Urban meyer spread offense

Continue 0 of 5Urban Meyer is considered an abusive guru. His teams seemingly always have a powerful offense that is based on KB being a double threat. This style of offense has become the norm in , but few coaches have been successful in doing so, as Meyer.Meyer has been fortunate enough to have who run his system well. Josh Harris at Bowling Green, Alex Smith at Utah, Tim Tebow in Florida and now Braxton Miller in Ohio all have a double threat type of WB that Meyer's system thrives with. However, he clearly prefers to have a runner under the center, who can be seen looking at his top five plays. These plays aren't necessarily the five plays he calls the most. In fact his teams rarely run two of them. Still, they are the five most effective plays he has run during his career as a coach. The zone-read Option1 of the 5zone-read version is probably Meyer's urbanist best game and most used to play. That was for sure so in 2012, when Braxton Miller and Carlos Hyde ran the Buckeyes to a 12-0 record. Still, expect Meyer to add a little more variety to that look in 2013 and beyond. In 2012, Ohio State didn't run many other plays from the reading zone, as Meyer did in the past. The Buckeyes used some action to play and sometimes use Corey Brown as a pitch man in the triple option, but not often. With healthy Jordan Hall and incoming freshman Jalin Marshall likely combining to fill the hybrid receiver/running back position that Percy Harvin starred in in Florida, the Buckeyes will have more variety. Whether it's adding in a few shovel options- Ohio State ran that once in 2012 by my count, or just with a traditional step man, it should make running the game even more powerful. The quarterly power/Counter2 of 5These two plays are combined because they are so similar. The power of the WB, better associated with Tim Tebow, is a direct link to the WB, which just plows forward. It is commonly used in short yard situations. On the other hand, the counter is b-better adapted to the style of work Braxton Miller-has KB start one way and then go back to the other, after running back and pulling the guard. The WB counter was probably Ohio State's most consistent run in 2012. This is ideal for Miller because the delay allows him to choose which lane is best to run. The best example of the success of this game occurred during a Nebraska game where Miller interrupted a big run to spark the Buckeyes offense. Fly Route3 of 5While guys like Braxton Miller and Tim Tebow don't know how accurate pocket passers are, they're both good at throwing deep ball. Tebow and Riley Cooper hooked on several Fly in his days together in Florida and Miller found Devin Smith for covering several times for Ohio State in 2012.The case could be that Miller-Smith's deep balls saved Ohio State on several occasions last season, and none was more than a 63-yard connection against Michigan State.The reason coaches use THEB to run the ball is because it gives the offense an extra blocker, usually a running back, so blockers outnumber quarterbacks. The defense can stop this by bringing security closer to the line of scrimmage, which opens up one-on-one coverage against receivers. Both Miller and Smith were members of the 2010 recruiting class and another two years to play together at Ohio State. With calling shots, expect to see Miller-Smith bonding on deep balls more often. Sweep4's speed from the 5Scorable sweep is one of Urban Meyer's favorite plays, but he didn't use it often in 2012.The main reason was the guy who had to run this game-Jordan Hall-was injured. That left Carlos Hyde, Rod Smith and Bri'ont Dunn in the backfield. All these guys are downhill runners, not east-west speed guys like Chris Rainey or Jeff Demps.Meyer fixes this problem with his recruiting efforts. He already has Jalin Marshall and Ezekiel Elliott in the class of 2013 and is looking for more speed guys. I would expect to see this play more often with a healthy hall along with Marshall and Elliott as other options. However, I think as time goes by and Meyer gets more of his guys in scarlet and gray, this game will become a major offense. A pass5 pass from 5Braxton Miller didn't jump, but Ohio State made the run play eerily similar to Tim Tebow's jump pass against from Ohio. It's not a play that's called often because- well, the situation doesn't cause it often, but it's always in the bag of Urban Meyer tricks because it's such a tough game to stop. It's hard to stop for the same reasons flying the route is hard to stop. When Meyer's offense goes down to the goal line, the defense has to worry about running back, the receiver in motion and the possibility that the will run. That forces all 11 quarterbacks to keep an eye on the back of the field, which means their only choice is to step up when Meyer's WB takes a couple of steps towards the end zone. This leaves the tight end open at the back of the end zone. By Phil Harrison on August 31, 2019 12:02 p.m. ET Urban Meyer was very good at this coaching thing. He was a winner everywhere he went - including his final stop at Ohio State. Now of course he's in the studio analyst fox's new Big Noon Kickoff show, and he's pretty good at that job too. Some of FOX's best segments so far during the show's two weeks have been live when Meyer's coaching mind meets the role of analyst. There was such a case before the opening game of Ohio State against Florida Atlantic. Meyer was one of the innovators of the spread of crime, and it was copied by all college football since then. So who else would be better off to get a tutorial off in the way crime is playing all over this great country of ours. Watch as Urban Meyer explains the different options and solutions that go along with the spread of crime today. Good things here. Florida Atlantic, FOX Big Noon College Kickoff, Ohio Buckeyes, Ohio State Football, Distribution Offense Textbook, Urban Meyer, Buckeyes Wire, Football Offensive Scheme in American and Canadian Football This article may require cleaning to meet Wikipedia quality standards. Specific problem: Unorganized, no direction, too much and/or repetitive information. Please help improve this article if you can. (July 2016) (Learn how and when to delete this template message) Spread offense can also relate to the four- corner offense in basketball. The Demons of Wake Forest lined up with three receivers during the 2012 game against Boston College. Spread the offense's