How Texas’ Offense Wins Big This Year

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2:06How are you today? Okay, okay. Yeah, I think I think I tweeted something out about a flag football loss like two days later and I was getting trolled by people. But they just don't know, man. It just means more. All right, it's important and big stuff. But Ian, hope you're doing well. Hope you guys out there watching or doing well. Also, hope you've had a great weekend. Been fun for Texas. Have a nice win. Texas, taking care of Texas A&M on the hardwood yesterday. Baseball is taking care of business. Obviously knocked off the Baylor Bears. Got Ohio State starting right now. But go ahead and hop on over to Inside Texas, guys. If y'all haven't done so and take advantage of that $1 new member cell that we have going, you can see the fine works of a Mr. Ian Boyd, Eric Nelline, Jay Dub, everybody on the team over there. So it comes from the offseason with the Inside Texas gang. But today we have Ian here for 20, 30 minutes to talk about some concepts. Some things that we may see Texas do offensively that,

3:07you know, maybe they weren't able to do last year or in years prior, or just use our occasion because maybe you just don't have the personnel. In your eyes, Ian, in a perfect world with the lineup in the roster that Texas has built on the offensive side of the ball. If Texas were to have a ton of success with this offense, they're just a good amount of success. What are some of the key concepts we see out of Thark in Texas? Everyone knows he loves his post-overs. Like we get that. We know that we might run a little wide and outside zone. But outside of that, you know, where does Texas going to hit some teams this year? You know, the Bachelor of Fade would be a nice one to add. Now I got Kim Coleman. That's, I mean, Auburn had him running like goes and back shoulder fades and come back his, come back and hitches like to a fault. Like it was like you could do something else. It's not like a requirement that he only do these. But for Texas, adding a lot more of that would be helpful

4:11just to have, you really want to be able to stress the team that's like, you are going to have to commit two players to his side of the field. All the time where we're going to tack you down the field and we're going to do it with, you know, with back shoulder fades and with anything else. That has really been Texas's Zimo in previous years. But they didn't have Kim Coleman in previous years. So especially last year, right? So I would think that that would be a big one is just stuff that gets a little bit more target. With Kim Coleman and you know, you reference his history at Auburn and kind of a limited route tree, you know, many, if you're watching, I guess that's on the quarterback play, right? That's best on their play collar and their schema because I mean, Kim Coleman's got all the tricks in his bag, you know, he can run mesh. He can go run, you know, it felt like it was post fade, come back or slant and nothing else. You don't see any limitations in Kim Coleman's as far as his new launch is maybe

5:14of getting into the full route tree. Well, no, I don't think so. I mean, we literally didn't do it. So nothing, I mean, they pretty much didn't do it. So it's like, is there any flaws in his other routes? So he didn't run any other routes, maybe, maybe not. I imagine that he is very capable of running some of the other stuff. I think like, Sark was running post curls a lot when he had like worthy and Mitchell. It's just a deeper curl route where you start to run a post and then when it's breaking down, then you come back. There's no reason that Coleman couldn't be good at that. I don't see there's any reason why he couldn't be good at any of the other. Rout adjustment kind of routes that Sark likes. They at least did some of that where he seemed to have some adjustments on his routes where it's like, hey, if they play you this way, then break off your route here and do that.

6:18So I think all that stuff, just having that outside one-on-one, we're going to give you route adjustments. And we're going to let you go and try to win deep. And we're just going to throw you open. Having that is a big, a big difference and as simple as that is, I think that's probably the most important thing for this year. No, obviously like we've seen Ryan Wingo be very, you know, have a lot of success in the screen game. You've seen Texas at times try to kind of, you know, maybe unlock another level to the Ryan Wingo game underneath, but we've seen, it feels like a lot of his struggles have come underneath. A lot of it's dropped. You know, you talk about one person Ohio State on the third down before the Jack injury is fourth down play, where he's tackled short by Caleb Downs. A third that could have been a little bit better, sure, but a ball that, in my opinion, needs to be caught. And you have several others throughout the season. Does having a camp Coleman and a guy that can, you know, extend the field a little bit, win a true 50-50 ball. He's great on, you know, he saw him against Oklahoma. He looked great running a post-route and catching a ball in traffic with the defender on his back.

