JayMo4

January 26th, 2017 at 8:27 PM ^

IMO we would have beaten Iowa and FSU if we had had some ability to go 4 or 5 wide at least here and there.  Iowa due to personnel limitations and FSU due to injuries in the secondary would not have matched up well.  In both games, our gameplan played to their strengths on D instead of being able to press their limitations.

This is not an argument in favor of running the spread full time.  This is an argument in favor of versatility from someone that believes pro style offenses should be flexible and adaptable to opponent and matchups.  If we're moving in this direction, I'm glad to hear it.

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DMack

January 26th, 2017 at 8:38 PM ^

 Love it, love it, love it.  I think Harb wants to have big physical athletes at every position especially at WR, and  DB. Nico and the rest of our receivers will cause match-up nightmares for opponents. 

Also, I like Peters too, but he will likely have to wait his turn. Speight will be the QB and unless he gets hurt neither Peters or O'Korn will will see anything but garbage time. But think about it, garbage time will be better than most teams starters.

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BuckNekked

January 26th, 2017 at 8:48 PM ^

Honestly I dont think Harbaugh will ever run the RichRod/Urban Meyer style spread to run attacks. I think this slight philosophy shift may be towards spread to pass with power concepts still as the bulk of the run game. Pretty much what predominates in the NFL today. Maybe a touch more FB than what the NFL uses.

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FatGuyTouchdown

January 27th, 2017 at 9:28 AM ^

the objectives of each offense are different. The RichRod Spread is all about getting guys in space and its main staple is the zone read. Lots of option, lots of misdirection. Its about fooling players and using the slight hesitation to win with speed. Urban Meyer's spread offense is all about power. It's about dominating the point of attack and being able to have several different runners out of the backfield that can run Powers and other concepts. But its also adaptable, like what he did with Percy Harvin. 

To be more succinct, Urban wants to run through you, Rich Rod around you.

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Brandon_L

January 27th, 2017 at 8:12 AM ^

There is a difference between Urbana style and Rich rods style, though both concepts are the same. The main difference is personnel. Urban utilizes spread to run and lots of power concepts. At Florida and Ohio State you have pro athletes who can execute the spread with west coast concepts. Rich Rod built his offense to in Div 3 and at West Virginia to help bridge talent gaps and to create matchups one on one with lots of bubbles and zone read that often works just like a triple option with the bubble working as the third option. At West Virginia Pat White was the main running threat reading the end. He had the option to give to Slaton or pop a quick pass to a bubble. You don't see urban utilizing this because he has the athletes that can play head up with anyone. Urban uses Zone Read with the TB as the main option running traps, counters and straight up power. The concepts are the same but the personnel are what really change the way both coaches scheme and game plan.



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FatGuyTouchdown

January 26th, 2017 at 9:43 PM ^

difference between the Rich Rod spread offense, and the spread offense Harbaugh would probably implement. Rich Rod LOVES the read option, and made it a staple no matter what. Harbaugh will probably run a lot of IZ/OZ and a lot of quicker passes. Probably won't see a QB run very much next year.

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Ali G Bomaye

January 27th, 2017 at 9:39 AM ^

In the last two recruiting classes, we've signed Eddie McDoom, Kekoa Crawford, Nate Johnson, DPJ, Tarik Black, and maybe Oliver Martin and Nico Collins. In addition, Speight's main strength is making quick decisions under pressure, and our RB corps is led by two smaller, shifty runners in Higdon and Evans.

We have great personnel for spread looks, and this is nothing like Rodrigues trying to run spread option with one decent WR and zero mobile QBs.

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OneBadMutha

January 27th, 2017 at 12:33 AM ^

However this is still an exciting piece of news. I suspected Harbaugh would open up this offense in time once he had the personal but it's nice to see some additional evidence. If Michigan gets Martin in the slot, they will have a lot of guys to throw to next year.

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