I think the impact of the spread/hurry up teams are greatly exaggerated. For every Oregon under Chip Kelly, there are a half dozen Syracuses under Dino Babers. Yeah, they play fast but they shoot themselves in the foot as often as they do something good with their tempo, and that tempo on offense leaves their defense dead tired. A lot of those tempo teams end up giving up lots and lots of points. One could argue it is due to more possessions and plays, but their per play and per possession defensive stats are pretty bad.
Rye, The “hurry up” offense doesn’t mean you necessarily have to snap the ball “in a hurry.” but that you hurry to the LOS and be ready to snap the ball. This prevents defenses from substituting in situational players. We do it all the time as do some other teams.
The defensive personnel are on the field without enough time to sub. Good, well coached defenses switch alignments, etc., but the OC and QB know the personnel they have to work against.
There are advantages to the quick snap with the hurry up offense that have nothing to do with getting in a lot of plays or tiring the other team. Defenses have to make their coverage calls and any line or blitz packages without a lot of time to communicate these sets and schemes. We all have seen blown coverages by good football teams caused by confusion about who was covering what both with passes and runs.
Before we discard the 4-2-5 notice that Green Bay is in essense using the basic concept of the 4-2-5 with Josh Jones as the hybrid defender. That won’t last forever. Some smart OC will figure out how to negate that.
