WEBVTT - Seth Littrell and the Air Raid 0:00:02.200 --> 0:00:05.600 Welcome to the Solid Verbal. Come out for me. 0:00:06.680 --> 0:00:08.160 I'm a man, I'm forty. 0:00:08.280 --> 0:00:10.160 I've heard so many players say, well, I want to 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:10.680 be happy. 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:13.000 You want to be happy for day Edith State? 0:00:13.360 --> 0:00:20.640 Is that? Whoo whoom? And now Dan and Tye welcome 0:00:20.680 --> 0:00:23.439 back to the Solid Verbal. Boys and girls. My name 0:00:23.520 --> 0:00:26.320 is ty Hildebrand, joining me as always over there in 0:00:26.480 --> 0:00:30.960 snowy New York City. My good friend Dan Rubinstein, Sir, 0:00:31.000 --> 0:00:31.440 how are you? 0:00:31.640 --> 0:00:36.600 Scheme Theme, Scheme Theme. I'm excited, ty, I'm a great 0:00:36.600 --> 0:00:37.520 play that is right. 0:00:37.600 --> 0:00:42.600 Welcome one, Welcome all to what we're calling Scheme Theme Month. 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:46.360 Here all throughout the month of March on the Solid Verbal. 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:49.879 It is presented by our good friends over at Oliver's Apparel. 0:00:50.400 --> 0:00:53.479 All month long, we're going to be diving into the 0:00:53.600 --> 0:00:59.480 minutiam college football. Let's talk about offense, Let's talk about defense. 0:00:59.760 --> 0:01:04.000 Let's talk about secret languages that evolve around a system. 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:07.360 Let's figure out what the hell those big picture boards mean, 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:08.720 you know, the ones that you see in the sidelines 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:11.040 of the funny Picture got my favorite time. What do 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:15.119 those mean? Let's figure it all out together, everything that 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:19.759 we combine to form a particular scheme that your favorite 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:22.560 team runs on a Saturday. That's what we're going to 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:26.040 be focused on all throughout this month. And we are 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:28.960 super excited because we've got a great roster of guests 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:31.600 that are going to stop by and help us do 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:32.000 just that. 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:35.399 Daniel, I am truly and I don't say this lightly. 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:38.400 We have let's see this month. I don't want to 0:01:38.400 --> 0:01:40.559 give anything away. Obviously you already know if you've clicked 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:44.360 on this episode who. This episode features our new friend 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:48.200 Seth Latreuelle. Very excited to nerd out about, you know, 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:51.320 his backstory and his history and what he's doing in 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:54.840 Denton with North Texas is super interesting. But we've got 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:58.080 I think another head coach, another prominent head coach, which 0:01:58.080 --> 0:02:01.240 I think we're very excited for. We've got a recent 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:06.680 star quarterback to talk about communication and game planning and 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:10.120 playbook stuff and how that all evolved at a huge place. 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:14.119 And we're gonna work of course, Krispy Brown. Yes, of course, 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:16.600 how do we do this month without Krispy Brown? So 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:19.760 we're gonna deep dive communication stuff on both sides of 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:24.239 the ball with Krispy Chris B. But we like calling 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:26.600 him Crispy of course. Of smartfootball dot Com. But we 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:28.880 have We've lined up all sorts of fun people to 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:29.760 talk to. 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:34.320 Today, as you mentioned, and surely if you've downloaded the show, 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:37.040 you know what you're in for. We're very excited to 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:40.960 kick off scheme theme with Seth Latrell, the head football coach. 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:44.160 As you said, of the North Texas Mean Green North 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:48.200 Texas dan they were one and eleven before he took 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:53.040 over in twenty fifteen. Seth Latrell comes over his first 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:56.960 season in twenty sixteen, they go five and eight. Last 0:02:57.000 --> 0:02:59.480 year they go nine and five. They've been to a 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:03.560 bowl game both years that he has been there. Last year, 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:07.200 the offense was all sorts of revd up, scoring thirty 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:09.480 five and a half points per game. He had a 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:12.560 sophomore quarterback in Mason Fine who threw for over four 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:16.200 thousand yards. There's a lot story of steam, a lot 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:19.519 of positive momentum on what coach Ltrell is doing in Denton, 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:23.360 and we're going to talk about the air raid offense. 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:25.639 We're going to talk about its place in college football 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:29.840 and in the football world as a whole in twenty eighteen. 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:32.640 So pumped to get this started with coach Holtrell. 0:03:32.880 --> 0:03:35.480 Oh absolutely, and in case you don't know his background, 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:39.200 of course, he helped coach positions and then coordinate the offenses. 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:42.080 At Arizona, he was the running backs and tight ends coach. 