Your host apologizes for the late arrival of this weeks seminar. Analyzing baylor football ahead of sugar bowl matchup with. Below is a diagram of the weakiso concept commonly used by nfl and other. Option reads are doable in 06 but option routes are not. The bears are averaging a football bowl subdivisionbest 63. Scott drew lost kenny cherry and royce oneal from last seasons 24win team, and a lack of explosiveness from the guard spot held baylor back in preseason projections. The thing about don is that hes extremely smart book smart and also football smart, said former baylor offensive lineman john jessup. While mcvay is definitely a smart guy, i believe calling him a genius is misguided. Matt mattox was a senior offensive lineman at houston when art briles arrived prior to the 2003 season. The art of smart football is an eyeopening, fascinating and accessible. Baylors vertical passing game rileykolste football. The essential smart football question and answer with author. From baylors first game this year, when he shredded gary pattersons vaunted tcu defense for 359 yards and five touchdowns, griffin has consistently been the best performer in college football. I have highlighted parts of it to refer back to on such things as the different philosophies of offense and defense.
The origins of this offense come from the split back misdirection offense that we ran while i was a player under coaching great, dale mueller at highlands high school. Most, if not all, of briles concepts begin with one quick read by the qb. The paperback of the the art of smart football by chris b. Pdf the art of smart football download full pdf book. Pete carrolls aggressive defense chip kellys spread offense and newschool methods the roots of bill belichicks defensive genius gus malzahns uptempo offense the strategies peyton manning, tom brady, and aaron rodgers use to shred defenses art.
Baylors offense is more unstoppable than ever usa today. Baylor has college footballs laziest offenseand its also the best. Brilliantly written and eschewing unnecessary jargon and technicality, it makes a major contribution to our understanding of football to help all of us coaches, players, and fans appreciate the game we love all the more. Georgia is the favorite on the ncaaf odds against baylor in the secbig 12 matchup at this years sugar bowl. The power spread offense old school power football with the new school spread beauty. The same goes for offense, particularly the offensive line. The best offense in college football is also the laziest wsj. Masterfully blending thought provoking analysis with engrossing storytelling, the art of smart football examines footballs most innovative and enduring strategies and ideas, through the lens of the sports best coaches and players. Used at every level of the game including professional nfl, cfl, college ncaa, naia, cis, and high school programs across the us and canada, spread offenses often employ a no.
Baylor has one of the most explosive offenses in college football. We learn about baylors high octane offense, different defensive schemes, and. Chris brown writes smart football, and he has been writing about football, in one form or another, since 2002. The book also includes explorations of the newest trends in football, including packaged plays that combine runs and passes into one play, pattern match defenses that blend mantoman and zone pass coverages, how defenses are responding to the spread offense, and much more. Smart notes defending packaged plays, baylors lazy. The bears had plenty to show for it, too, with robert griffin iii capturing the. Playing smart disciplined football is what i want to see, and it looked like at times it was that way. Brown writes and edits smart football, which is dedicated to football analysis, strategy, philosophy and history. The nature of spread passing games has become quicktriggered and based on one or two reads, just like the veer offense that briles operated in the 80s. The art of smart football by chris brown 2015, paperback. The offensive mvp for baylor football in 2017 could have either fallen to charlie brewer or denzel mims, but one player was vital to the offense. Baylor head coach art briles has perhaps the most explosive offensive scheme in college football.
How dino babers will build syracuses new offense on the baylor model. The spread isnt dead, but its rapidly reaching maturity. The offense mainly consists of nothing but option reads and option routes. Urban meyers spread offense tom bradys nohuddle attack bill belichicks hybrid defense gus malzahns uptempo offense charlie strongs defensive evolution mike leachs passhappy air raid the most popular scheme for running the ball. Baylor leans on multiple running backs and, more recently, the tight end. Baylor coach art briles has blended the spreads spacing and tempo with a downhill running attack. Football cruises to 5617 win over sfa baylor university. Baylor coach art briles builds his offense around each quarterback. He has also written for the new york times, sbnationvox, deadspin, yahoo.
Smart notes defending packaged plays, baylors lazy offense. Rico gathers, taurean pricne, and al freeman are all great players, but freeman makes the scott drew baylor bears motion offense click. How dino babers will build syracuses new offense on the. Baylor, smu are among the smart teams to back in week 5. Art briles at baylor, david shaw and the rest of the guys at stanford, paul chryst. Baylor coach art briles abandoned the playbook several years ago, and he. The standard doesnt change, whether youre a 1, 2 or 3, rhule said. Baylors offense under briles has been called lazy because of their tendency. How the spread offense conquered college football, from hal mumme to joe burrow. No playbook texas coaches implement spread offense by.
