In depth Briles offense breakdown. Gif/pics UPDATE: RPO #3

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Earlier, I posted a post that many of you seemed to enjoy centered around the running game Briles features by mixing in Veer Principles in the spread with some single wing thrown in there as well. Today I want to breakdown or get in depth with the Briles Passing game that he is going to bring and combine the two and show how they link side by side. Hopefully, later this weekend I will then bring it together and talk about the RPO tags and show you how they seemingly change from week to week. So without further hesitation lets get into the finer parts of the base passing game.

Starting with the Basics:
First a lot of people have said the Briles form of offense is an "AIR RAID" albeit there are Air Raid concepts that we are going to look at in it, it isn't a true Air Raid. An Air Raid team is going to ultize Y Sail, Mesh, Shallows, Y Corners, Smash, Stick, and All Go's and mix them up through different formations. Briles' offense ultizes some of these because their basic approach to the passing attack it to attack vertical and with speed, as well as getting the ball out quickly on the SPO(Screen Pass Option) as well. With them spreading the offenses spreading the field like they if forces teams to stay fairly honest on what they have to do. Briles teams are known for getting up to the line and running at a blistering pace, with some check with me sprinkled in as well. They are very much a passing tree centered offense instead of a concept driven offense.
Let's breakdown the differences.
A concept driven offense is really what the Air Raid is built upon. For instance, in a play calling system they might call X Shallow, Y Shallow, Z shallow, H shallow. These are true Air Raid concepts. The rules of the of the concept on a shallow is as follows



(Above) is the H shallow The rules of the concept are simple regardless of the tag on the shallow route the combination stays true. So if you tag H shallow in this case you have the slot reciever to the opposite side (Y) runs a bender then the Z to that side runs a 8 Post route. That would make the play side X run the 9 route. The concept in the Air Raid doesn't change. If X runs the Shallow then H runs the 9 and Y and Z stay the same. Unless of course you tag something like Z stop or Z go. That can happen, but if there isn't an additional tag then the concept stays the same. This allows players to play fast because according to the call you know exactly what you are running. So if you are using buzz words the Shallow might be a family (such as super heros) So if buzz word is H shallow is "spiderman" then all plays know where they are going according to the call. Formations don't change it either. If you show empty or Trips into the field the concepts stay the same other than the formation call. If I wanted to Move the X over to the trips side and Keep the H to the single side because I want I like his match up on the shallow. I would just call "DART" which puts the H as the outside wide reciever and the trips would be just automatically to the open side. So it would be DART H Shallow (Spiderman)
Now the the Briles version that uses similar concepts but doesn't look it down to concepts opens the field with stems that are according to alignment not concepts.



(ABOVE) Here is an X shallow but by alignment you have a shallow combo from the boundary with a Smash concept to the field. The Y here runs a 8 Post right at the FS verses a cover 3 and now if the safety bits on the Shallow then its the 8 route behind him. Most likely the coverage right here in the SEC will be to the field (wide side) they are rolling into what I call a Palms/two read call. You split the field at the Center and in this empty set they are going to go two read to the boundary. They will roll a Rover or Weak Saftey to the boundary and the outside corner in this case is keying the #2 inside reciever or (F) in this case. Then W/S will align over top of the #2 about 8 to 9 deep and verses this concept it forces them to run into a cover 4 because #2 receiever outside releases and gets vertical and so the Corner stays on #2 vertical and when #1 reciever get across in a shallow then it forces the safety to roll over on the help on Y. Then to the field you will get a Palms coverage on to the field so in the case of the graphic above, the SS which is the Nickel/Sam in palms plays outside leverage H to take away the double slants from the field (open) In this case in Palms you see a Smash concept between the H and Z so if we see them in a Key 2 (meaning) the Nickel Sam is inside shoulder of the H like he is above then you would immediately have the smash concept. Verses a Palms/2 Read concept like you will see in a lot of the SEC Then Shallow becomes #1 read for the Qb to Y on the Post who will steam across the FS's inside shoulder basically locking him to the ground. Either the middle 8 is open or the shallow underneath is open.

