The Football Coaching Podcast With Joe Daniel

For the first time on The Football Coaching Podcast, we’re doing something a little different. I’m breaking down the 2004 Utah Offense playbook. Urban Meyer was in his second year at Utah, running this Spread Option attack. Even though it’s the standard of college football today, this was an innovative and unique offense in 2004. When I’m looking at this playbook with you, all I’ll talk about is what I would want to steal. For my own players. You will not hear any talk about the athletes at Utah, or even Urban Meyer himself (except a few shots at Florida, because I couldn’t resist). It’s about what football coaches can learn from an old playbook. You’ll hear about the program philosophy as presented in the playbook. We’ll talk run game including those Spread Option plays - like that shovel option everyone’s so excited about today. Then I’ll look at the passing game that Utah was using in 2004. And why it was so effective. This is a great playbook to examine for coaches. Even though it seems complex watching t