Hopefully this is proven out to be in the Catholic “A broken world from which Grace is the redemption” and not “The return window has already closed so you’re SOL.” At any rate, I’m going [...]

In this fourth part analysis of Mike Denbrock’s offense, I will describe the vertical stem plays: (4) Verticals, All Curl/Spacing and HOSS (Hitch-Outside Slot-Seam). In part 1, I described an overview of Denbrock’s offense. In [...]

In this third part article previewing Mike Denbrock’s offense, I will describe the two main “flood” zone-killing plays: Sail and Cross. These are basically either a weak side or strong side stress of the defense. [...]

In this article, I will break down how Mike Denbrock has used several similar passing concepts successfully. These concepts have traces to the West Coast offense and Air Raid offense and are popularized by nearly [...]

Return of the Mike: Much excitement can be had from the return of Mike Denbrock to be the offensive coordinator of Notre Dame. Last year, Notre Dame ran a old-is-new-again scheme of drawing up many [...]

After the rain delay of the NC State game, Notre Dame and Gerad Parker needed a spark. Only one quarter had elapsed but the Irish offense had been stymied so far. Gerad dialed up a [...]

Out of the 14 passes that Peacock graced us with a decent angle for, the most common concept by far was Snag (6/14). Snag is a passing concept that is used at pretty much all [...]

Have you ever looked at a snap and wondered why it was such a success or failure? In this series I hope to try to explain and give names to the common plays that a [...]

Brian Newberry is the new head coach at Navy after being the defensive coordinator for the Middies since 2019. Their defense has been pretty good over his tenure but the more intriguing bit is that [...]