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Decoding Langsdorf: The Formation Chess Match For Nebraska

The Huskers love to dictate formation to what they want to do on offense, but what happens when it doesn’t work?

Diverging slightly from other editions of Decoding Langsdorf, this week I’ve opted to focus on the chess match of ‘formationing’ a defense into giving the offense a favorable look that allows the Husker offense to out-leverage the defense and exploit their structural weaknesses.

Right out of the gate, the Huskers utilized two tight ends set into the boundary to force a defense to declare their gap integrity pre-snap. On the first drive of the game against Northern Illinois, the Husker offense was particularly interested in finding out how NIU was going to set their front.

This particular interest stems from the fact that most offenses want to run Inside Zone at a 1 technique, to get two double team blocks on the play, rather than at the 3 technique. In the context of the 2017 Husker offense, Nebraska likes to package Inside Zone together with a Bubble screen with 12 personnel (1 back, 2 tight ends) from under center, unlike last year’s packaging of the plays out of 10 (1 back, 0 tight ends) or 11 personnel (1 back, 1 tight end) from the shotgun formation. 12 personnel is used to gain a better understanding of a particular defense’s gap integrity and to exert pressure on defensive structure.

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