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:45.920 Unfortunately Gronk was injured when he was coaching tight ends 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:49.560 at Arizona, but obviously worked with our good, good digital 0:03:49.760 --> 0:03:53.360 pal Nick Foles and Super Bowl champion It's right, worked 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:56.760 with Mitch Trubisky and Marquise Williams at North Carolina, Nate 0:03:56.800 --> 0:04:01.920 Sudfeld another Super Bowl winning quarterback tie at Indiana, and 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:05.280 huge offenses at North Carolina, and to immediately come in 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:08.280 at North Texas, as you mentioned, going from a pretty 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:10.840 down place in an area that I think you should 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:13.280 be able to win given the talent and the huge 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:17.720 amount of high school football influence and availability, and to 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:20.240 win with the mean Green and turn that program around 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:23.520 quickly and not even just win, but they're super fun 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:26.400 to watch, and that I think goes a long way 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:28.560 when there are what one hundred and thirty teams to 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:32.520 pay attention to, and North Texas this year, especially with 0:04:32.600 --> 0:04:35.480 Mason Fine, a really cool story to pay attention to. 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:38.240 So super pumped to talk to Seth Latrell because I mean, 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:41.799 this is an up and coming or arrived coaching mind, 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:45.760 and to hear what his philosophies are, what he's been 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:50.120 through and how he views the evolution of offense is 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:50.960 something to look forward to. 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:53.760 We're going to get into all that and much much 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:57.560 more Coach Latreill in just a few minutes. 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So we're talking offense and 0:07:56.880 --> 0:08:00.240 what you've done, what you've been doing, and obviously there's 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:04.080 a wide variety of schemes and terminology for those schemes. 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:07.000 What would you call how would you classify your offense? 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:11.000 Well, it's a little hybrid of the air rate I 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:13.440 guess that's the system I played in, and that's just 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:16.480 the system coach Harrow played in, our offensive coordinator, and 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:18.880 so everywhere I've been, it's always been a form in 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:21.600 some form of that in the passing game at least, 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:24.840 and you know, just getting cre creative at different places 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:27.160 of you know, what your strengths and weaknesses, who your 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:30.960 quarterback is, you know, and then also just trying to 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:33.800 evolve in the run game, making sure that you know, 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:36.040 still believe in running the football and being physical and 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:40.800 being able to be balanced enough to keep defensive of honest. 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:43.800 But again some years or different others, you know, I've 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:46.760 been at Arizona where you know, at times of folds 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:48.880 we had to throw fifty times a game. After Gronk left, 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:51.400 we didn't have tight ends at the edge, so you know, 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:52.959 it was a little bit different in our run game. 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:56.080 And you know, since I've been in Indiana and North Carolina, 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:58.840 we've done a lot more run game and established from 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:01.959 the quarterback run game. Just different schemes, and I think 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:03.920 most of it just kind of fit, you know, whatever 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:06.040 fits your team. You know, we're always going to have 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:08.240 our base system of what we do. I think year 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:09.640 in year out, it is a little bit different in 0:09:09.720 --> 0:09:12.439 what you do, uh, just because of the quarterback and 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:14.559 and what you got around. You got to make sure 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:16.640 you put them in the best situations to be successful. 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:17.559 And that's all the players. 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:20.400 What is that process like feeling out the sort of 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:23.000 strengths and weaknesses of your quarterback. Is that something that 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:24.680 happens in the spring? Is I mean that happens you 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:26.440 can't really get a sense for it until you reach 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:29.600 live action. What is that sense of like, Okay, he 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:31.120 can do this, he do that? 