Coaches Clinic Featured Match-up 🐸 🐦
Oct 08, 2022 2:40 pm
Coach ,
At the beginning of the season, most wouldn't expect this game to have Big XII Championship implications nor was either team ranked. However, both teams come in undefeated and ranked with the #17 Horned Frogs at 4-0 and the #19 Jayhawks at 5-0.
How they get it done on offense is distinctly different but both teams are performing in the top 25 in several categories. Let’s take a look at some of the coaching points behind the success of these teams.
#19 Kansas
#2 Sacks Allowed .40 per game
#2 Passes Intercepted 1 INT
#3 Third Down .600
#8 Team Pass Efficiency 177.8
#16 Rush Offense 220.4
#16 Scoring Offense 40.4
#23 Completion Percentage .688
For Kansas the plan on offense is to move the ball effectively with the run while being efficient with the pass and avoiding negative plays like sacks and interceptions.
It takes a sound plan not just game to game, but all year round to get an offense performing to its maximum potential.
That’s something that offensive coordinator Andy Kotelnicki takes great pride in and spends countless hours ensuring that he and his staff get it right and put their players in a position to be successful.
Kotelnicki explains how all of what they do is driven by execution in this video:
In putting his players in a position to successfully execute, Coach Kotelnicki likes to utilize formations and space to distort the defense.
In this RPO the QB will read the safety and based on rotation he can hit the Glance to the field or the dump to the boundary. Both create big play opportunities. He explains the concept in this video:
Video: Dump
QB Play has been sound for the Jayhawks as the stats and their rankings show. Decision-making is important as is avoiding negative plays and sacks
It starts with the Rule of Zero - on any given play if we still have the ball in our hands and the ball is back at the line of scrimmage, life is okay. Qb Coach Jim Zebrowski explains it here:
The receivers are trained with great details as the team’s GM Rob Ianello explained in his clinic talk.
#17 TCU
For coach Dykes, having a high-performing offense is what is driving success on the field.
Like most coaches, Coach Dykes has plays which he hangs his hat on and his favorite is one he calls “Oregon.” Coach illustrates how a single play - what he believes is the best in football, the “Cross,” can provide the versatility to adapt to personnel. He notes that it is difficult to cover if you understand the details.
#2 Total Offense 549.5 ypg
#2 Scoring 48.5 ppg
#14 3rd Down .500
#21 Passing Offense 297.8 ypg
Here is the play and coaching points:
Split End (9)
- Must outside release
- restack, get vert, bottom numbers
- get shoulder square and run as fast as you can
- Trying to get safety off the has if 2 safety look
- 1 safety/man you can get the ball
Slot (3)
- Option route - 5 yard option route
- Looks like out, can sit vs zone and settle
- Can get creative with this route and adjust to fit personnel
- Sell the play with eyes on the 9 and pivot doesn’t happen as fast and qb can stay on the read longer
- Wes Welker route
- Can run it out of backfield -can turn in
Y (5)
- Go under Sam over Mike
- Release flat and you must get overtop of the linebacker
- Eyes back to QB after clearing him
- If grass, you can throttle down (not settle)
- Man coverage stay on the run
- Run OB 21 yards down the field
- Man coverage=stair climb and get flat to stay friendly for QB
Backside (2)
- Post-Curl
- Critical that P/C is adjustable rout
- Make it such that it is 4th read timing
- Years where it’s their most thrown/completed
- Push to 12, toe in the ground sell post to 17 yards, stick toe in ground and find grass back to the quarterback
(4) Running Back
- protect to swing
- Stretch to bottom of numbers to move the whole player out of the post curl
QB
- Progression = MOR to Option to Cross to PC to Swing
Coach goes over the route in film here (click on the image for video):
If you are running the cross now as your season continues, there are definitely some great coaching points that can help you enhance the concept in your offense.
For defensive coordinator Joe Gillespie, pressure will be a part of the package especially run pressure vs. 11, 12, and 20 personnel. A staple pressure for the Frogs is one that looks like their base. Motions and formations don’t force many adjustments. Playing 3-under 3-deep behind it makes it more of a run pressure. They can play it against 10 personnel formations as well. The boundary blitz is called “Burn.” He explains and shows it on game film here.
This is the fun part of the season when the work done all year long starts to separate teams. This game will be one of those. Enjoy and see what yo can learn from all of the games this weekend.
Always be growing!
Coach Grabowski
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