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  • Based on some of the comments here, I think there seems to be a misconception about what a “scheme” even is…

    Real life football coaching/scheme is not like a madden playbook. I’m not suggesting they’re going swap out schemes in Madden from Air Raid to West Coast lmao.

    There are really only a handful of run concepts used predominantly in the NFL:

    Duo Inside zone Outside zone Power Counter

    That’s really it. Every team uses pretty much all of them, just a different mixture of each and they do these out of different personnel groups, different formations and with different motions. Subsequently, all of our lineman and RBs already know how to run these different schemes.

    The passing side of things is really not all that different. However many different passing concepts you carry, you can change the personnel, the formation, or add motions to give defenses a different look or create leverage or matchup advantages. That can make a big difference and does not require “learning a new playbook.”

    RPOs and PROs affect no one but the QB. The other 10 guys block or run a route like they do on every other play, the QB just has another option in case he gets different looks. And Bryce ran RPOs a ton at Alabama; he’d be fine if we asked him to run some RPOs.








  • Indeed they are. As a QB coach myself, I don’t think the commonly used complaint about Bryce’s footwork really has any validity.

    One of the most intriguing things about Bryce coming out of the draft was his ability to make all kinds of throws off platform and without stepping into the throw. Idk how anyone could watch the tape from this year and say, “the problem is that Bryce is ready to make the throws because our WRs got open too fast and his footwork is the culprit.”

    And yet…here we are.