Q: What makes Ohio O so QB friendly?

Submitted by Gameboy on

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This goes out to better football minds on this board.

What makes Urban Meyer's offense so QB friendly? It seems that no matter who they put back there, they will pass for 200 and run for 100 and score a boatload of touchdowns.

I understand that spread is very effective in general, but other spread schools have ups and downs with various QB's. It seems Ohio is almost immune to whoever is quaterbacking the team. Obviously, this means that the QB reads are very simple and the routes/scheme is getting wide receivers wide open. Exactly, how does he do it?

P.S. If you are looking for a coach in NFL, wouldn't you at least give a call to Urbz to see if he is interested? Chip Kelly has proven that this system can win with crappy quarterbacks (re: Sanchize). Hell, Urbz won National Championship with Tebow (and we now all know how good he is at throwing the ball)! If I am an NFL owner with an open head coaching job, Urbz would be the first one I would call.

P.P.S. If Ross steered Harbaugh to Michigan and hired Urbz from Ohio, we should build his statue right next to Bo's.

Now you may resume with HARBAUGH!!!

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getsome

December 17th, 2014 at 4:07 PM ^

as im guessing others said, scheme and meyers overall attitude re offense.  meyer limits the decisions his QB forced to make.  he wants to simplify the game for his players and get his athletes in space and 1 on 1 situations.  he communicates very effectively both pre-snap and during prep time.  friendly route concepts, QB-friendly progressions, packaged plays, strong running game, etc all really help QBs and offenses at most levels.  

basically all the stuff youd think helps QBs at college level.  plus they do very good job with motions / shifts / checks etc in order to grab a read on the D and then react accordingly after effective communication.  meyer (and herman) removes as much of the thinking as possible from the equation so his athletes can just make 1-2 simple reads and then react accordingly.  

most great offenses employ similar tactics, but youre right, not many have been as consistently good as meyer with variety of QBs

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