7:22You know, does that really benefit Ryan Wingo in creating a little bit more space? Obviously, you got to catch a football, but can Texas, you know, maybe have Ryan Wingo running a little bit more mesh, a little bit more, you know, whip routes or quick routes underneath. You saw a little bit more after the Mississippi State game when they kind of went to the more the quick game concepts. Yeah, you would hope so. There should definitely be more room with Coleman clearing out some space, hopefully taking a safety or at least forcing the post safety to really hang back. They, you know, they had problems hitting Wingo on some of that stuff where he was wide open and then arch would turf it or Wingo would drop it. True. And so those two things both have to be better and there's no, like, schematic thing or no difference Coleman will make is just like these two need to get on the same page on those. I do think the world of screen games stuff to Wingo,

8:28it feels like there's more meat on the bone there. They were pretty clever about throwing them screen passes, but it really wasn't like a huge feature to the offense, really. You see it early and then you kind of, you know, it'd be a while before you saw another one, particularly at Wingo, like you're saying. Yeah, I don't know. I really don't know why, honestly. It wasn't a bigger thing really from the beginning of the year. It seemed like you had to know in August that throwing this guy at the ball out of stand still, out in the flat is maybe not super sexy, but boy is it dangerous. So some of that, they also had like cheat motion stuff where he'd like motion into the slot and then go on up the seam and run. The cheat motion means like they trigger him and motion, he's running parallel to the line of scrimmage. And then when the ball snaps, he turns up field. They had those where he would like run inside and get a chance to run by the safety or run

9:29outside and have a chance to run by the corner. And that stuff, I would think, that there's a lot more meat on the bone there too. I don't know why some of that stuff wasn't more effective last year. Maybe because it was just like either two telegraphed or it was too clear that Texas didn't have anything else to worry about. So just focus on defending that. So maybe that stuff opens up more to this year. Yeah, I mean, you would think with the additions to the offense that, I mean, there's going to be a much more difficult unit to defend than it was a year ago between the speed that they have at the running back possession. You have kind of, you know, your home run hitters in the back field guys, they can take it to distance. And then obviously you had to cam Coleman and just like you said, your hope for Texas is that everything works well enough with cam Coleman to where you're having to commit two defenders over there. Now, I mean, that doesn't necessarily mean that you're having a successful run game. But I think with Steve Sarkies and Archmaning, his legs and the two backs that you had at like Texas is going to be okay on the ground. If there's

10:30any improvement at all on the interior of the offensive line, are you of the opinion that it's going to be wide zone? And of course, you guys can go check out Ian's work over at Inside Texas anytime and get a lot of his opinions and he's probably covered these. But there's wide zone outside zone. Is that going to be Texas's bread and butter when it comes to the run game? I mean, it should be. We all see that that would be a good idea. There's like two big hang ups. And one is that Texas is starting five offensive line may not be healthy and practicing together until the summer. Right. Because Gooseby is going to miss the spring. And Lauren Seymour is finishing classes at Western Kentucky in the spring and may or may not even be ever eligible to play Texas. Yeah. So that's two very likely starters in the starting five. And the way outside zone works is that it's all about your cohesion on the line because you're all trying to move

11:35really hard and fast to the left or to the right in concert and making sure that nobody just like runs through you got through your guys as they are on the move. And those trades are difficult to execute where you just make sure that you're passing defenders off effectively without it because it's a because it's a timing and a teamwork intensive scheme. It makes me nervous if they can't practice it enough to base to make it the the home base. And then the other concern which also layers onto that is that Sark doesn't really like to have just one primary run scheme. He likes to have a big deep bag of run schemes because he likes to layer he likes to have like a a bunch of run schemes. Find new formations to run them in that stress the defense in different ways. And then from this new formation with the different run scheme have a play action version of it

