Oregon’s Speed Freak Offense
Chip Kelly is the new Mike Leatch. Kelly runs a high-speed offense at Oregon and is rethinking the game a bit with his strategy. In some cases his approach is similar to Phil Jackson and how he lets his players find the flow and tempo of the game.
But in more traditional settings, what slows things down is the impulse of coaches to stop the action and be heard. To instruct and correct. Coaches, after all, get into the business because they love a sport and want to see it played right. They have limited control during a game. Practice is when they can stop time and choreograph perfection. (…) It doesn’t happen at Oregon. Coaches sometimes pull players from the field for quick talks, but first they send in substitutes, and the plays keep on rolling. They look back at the films from each practice — identify mistakes — and then point them out in early-evening players’ meetings, which are also short.
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