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Lifelong Frog
Gary Patterson prepares his team to stop Big 12 offenses by teaching the triple option
He knows every play your offense has ever used, but it all goes back to the basics.
By Ian Boyd@Ian_A_Boyd
“You’re not gonna fool anybody after you play them a couple of years,” Gary Patterson said. “There’s only so many ways you can run a play or run a trick play. I just keep a running total of everybody’s trick plays. We just keep adding ‘em on every year. So you go back and you try them all out and be like, ‘oh well we haven’t run this in years’ ... no, we worked on it.”
One of the most entertaining subplots of the 2017 Playoff was Gary Patterson in ESPN’s coaches’ film room when Oklahoma took on Georgia.
“Nobody wants to play them twice,” Patterson noted at Big 12 Media Days when asked about how TCU had to play a round robin schedule and then go up against Oklahoma one more time in the Big 12 title game. “In all my years, that was probably the best or second-best offense I’ve seen. The other one was when they had Sam Bradford.”
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