Josh Heupel's Tennessee Offense w/Alex Golesh (Origins, Philosophy, and Film Study)

[@judemiller]

You're a very clear communicator! I'm new to the tactical side of football but I understood that completely. Good work!

[@TheCoordinatorProject]

Thank you so much! The goal is to bridge the gap between fans who want to learn more about the game, and coaches with a high level of technical knowledge, so I'm glad that it's hitting the mark!

[@Snsojdineow]

His offense is the true definition of spread offense. It’s balanced, they don’t have blazing fast players. The wide splits makes defenses show their true calls and he knows how to exploit it every single drive. Whether the wide splits makes a running lane, or wide split forces the db’s to play man coverage.

[@adamant5550]

He pretty much just stole it from Art Briles who had been running this style of offense since the late 90s.

[@austinhughes5042]

Just to let you know Tennessee is in the East but great video!

[@TheCoordinatorProject]

Hah, thanks, and I'm glad you liked it!

[@spencerwarren9219]

Great break down of my deadly vols.

[@jameshoops10]

i find this scheme so interesting bc it provides a lot of answers vs split coverages & those cover 7 (brackets) coverages as well

[@TheCoordinatorProject]

Yeah, when teams want to go split safeties, those wide splits can pull 5-6 guys completely out of the run fit. They can also really isolate those R&S-style vertical choice routes (I didn't talk about them in the video, but a Seam read has a lot of room to work with in this system).

[@adelakinagbonbioka2696]

Excellent, excellent video! Great break down. I love those spread to run schemes. I really think that the downfall of Malzahn's vaunted offense was that he never was able to consistently produce dangerous downfield passing. I love the Briles system.

[@TheCoordinatorProject]

The Briles-school passing game puts a ton of pressure on defenses, for sure!

[@thejasonblackburn]

Tennessee is in the SEC East. Great video.

[@TheCoordinatorProject]

Thanks!

[@marcusgreen4195]

I really enjoy your content ! Can’t wait for the wake forest segment !

[@TheCoordinatorProject]

Thanks! I'll do a swing through the ACC before too long, hitting Venables, Clawson, and Whipple in a cluster of videos. Should be a good time!

[@iwasthewalrus9204]

Excellent video. The breakdowns were awesome. Go Vols!

[@TheCoordinatorProject]

Thank you!

[@oddarcadegames]

Fantastic analysis man. Well done.

[@TheCoordinatorProject]

Thanks!

[@RZA36]

keep em coming!!

[@TheCoordinatorProject]

Will do! I've got a bunch of great coordinators in the pipeline.

[@MichaelDavis-th9mj]

Great show! I like your style.

[@IamDevron]

Elite video

[@cannonbros8487]

Great video!

[@TheCoordinatorProject]

Thanks!

[@frankbattlejr981]

The example used around 11:30 looks to be pre-planned routes where it’s a very common and simple concept. It looks to me like the WR’s both know what route they are gonna run and it’s a simple read by the QB of the safety trying to help the wheel or help with the dig route. Either way one of your WR’s will have an advantage. But a lot more variables can happen right here on offense or defense. The offense could also run a quick slant by the outside wr and a quick bubble by the inside and QB reading the player by the 30. If he bites on the slant a bubble will easily get 5 yards and if he tries to take away the bubble then the slants gonna be well underneath the safety and gain an easy 5 or possibly a big gain. Also a possibility I see is the LB by the 30 blitzing and leaving the two defenders left playing man. It’s why I like football because it’s a chess game for the OC/DC

[@trent210]

This would be true if you separated the TN offense from its tempo. There’s not enough time to designate routes like that from a no huddle, therefore it’s a R&S situation where you’re relying on your WRs to make good reads.

[@jalalhockett9114]

I feel like the formation at about the 5 min mark is illegal, as the left tackle is uncovered. Can someone help me out on that?

[@iyemidesolomi426]

it’s legal. tackle doesn’t need to be covered. as long as the covered receiver on the right doesn’t go downfield, which he doesn’t

[@kraigelliott5374]

Great video and break down of the offense. How are you able to get the cut ups for these games?

[@TheCoordinatorProject]

Thanks! I have KZbinTV, which gives you unlimited DVR storage and lets you keep your recordings for 9 months, so I just record every game on there, and then when I want to break a game down I just screen record it with Quicktime.

[@Wes843000]

I am here now after watching Tennessee beat Alabama!!!!

[@antmayne8887]

Great breakdown, but the run game is absolutely essential to the success of this offense.

[@Zachz-kt7ng]

Can you eventually do a video on Tommy Rees’s offense for ND?

