This is David Shaw at a coaching clinic, talking about his philosophy.
I haven't finished it yet, but it looks like this will have lots of answers to little questions about why we do stuff and zero answers to big questions.
But if you've ever wondered why, e.g., Shaw likes the ogre set or why our RBs use draw footwork on power, go nuts. (The answers, respectively, are: "I love playing more than 5 offensive linemen.... It serves multiple purposes. One is: when you play the same 5 guys all the time, what happens to all their backups? They're not as invested. They're waiting their turn." and: once every X number of plays, the defense will be flowing into the playside /so/ hard that you can cut back through the A gap for a long run. But it's hard to make that cut with the typical footwork, so they changed it up a bit.)
I haven't finished it yet, but it looks like this will have lots of answers to little questions about why we do stuff and zero answers to big questions.
But if you've ever wondered why, e.g., Shaw likes the ogre set or why our RBs use draw footwork on power, go nuts. (The answers, respectively, are: "I love playing more than 5 offensive linemen.... It serves multiple purposes. One is: when you play the same 5 guys all the time, what happens to all their backups? They're not as invested. They're waiting their turn." and: once every X number of plays, the defense will be flowing into the playside /so/ hard that you can cut back through the A gap for a long run. But it's hard to make that cut with the typical footwork, so they changed it up a bit.)
