I guess this is old news, but it's slow times. I was googling around and saw this quote from Walden from a few years back:
"Offense is all about attacking and not about letting the defense dictate what you do. We want to dictate what the defense does."
And it just struck me how completely 100% opposite this is from the Dimel concept. Dimel's philosophy was line up, see what formation the defense is showing, analyze it, QB look to the sidelines for a new signal, adjust according to the defense, and hope you guessed right.
Problem with that is defenses figured that out and would show something different than what they were really doing. Worse, they knew if they showed X in a particular down and distance we would change the play to Y. So defenses were basically forcing us to run a play of their choosing, which is part of why we would struggle.
I don't know that Walden will be more successful, but I like the idea. The offense *should* have the advantage that they know what they are going to do and the D is reacting to that. But Dimel removed that advantage from his team.