12:36an archio version of it a screen version of it which is all awesome. And a lot of that will be even more effective when they have like Misunis and Townsend it tied in blocking. So you can see why Sark would be reticent to give that up with all the stuff he could do just so he could focus on outside zone. So that seems to me like that would be a good idea for getting the most out of the line and run blocking. But it might be hard given the time constraints of the offseason and then also I don't know if Sark's going to be about it or not. Well that's that's a really good point. And the question for you do you think that the multiplicity of this DSR QC run game because like you just mentioned you know we saw counter we saw you saw inside zone you saw outside zone you saw trap at times you saw I mean he threw a ton half dozen or more different run concepts on a you know almost on a weekly basis out there at defenses. Do you think that that multiplicit or

13:37multiplicity it hurts Texas because you're trying to do so much and maybe that limits you from having a true bread and butter concept that you're hammered at you've hammered reps that through practice and games and you've become really really good at. Yeah I have a lot of hesitancy about it. I kind of prefer like Wayne Kiffin is like inside zone is the name of the day maybe the game or he has like a similar approach as Tom Herman where it's like we may run a couple other things but we want to be able to run inside zone anytime and all the time and be just good enough at it where we're going to get even if it's just one to three yards we just know that we're going to do a decent job and we're going to get a little bit of a game to keep the chains going and we're not going to get a negative play. So they would get like this is getting to be pretty far in the past now but Ellinger would check to it all the time where it's like they'd call a passing play okay we have this passing play we like we're going to try to burn him he check oh no we're not

14:41getting the coverage we we're expecting or we're getting a blister something Ellinger checks they motion into inside zone inside zone for three yards now this play is like not killed and we're still that to me is a really good way to do things in coach football so I think Texas loses a lot by not having like a core competency and something where it's like they can run home to mama and run inside zone for a yard when they have to but like I said earlier Sark is really good at building and layering all these play designs and the more the more ingredients he has for play design or it's okay we can run power we can run counter we can run GT counter we can run trap can run mid side zone mid zone outside the more of those plays he has is ingredients to tinker with the more he can come up with awesome play designs and those tend to create explosives for Texas

15:45so Sark Sark will trade a we blocked pin and pull really badly we lost two yards but maybe later in the game we're going to get play action off of it or something and they've seen it and we're going to hit it for a 70 year touchdown right and so Sark is always playing for those explosives and I think that that there's like there's a lot of mathematically that makes a lot of sense and philosophically it makes at least some sense so is there trade-offs people face trade-offs yes I mean you're always going to have trade-offs I mean any you can have pros and cons at both and we'll talk a little more about it real quick guys let's hear word from our Sunday sponsor Academy's Force and Outdoors you can't guard me if you break the elephant like do you need a break then your mom called looks like you're stuck with us tonight

16:47hey jumpers um but you know pros and cons are both sides of it you know what I mean like you just said I lean towards with college kids and having some that are only in your program from two three four years you know I I like a little bit of simplicity and being able to do that type of thing really really well so I am a big advocate of the inside zone guys I have been since Tom Herman was around and of course like do I think he handled everything it's Texas offensively perfectly like no it's just I like like you're saying like a link kippin in the other guys that can really really lean on that like you said they're going to take one three four yards and they they know that at some point if they continue to just throw those little jabs in there defenses at times we'll get over over just a little overly aggressive and that's when you can really start making teams pay for it but also like you said you're moving the chains you're not really risking a negative play there's more risk on a play like an outsider or a wide zone for a for a negative play to happen um but again you know I I won't have an issue with watching Texas players runs got free with nobody else on the

17:50screen with them for touchdowns because a lot of the when that happens like you just said in it comes from sarco layering a lot of these these calls these scripts sometimes and he's really getting in there I mean he's he's really really good obviously at knowing how the defense is going to line up the things and then adjusting once they've lined up and shown him what they're going to do it maybe they tweaked it a hair too from what he's seen previously real quick we got a question from mr. Woodroom and thanks for watching watching Robert you're always in here man do you think the run a game will be effective inside the tin and for Texas fans I mean I think we just take more effective at this point what are you thinking about that yeah maybe I think having uh I think having towns and and misunis will help think having better running backs will help I think having a dual threat quarterback will help think having a receiver that you cannot play one on one on the goal line and cam colman will help if they if they can hit that fade on in near the goal line and