offensive scheme into gridiron football, which usually puts a quarterback in shotgun formation, and spreads defenses horizontally using three-, four-, and even five receiver sets. Used at every level of the game, including professional (NFL, CFL), college (NCAA, NAIA, CIS), and high school programs throughout the U.S. and Canada, the spread of crime often uses a non-hug approach. Some proliferation implementations also have wide divisions between offensive linemen. Spreading offenses can emphasize a pass or run, with the general attribute that they force defense to cover the entire field from the sideline to the sideline. Many spread teams use the reading option of running the game to put pressure on both sides of the defense. Like a run-and-shoot offense, passing-oriented spread offenses often leverage vertical (down the field) passing routes to spread the defense vertically, opening up several vertical seams for running and passing the game. The story of the Houston Cougars' spread offense, Case Keenum became the NCAA's all-time leading passer. Dutch Meyer and early-spreading formations of Grandfathered Crime Rusty Russell, a graduate of Howard Payne University, in Brownwood, Texas, and coach of the Masonic Fort Worth Homes and School for Orphaned Boys. Russell began coaching the Masonic House in 1927, and because his teams often overstepped the other schools, they were called Mighty Ticks. While there, he deployed the earliest form of the spread of the crime to great success. Russell's team is the subject of author Jim Dent's book Twelve Mighty Orphans: An Inspiring True Story of the Mighty that ruled Texan football. In 1952, Texas Christian University (TCU) coaching legend Leo Dutch Meyer wrote a book called Spread Formation Football, detailing his ideas about football formations, in which the first sentence suggested The proliferation of formations are not new to football. But Meyer's book introduced the spread into the college game, inspiring Don Coriella among others. In his book, Meyer encapsulated some of the lessons learned over nearly two decades by coaching legendary footballers such as Sammy Beau and Davey O'Brien at TCU. By aligning his receivers and occasionally his backs outside the box surrounding the quarterback and center at the line of scrimmage in education that came to be known as Meyer's spread, also known as double wing formation, Meyer discovered that it forced the defense to respond by spreading their players. This, in turn, created natural holes in the line and seams in the defensive secondary. The proliferation of defense has reduced the need to block the power of invulnerable linemen. But as Bart Wright notes in his 2013 book Football Revolution: The Rise of the Spread Offense and How It Transformed College Football, the spread of Meyer's crime was actually almost the opposite of a modern-day crime spread in that it was just an old Pop Warner offense, with wingbacks - positioned more like slotbacks (or tight ends) today - at each end of the offensive line, separated by about two pitches from tackles. The ball came in a straight snap at tailback, and from that formation Meyer created confusion with handoffs, fake handoffs, and turns that slowed the defensive rush toward the ball. ... While some later football historians and coaches have confused Meyer's spread, which relied on big defenders like Beau and O'Brien to pass about 17 times in a game on average, with a more modern spread of offenses, Wright concludes that it's ludicrous that Meyer's offense was any prior to the modern-day spread of the offense invented by Jack Neumeier circa 1970 (see below). The first spread evolution occurred in 1956, when former NIU Huskies head coach Howard Fletcher adapted Meyer's spread with a shotgun to create what he called the Shotgun Spread more pass-oriented version. Under Fletcher's newly created offense, quarterback George Bork led the nation in total offense and passing in 1962 and 1963. Bork became the first man in college football history to pass for 3,000 yards in a season in 1963 while guiding the Huskies to victory in the Mineral Water Bowl and ncaa national NCAA College Division Championship. However, several coaches across the country have followed developments in the NCAA College Division and therefore few coaches have been aware of Fletcher's offense as run-oriented offenses continued to dominate football at every level of the game throughout the 1960s. Football played at the dawn of the 1970s usually featured hard running, ball control football, accentuated occasionally third and long pass from the stationary pocket. Football coaches always tend to tend to The conservative group, and most of them signed up in 1970 for an aphorism usually attributed to Darrell Royal, then head coach of the University of Texas: ... three things can happen to you whenever you throw football, and two of them are bad. You can catch the ball, you can throw it incomplete, or it is intercepted. In keeping with that view, the Green Bay Packers power sweep, the University of Southern California Power i Formation and Student Body Right, Texas Wishbone, Veer Triple Option and other ball control options, a variant-oriented rushing offense that pounded the ball down a field dominated by coaches playingbooks in the late 1960s. and his 1970 Granada Hills High School Highlanders Los Angeles City Championship football team. Few examples of coaches with successful, innovative passing offenses existed at any level of competition at the end of 1969. In its 2010 story, Blood, Sweat and Chalk: Ultimate Football Playbook: How Great Coaches Built Today's Game, documenting the development of the game of football, starting with the invention of Pop Warner's one wing in the early 1900s, Tim Leiden Sports Illustrated credits Neumeier with an invention in 1970 of the modern spread of crime, also often referred to as one back-spreading phrase or basketball on the grass first used by Neumeier in late 19999 that dominates football at all levels of football today. While there is no evidence that Neumeier heard about Rusty Russell or Howard Fletcher in 1970, Jack Neumeier apparently built his offensive theories on a foundation created by other coaches, including Glenn Tiger Ellison, an Ohio school coach and college teammate and friend of legendary Ohio State coach Woody Hayes. in 1965, he published a book, Run and Shoot Football: Insult to the Future, which found its place in Neumeier's