The offense mainly consists of nothing but option reads and. From a baylor regent who demands in an email that women students he saw drinking at a party be expelled, calling them perverted little tarts, to the football player who describes an alleged gang rape as a fuckaround, and beyond, violated joins a canon of books about sex assault on college campuses. Rico gathers, taurean pricne, and al freeman are all great players, but freeman makes the scott drew baylor bears motion offense click. Chris brown smartfootball on baylor and art briles mgoblog. It features insights from many of the games top offensive minds, who have conceived, or are extremely successful in employing, a specific means of attack.
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. Much like the inaccurately named football s best offensive playbook isbn. Smart notes defending packaged plays, baylors lazy offense, buck. 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. Baylors unique, recordbreaking system has set the standard for offense in contemporary college football. This years clinic featured 15 speakers from various levels of football high school. If you care about wins, it seems like a lot of teams have figured out how to stop art briles. Regardless, for opponents of both, a pulling guard meant trouble for stanfords and baylor s opponents run defenses, which, through the use of playaction, in turn meant trouble for their pass defense.
Reed, when it faces baylor in the allstate sugar bowl. Art briles at baylor, david shaw and the rest of the guys at stanford, paul chryst. While mcvay is definitely a smart guy, i believe calling him a genius is misguided. Brown writes and edits smart football, which is dedicated to football analysis, strategy, philosophy and history. Smart notes defending packaged plays, baylors lazy offense. The art of smart football is an eye fixed fastenedopening, fascinating and accessible contribution to our understanding of americas favorite sport. This rice versus baylor free college football pick comes with a large point spread. Smart football spread offense links to all of the articles written by chris brown about the spread offense.
How baylor used isolation run concepts from spread offensive sets. Baylors spread offense is spreading and making opposing defenses sick. Tulsa and missouri are currently teams that have employed ex baylor assistants and use the baylor style passing game. Masterfully blending thought provoking analysis with engrossing storytelling, the art of smart footballexamines footballs most innovative and enduring strategies and ideas, through the lens of the sports best coaches and players. Baylors offense is more unstoppable than ever usa today. For his contributions to the game, he was inducted into the college football hall of fame on december 10, becoming the 10th baylor bear to. Vanilla look at baylors new offense shows significant change. The art of smart football is an eyeopening, fascinating and accessible contribution to our understanding of americas favorite sport. Most of the baylor offense is geared around setting up their deep routes so they can score as many points as possible as quickly as possible. Smart notes defending packaged plays, baylors lazy. Baylor has college footballs laziest offenseand its also the best. An inexperienced youth coach trying to use this book would be hopelessly lost and end up with a playbook that looks like it came from madden. Look for the baylor defense to keep the rice offense hemmed in, allowing the bear offense plenty of time for possession and numerous opportunities for scoring.
Below is a diagram of the weakiso concept commonly used by nfl and other. Both drew lock missouri, and dane evans tulsa went from having mediocre numbers in traditional offenses to outstanding numbers in the briles system. Baylors first heisman finalist and an allamerican in 1963, don trull 196163 was a groundbreaking passer in an era when most teams ran the ball. Discover the strengths of the iformation from al borges and the use of the. 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. After three games, baylor ranks first in the nation in total offense 654. Brilliantly written and eschewing unnecessary jargon and technicality, it makes a major contribution. Since briles took over an admittedly terrible team and program in 2008 he has gone 48,48,76,103,85 to this point. The rollercoaster ride that has been the past decade of baylor football cannot be. For the better part of the last decade, baylor and offense were as synonymous as alabama and dominance. Jon is an awardwinning writer and his latest book, coaching kids made.
Baylors offense under briles has been called lazy because of their. The book speaks to the evolution of the passing game and the major schools thereof. That bill walsh guy just might have been onto something. The essential smart football question and answer with author. Contact me if interested in learning more about using tools.
Patriots fans will especially enjoy the sections on some of their offence and. Oklahoma vs lsu football bowl game 12 28 2019 duration. Art briless offense is now featured at baylor, syracuse, texas and tulsa. Baylor coach art briles builds his offense around each. For threestraight seasons, baylor has led the nation in both total offense 616. The best offense in college football is also the laziest wsj. Georgia will be without at least five starters, including allamericans andrew thomas and j. These are various college playbooks that range from full playbooks to clinic. The power spread offense old school power football with the new school spread beauty. College football picks why baylors a pretty smart spread bet against texas the horns could win by double digits, keep their big 12 hopes alive, and still not cover.
The bears had plenty to show for it, too, with robert griffin iii capturing the. Helfrich loves the playaction vertical passing concepts. Fry graduated from baylor university with a degree in psychology in 1951 and received his first head coaching job at southern methodist university from 1962 to 1972, where he led the mustangs to their first southwest conference title since 1948. 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. Baylor, being a spread team, typically used the vaunted inverted veer play, which is the spread offense s readbased adaptation of the old powero.
The art of smart football is an eyeopening, fascinating and accessible. Clint lewis has been around baylor football for half of his life, and on saturday the 41yearold born with down syndrome scored a touchdown for the bears. After 64 seasons at the offcampus baylor stadium, renamed floyd casey stadium in 1989, the bears opened the new oncampus mclane stadium for the 2014 season. For information on purchasing this entire video, go to. A very early look at baylors 2017 football roster offense. Chris brown, author of the new book the essential smart football, engaged in a.
Baylor head coach art briles has perhaps the most explosive offensive scheme in college football. The top three fbs teams in yards per game this week are baylor and two. Indeed, the west coast offense teams had been teaching and coaching their version of the play, known as fox 2 xy hook, since at least the mid1980s. Baylor is basically an option offense in all that it does. 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. Baylor legends comment on current baylor standouts. 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. The art of smart football choices analysis of soccers prime strategists and schemes, along with. A system designed to spread the field and run or pass based upon your personnel.
Baylor has one of the most explosive offenses in college football. Chris from smart was kind enough to take a moment to answer a few questions from our jp fanshawe regarding the struggles the mountaineers have had on. The book essentially consists of a number of independent chapters covering a particular. The baylor bears football team represents baylor university in division i fbs college football. Scott drew baylor bears motion offense by dana beszczynski.
He is the author of the art of smart football and the essential smart football. Football takes on boise state in cactus bowl baylor. The plan is to continue to hold this clinic each year in the northwest for the considerable future. The art of smart football features analysis of footballs top strategists and schemes, including. But while spurrier didnt invent mills, his florida teams embodied the new ethos behind the play. Deftly blending analysis and 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.
The art of smart football paperback skylight books. Matt rhule has clear vision for newlook baylor offense. Baylors vertical passing game rileykolste football. 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. Injured longhorns fall short of upset in 5245 loss to no. Below is the diagram of the west coast version from jon grudens oakland raiders playbook. 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.
Between racking up touchdowns, the bears receivers can be seen loafing around and taking plays off. The strategies peyton manning, tom brady, and aaron rodgers use to shred defenses. Pdf the art of smart football download full pdf book. The same goes for offense, particularly the offensive line. Bear bryant or vince lombardi did, go check out a book from the library. Most, if not all, of briles concepts begin with one quick read by the qb. Opposing coaches cant figure it out, and the architects refuse to talk about it. The 2020 lsu offense will go down as one of the top offenses to ever suit up and play on saturdays. Football tools presents various coaching methodsschemes for any program football today is as dynamic and exciting as it has ever been enjoy. This week we look at the evolution of baylors offense. Smart notes defending packaged plays, baylors lazy offense, buck sweep, murder. The art of smart football ingles tapa blanda 9 julio 2015.
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