18:53they have to get a safety over there then also in the run game gets way easier right part of what makes the run game so hard is that your safeties are right there they can't back up anymore and so you have these two unblocked guys and all your normal run concepts they are just there immediately and but if they have to stay wide if you can make them get wide to cover the past then you eliminate that problem so they have a lot of things that should help them I don't think they're going to become interior mollars next year where they haven't been the last few years there's really no reason to think that they're going to be any better at that that could be worse because they lost DJ Campbell but they but they should be able to create a lot of problems in the red zone and they should be better in the red zone even if they're not better at getting low and just moving people in the interior gaps that's well said I think you know with everything around the

19:58run game from archmaning is on you added a big time red zone target in cam colman I mean think about when you are as a Matthew golden and how they really kind of hit stride together you can't go out there in guard cam colman one-on-one I know sarcos sit there and pick that pick at a part of so obviously you've got Ryan Wingo you're still be able to run the quick game uh the quick screen game on the goal line but yeah I think with the speed of the running backs of Texas I think Hollywood some others will be a little bit more effective inside the 10 then Relique but I know that they'll still really use Relique Brown I think they'll really try to stretch him out at times um to the field side curious to see I mean it'll look better I don't think overall um like he is saying it might not be particularly better of a unit as far as moving bodies are just being nasty at the point of the tag but with everything around them I mean it makes it it's pretty touch of defend and you got to think with arch his legs and it's it's confident as he's seemed um running running the football league in the year I mean he's not afraid afraid to throw a shoulder down like they'll be better inside the 10 it's just how much better how hard do they have to work

21:02are they having to run archmaning twice inside the five yard line instead of you know just once like you don't want to have arch just taking a lot a lot of a lot of licks inside of the road zone weekend a week out of my opinion but again there's a lot of different ways Texas can hit you what would you do with this Texas offense in one one concept one thing that you don't necessarily see Texas do um that you're like man if we implemented that if we got good at that it can make a big difference for what we're doing on the field uh man is it is a long list no I think it's just zone read okay they did run last year but it looked to me in Paul and we talked about this on some deep dives it looked to me like they were just guessing and they didn't actually practice the read and they just like they just made it up they're just like premature and it and I they should run it for real like that that that play on uh michigan

22:02nannon kept it and then that's I think that's the one where he got up to like 35 miles an hour whatever it was in the same speed um was like I think a predetermined zone read where he was going to throw a bubble screen off of it and then he saw the defender in his vision run to the bubble and so arch was like forget it and kept it and ran down the same and uh they had nobody left even that one I'm not sure if that was like a real zone read it might have been but that play would be just so effective for Texas because he's so fast and dangerous and most of the time teams will respect the manning keeper and he just make it easier to run your own place with these us running backs and with your offensive line so uh yeah zone read would be the play I think and obviously on the red zone too zone read is great in the red zone

23:03well how many times have you seen they you know Texas try to run outside zone and we get chased down by the backside edge you know what I mean like like you're saying arch hits you enough you know I mean would you rather give a 25 you run to archmaning or a four or five yard run to one of the Texas backs on inside zone or outside zone or something like that you know what I mean like you're gonna make that call every time we're like again saying you're gonna respect archmaning it becomes easier to run everything else um obviously it's all Texas have a ton of success you know two decades ago with a quarterback running arch zone read and bench young but they turn around with Colt McCoy and arch is more dangerous for those legs and Colt was and I mean they still ran in zone read concepts with Colt McCoy quite often so yeah I mean maybe we see more of it um it'd be nice like you said if it was a little bit cleaned up it was practiced a little bit but had to ask that man you're always thinking football looking at things and working on things designing offense uh not just flag football offense clearly so uh y'all go check out you in the sub-stack if you haven't seen it um I don't have a link or anything for it here but man he's there America's

24:05America's war game there you go America's war game um one of the top suspects out there in the whole college football universe um anything else you want to bring up touch on cover when we're talking Texas and offense oh man uh I don't I don't know if I want to bring up flag we were talking flag for the started oh we don't have to but we took the tough hell on the playoffs um they totally overlooked this team we we played this team where we like seen them play we like watch them play and their quarterback was like not super fast he threw beautiful throws but he wasn't super fast and other teams weren't blitzing him and so we just crossed them off the list and we're like we're gonna blitz that kid with super fast people and he's never gonna get his feet set to throw these things and we're gonna be fine so don't worry about them and uh it turns out if you do blitz them they have counters and they were not is be wildered by our insanely fast