library. In her book, Ellison describes his desperate experiments with leaving for the Madness of the Lonely Polecat sandlot-style formation in a successful attempt to avoid a losing season in 1958. As Tim Leiden described, The center lined up one on the ball, and the rest of the offensive line was split far to the left, two receivers to his right and one quarterback in a shotgun. The quarterback was asked to scramble and find open receivers. The initial success of Lonesome Polecat led Ellison to several years of even more successful tinkering with what has come to be known as The Runy and Shooting Offense. Allison's Run and Shooting Experiment turned into a double formation slot with split ends evenly 17 yards from the ball, but no closer than six yards away The blocking circuits were identical for runs and passes not to give away defenses, and Ellison's players made a sincere effort to make every pass look like a run and each run look like a pass, according to Layden. The offense used movements and receivers to change pass routes depending on the reaction of the defenders. Neumeier then took Ellison's ideas and synthesized something even more innovative than Run and Shoot. A combination of movement, four wide receivers, a casual no-hugging series and a power-running game, along with blocking innovations designed for a small line added to the mix of his offensive line coach Jack Mathias, Neumeier's big experiment in 1970 and his tinkering over subsequent seasons took football resentment in a new direction. Another piece of the puzzle Neumeier put together preparing for the 1970 season came from Red Hickey during Hickey's tenure coaching the . Hickey first used a shotgun formation in a 1960 NFL game against the Baltimore Colts. The shotgun, based on an old short punt formation that dates back to the World War I era, which Pop Warner then updated as a double wing formation in the 1930s at Stanford, featured the quarterback setting up for a long snap seven yards behind center. Hickey thought it might help slow the Colt pass rush and give the 49ers quarterback another second or two to spot his receivers. A brief sensation for the 49ers, Hickey's shotgun formation lasted only during the last few games of the 1960 season and several games in 1961. Opponents soon neutralized the formation when they realized that their defense could take advantage of the need for the center to focus on a long snap before making it to the block. The midfielders blitzed up the middle of the collapsed pocket defending 49er defenders. Towards the end of the 1961 NFL season, football coaches universally agreed that the shotgun formation was dead and buried, until Jack Neumeier resurrected it as part of a new proliferation offense he synthesized. Variations Of this section may have to be rewritten to meet Wikipedia quality standards. You can help. The conversation page may contain suggestions. (May 2019) Today, most football teams use some form of shotgun, although it continues to evolve in variations such as gun formation. The gun is a perfect illustration of neumeier's evolution of theories, as other coaches took on them and started making them their own. Neumeier's epiphany to take Run and Shoot principles and add his own tricks, turning Run and Shoot into basketball on grass, has turned into today's crime spread. But there are other coaches - , Don Coriell, Bill Walsh, Dutch Meyer, Rusty Russell and Maus Davis - whose creativity has led some football writers to suggest that they actually deserve credit for the spread of the crime. While their football theories and successes may have helped inspire Jack Neumeier, Tiger Ellison and Red Hickey served as Neumeier's main inspiration. Sid Gillman and Don Coryell Sid Gillman, after a long career, coached the San Diego Chargers throughout the 1960s. Prior to his long stint with the Chargers, he coached the . An innovator using traffic and passing in football crimes, Gillman also revolutionized the use of game films to explore opposing teams. As a trademark of his offense, Gillman used forward passing his talented quarterback John Haddle to Hall of Fame split end Lance Alworth and flanker Gary Harrison to open the defense for the Chargers' rushing game and move the ball down the field. Gillman continued to coach in the 1980s. While working with the Los Angeles Express for the short-lived United States Football League in the early 80's, Gillman became a leading proponent of what some sportswriters call ace formation, a variation of a single quarterback spread offense that evolved after the departure of Jack Neumeier from coaching. In an article written by Bob Oates of the Los Angeles Times in 1984, Gillman talked about changing trends and the future of football. What makes ace education so effective, Gillman said, is that it allows you to do so many other things. His offensive potential - with four guys out there in getting positions - is mathematically almost limitless. This causes more problems for the defense than any formation of the two defenders. I think the formation of aces will gradually become the best way to play football, said Gillman, who is considered one of the great offensive strategists of the last 100 years. Years ago, coaches carried out a 1940s transformation into a T-formation - which most of them didn't like at first. So I won't be surprised if it takes most of the 1980s to overwork into another new form. Ace is football's most important new strategic scheme, since T came in ' Oates gave credit to Gillman protege Joe Gibbs and Don Coriell with the Redskins and San Diego Chargers, respectively, to develop an offense with only one back remaining with a quarterback in the backfield. But none of them developed these ideas when Jack Neumeier began testing his invention in 1970. Sports historians call Gillman the father of the passing game, and his focus on game films certainly influenced most football coaches in the early 1960s, including Jack Neumeier. While Gillman's innovations with the passing game have inspired many followers, neither Gillman nor his protege have used the formation of an ace or developed any other crime resembling a spread, The 1960s came to an end. Head coach San Diego State's Aztecs in their mid-60s, Don Coriell, found inspiration in the passing game of Sid Gillman. In the 1950s, Corielle gained a national reputation as one of the most prominent innovators of I education. Coryell brought I formation with