Do you have any links that explains the X's and O's of this offence?
The Veer and Shoot is a combination of the old Veer Option offense with the Run & Shoot offense, and it's all run out of shotgun. If you saw what Robert Griffin, III, did at Baylor in 2011, that's when it more or less was sprung on the college football world, but the 2014 Baylor offense was probably the best iteration of it, so far. In 2011 everyone thought that it had to have an RG3 for it to work at that level, but there was a point in the 2015 season when Briles went to something like his 5th QB, and it was still tearing everybody a new bunghole. If the 2014 team had gotten into the CFP (with Bryce Petty at QB), they would have shot off some offensive fireworks against anyone, and they possibly would have won the whole thing.
It's usually run in a hurry-up/no-huddle style, and (like both the Run & Shoot and the Veer) it's based on only a handful of plays, each of which has multiple options built into it. The base formation is the Mother-of-All-Spread Formations where the outside Split-Ends are only a few yards from each sideline, the Slot Receivers are outside of either hash mark, and almost every play is an RPO where the O-line fires off downfield at least 3 yards in run-blocking mode. The QB and RB ideally have sprinter speed, and the QB has a strong arm. There are a lot of similarities in theory to the Chip Kelly/Scott Frost offense, but unlike Kelly, there is a Veer-Option read to the same side instead of the QB reading the backside DE. The QB doesn't have to be a great running threat, but (as with RG3) it takes the offense to nuclear levels when you do. In reality, though, you can taper the offense around whatever QB you have on hand. Case Keenum ran it very well at Houston, and he looks nothing like RG3's QB style. Every Nebraska QB from 2010 onward could have run it, though Tanner Lee's feet would have been a handicap, and Tommy Armstrong, Adrian Martinez, and Taylor Martinez probably could have shattered records with it. Guys like Armstrong and Martinez, who were both a threat to run and could throw the deep ball, were ideal fits, even if they weren't accurate with other types of throws. Unless the D-line was capable of shutting down the running game with little help from anyone else, every defense has to cheat one way or another, and stopping the run game opens up the deep ball, or vice versa. Fwiw, Nebraska ran a version of the Inverted Veer (QB is the inside running threat while RB is the outside/Jet Sweep running threat) with Taylor Martinez in 2010, which is also what Gus Malzahn (as Auburn's OC in 2010) installed for Cam Newton that year. It was the "Veer" part of the "Veer and Shoot," but they didn't have the same sort of spread formation with attacking vertical routes that is Briles' foundation.
Here's an old Smart Football write-up by Chris Brown from 2011 when people still weren't quite sure what to call it.
The main deep threat is some version of a 4-Verticals pattern where all 4 WRs will sometimes cross, sometimes fly straight up the field, and sometimes do an Air Raid-like mesh in the middle with fly routes on the outside; regardless, they can all fly, and they're going to end up deep and spaced out horizontally, and one of your Safeties or CBs is probably NOT going to be able to cover his guy one-on-one. When you try to cheat by running a Nickle defense, now they're going to run smash-mouth football right over your 6 defenders who are left in the box. Like Oregon and Frost at UCF, everything and everyone is FAST, so every little play has the potential to go the distance. Throw in a bunch of variations of Bubble Screens, Tunnel Screens, and almost every Air Raid pass to an RB, and it's just an amazing offense to behold.
I'm not sure what level of terminology you prefer, so I'll post a bunch of links below, and you can click and open until you find the one(s) you like.
How the Baylor offense came to be and what it's doing so special.
www.desmoinesregister.com
grantland.com
An in-depth look at some of what to expect from an offense guided by Kendal Briles.
247sports.com
The veer and shoot, also known as "a whole lotta yardage going on."
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Baylor coach Art Briles and a full suite of talented players might have crafted the most unstoppable attack in college football history. We're about to find out if that's true.
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The Oklahoma State Cowboys will face a familiar style of offense when they play the Tulsa Golden Hurricane on Thursday night. Phillip Montgomery, who was a former offensive coordinator under Art Briles, has taken the philosophy he learned at Baylor and has brought it to Tulsa. This “Veer n’...
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The passing game usually gets most of the fanfare in the attacking, up-tempo spread...
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Kerwin Bell addressed the media for the first time Wednesday as USF's new offensive coordinator. Bell gave a basic synopsis of what the offense could look like next season. SPECIAL TO THE ORACLE/GOUSFBULLS Following the Bulls’ loss to UCF on Black Friday, USF fans draped a sign ove
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Baylor ran over North Carolina with simple tactics, why don't more teams do the same?
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