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:33.199 Yeah, a lot of times, just through spring practice and 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:37.800 getting through spring and then fall camp, you know, and 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:40.000 just building the system around him. Uh. You know, the 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:42.640 first year is a little bit different because of you know, 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:45.760 when Mason came in, we weren't projecting projecting him to 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:48.960 be the starter, but you know, through game one, I 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:51.240 think halfway through game one he ended up taking over 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:53.439 that job and kind of ran with the rest of 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:56.920 the year. Year one was definitely challenging for all of us, 0:09:56.960 --> 0:10:00.800 implementing a new system, having a true professional quarterback, you know, 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:03.080 so we we had to keep it pretty simple and 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:05.880 try to play you know, just try to play our 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:08.040 base stuff, you know, but this past year with his 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:10.960 experience kind of being here two in the system and 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:13.560 getting a lot more confidence and uh, we were able 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:15.320 to open the package up a little bit more. We 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:17.520 had a really good running back with Jeffrey Wilson, so 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:20.000 we also you know, build some of it around and 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:22.640 making sure that we were running the ball and uh 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:25.280 putting in you know, the different schemes that you know, 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:27.440 he was really good at running. And then uh, you know, 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:31.360 just continuing to uh, you know, find different ways to 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:34.680 make Mason comfortable and continue to teach him the offense 0:10:34.720 --> 0:10:37.480 and you know, reading defenses a year two just figuring 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:40.280 everything out. So you know, we evolved a little bit 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:42.120 this past year and we're going to continue to grow 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:44.480 and evolve. And you know, the biggest system is not evo. 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:47.800 Biggest thing is not evolving too much too fast, you know, 0:10:47.960 --> 0:10:50.160 making sure we keep it simple. That's still one of 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:52.480 the things that we like to do. And I take 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:54.559 that from coach leads and their rate. You know, make 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:57.360 sure that you know, keep your your your system simple 0:10:57.840 --> 0:11:00.600 and your players are able to play fast. So you 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:02.000 don't want to have too much in but at the 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:06.160 same time, you also want to evolve and grow, So. 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:08.200 I'm glad you said that. So what does a year 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:10.760 one system look like? You said simple? You know, is 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:12.679 is it a matter of the number of plays? It's 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:16.120 Is it a matter of responsibilities When a quarterback's approaching 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:19.040 a line, what is that that base level to set up? 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:20.960 And as you mentioned, a fresh foot quarterback in a 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:23.600 new system, what is that year one what does that 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:24.640 sort of teaching process? 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:26.440 Well, in the system, you know, we rely heavily on 0:11:26.440 --> 0:11:29.520 the quarterback to get us in good plays when they're not, 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:32.080 you know, being able to check it. And the more 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:35.840 you uh, you know, start trusting him and understanding that 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:38.880 he understands leverage and what they're trying to get accomplished, 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:41.440 the more you'll give him freedom. And so some of 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:44.120 that is just some of the stuff we check. Other 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:48.360 things just keeping formations as basic as possible. You know, 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:51.200 your base schemes, stuff you're going to do every single week, 0:11:51.240 --> 0:11:54.400 making sure you wrap them enough to where you know 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:56.960 that they get comfortable with in it and trying not 0:11:57.040 --> 0:11:59.520 to you know, again each week, coming up with too 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:02.680 many different schemes throughout a game plan at times, just 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:06.439 especially our on it's just better to run what you 0:12:06.720 --> 0:12:09.360 run and keep it simple for those guys. And the 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:11.439 biggest thing, you just want to be able to let 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:14.640 them go out there and play fast and you know, 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:16.640 with some familiar things. 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:21.360 Do you think your offense is difficult to learn relative 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:23.120 to other schemes that might be out there. 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:25.760 You know, I can't say that, you know, because I 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:27.880 haven't been in some of those other schemes. I know that. 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:31.720 You know, we feel like it's it's it's player friendly. 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:33.560 You know, we have a three day install for a 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:38.400 based offense. You know, we we basically, uh install our 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:42.040 whole offense in three days. Now. It may be challenging 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:45.920 on the front end, you know, but it really helps us. 