him when he joined John McKay's coaching staff at USC for a brief stint in 1961, and he became the signature power-running education on what became known as Tailback U under McKay and his successor John Robinson. After his arrival in San Diego, Corielle periodically brought his players from the Aztecs to watch The Chargers' practice. They made an impression. Many of Gillman's innovations with football offences would appear in Coryell's game plans, as Coryell gradually shifted from the power run offense to rely increasingly on distillation forward. But Coryell disavowed any direct inspiration from Gillman's crime. It will take another ten years before the ideas and concepts he tinkered with in the late 1960s will develop into what has become known as Air Coryell. Drawing on his experience in San Diego, Coryell took his offense to new heights while coaching the St. Louis Cardinals in the mid-70s. He took further steps with his offensive concepts after the Chargers hired him to return to San Diego in 1978. Backed by quarterback Dan Fouts and a talented array of wide receivers, Coriell's innovations included sending up four downfield receivers, with backs in motion and instructions for his quarterbacks to read their receivers in a template from deep to short, concentrating on the importance of quick release. Football fans can trace Coriella's focus on intervals and moving down the field and the separation between receivers to Meyer's 1952 Dutch book, Spread Formation Football. Coriella's emphasis on precisely trained and completed routes of the pass now seems to be the norm at all levels of football. But Don Coryell only started experimenting with all these elements in 1970. Bill Walsh and West Coast's offense around the same time, after two years as an assistant coach for Al Davis' Oakland Raiders, who subjected him to some of the passing concepts Davis took as an assistant to Sid Gillman, Bill Walsh took the position as quarterback and receivers coach of the Cincinnati Bengals. The Bengals, then a new expansion franchise led by head coach Paul Brown, one of the greatest innovators in football history, lost promising young quarterback Greg Cook during the 1969 season to a career-ending rotator cuff injury. After acquiring Virgil Carter to replace Cook in the fall of 1970, Walsh developed an offense tailored to Carter's strengths - his mobility and ability to read defense and make decisions on the go - as well as his shortcomings. Carter had a notoriously weak hand and was short standards for a quarterback that makes the usual seven-step dropback in a stationary pocket for passing is problematic. The tall, strong pass pickers found on every NFL defensive line in 1970 would bury insufficiently Carter in his pocket. In response, Walsh created an offense that included elaborate scrums, short three-pointers and quick, perfectly snout horizontal patterns that allowed the Bengals to control the ball and move it down the field. Like Don Coriell's offense, Walsh's offense relied on the exact time between the quarterback and his receivers. Unlike Sid Gillman's system and Air Coryell, who have always been looking for vertical long ball opportunities, Walsh's offensive scheme, which has improved since Ken Anderson's 1971 arrival at quarterback for the Bengals, focused more on the short routes of loyal receivers. Walsh himself is credited with many predecessors for inspiring his genius. His inspiration included , in part for his use of movement when turning around a football program at Stanford in 1940 with an innovative new offense built around the formation of T. Walsh and others initially referred to his new control of the ball passing offense, like nickel and penny offense, because of his reliance on short 5- and 10-yard gains to move the ball consistently down the field. Despite his origins in Cincinnati, he became known as the West Coast Crime in the mid-1980s after Walsh became head coach of the San Francisco 49ers in 1979 and perfected the offense. Walsh paired his coaching brilliance with Joe Montana's physical talents at quarterback and an array of receivers including Dwight Clark, Roger Craig and Jerry Rice, who were strong enough to take a beating while turning the ball upfield after catching a short pass. What do you think the West Coast Crime Is Now? Whatever the call, Bill Walsh's West Coast attack was still no more than a few disjointed sketches on the court when Jack Neumeier was the team on the field using a spread offense. While Tim Leiden called Neumeier in Sports Illustrated the godfather of football, the title of grandfather of the spread of the offense probably belongs to the most appropriate legendary Texas high school coach Rusty Russell. As noted above, Russell has used variations of the spread of crime as a coach of Fort Worth Masonic Homes and Schools for Orphans dating back to the 1920s. He thought the spread could help his players, who came to be known as Mighty Ticks because of their diminutive size, compete with taller, bigger, stronger and faster opponents, just like the opposite that would dwarf Neumeier's Granada Hills High School team in 1970. Russell's story and the story of his players are encapsulated in the book Twelve Mighty Orphans: The Inspiring True Story of the Mighty Ticks That Ruled Texas Football (2007), sports writer and writer Jim Dent, so it's clear that variations of the spread of crime existed for nearly 50 years when Jack Neumeier experienced his epiphany in late 1969. In both cases, it is clear that coaches have come up with similar decisions when faced with under-taught teams that could not compete and win using conventional offenses. However, it is unlikely that Jack Neumeier ever even heard of Rusty Russell or his Mighty Ticks as he began designing his new crime in 1969. Other grievances This section is too long. Consider dividing it into new pages, adding a subtitle, or condensing it. Please consider splitting content into recharging, condensing it, or adding a subtitle. (January 2020) A few years after Jack Neumeier sat pondering Tiger Ellison's improvements in Run-and-Shoot, Darrell Mouse Davis caught national attention in the early 1970s by incorporating many of Ellison's theories into his game plans at Hillsborough High School in Oregon. They culminated in Hillsborough's victory in the Oregon State Championship in 1973. His success at Hillsborough, in turn, brought Davis to Portland the following year, first as