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Message: [QUOTE="Millhouse, post: 1422335, member: 78"] that's one way to put it. another way to put it is that they scrapped a failed pro-style approach and put in a simple college offense. we've had one good year on offense in , what, 18 years? this isn't that hard. it's college football. run a college offense. I would've loved to hear ANYTHING about a college offense that Lester admires. [URL]http://grantland.com/the-triangle/packaged-plays-and-the-newest-form-of-option-football/[/URL] [B]Marrone and his offensive coordinator at Syracuse, Nathaniel Hackett, son of longtime NFL coach Paul Hackett (and now the offensive coordinator with the Bills), spent the offseason trying to figure out how they could fix a pro-style offense that was supposed to take college football by storm. The answer was to go the other direction — to learn from the top college offenses. Marrone and his staff spent extensive time that summer studying teams like Oregon, Toledo, and West Virginia to figure out how to blend their up-tempo, spread-it-out philosophies with the NFL concepts Marrone and Hackett believed in. They didn’t pull the trigger right away, but after the first couple weeks of training camp showed little improvement on the prior year’s results, Marrone called for the switch that would change the course of his career. “Two weeks before the season, we changed the whole offense,” Hackett[URL='http://youtu.be/BtBujDslKgs']explained before[/URL] Syracuse’s bowl game last winter. And the theme for all the changes could be summed up in one word: “compression.” It wasn’t that Marrone added a bunch of new plays, or that the changes were obvious enough that a casual fan would notice, but the entire framework of the offense did change. For the passing game, [URL='http://blog.syracuse.com/orangefootball/2012/08/maze_two_stay_the_course_tweak.html']Marrone said[/URL] his first priority was to reduce the number of passing concepts. Out too went the complicated NFL-style play calls, replaced with simple, one- or two-word commands that facilitated the team’s new up-tempo, no-huddle pace.[/B] [/QUOTE]

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