By Ed Piper
Viking coach Tyler Roach installed more plays in the offense on day four of Fall football practice, holding the daily 30-minute video session, accompanied by clips of past LJHS teams running the specific plays successfully.
He did this with considerable input from "Juice", Associate Head Coach Scott Hughley, in his fourth year with the Vikings, 18 years overall.
On Thursday afternoon, Aug. 3, at a single 4:30-7:30 p.m. scheduled workout, Roach took three minutes with a reporter to discuss his offense.
Question: On your offense, what are you trying to accomplish?
Roach: By trade, we're a spread, up-tempo team, and we want to try to manipulate defenses with various formations, motions, adjustments. We're trying to stretch defenses, make sure they have to cover sideline-to-sideline, end zone-to-end zone.
So we'll condense formations, we'll spread formations out. Then for us, it's all about numbers game, numbers and angles. We want to get out in space, so what's the defense willing to give us? Are they going to load the box? Then we can exploit them in the pass game.
If they're going to cover the pass game with high safeties? Then we're going to attack them in the run game.
Q: So they're gonna adapt, then you play off that?
R: Yeah, it's a chess match. We're going to take what you give us. And game-planning, we're going to try to go in with a good game plan of what we think you're going to do and give us, and attack in that regard.
But we like to be multi-faceted, so we don't just hang our hat on ground-and-pound. When teams take away the ground-and-pound, what do you got?
And also, contrary to belief, we love to throw the ball. But if teams are taking that stuff away and playing man coverage and have some stud DB's (defensive backs) and such, we're going to run the rock at you.
Q: Are there times when you do all your planning, and you find you have to do something different?
A lot of times you have your game plan think they're going to and it's a game where we think what they're going to give us, be ready to run the ball and take advantage of that, right? At the core, that's where we always start. We've got to establish at the line of scrimmage, we've got to run the ball, use some physicality.
Now, as teams start to take that away, we want to throw the rock. It's a little bit of a kind of ebb-and-flow.
Q: You're kind of an offensive specialist. Do you see yourself that way? On defense, you have a Defensive Coordinator. to turn it over to them.
That's the thing as a play-caller. I've been in games where, unfortunately, we haven't had an answer. It sucks, so you always try to be one step ahead with the philosophy we want to dictate things.
Defense is more reactionary. They're going to respond. We feel like we're in charge from that point of view, and manipulate things before the ball is snapped. We want to be in an advantageous position. That's what we're trying to do.
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