and then as head coach. In Portland, Davis became Ellison's most notable acolyt of offensive theories. During his time there, Davis coached defender legends like June Jones and Neil Lomax. Davis' success, built on Portland's successful passing attack, led over 1969 and 70 seasons, coincidentally, to one of Jack Neumeier's most talented quarterbacks in the mid-60s at Granada Hills High School, Tim von Dulm. Mouse Davis, who came to his sobriety as a result of his height as a 5'5 135-pound college quarterback, liked to refer to fellow undersized football players as pissants. He enjoyed Run-and-Shoot opportunities created for writers who matched stronger, bigger, and faster opponents on the playing field. The option reads and passes run-and-shoot routes allowed receivers to respond to defense and quarterback then read receivers react to defense. The defender will throw the football in a predetermined place based on these predictably programmed reactions. At the same time, Ellison's offense neutralized the benefits of enjoying larger, faster players in favor of the intelligence and physical agility needed to succeed with Run-and-Shoot. While Allison's Run-and-Shoot also inspired Jack Neumeier, Neumeier almost certainly didn't get to know the mouse. or Davis offensive schemes like Neumeier put his spread of crime into action in No one dreamed in 1970 that Coach Neumeier's new and innovative one-defender spread of crime would gradually seep across the football world and eventually become football's dominant crime. In a 2013 article, sports commentator Matt Proposal wrote that Neumeier's crime can be considered a zero point for everything we have come to consider modern in the game of football. The spread of defense is horizontal with formations, and vertically with passing concepts. Isolate defenders in match ups where your guy has the best chance of winning. It all seems so simple now, but in 1970, when everyone and their mother was running Veer it really was revolutionary. Nationally respected sports writer Bart Wright's 2013 book on the history of the modern spread of crime, The Football Revolution, gives clear credit to Coach Neumeier and his 1970 Granada Hills highlanders team for what football coaches across the country have come to know as basketball on grass. In Tim Leiden's Blood, Sweat and Chalke, titled The One-Back Spread: The Los Angeles High School Coach Took a Chance and Started offense - and John Elway and Drew Brees are with him, Leiden talks about the radical change introduced by Neumeier with his 1970 Highlanders and his wide open play. But it took some amazing luck for Coach Neumeier's football ideas to achieve national attention and eventual dominance. As they often do, after his team's remarkable 1970 success, other coaches talked about Neumeier's offense and began to incorporate his elements into their own offensive schemes. Other local high school coaches - mostly competitors - saw it, liked it, copied it and started using it. Today, there are books written about Neumeier's crime. Coaching workshops introduce coaches to one quarterback spread and teach them how to implement it. They also teach coaches how to protect themselves from it. But the story of how the crime of one-back went viral to use modern internet jargon is not so simple. In the 1970s, there were no coaching clinics, YouTube videos or online blogs to make the case for one back-spreading crime in high school coaches, much less college or NFL coaches. Most coaches in 1970 looked at the innovative passing of crimes with contempt. New football concepts are slowly spreading through the instinctively conservative ranks of football coaches. Today it is not even clear who coined the phrase one back spread crime. For several years after the extraordinary success of his Team Granada Hills Championship 1970, Jack Neumeier continued to work in relative obscurity. Continuing to look for ways to increase his spread of the offense, the coach never matched the success of his 1970 team. His subsequent teams have been fairly regular in the Los Angeles City playoffs, but teams won't win more championships. He continued to field the team, using one quarterback to spread the offense over the next few years, regardless of whether they possessed the unique physical and intellectual skills of his 1970 Granada Hills players or not. Along the way, Neumeier turned from a three-yard and dust cloud to a guy according to his former assistant coach Darryl Stroh a tireless student passing the game. Over the next few years, Neumeier's reputation as an innovator began to spread throughout the football coaching community. Jack Elway, who himself played quarterback during his playing days, arrived in the spring of 1976 as the new head football coach at California State University Northridge after serving as offensive coordinator at his alma mater, Washington State. Prior to his arrival at CSUN, literally down the street from Granada Hills High School, Coach Elway went looking for a coach and high school football program that would develop the budding talents of his son John, who played 9th grade football in Washington. Jack Elway heard about Neumeier through the coaching vine and the two immediately hit him. With John entering 10th grade and Granada Hills High School - another three years of high school - located just a few blocks down the street from the Cal State Northridge campus, Elways moved into the neighborhood. Neumeier ran exactly the type of offense that Jack Elway presented for his son John, a huge athlete in the multimania. But John Elway imagined himself running back on the football field when he went to school. Fortunately, Jack Elway has already begun to work to convince his son to rethink his options. When John Elway met Jack Neumeier in the summer of 1976, the experienced Scottish trainer almost once urged John to give up his dream to follow in the footsteps of his idol, running back on Kelvin Hill. Instead, Neumeier helped John present himself as the quarterback and focal point of the Granada Hills spread offense, originally designed for incredibly accurate passing skills of 1970 Granada Hills Neumeier High School quarterback Dana Potter. Potter will help train the newth grader in the nuances of distribution. Little did Jack Neumeier realize at that point that, with Elway's arrival in Granada, he would develop his offense to emphasize the rifle arm of a future NFL Hall of Famer. In fact, Elway