OT: USC's Sarkisian - "We're not a spread offense!" & New OL coach Tim Drevno (Harbaugh's 49ers)
I found these remarks interesting, as we continue the war on semantics: spread vs. manball.
With Keith Price at QB Washington ran pretty much a spread offense with a ton of zone read.
According to Sarkisian, USC will be instituting a more up-tempo, no huddle, but pro-style offense:
Sarkisian says there are some similarities in the offense he runs and that which Drevno is accustomed to with the 49ers.
"We're similar in a lot of the different schemes that we run," Sarkisian said. "(The 49ers are) a power running team, we love to run the power play. They love to run the counter. We love to run the counter.
"I think both of us, over the last couple of years, have invested time into sprinkling the zone read in as part of your offense to make the defenses defend the quarterback and to defend the shotgun runs, the pistols runs which is an area that we invested in the last couple of years. The difference was our tempo this year that we used at Washington as opposed to what they've done with the 49ers."
January 8th, 2014 at 5:11 PM ^
This feels absolutely like a bunch of guys arguing over if it is called "pop" or "soda".
January 8th, 2014 at 5:16 PM ^
You are from the Bronx you know its called soda!!!!
January 8th, 2014 at 6:26 PM ^
This is Michigan fergodsakes!
January 8th, 2014 at 6:52 PM ^
It's a coke.
January 8th, 2014 at 7:32 PM ^
he understands that sometimes a translator is needed. The first time I asked for a pop at a Brooklyn deli: "Whassamattah, ya want ya fathah?"
January 8th, 2014 at 7:37 PM ^
January 8th, 2014 at 6:17 PM ^
I don't get all the hype about Sark. His Washington teams seemed to get a ton of positive attention and yet he seems to lose 5 games a year.
January 8th, 2014 at 6:18 PM ^
It's all a bunch of Cokes
January 8th, 2014 at 7:05 PM ^
a "cold drink" or merely "coke" down south. A "coke" being Pepsi or Coke of course....not confusing at all for a Yank.
January 8th, 2014 at 9:14 PM ^
January 8th, 2014 at 11:15 PM ^
January 8th, 2014 at 7:23 PM ^
I've heard Sark talk on the subject of his offense a lot lately. It's a much smaller playbook with more hand signals at the line as the skill players read everything in unison based on the defense.
It's more empowering to the players, especially the quarterback.
Overall it is way less complicated and in this day and age with practice time limits, that is becoming more and more a necessity. There can be either power or zone blocking in the scheme.
How much of the field is used with spread concepts or how much of the scheme works more north/south is a dealer's choice type deal. You see all types of variations on that.
The UCLA rumor is interesting. UCLA was out of the shotgun most every play with a single back or pistol and one of the great dual threat quarterbacks in the country in Hundley.
The tempo is faster.