AP: Barkley, Forcier no ordinary freshmen QBs

[Mecca]

I don't really think Meyer is going to make their offense more NFL like..the guy is cocky. He thinks the spread ofense would work in the NFL, take this for example.

Meyer: NFL coaches afraid of spread offense

* 07:53 AM ET 09.10

Florida coach Urban Meyer has been asked for advice from at least four N.F.L. teams, including the New England Patriots. "I think it would have worked years ago," Meyer said. "No one has had enough -- I don't want to say courage -- no one has wanted to step across that line. Everyone runs the same offense in the N.F.L. A lot of those coaches are retreads. They get fired in Minnesota, they go to St. Louis. They get fired in St. Louis and go to San Diego. I guess what gets lost in the shuffle is your objective is to go win the game. If it's going to help you win the game, then you should run the spread."

New York Times


That's nice and all and you can have elements of the spread in your offense all teams do but you can't run that offense at the NFL level...

NFL teams are afraid of the spread the same way they were afraid of the wishbone in the 1970s.

It works great in college, where you have 100 players on the program, there's some depth on the bench, and there is a difference in quality of play from team to team. You try that in the pros with a 53-man roster and lose your starting QB, you're hung for the rest of the season.

And, at the risk of starting a Vick flame war, one of the problems that the Falcons faced (and that whoever gets Tebow will if they use him as a QB) is that you build your offense around the ability of one player. If that player gets hurt, you'd better have a backup that can run that same offense or, again, the team is screwed because the whole offense has to learn a new scheme mid-season.

I'd love to see him go to the NFL and try to make that work since he seems arrogant enough to try it...he'd come crawling back a few years later after the NFL humbled him just like Spurrier.

[DaKCMan AP]

Originally Posted by Mecca

I don't really think Meyer is going to make their offense more NFL like..the guy is cocky. He thinks the spread ofense would work in the NFL, take this for example.

Meyer: NFL coaches afraid of spread offense

* 07:53 AM ET 09.10

Florida coach Urban Meyer has been asked for advice from at least four N.F.L. teams, including the New England Patriots. "I think it would have worked years ago," Meyer said. "No one has had enough -- I don't want to say courage -- no one has wanted to step across that line. Everyone runs the same offense in the N.F.L. A lot of those coaches are retreads. They get fired in Minnesota, they go to St. Louis. They get fired in St. Louis and go to San Diego. I guess what gets lost in the shuffle is your objective is to go win the game. If it's going to help you win the game, then you should run the spread."

New York Times


That's nice and all and you can have elements of the spread in your offense all teams do but you can't run that offense at the NFL level...

NFL teams are afraid of the spread the same way they were afraid of the wishbone in the 1970s.

It works great in college, where you have 100 players on the program, there's some depth on the bench, and there is a difference in quality of play from team to team. You try that in the pros with a 53-man roster and lose your starting QB, you're hung for the rest of the season.

And, at the risk of starting a Vick flame war, one of the problems that the Falcons faced (and that whoever gets Tebow will if they use him as a QB) is that you build your offense around the ability of one player. If that player gets hurt, you'd better have a backup that can run that same offense or, again, the team is screwed because the whole offense has to learn a new scheme mid-season.

I'd love to see him go to the NFL and try to make that work since he seems arrogant enough to try it...he'd come crawling back a few years later after the NFL humbled him just like Spurrier.

I don't think he'll ever go to the NFL. He's a college coach, loves the college game, the pageantry and loves coaching college kids.

Brantley is very different from Tebow. Will Meyer start running an NFL offense? No. Will he run the spread option to the extent he does with Tebow? No. I think with Brantley at QB it will be closer to a spread offense like the Patriots run.