will grow rapidly and mature at 6'3,185 pounds to the start of his 11th grade season, ironically taller and heavier than four of the five offensive linemen on the 1970 Nomeier Championship team. Years later, in an interview with a Denver Post reporter, John Elway stated that Jack Neumeier was the guy who made me fall in love with football as a quarterback. Part of this love affair around around The experience of playing quarterback in one quarterback spread the offense that Neumeier created in collaboration with his assistant coaches and their 1970 City Championship Granada Hills team. When Jack Elway watched his own son run into Neumeier's attack and saw potential in him, he began to rethink his own offensive schemes, which were concentrated at a time, as were many of his contemporaries around the triple-version Veer. In 1977, Mike Price, a friend and former colleague of Jack Elway who still coached at Washington State, called cal State Northridge's head coach to talk shop. According to Tim Leiden, the elder Elway told Price that the really interesting action was taking place on the field at a nearby high school, where his son John played quarterback under Jack Neumeier. Ignore what I'm doing, Elway said. You should have seen my son running. They kill people, they just kill them. Next year I will put this material into my crime. Jack Elway began using a one-back spread in his offense at Northridge during the 1978 season. He took it with him when he became head coach at San Jose State a year later. During his time at San Jose State and then at Stanford, Jack Elway became even more successful proselytizing for one back-spreading offense. Elway worked with Jack Neumeier to teach the offense to a number of prominent members of the coaching profession, most significantly . Erickson served as offensive coordinator for Jack Elway at San Jose State. Dennis Erickson first heard about the spread of crime while serving as an offensive coordinator in Fresno in the late 1970s. Moving on to San Jose State in 1979, he combined his ideas about crime with Jack Elway. As a result of the Elway connection, Erickson spent time this year learning about the crime with Jack Neumeier. In fact, in Matt Opper's 2013 article, by the late 1970s, Granada Hills had become a must-stop appointment for college coaches across the country. Over the next few years, Erickson tinkered with Neumeier's attack and then took him with him to subsequent head coaching positions. Erickson coached in the 80s in Idaho, Wyoming and Washington State before arriving as head coach at the in 1989. In Miami this year, Erickson won the first of two NCAA national championships with Neumeier's offense, winning again in 1991 and losing the national title game in 1992, with Gino Torrett winning the 1992 Heisman Trophy quarterbacking from one quarterback spread. Erickson's success in Miami brought even more coaches from around the country to learn the intricacies of Jack Neumeier's offense. Erickson later moved to senior positions in the NFL with the Seahawks and San Francisco 49ers and in ranks in Oregon and Arizona Arizona continues to spread the word about Neumeier's crime wherever he goes. Later, as a running backs coach at the University of Utah, Erickson continued to serve as a leading quarterback for a single quarterback spread. Mike Price, Dennis Erickson's high school associate, once described Neumeier's crime to a New York Daily News reporter as basketball on grass - Jack Neumeier's own description of an attack on one back. Price set Neumeier a one-back spread at Weber State when he became head coach there in the late 1970s and then inherited Erickson's offense when Price took over as head coach at Washington State following Erickson's departure. Price used the offense during his time as head coach at Washington State, taking his team to the 1997 Rose Bowl, which drew extra attention to Neumeier's offense. Similarly, when Joe Tiller succeeded Dennis Erickson as head coach at Wyoming, Tiller simply left in place one quarterback to spread the offense that Erickson set during his time there. Tiller says people have been asking me for years how I learned this crime. I tell them, Dennis left his playbook in Wyoming. And it is absolutely true. But another element of the story is that Tiller, who coached with his buddy Jack Elway in Washington state in the mid-1970s, began hearing about Neumeier one back spread from Elway in 1979. Tiller became a distinguished college head coach at Purdue. At Purdue, Tiller used one quarterback to spread the offense again with tremendous success. His quarterbacks at Purdue played from one quarterback spread included Kyle Orton and Drew Brees, among others. In 2000, Brees led the Boilermakers to the Rose Bowl with Neumeier's offense. Tiller's teams forced the Big Ten to adapt to the challenges posed by a wide open spread of one back. In a chapter from his 2012 book, Basic Smart Football, titled The Evolution of Urban Meyer and Its Distribution of Crime, Chris Brown identifies Dennis Erickson as one of the spiritual fathers of Meyer's spread/one wing hybrid crime. Meyer clarified his offense in Bowling Green, Fla., where he won national championships in 2006 and 2008 and coached the 2007 Heisman Trophy winner, Tim Tebow. More recently, Meyer's offense has enjoyed remarkable success at Ohio State since he took over as head coach in the 2012 season, winning the 2014 national championship. Meyer, according to Tim Leiden, learned his passing attack from Louisville and offensive coordinator Scott Linehan (who played for Idaho's Dennis Erickson and then become offensive coordinator for a number of NFL teams and head coach Rams) . Linehan credits Dennis Erickson for his own approach to football offenses. Brown confirms this line for Urban Meyer's offensive theories and also joining Ohio State coach Joe Tiller and Rich Rodriguez, among other coaches who have built successful career coaching variations on one quarterback spread offense. So at least some of Urban Meyer's theories about football crimes leading up to Ohio State's last national championship are traced directly to Jack Neumeier. Neumeier's influence today, virtually every NFL, college, school and youth league football offense shows clear signs of coach Neumeier's influence. Fans can watch elements of Neumeier's offense at every level of the game, from peewee league scrimmages to NFL Super Bowls. In the 2016 National Cup Bowl game and