Single-wing formation

Had a little bit of trickeration there.

They were gonna try a direct snap, almost like an old single wing.

Yep.

Yeah.

They lead at halftime 28 to nothing, and Battle Creek Lakeview will get the football first as we open play in the third quarter.

Don't forget, Denny and I will be back at home the regular season finale.

It'll be the Portage Northern Huskies and the Single Wing will be in action at Al Stockman Stadium, Cone-Lamen Field.

If you haven't seen the Single Wing in-

Uh, this is a defense that enters the Michigan game 32nd in scoring defense, 36th in total defense, but you look at the rushing, passing numbers and, uh, what immediately jumps out is the 413 rushing yards that Penn State allowed to Northwestern and 500 plus total yards.

That was to a Northwestern team coordinated by, um, Chip Kelly, uh, who ran the Wing T, uh, to great effect, and I was just watching a breakdown of, of how that worked.

It was a lot of fun to watch it, uh, I'm sure less so for Penn State fans.

Uh, but then last week against USC, 430 total yards allowed, mostly through the air, 300 passing yards, 129 rushing yards.

Like, there's defenses, there's defenses that are built for, for, like, just like offenses.

Like, if you got a small team that, that is speedy, you run wing T.

Like, if you, if you don't have a good throwing quarterback, you run the triple option.

Like, this is football.

But the game was a little bit different then as far as, you know, just the type of plays and players and offenses that you run.

We ran Wing T and Wishbone and that kind of stuff, but football was football.

Even in Germany, football was football.

We, there was a whole bunch of military bases over there at the time and, you know, we played football, American football, just like everybody else did.

Some were head coaches, offensive coordinators, some were just offensive coordinators.

But those guys, as you practice and you see things that you struggle with or things that work, every single offense is built to score, is to score points.

Even from Wing T to, like, triple option, all that kind of stuff, it doesn't matter whether it's spread or what kind of offense you really run, every offensive coordinator will tell you that every play they design is, is meant to score.

Now you just gotta put it all together, right? So I'm not afraid of scoring a lot of points, thinking that if we score too fast, then the defense is gonna be out there.

So enjoy the, uh, enjoy the Trader Joe's in Pittsburgh.

So we don't always go for the-- We don't want people to think that the only way to win the gift card is to send the, "My first game ever was the Wing T.

What was your guys' first memory?" Right? Like sometimes we just go f- like, "You know what? I feel bad for the guy.

Let's just give him the gift card." Um, so Mark, the, the suffering Penn State fan, send your mailing address to audiblepod@gmail.com.

Uh, Penn State has given up four, essentially 4.3 yards per carry in three straight, 5.33 to Temple, 7.5 to Northwestern in that game that you were mentioning.

Like, the only difference there is that they ran, like, the Wing T, and, like, I just don't know if Michigan's got it in them, but you do raise a good point.

If it wasn't the Harbaugh Michigan, uh-

This is not, not, not yet.

Uh, Penn State has given up four, essentially 4.3 yards per carry in three straight, 5.33 to Temple, 7.5 to Northwestern in that game that you were mentioning.

Like, the only difference there is that they ran, like, the Wing T, and, like, I just don't know if Michigan's got it in them.

But, that you do raise a good point, like, timing-

If it wasn't the Harbaugh Michigan, uh, situation