Baylors hybrid offensive approach essentially combines many of the greatest tactics in offensive football into one cohesive and simple package. The air raid offense is a shotgun spread, passfirst offense designed by hal mumme and mike leach while they were at the university of kentucky in the 1990s. The bears, under coach art briles, have become one of the power programs in college football over the last five years, and the most noticeable culprit for this rise to power has been art briles offense. Baylor is basically an option offense in all that it does. Hes only a couple yards shy of 4,000 for the season, hes set an ncaa record for passing efficiency.
The art of smart football is an eyeopening, fascinating and accessible contribution to our understanding of americas favorite sport. Coach al blacks excellent book, coaching runandshoot football harding press, 1991, details how he joined the powerful runandshoot offense of coach darrel mouse davis. Brown is the bestselling author of the essential smart football, a featured contributor to grantlandespn, and the editor of. After three games, baylor ranks first in the nation in total offense 654. The first annual cascade coaching clinic is in the books. A very early look at baylors 2017 football roster offense. Even though baylor made this offense famous, it took the bears several years to get rolling. It is a very popular offensive system run by many high school football programs and many college football teams such as texas tech. A muchtalkedabout football player at baylor universitywhom coaches expect back this fallis currently on trial for the sexual assault of a fellow student.
Deftly blending analysis and storytelling, the art of smart football examines football s most innovative and enduring strategies and ideas, through the lens of the sports best coaches and players. On a day when the offense kept shooting itself in the foot and special teams gave up a 95yard kickoff return, the baylor defense came to the rescue to help the bears 80, 50 remain unbeaten with a gutsy 1714 win over an upsetminded west virginia team 35, 14 that dropped its fourth in a row. The lack of a running game hampers the offense and weve seen the cyclones. I am an avid reader of articles on the web about football strategy and tactics. The essential smart football features analysis of footballs top strategists and their schemes, including. Smart notes defending packaged plays, baylor s lazy offense, buck sweep, murder. Smart football analyzes footballs strategies, xs and os, and tactics, along with the theory and history supporting them. I dont know how the new offensive staff will handle things, so i am going by how things have traditionally been done at baylor, which is to move a guy who is athletic and smart.
It seems the only way to stop baylors offense is to host the bears in cold, rainy, sleeting conditions, as did oklahoma state in a 4917 win in 20 so if you can control the schedule and. Baylor coach art briles builds his offense around each. The baylor bears began sending draftees to the nfl in 1939. He is the author of the art of smart football and the essential smart football. Sfa scored twice in the fourth quarter against a host of baylor reserves, as rhule used 35 firsttime players in the game. The art of smart football features analysis of footballs top strategists and schemes, including. He lives in new york city with his wife and two daughters. Baylors spread is more intense than most, with even the inside receivers lining up outside of the hash marks. I like guys that are competitive and guys that are fearless and smart, briles said. For the better part of the last decade, baylor and offense were as synonymous as alabama and dominance. How baylor used isolation run concepts from spread offensive sets. The essential smart football is an examination of football s most important strategies and ideas, through the lens of the games best coaches, players, and schemes.
Because the offense plays at such a rapid pace averaging 76. A system designed to spread the field and run or pass based upon your personnel. Chris brown, author of the new book the essential smart football, engaged in a. All of the plays shown are drawn against a 43 defense, a defensive system almost never used below the high school level. Between racking up touchdowns, the bears receivers can be seen loafing around and taking plays off. The art of smart football is an eye fixed fastenedopening, fascinating and accessible contribution to our understanding of americas favorite sport. This week we look at the evolution of baylors offense. The core concepts were originally developed by lavell edwards and norm chow when they coached at byu. Almost no effort is devoted in this book to the concept of seriesbased football and the idea of making as many plays in the offense look as similar as possible in order to fool the defense into overpursuit. Matt rhule has clear vision for newlook baylor offense. The book speaks to the evolution of the passing game and the major schools thereof. The spread offense is an offensive scheme in gridiron football that typically places the quarterback in the shotgun formation, and spreads the defense horizontally using three, four, and even fivereceiver sets. The art of smart football choices analysis of soccers prime strategists and schemes, along with. In the 2014 nfl draft, the bears sent a recordsetting five players into the nfl.
For 4 years 20112014 baylor didnt drop outside the top 5 in passing yards. The most popular books bought by smart football readers in 2015 excluding the art of smart football and the essential smart football. The art of smart football paperback skylight books. Things have come full circle in htown, as the offense art briles used to win four texas state championships at stephenville high in the 1990s and ran from 2003 to. By noah riley from robert griffin iii to nick florence and bryce petty, it seems as though every qb to go through art briles system has produced outrageous video gamelike numbers, particularly through the vertical passing game. I ts up over at the grantland blog robert griffin iii should win the heisman trophy. This is why just about every team in college football now uses these plays, with teams as diverse as baylor and alabama alike profiting from them. The bears 11win season came thanks to a stellar defense that covered up a mediocre offense. Deftly blending analysis and storytelling, the art of smart football examines footballs most innovative and enduring strategies and ideas, through the lens of the sports best coaches and players. Ebook play calling for the air raid offense as pdf.
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