the 2016 Super Bowl, all offenses were direct descendants of the turbocharged basketball on-grass offense that Jack Neumeier created out of desperation for his undersized 1970 Granada Hills High School football team. His crime continues to live and flourish years after the death of Jack Neumeier in 2004. Reflecting on the enduring impact of Neumeier's crime, sports writer Mary Cruz wrote that it amuses Neumeier's first guinea pig, (Dan) Potter, to see how a college or a team of professionals throw a ball out of a shotgun on the first or attempt of 40 passes of the game. That's what stirred up critics when Neumeier introduced them to the Los Angeles football scene. I've had a lot of coaches tell me offense Coach Neumeier will never work in college or pro, Potter said. So it's hilarious for me to see how many teams are using it now. It's neat to see how his offense has evolved. While it took decades for Jack's cactus aerial attack - up to the pace of one defender's spread of the offense - to seep across the football world, there is no doubt that Coach Neumeier's theories and the success of his 1970 team changed this world forever. Spread Offense was popularized in the U.S. in the mid-to-late 80s with coaches trying to spread the defense and dictate defensive personnel with four receivers set without having to rely as much on KB receivers, and running backs to make correct reads on every game. While early versions of the spread have sometimes been fairly limited, modern coaches like Joe Tiller (Purdue), Jerry Moore (Appalachian State), Mike Leach (Washington State), and Mark Helfrich (Oregon) and most recently Urban Meyer (Ohio) have taken the spread of the offense to a new level. High school coaches across the country have adapted some versions of this scheme with great success, notably Todd Dodge's Southlake Carroll High School in the Dallas-Fort Worth area (now at Austin Westlake High School in Austin, Texas), Art Briles at Stevenville High School in Stevenville High School Texas and Houston Cougars (then Baylor), Gus Malzahn at Springdale High School in Arkansas (later And Now Auburn head coach). Legendary coach Dale Mueller at Highlands High School in Fort Thomas, Kentucky has pioneered new aspects of crime distribution since 1995. In his 16 seasons as head coach, he led the Highlands to a record 214 wins and 30 losses, and won 10 of his record 21 state championships. The review of the spread of the offense is specifically designed to open seams and holes for offense, and specifically does not focus on passing or running the game, however, like all types of offense, there can be sub types who can specifically focus on passing or running the game, or even the option of fake or trick plays. Philosophical differences The main pre-sign appearance of the spread is permanent - several receivers on the field. Most modern versions of the spread use shotgun snap, though many teams also run the spread with the quarterback under the center. Jack Neumeier's 1970 iteration of the crime spread used both formations. In addition, the actual performance of these formations varies depending on the preferences of the coaching staff. While most of them are balanced crimes, such as the one used by Larry Fedora's North Carolina Tar Heels, a few under-shapes also exist. Air Raid One of the extreme versions is a pass-oriented air raid typical of Hal Mumme in the late 1990s at the University of Kentucky. Coaches who use this version of the spread are Mike Gandy of the Oklahoma Cowboys, Dana Holgorsen of the Houston Cougars, Mark Stoops of the Kentucky Wildcats, Gary Patterson of the TCU Horned Frogs, Mike Leach of the Mississippi Bulldogs, Mike Norwell of the Florida Seminoles, Neil Brown of the West Virginia Mountaineers, Lincoln This version uses several sets of props and the quarterback as the defense sets up. Current SMU Mustangs head coach Sonny, who coached under Mike Leach at Texas Tech, uses the Air Raid option, making more active use of running game and tight ends and running backs in the passing game. The distribution version of the 2007 Florida Gators runs the Urban Meyer distribution option. The distribution option is a shotgun-based version of the classic triple attack variant that was common in football in the 1990s. Notable users of this offense include Ryan Day of the Ohio State Buckeyes, Mario Cristobal of the Oregon Ducks, of the UCLA Bruins, Scott Frost of the Nebraska Cornhuskers, Gus Malzahn of the Auburn Tigers, Jim Harbaugh of the Michigan Wolverines and Dan Mullen of the Florida Gators. The distribution option is to run the first scheme, which requires a defender who is conveniently carrying mobile offensive lines that can effectively pull both traps and receivers that can hold their blocks. The point of it is, Because he's running out of shotgun, his triple option usually consists of slot receiver, tailback, and double-threat quarterback. One of the main plays in the distribution version is the zone to read, invented and made popular by Rich Rodriguez. The defender should be able to read the defensive end and determine whether he is collapsing down the line or playing up the field of containment in order to determine the right game to do with the ball. A key component of the distribution option is that the running threat from the defender forces the defensive lineman or midfielder to freeze in order to connect the running lane; It has the effect of blocking the target player without having to put the body on it. Pistol This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding links to reliable sources. Non-sources of materials can be challenged and removed. (July 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this message template) The third version of the spread of crime is a gun offense used by Brian Pollian in the Nevada Wolf Pack, Dabo Swinney of the Clemson Tigers and some American high school. Developed by Chris Ault, Pistol focuses on using a run with many offensive players, and he encourages the quarterback to line up about three yards behind the center and take a short shotgun snap at the start of each game. Instead of lining up next to the defender, as in a conventional shotgun, the rear defender lines up behind the defender at a normal depth. This allows him to take his hand while running to the line of scrimmage, rather than parallel to it, as is the case with a standard shotgun. Since Ault installed the gun in 2004, his Wolf Pack has