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:48.120 I think it's better to overload them in the beginning 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:49.960 and then as they kind of get through either Spring 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:53.840 or Fall camp, you know, they they're able to once 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:56.480 it's all in, it's pretty much from there, just different 0:12:57.080 --> 0:12:59.679 tags here or there. So you know, we believe in 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:02.120 putting a lot on them on the front end because 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:04.920 it's not as much as most and you know, let 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:07.560 them grow within it and continue to watch tape and 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:11.120 understand it. But we basically run a three day script 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:14.160 where you know, we may change up formations or something 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:16.320 here and there. But we have base plays that we 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:18.880 run on day one, base plays day two, and base 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:21.880 plays day three, And you know, I feel like it 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:24.160 gives us a lot of opportunities to rep those plays 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:26.480 and not just call them a couple of days or 0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:29.640 times throughout a practice, but continue to rep them throughout 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:31.120 the whole practice. 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:35.120 To what degree, as a quarterback gets more comfortable in 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:38.760 your system, do you turn over some of the decision 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:41.320 making to him to help him modify, help him be 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:43.360 part of the scheme that you're that you're going to 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:44.480 run out there on a Saturday. 0:13:44.679 --> 0:13:47.720 Absolutely. The more they get to know and again, understanding leverages, 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:50.200 the more time to have meeting with coach Row and 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:57.200 watching tape understanding again defenses leverages. We start allowing them 0:13:57.240 --> 0:13:59.839 to do a little bit more and make more checks shoot. 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:03.240 And you got a guy like Graham Harrow, who his 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:06.000 senior year was h you know, my my last year 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:08.720 at Texas Tech. Uh. He had the freedom to check 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:11.520 every single play and he did it quite frequently just 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:15.000 because he understood what he liked and understood what they 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:17.600 were trying to do. And the great thing for Mason, 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:19.320 he is a guy that's been in the system has 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:22.360 played in it. That understands that, you know, he's really 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:26.200 learning and gaining a lot of knowledge through through Graham 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:29.120 on just having another set eyes who has been there, 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:31.440 who's done it. So you know, I think that's helped 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:34.520 Mason grow even faster. But at the same time, we're 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:37.080 still we're still growing with him, and we're still not 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:39.400 putting too much on him, but we are giving more 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:43.280 freedoms as it goes. In the spring hadn't changed. We've 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:46.040 continued to, uh see how much we can we can 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:49.280 help him grow and start to take ownership of some 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:50.200 of the stuff that we're doing. 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:53.120 You mentioned this a little bit, Coach, but obviously you 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:57.360 run a hybrid version right of the air raid, and 0:14:57.920 --> 0:14:59.800 you know you've had a chance over the course of 0:14:59.800 --> 0:15:02.440 time to evolve that. Now you've got Graham Harrell as 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:07.760 your offensive coordinator. How have you seen defenses change their 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:10.680 approach to what you're doing? What is the state of 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:13.960 the air raid in twenty eighteen, just as it relates 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:15.640 to how people are trying to stop it? 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:18.960 Well, I think it's again it's been a little different 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:22.480 back when we're at Texas Tech and really kind of 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:25.840 my last year there, and last maybe with Foals at Arizona, 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:27.680 people were playing so much different because we were so 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:30.120 heavy and warrants balanced, and so people were playing a 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:34.680 lot more coverages, you know, a lot more drop eight. 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:38.600 You know, you'd get certain blitzes, but for the most 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:42.280 part it was you know, it was kind of no 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:45.400 I wouldn't say a little softer, but I mean just 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:49.080 pass past defense, you know, and just being able to 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:51.760 run the football. As I started cheating people up, your 0:15:51.800 --> 0:15:54.920 play action passes have gotten a lot better. And again 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:58.280 it takes pressure off that quarterback and your own offensive line. So, 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:01.800 you know, people us all sorts of ways. Now every 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:05.280 every week you're you know, you're you're seeing something a 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:07.240 little bit different. You know, some teams come in and 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:09.320 play us a lot of too high. Other teams plays 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:12.800 a lot of single highs. So some guys this past year, 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:14.360 a lot of you know, we got a lot more 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:16.800 pressure than maybe we've got the previous years. And so 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:20.520 you know, I think, uh, people are again just like us. 