re: Sumlin's system is outstanding and the rest of the SEC will have to adjust

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If the offense is humming it's gonna be hard to get sacks.

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No doubt, it's one of the advantages of the Air Raid. Every scheme has benefits and disadvantages. To act like one is better than another is stupid. If you have your personnel and a competent coaching staff, then any scheme can be great/championship caliber.

Keys to slowing down the Air Raid:

1. Run the ball and keep that offense off the field. Nobody in college has the Seahawks' D, so limiting them to less than 75 plays is paramount.

2. TACKLE. Force them to have to be in 3rd and 5 or longer. IT gives you your best chance at generating pressure and turnovers.

3. DO NOT BLITZ like a tard. Being over-aggressive will get you owned. You do still need the blitz in your arsenal but time it well.


In short, play fundamentally sound, work on TOP, play bend/don't break, blitz intelligently.

It's very difficult and there's a reason Air Raid teams generally give defenses hell at all levels (save the NFL). It's an equalizer like the spread option. However, defenses will adapt to it and get better, just like they did with spread option.

The Air Raid has disadvantages too. TOP is usually a problem for them. If the QB has a bad game, they're in trouble. (see LSU '12 and '13) It is really difficult to have a great defense when they're on the field this much and they don't get to practice against a pro offense.