been one of the NCAA's most productive offenses. In 2009, they led the country in rushing and overall offense, and were the first team in college football history to allow three players to rush for 1,000 yards in the same season. Defensive reaction recently, the use of the spread has led to a new defense, most notably 3-3-5. Traditional defenses use 4 or 5 down linemen sets to stop offense, but with the growing number of spread offenses, teams are looking for smaller, faster defensive players to cover more field. The strategy and philosophy behind this thinking have been widely debated, and many coaches have found success using 30 up front, or using 40 front against spread. (Need clarification) NFL levels the New England Patriots lined up in a spread formation against the Philadelphia Eagles in 2007 Versions of this scheme have also been used by professional teams since the Seattle Seahawks under Dennis Erickson in 1995. Erickson is repeatedly credited with Jack Neumeier with teaching Erickson the spread initially while Erickson San Jose State offensive coordinator in the late 1970s. While the Seattle Seahawks, Washington Redskins, and San Francisco 49ers had it Spread between 1995 and 2004, the scheme began to have prominent success in the NFL until the 2007 New England Patriots used the spread with quarterback Tom Brady and wide receivers Randy Moss, Wes Welker, Dont Stallworth, and Jabar Gaffney. In addition, the San Diego Chargers (1980s) and various West Coast circuits designed by Bill Walsh and the San Francisco 49ers (1980s) built their crimes, in many ways, on Allison and Davis designs. The 2008 also carried out some form of offense distribution in their offensive schemes. Lining up in the Wildcat formation, the Miami Dolphins, borrowing from College Gus Malzahn spread the offense, direct-snap the ball to their running back, Ronnie Brown, who was then able to read the defense, and either pass or save the ball himself. The spread of the offense is not usually used as the team's primary offense in the NFL. NFL defenses tend to be faster than college defenses, allowing vertical seams created by formations to close faster. In addition, the quarterback is more vulnerable to injury because he is the ball carrier more often than in a typical pro-style offense (thus getting tackled more), and the amount of defense dropping with backs and receivers used to spread the defense instead of providing pass protection. Since the level of talent between starting quarterback and backup is usually much greater than with a typical college team, NFL teams are more protective of their quarterback. With that said, that has changed in recent years since Chan Gailey in 2008 with the Kansas City Chiefs using Tyler Thigpen at quarterback and now the . The Green Bay Packers also running a lot of plays from spread formations with quarterback Aaron Rodgers. NFL teams, who used the spread of the offense Start End Team Head Coach Offensive Coordinator 1995 1998 Seattle Seahawks Dennis Erickson 2002 2003 Washington Redskins Steve Spurrier Hue Jackson 2003 2004 San Francisco 49ers Dennis Dennis Erickson Greg Knapp and Ted Tolner 2010 2012 Buffalo Bills Chan Gailey Curtis Modkins 2011 - New England Patriots Bill Belichick Bill O'Brien / Josh McDaniels 2013 2015 Philadelphia 76ers Chip Kelly Pat Shurmur 2014 Houston Texans Bill O'Brien Tim Kelly 2014 2015 Miami Dolphins Joe Philbin Bill Lasor 2014 2015 Tampa Bay Buccaneers Love Smith Jeff Tedford 2015 2015 2015 2017 New York Jets Todd Bowles Chan Gailey/John Morton 2016 2016 San Francisco 49ers Chip Kelly Curtis Modkins 2019 Real Baltimore Ravens John Harbaugh Greg Roman in High School This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding links to reliable sources. Non-sources of materials can be challenged and removed. (April 2010) (Learn how and when to delete this template message) In recent distribution spread A very popular term used in the context of high school games with innovative ways of offense to make the game faster and higher scoring. While this has changed the game, and the teams that successfully run it are scoring more points, there is debate whether the offensive system is as effective as it seems. Some coaches have taken to packing their offensive system and marketing their programs across the country, such as Tony Franklin, who served as an assistant coach at the University of Kentucky under Hal Mumme, where he developed his offense based on Mumme's Air Raid system. Manny Matzakis is another example because he is the inventor of the Triple Shoot Offense, which is a spread set with uniforms in shotgun, pistol and under center. Matzakis was an assistant coach under Mike Leach at Texas Tech and Bill Snyder at Kansas State. He is currently the head coach of Enka High School in Asheville, North Carolina. In response to the success of the spread of crime in high-profile colleges such as the University of Florida, innovative high school coaches have begun retooling the system to work in high school teams. The system is now widely accepted and many schools are succeeding. Defenses remain with the challenge of defending more field than ever before, and the offense has been given the advantage of having numerous runs and passing lanes created by a defense so common. Notes - Roman's crime also includes elements of the variant and Smashmouth crimes. Inquiries of Kirchner, Alex (2017-05-03). The spread of crime changed football forever. SBNation.com. Received 2020-01-01. Spread goes back to the depression era of Texas high school football. Espn. 2009-07-20. Received 2009-07-20. Dent, Jim, Twelve Mighty Orphans: The Inspiring True Story of the Mighty Ticks That Ruled Texas Football, 2007, ISBN 0-312-30872-8. 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How Greg Roman turned the Ravens' offense into talk about the NFL. NBC Sports Washington. Received 2020-01-01. About football statistics and history - Pro-Football-Reference.com. Pro-Football-Reference.com. Wentworth, Bridget. The spread of crime is gaining popularity with high school football programs across the state. Received on April 19, 2014. Alternative concepts within the scope of crime. SportsWorkout.com. received on April 19, 2014. Welcome to the system!. Tony Franklin's football. External Links Has the Spread Crime reached its climax? Introduction to the spread of the crime YouTube video obtained from the

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