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I didn't know much about Scott Frost until I got to hear him in person at the UCF Clinic last March. I
knew that he ran the Chip Kelly offense that I have always been a fan of, so I made the trip to
Orlando. There were some audio-visual technical difficulties after the first speaker, so he went off the
script and just starting talking ball and fielding questions. You can tell when someone has complete
mastery of what they are talking about, and I was really blown away. Here are the notes:
Practice:
Chip Kelly always looked to do things differently, not just how everybody else does.
We want to practice better than anybody ever (Pete Carroll).
Oregon - the OL would stop finishing blocks to get ready for the next play because they always
went fast. He felt like they got a little sloppy towards the end there.
UCF - Team periods - perfect plays - slow down and let guys recover between plays.
Offense - 1st group - 2 superfast plays, then off. Then 3 superfast plays, then off. Then
4. They don't advance past more than 2 superfast plays in a row for a while until they are
ready.
“We don't want our fast to become frivolous.”
They will do a fast period followed by a slower period (Special Teams or Teach period) to let
guys recover.
UCF - 2016 - they were dumb situationally. They will emphasize in 2017.
Team Periods: want to compete in Team Periods and keep track of points.
Point System:
Philosophy:
- Every year this offense has evolved (put in Under Center Jet Sweep this year)
- New formations / New plays – will use in the first series to mess with defensive coaches
- They do Swinging Gate instead of Extra Point a lot, also do Unbalanced Punt
Jet Sweep:
Under Center – is faster, DE can’t play it
- Gun – will use also, is a bit slower. Have to wait for snap, then toss it to sweep guy
- Gun – advantage is that you can read defenders
Terminology:
Want to shorten everything
When you go to McDonald’s, you say, “I want a #2,” not “I want a Quarter Pounder, Fries, and a
Coke.”
Signaling – must be concise too
Every formation – one word – takes more memorization
3, 4, and 5 letter words mean different things
Signal – if TE is in/out of box, left or right
Tempo:
- Meetings – must be high tempo too. Meetings are a Pop Quiz.
- 13 seconds – all the time they have to think between plays during a game.
- We want to teach fast, talk fast, think fast.
- 13 seconds – use this in meetings too
- Want to say rules fast too to players – got from Mike Tomlin
- You have only 2 seconds to talk to players between plays in practice—make them think fast.
- On-field – use catch phrases
- High School – he would do a fast Team period and write down mistakes. Then he would do a slow
Fix period right afterwards.
QB Play:
- When the feet are right, the ball is right.
Tempo - UCFAST:
- You can pick 3 or 4 things that you can do fast—your best plays
- Tempo plays – Smash, Unbalanced – great to do
- Their Tempo plays: All-Hitch, Inside Zone/Bubble RPO
- Tempo takes pressure off of OL and helps them vs DL that are better than they are
- OL – going fast can be hard with OL rules—have to learn to block chaos
- Oregon vs Tennessee in 2010 – had 8 Tempo plays – when they first started getting good at
Oregon (Chip Kelly’s second year).
- Playcaller – get vanilla looks with No-Huddle
- Tempo will neutralize Pass Rush, like on 3rd and Medium
- Start with small package of tempo plays and build
- Tempo – get more practice reps with everybody – 1st and 2nd team
Tempo:
Practice it
Fast communication
Simplify rules
Do what you do best
- Effort
- Physicality
- WRs liked to pick one guy to kill on run plays and triple-team him
Blocking Rules
- Playside – get inside leverage – block right now
- Keepside – wait 2 seconds to block him because QB has to read it and pull it
- vs Press – run off
- Want to strike DB with staggered feet and get momentum to move him