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:23.200 They're game planning, they're adjusting and trying to you know, 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:25.960 see what best fits their game plan and who they have. 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:29.440 But by this time, you pretty much have seen everything 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:33.960 and you know there's well there's offense, defense, best teams. 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:37.520 I mean that the schemes you know, usually weekend and 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:40.480 week out, you've seen some form of them, you know, 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:44.160 with with different wrinkles and adjustments. But again, you just 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:47.280 continue to grow and develop your guys and your and 0:16:47.320 --> 0:16:49.760 your coaching staff, making sure you're staying sharp en up 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:53.080 to date with everything you're seeing on tape. And again 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:55.000 it's football, just going out there and execute. 0:16:55.440 --> 0:16:58.240 So one of those wrinkles or adjustments recently over the 0:16:58.280 --> 0:16:59.960 last few years, and we just sawt in the Super Bowl, 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:03.360 was obviously the run pass option with some run run 0:17:03.400 --> 0:17:06.439 blocking and the quarterback is reading various players to decide 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:08.879 whether he's going to hand it off or throw it quickly, 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:11.440 ar throw it deep whatever. When was the first time, 0:17:11.640 --> 0:17:14.720 I guess you implemented that into your system and where 0:17:14.720 --> 0:17:15.919 did you first see it? 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:18.359 We were doing a lot of that back when I 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:21.200 was at Indiana off the run tags, you know, and 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:23.520 basically what we were doing was more of the screen 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:26.080 game off of it, maybe some sticks here and there, 0:17:26.119 --> 0:17:29.000 some quick hits throws or quick out route throws to 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:32.520 the single receiver, having a maybe a three man game 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:35.320 with some of your inside zone outside zone stuff, your 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:37.639 three year server side. Maybe we're throwing some type of stick, 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:41.400 you know, something like that. But it really evolved when 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:44.240 we went to when I was at North Carolina with 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:47.520 Coas Fedora, and you know, we started, you know, really 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:51.560 getting more involved with reading safeties and second level defenders, 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:55.919 especially off some of your quarter stuff fit defenders when 0:17:55.960 --> 0:17:58.800 they're rotating you know, single higher where they rotate and 0:17:59.160 --> 0:18:02.000 you know, maybe throwing some more glances or or post 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:05.640 routes and behind some different guys and trying to fill, uh, 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:08.159 trying to find that grasp in behind the linebackers or 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:10.320 fitting and the safety is getting down in a fit. 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:13.840 So it really started evolving more at North Carolina. And 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:16.600 again that's one of the things that early on here 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:18.800 I didn't put much on Mason that you know, it 0:18:18.800 --> 0:18:20.760 can get challenging and you have to wrap it a lot. 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:22.880 So year one we weren't doing much of the run 0:18:22.920 --> 0:18:25.640 pass off and stuff down the field. And so now 0:18:25.680 --> 0:18:27.639 that you know, year two, we kind of put a 0:18:27.680 --> 0:18:30.479 little bit more of that in and and again he's 0:18:30.480 --> 0:18:32.639 still getting comfortable with it, and the more you wrap it, 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:34.800 the better he gets. And some of it again, is 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:38.080 what you play against every day too. You know, it's 0:18:38.400 --> 0:18:41.240 some of that stuff's a lot more, especially the second 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:44.720 level breeds are a lot more complicated when you start 0:18:44.760 --> 0:18:48.320 getting three man front teams and extra cenders out of 0:18:48.359 --> 0:18:50.479 space and knowing if they're blitzing or not, and so 0:18:51.400 --> 0:18:54.199 versus some of the four man front teams. So you know, 0:18:54.240 --> 0:18:57.160 it's just getting all the different looks that you can 0:18:57.200 --> 0:18:59.600 get on those run pass option and the more you 0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:01.720 can wrap, the more comfortable we get and the better 0:19:01.760 --> 0:19:04.879 they get. So again, that's something that we've continued to 0:19:04.920 --> 0:19:08.960 implement as we go, and again we haven't put all 0:19:09.000 --> 0:19:11.600 of it in, but now that we were kind of 0:19:11.600 --> 0:19:13.359 two years in the system of Mason and some of 0:19:13.400 --> 0:19:17.520 our experienced guys are coming back, especially at the receiver position, 0:19:17.600 --> 0:19:18.720 we're starting to do a lot more. 0:19:18.960 --> 0:19:20.800 Dan, I just wanted to take a quick break to 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:25.320 remind folks about our good friends at Proper Cloth. Oh Man, 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:28.200 Proper Cloth so good. They've been our friends for quite 0:19:28.280 --> 0:19:30.919 some time. You've heard a lot about Proper Cloth, and 0:19:30.960 --> 0:19:34.639 that's because we believe in what they are doing. You 0:19:34.680 --> 0:19:36.720 know how difficult it can be to find a dress 0:19:36.720 --> 0:19:40.200 shirt that fits. 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