MrTitleist said:
Grisly Fan said:
I have not watched one snap of Stitt's offense but I spent some time watching Oregon State running a healthy dose of fly sweep plays. Sean Mannion, was tall like BG, strong arm, and not real mobile. The Beavers did pretty good with that offense. Mannion was able to run a bit and I think it is an important option to have. You stretch the defense side to side and sometimes deep which opens running lanes. Mannion didn't run often but he would pick up some pretty good chunks of yardage when needed. More importantly maybe is that it slows the DL down a bit and punishes them if they get too deep too quickly. Hopefully BG will be able to run successfully at times.
This isn't a fly sweep offense. In fact, I don't think I saw a single sweep run on Saturday (someone correct me if I'm wrong). It's one single play in a hurry-up West Coast style offense.
I am not sure where I said it was a "fly sweep offense". OSU just ran the fly sweep fairly often. I suspect once the Griz get the timing down, they will run it too. The snap has to be perfectly timed as the back runs laterally across the field. What OSU didn't do is run much hurry-up. They were a conventional huddle type of pace. If you can do fast pace, dynamic read, and stretch the field (and do it well) it will be a tough thing to defend. It will take the Griz a while to get all the moving pieces in sync. The good news is that you don't have to do it all from day 1. I believe Stitt will layer on more stuff as the current plays start to become second nature.
