Its not the A&M offense you have to figure out. Its the fact that manziel leaves the pocket and creates plays and extends them longer than any player I can remember. Its unconventional and just difficult to stop.

Furthermore this isnt a typical dink and dunk, UH, Texas Tech, West virgina ball control spread offense. A&M has big NFL style offensive lineman who can put a hat on Dlineman and pound the ball between the tackles. I cant recall a spread team that can truly play a tackle to tackle ground and pound type offense sprinkled in with an intermediate passing game.

.....with one of the few exceptions being the OU offenses of 99 - 01 when Leach was the Offensive coordinator. Im sure there are a few other examples Im missing but thats a pretty comparable example.

I also dont really feel there is a cut and dry solution to defeat the A&M offense. Its built to punish teams that have big, slow defensive ends and linebacker play while also testing the speed of teams secondaries on the perimeter. Either you have the speed or you dont. Forcing teams to show lots of dime packages and have 6 players in the secondary who can all run and cover is not prevalent on many rosters not named LSU or Alabama.

This post was edited on 11/11/12 at 7:31 pm