25:11blitz as we expected uh still played good defense but not quite good enough took a tough tough loss but it's what I texted there was um either there's also if you have if people have been watching the videos me and Connor have been doing with pack you're getting we're getting really deep dive intensive into must-champs defensive schemes and me in articles on inside texas.com which is probably about a dollar if you join right now if you're a new member is that right? yeah it's always it's always a dollar um it's always some new deal but then it's just it's a dollar for a new members for whatever period of time it is right um real cheap awesome value some of the things we're gonna get into are things like uh how does must-champ defend some of these art briles style spread offences that are on the schedule and there's a lot of thought that there's a lot of study to be done there and and thought to be put into those articles which I

26:12will be doing this offseason we're gonna talk about some of the weaknesses must-champ's defense can have against duel threat quarterbacks and what to do about that and then we're gonna talk about is he gonna stick with this Georgia three-down defense or is he gonna try to play more four-down defense so that uh call in Simmons and Lance Jackson can play like more natural defensive in type spots and rush the pass or more so loads and loads of high-level texas football content that we're gonna be doing uh kick it at anywhere else now you can't get the in-depth actual football knowledge you can find over on inside texas is he and just said um those shows I believe drop Saturday morning Saturday mornings with you Connor and pack yeah yeah I'll check those out man if you're in exes and those guys you'll absolutely love that if you have questions about what a will-most-champ defense will look like um go look at that because again there's a lot of speculation because you know offensive continue to adapt defensive obviously continue to adapt most champs have been

27:14not necessarily out of the game but hasn't you know had his full hand on a defense in a little while and so what does he bring over from his time in Georgia um very excited about it man I mean that you know we haven't really had a chance to but you know one to ten how excited were you when you heard the news about most champs coming over okay well man I'll say it eight okay I was very excited because I really love most champ I like that defense I was a student the last time it came to texas and it was awesome like transforming the program revitalized it really different attitude for sure and it was a new thing to get into in the offseason also the only reason it wasn't a ten was because well a that defense still needs to be updated a little bit which there those guys are always trying to update that defense so not a huge worry but needs a little bit of an update and I liked Pee Quikowski it wasn't like exciting to me to see him go I understood it I

28:15don't think it was wrong I think Sark really went for it and tried to make the team better and get a better staff configuration but I wasn't it was it's hard to be excited when like a good coach is is leaving town who'd done nothing but produce good defenses at texas so oh that's one of the fair I kind of I felt the same you know it wasn't like I was jumping up and down to see PK go but understood why it happened and then you know you have to separate you know I feel like separate that and the the most champ announcement you know won't you you know who it is and you know obviously has experienced that texas they did really good things here and then it's done good things pretty much everywhere it's gone um folks and games a little might argue that comment but it you know it's fun to know you know some guys just know that they're a hey I'm gonna see hey I'm a defensive coordinator hey I'm a strength and conditioning coach and I think you know most champ is a DC and you know it's at it hard and it's gonna do good things here like you said it's gonna update modernize his defense a little bit um to mash the things that are going on in the college football yeah I want to go here uh the variance shoot video go and you'll go check that out is that is Abby all done that one yet or is that come out Saturday uh we've not we've

29:19not done that one I'll probably write I'll probably write about it before we get into a video okay I'm gonna say I normally catch everyone and I hadn't seen that yet so all right guys I'll go hop on inside texas check out all the things we're talking about here but yeah as Ian saying his videos with Connor pack getting real deep in the weeds dropping Saturday mornings but Ian thanks for doing this with me man always fun to work with you guys thanks for watching throw a like on the video if you haven't done so yet and again if you haven't subscribed to inside texas just takes one buck to do so go hop over there and take advantage of that deal everybody go have a great Sunday we'll we'll catch y'all later here on inside texas not to brag or anything but our beast news 799 meet in three boxes kind of a big deal the other guys give you just one side we give you three sides not to brag you get a meaty sandwich curly fries mutt sticks a sweet treat and a drink all for just 799 it's more meal for your money more

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