I hear about various strategies while watching/talking football; many discussed on this forum.

Recently saw a post that highlighted how multiple/dynamic the offense has been these first two games, and all the different ways Will Stein is attacking. My untrained eye watching the first two games would confirm that the offense looks way more varied than last year's version.

This got me thinking. What is better?:

To Reveal: Open the playbook and get real, live reps against competition. Would be a challenge for opposing defenses to prepare for that multiple of a defense, but future opponents will see what the offense has to offer. May be easier to implement misdirection for defenses that are overloaded and "think" they've seen this before.

Not To Reveal: Keep the playbook vanilla throughout the year except for more meaningful games, and then unleash on unsuspecting foes. Downside to this, IMO, is the lack of live game reps for essentially introducing a significantly new offense (not completely new). And this was suspected to be happening last year, but didn't really materialize, so perhaps this is harder to implement?

What are your thoughts?

The B1G Reveal: 9/27/25 Beaver Stadium, State College, Pennsylvania. 4:30 PM NBC.

Dress for a White Out!

At this moment, I'm thinking that if our blocking continues to be like it has been over the last couple games, that it almost won't matter if the defense even knew the play that was coming at them.

But regarding whether to reveal the 'special' stuff, or not, my preference would be to save it for postseason, unless we get into a jam before then.

8 minutes ago, Desert Duck said:

if our blocking continues to be like it has been over the last couple games, that it almost won't matter if the defense even knew the play that was coming at them.

The entire team blocking has been fun to watch.

I used to only rewind big offensive plays / TDs. Now I rewind to watch off the ball blockers, haha

It seems to me that Will Stein is showing upcoming defensive coordinators as many formations and plays as possible. This gives the defensive players lots of things to think about. Reading a formation pre-snap, continuing to recognize what is happening after snap, communicating what adjustments need to happen takes time.

All of this must happen to get players to react. This takes time. The more things that a college kid must be coached for creates more things to process. Making the process more difficult during the game. Advantage Offense!

I am trusting Coach Will Stein!

51 minutes ago, Smith72 said:

It seems to me that Will Stein is showing upcoming defensive coordinators as many formations and plays as possible. This gives the defensive players lots of things to think about. Reading a formation pre-snap, continuing to recognize what is happening after snap, communicating what adjustments need to happen takes time.

All of this must happen to get players to react. This takes time. The more things that a college kid must be coached for creates more things to process. Making the process more difficult during the game. Advantage Offense!

I am trusting Coach Will Stein!

I agree with you on this. That was my thought when I was seeing a much more diverse offense.

There's a third option... Reveal to Mess with Opponents.

Oregon put some stuff on tape that now opponents have to use some of their limited time to practice against.

Oregon put Sadiq in the wild-cast (or maybe QB, it kinda looked like he had the option to throw it). Now teams have to prep for that scinario.

Oregon did a 2 point look... now teams have to prep for that, even if it failed against Ok State.

All those runningbacks... opponents have to prepare for.

I'd have to imagine that every DC this year will ask the analyst about the scouting report for Oregon, then the analyst will take a really, really deep breath...."So...