Was he referring to the pass-run balance week to week (from his comments on throwing 50 times one week and 10 the next week)?
Or did he mean by scheme? Like KC who is. west coast offense who has sprinkled some RPO and air raid principles in. That is the offense I would like to see us run.
Do we know what his base scheme is going to be?
Right. But does that primarily refer to being flexible within the scheme or being flexible enough to run multiple schemes or elements of them?
Formations are just that.
It all comes down to, "how is it blocked?"
Gap rules/Zone(in/out)/Trap/3,5,7 Step.
Etc.
Doesn't matter how you line up the "skill" guys. If you want to beat a team, you figure out the best way to block them.
Lol ok. 10. But this is what the best coaches do these days. Does anyone think Clemson runs the exact same offense and plays for Trevor Lawrence as they did w Watson. In some ways it easier in the NFL as you usually have one QBbit then concept of attacking different defenses with differ t schemes and creating and maximizing your talent is pretty much just smart.
Same thing at Alabama. Tua and McCarron are even more different. Again assuming that’s what he means but both sides of the ball neee to do this. Scheme first coaches are doomed to fail unless you have prime BOF QB guys like Brees Rodgers and Brady IMO where they make the scheme look better
What frustrated me with shurmur is when something was working (ie, running barkley), he would go away from it. At times, if something wasn't working, he kept trying to do it.
I wish I could find it, but I recall hearing the amount of times barkley ran and the breakdown of production based on where the play was designed (outside the tackles, between the guard or center, etc) and barkley had the best production running the ball outside the tackles and between the tackles and guards and the lowest production between the center and guards, shurmur would keep running him between the center and guard in shotgun formation.
This is an example of having a player who is great in space and yet asking him to do something that is not his or the teams strength and not getting results, but still doing it.