Saturday, April 7, 2018

The advantage of contrarian offenses

Naturally, coaches are going to concentrate their efforts of the biggest threats. These days in football, it is the wide-open passing attack that is encountered the most, so that is what defenses are geared to defend. A team that runs the Wishbone, for instance, is going to run into teams every week that are not, for the most part, accustomed to facing their offense.

There is something to be said for being anachronistic. Offenses that are out of style generally get to deal with defenses that are not prepared to face out-of-style offenses.

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