Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Southern bringing back the art of the tight end with new offensive formations

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana -- There’s a renaissance taking place on the Bluff.

When Southern took the field Saturday it did so with three freshman wide receivers, all of whom coordinator Chennis Berry described as being short enough that he could “eat lunch off the top of their heads.”

The Jaguars are confident in their undersized rookies, but they know they won’t be able to carry the load by themselves.



It’s time to bring back the art of using the tight end.

“We’ve got very good tight ends, and I think that’s a lost art in football, especially at the college level,” said coach Dawson Odums. “It gives us a chance to create that surface, give us some angles, allow us to create more gaps and allow us to run the football and make (the defense) have to adjust.

“You have to spend so much time on that as a defensive coordinator. You’re sitting over there thinking, ‘What are we going to have to do to it?’ You have to waste at least a period a day at practice working on just that, and that takes away from something else. And we might not even do it, but you still have to practice it.”

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