[@TheCoordinatorProject]

That's a good idea! I want to look at the defenses at Wisconsin and Cincinnati as well, so breaking down ND's offense vs. them would provide a lot of good content. I'm gonna do Knowles and Venables soon, but maybe sometime after that.

[@djin812]

Good video man. East, but doesn't matter. If that's the only mistake in the video, you're doing fine!

[@Bey11ktb]

When he got with the Baylor coach his offense changed!! It's all Art Briles stuff

[@TheCoordinatorProject]

For sure, nobody's ever really figured out that offense. I need to do a Briles study in the future.

[@LaCrux]

What would you say the difficulty level is of defending this offense?

[@TheCoordinatorProject]

Really hard. When Mac Brown was still at Texas, he was asked how you stop Briles' Baylor offense, and his response was "Nobody stops Baylor!" Looking at the 2021 offenses coming out of that tree, Jeff Lebby's Mississippi offense was #6, Heupel was #9, and Kendall Briles' Arkansas offense was #28. The biggest issue is that the wide splits mess up a lot of typical responses to the RPO game, so that spacing gives this system an advantage over defenses as they've evolved over the last 10 years. Those splits also force defenders to declare their leverage and put them in a lot of space, which lets those downfield choice routes go nuts. It's a really,, really hard combination to stop.

[@PallahDaOracle]

@@TheCoordinatorProject especially the more talented you are. Tennessee pulled off the 9th best offensive with a bunch of Jeremy Pruitt orphans.

[@LaCrux]

I would love to know what Kirby Smart did in 2022 to stop Heupel’s offense.

[@ryanq53]

Control the line of scrimmage. You beat Tennessee

[@Jay8.6.5]

Sec East not west my friend but love the video

[@elijahallen4887]

A lot of people call this offense a gimmick and I really don’t see how it is

[@TheCoordinatorProject]

Yeah, every new offense gets called a gimmick, and Heupel's isn't even that radical. Spread formations, option routes, and tempo are firmly entrenched in all sorts of systems at this point.

[@spencerwarren9219]

Simple is more like it get the players in space and fast.

[@ethanwhitmire9619]

We are in the sec east not the west but I enjoyed the video keep up the good work

[@TheCoordinatorProject]

Sheesh, pretty egregious slip up on my part, but I'm glad you liked the video otherwise!

[@tspoon77]

True but he's not wrong. we were kept out of contention in the SEC West

[@biglebowski923]

How successful would this be back in the day with the Raiders and Steelers . You have to jam those receivers and send more than they can block on offense to hurry the QB. I can’t believe they just turn these receivers loose without any contact.

[@TheCoordinatorProject]

I think that playing some kind of Man-Free definitely solves a lot of things, but Tennessee has some answers. They love running this stuff out of Stacks and with a lot of Switch releases, which makes it hard to jam the guy that's off the ball. In Man-Free you've also got just 6 in the box, so you can't bring more than they can block. This year as a personnel issue, against Man-Free one of their go-to answers will be to run Slot Choice or Switch, where the outside WR does something short to hold the CB, and then lets Hyatt run down the sideline behind him 1-on-1 with no Safety help. If you cheat the FS over to Hyatt then you're exposing the middle of the field on their Choice routes. Probably your best bet is to force Hooker to throw Digs over the middle, but it's a tough offense to stop.

[@biglebowski923]

Why isn’t any DB’s up getting their hands on these receivers knock them off their route . They are just running free . I. Oils think you have to be physical and hold them up while redirecting them.

[@wyattwilliams9477]

Need a Bill Snyder video. Man changed the game

[@TheCoordinatorProject]

Absolutely. After this season I'll hopefully be able to do some historical offenses/defenses. For now I just have to build up the subscriber base to sustain those videos, because there's not a ton of search traffic for coaches who aren't active right now. I'm looking forward to doing that kind of content when the time's right, though!

[@camdencapps6894]

Do you think we’ll see a pro team run this? Not going to lie would love to see Mahomes in this

[@jadrickmorrison126]

No. Pro can't run this. Players are too talented.

[@ryebread7224]

This offense looks like a nightmare for defensive coordinators.

[@AK-ug1md]

Sighhhhh only if BM and AM were fired in the off-season!!! Now everyone needs to go … think Troy Taylor can fix it ?

[@colegetev5759]

SEC east bro. TN is part of the SEC east.

[@nealboswell8786]

Another 'Carpetbagger" point of view.

[@dondon98]

TN wins the EAST

[@Redbottlewhitecap]

OL is wayyy down field on the play at 15:00. Rpos have been fun for the game but the lack of officiating on them is out of control