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Systems Analyst: The Pistol, Pro-Style, and Triple Option Offenses

By Robert Mays at

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As Chuck Klosterman explained Thursday on Grantland, NFL coaches have left much of the extreme offensive innovation to their college counterparts in recent years. Disparate talent levels and resources have encouraged creativity in college football, and defensive ends that don’t look like this have allowed those innovations to be successful.

With the college football season fast approaching its conference-season stride, here are a few of the other notable offensive philosophies dotting the landscape.

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NFL

Does Your Favorite Team's Offense Suck? (Probably.)

Aaron Rodgers
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During the NFL lockout, there was no shortage of stories about player-organized workouts, with team leaders like Michael Vick and Mark Sanchez running unofficial practices for their squads. So why are we getting the distinct impression that those player-organized practices were maybe just dudes playing ping pong, pranking one another, and watching Flipping Out reruns?

If you could describe the collective performances of NFL offenses in this during this training camp in one word, you wouldn’t use a word. You’d just let out a guttural sigh.

Let’s take a look around the league and see who is dropping passes.

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