Outstanding Matt Eberflus Interview

[dll2000]

21 minutes ago, G08 said:

A fellow Grammar Nazi, very nice! 

Right, but he at least sounds like he has an understanding of WTF he's doing.

It will be interesting how he does with a rotating staff.   

He wants to run his D no matter who coach is, but whether he change offenses with new coordinators remains to be seen.

I would say odds Getsy is still with team 3 years hence is pretty low unless he gets a huge raise and is named co-HC or in alternative offense is kind of in middle - not so good that he is getting offers and not so bad that the Bears need to jettison him.

 

[G08]

2 minutes ago, dll2000 said:

but whether he change offenses with new coordinators remains to be seen.

I believe Eberflus commented on this; something like 60% of the league is running this offense/a derivative of this offense. So if/when Getsy leaves, there should be a pool of coaches that are versed in this scheme that could come in. Of course there will put their own spin on it but it's not like going from Ron Turner to Mike Martz.

[dll2000]

3 minutes ago, G08 said:

I believe Eberflus commented on this; something like 60% of the league is running this offense/a derivative of this offense. So if/when Getsy leaves, there should be a pool of coaches that are versed in this scheme that could come in. Of course there will put their own spin on it but it's not like going from Ron Turner to Mike Martz.

Yes, but when a scheme gets saturated it tends to lose effectiveness as defenses see same thing week in and week out.  They will naturally get better at defending it.  

But that is nature of the league.   Success breeds copy cats until someone does something different then they all try to do that.    Nagy was hot coach because of the Reid developed college spread RPO +  west coast hybrid everyone wanted at time.  

But Reid is a good coach because he makes changes to his scheme every year.   Nagy wasn't capable of same by himself.   He would try to watch KC and do same stuff with Bears.  

You have to be able to adjust and change as it is called for.  Tricky to know when it is time to make changes though.   A lot of times you need to play through a bad stretch and radical change isn't necessary just better execution and/or talent.  

It is why I liked McDaniels as Bears HC.  If you listen to people who know talk about him he is capable of coaching just about any offensive scheme in existence.   

Whether he can be a good HC remains to be seen though.

 

[Sugashane]

13 minutes ago, G08 said:

I believe Eberflus commented on this; something like 60% of the league is running this offense/a derivative of this offense. So if/when Getsy leaves, there should be a pool of coaches that are versed in this scheme that could come in. Of course there will put their own spin on it but it's not like going from Ron Turner to Mike Martz.

Im hoping Jonocko shows he is ready to be an OC if/when Getsy moves on. 

[G08]

Just now, dll2000 said:

It is why I liked McDaniels as Bears HC

I've liked him for a while too, despite him being a d-bag. I was of the opinion he would work wonders with Fields.

[G08]

I'm just happy we finally are running the scheme I've been begging for since we traded for Cutler in 2009.

Hammer reps with the run game and use your creativity to build off that with boots/waggles and the play-action game. 

 

Watching Kyle Shanahan call a game is porn.

[dll2000]

1 hour ago, G08 said:

I'm just happy we finally are running the scheme I've been begging for since we traded for Cutler in 2009.

Hammer reps with the run game and use your creativity to build off that with boots/waggles and the play-action game. 

 

Watching Kyle Shanahan call a game is porn.

I kind of invented a somewhat similar scheme or concept in early 2000s at youth level.   But it was spread and from gun.  Blocking scheme was totally different from Shanahan though.   More akin to 'pin and pull' as I didn't know zone blocking at time.   Remember internet was totally different back when.   Mostly porn and super slow.   Not so much good information available outside of clinics.     

  I didn't really invent it as I stole the concept from some coach in OK who posted the concept online for sale, but I didn't want to buy his whole system as I was broke at time, so I adapted it and designed my own from a few drawings he had posted on early internet to advertise it.  

Idea was we would attack edges on as our base play with jet motion and boot action both.   Then we would hit up middle on a inside counter trap once teams were rushing to edges.   The jet motion was opposite QB so it could be a sweep to either side.  

We would then run a vertical option game - kind of like a RPO concept with QB on edges off the boots so you had to cover at same time you were playing run.   

We ran 5 wide every play for first season.  But we later brought a back, back into backfield next to QB as a 2nd formation since we found the kids would gas if you motioned them across too much and you had to rotate them all time.   It is hard to teach kids multiple positions.  

Then we added lead ISOs from spread with back leading or a direct snap to back with QB leading.  Having the back in backfield made it easier to teach 6 man protections too with the straight pocket passes.  

We put most all the teams on clock in first couple of years as they had no idea how to deal with it.   It was hilarious.  This is when spread in college was young and just few high schools in midwest were doing it and none locally.  

I didn't have any kids and just wanted to do crazy crap because it was fun.   Everything I tried over years didn't work though.   I liked how inventive Mike Leech was, so I  tried some of his crazy wide split schemes in later years with mixed success.  Mostly failure in end and had to abandon that.

 

 

 

Edited April 18, 2022 by dll2000

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