They can play very fast with this concept and keep the same personnel on the field and on the next play align the F in the backfield (never sub) and get down hill with a split flow zone or Veer dive. Cause now you have to keep the coverage the same and you end up gashing them on a big run because of they have the wrong personnel in.
The PLAY ACTION GAME:



(ABOVE) you have a sprint out left with the TE here being used in the H back role. Again because of the tempo and personnel here is where they get really tough to stop. If they catch you in a common palms/two read coverage then they will go to a likely check with me here an come out with a sprint out. You would see something where Trey Burks in lined up in the back field as a back and on the sprint out he is running a shoot route verses Palms so now the CB is conflicted because he has to come up on a Trey Knox or TQ Jackson on a 9 route. If they rolled out into a cover 4 across the board its a drop off to Burks. If they go man its probably a situation where a KJ Jefferson has the ability to get the edge with having the TE in the H-back doubling the edge it stresses the defense.
The Vertical Game:


(above)This is another attack that will happen about every quarter once or twice a game in this offense. Here Briles throws two air raid concepts into a call and after a big play and say Trelon Smith is out there as the H. He just hit a big run and then after a first down they sprint up to the line and the defense is scrambling and they are going to take a shot with a smash/vertical concept. If Q reads a 1 high knows they immediatey are getting man if so he reads match ups. The Z is running a stop to the outside which if they roll to a cover 3 he throws the stop. The X can stem to the outside the numbers verses a Key 2 (inside alignment on #2) which you see the Nickel/Sam in in the Above look which forces the width on the concept verses a zone to have the Q a space to drop the ball into on a fade, and verses man he would re-track himself and get back over the top (your even your leaving).

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I'm more interested to see how a Sam Pittman type of OL will work with Briles' style of offense, especially if/when we go to HUNH. You would think these two would be polar opposites of each other.

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We also don’t have burner wr. Knox and burks are great but they aren’t out running sec cornerbacks. Not sure about safeties having to respect the deep ball. But who knows, we had a head coach that admits he didn’t have time to coach and a GA at OC last year.

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I have did one on the run game that is centered around the Spread Veer and some single wing action. Then I got into the pass game that is centered around the vertical passing game and that its a pass tree passing game not a concept passing game. So finally, the marriage of the two that makes the Briles offense so hard to prepare for the RPO game.

THE RPO GAME:
One thing I hate about announcers on TV sometimes is they say things that make them sound so dumb to me as many called things and RPO that in fact isn't an RPO. RPO is actually (RUN PASS OPTION) RPO's can be ran with mobile or Pro style qbs. The RPO is often done on three levels of reads and you usually find the one you want to pick on or even the best player to put into conflict to contain him. A RPO is usually centered around a family of plays and I hope can explain these well enough to make sense. Often times you will hear and announcer say when a QB pulls down and runs that, "this team is showing some of their RPO game!" Now sometimes it is an RPO when the QB runs the ball but sometimes its an RPO when the QB gets a pull read on a level A read and then throws the ball to a reciever much like the old Triple Option. So lets look at a couple of RPO's and then get into the footwork and breakdown of the read.



?(ABOVE) This is a Briles RPO that combines Stick and the ISO. The Iso here is the old school I formation Iso run play verses a 5 man box. You see and Even front 4 down linemen with the Will slid over top of the center in a 10 technique LB. They kick the Mike out and he becomes a "B" level Read as the overhang or "conflict" defender.
Rule #1- Back gets on his Iso run path following the Tacle curling underneath finding the Will. The back takes the fake and gets "BALL to Backer" he takes runs a path right at the Will and if he doesn't get the ball he turns into a second blocker on the Will. The Q's eyes get on the Kicked Mike to read him and make him wrong. So the footwork for the Q is to open up his hips and place both hands on the ball and stick it into the belly of the back and be prepared to get rid of it as soon as the Mike becomes the Extra Run fitter giving them 6 on 5 in the box he throw the stick. The bubble to the outside occupies the Nickel Sam and because he is in a Key 2 alignment means he is inside leverage of #2 and he is the Alley or force player so thats going to open up the stick as long as the Q gets rid of the ball.


RPO #2



?(ABOVE) This has become a pretty popular RPO that a lot of people do because this really out leverages teams. So you get a stack formation on both sides and widen their splits way out and there is three options on this play. With a 2 high safety look this likely is a give read on this "B" level read of the overhang backer. With the box staying clean and a hat for a har for 5 on 5 its a give read. However, if the Conflict defender becomes the extra run fitter then the Q pulls the ball and throws the ball to Z as you now have a 2 on 1 to the outside. This is a play that you can go tempo and run over and over until the defense makes an adjustment. Where that happens is the Safety walks down and leaves a 1 high look with the conflict defender becoming an extra run fitter pre-snap. Then it becomes a "C" level read and likely you have an option that the X recongizes it and fakes the block and releases deep as they have walked a safety down and there is now a 1 high look and the QB can see it and now they have adjusted and now he reads the Alley defender which is a Safety and he would have a buzz word to let them know his read has changed. For example: he sees the Safety walk down into the alley on this same look, he now knows he has a new read so he calls "COKE" C is the level read and it tells the X that I have a free release on tight coverage because the Safety has now been caught.
Conclusion:
I just thought I would drop a couple of RPO's that at some point you will most likely for sure see at some point and I thought I would explain them a little deeper. Hope you enjoy the read and the series of offensive breakdowns of the Kendall Briles offense.

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