CALANDE SAB SCHEME IN THE WORKS

Steve and others:

1. Are you saying that in this new SAB scheme the OL is track blocking at 30 degrees as Carbon and Gregory advocate? If so, how do you run a simple lead option where the DE goes unblocked and is the pitch key? Who gets the playside OLB - say vs., a 5-3 look when PSTE attacks at 30 degrees and heads straight toward DT's rear end, right beneath the OLB?

2. Same question if the defense is a 4-4 with PSOLB off the LOS.

3. OK, for Iso (blast) you suggest Big-On-Big (BOB), which is nothing but base blocking with back leading at POA. What method (play call) do you use for this now?

4. Sweep play from DW or Wing-T - you want to use a "sweep" scheme with wingback hooking DE. Who blocks PSOLB? Draw up that 5-3 with WB hooking DE. If TE SABs, do you expect PSOT to pull and get to PS OLB? If so, how?

5. And, do you have your DEs "wrong shoulder" kickout blocks? I sure don't. I want my DE able to remain relatively square to the LOS even if I have him in an attack read mode at the snap. If I get his hips and shoulders facing the opposite sideline, the kickout can easily be converted into a log.

6. The numbering system is nice, but for the fact that it has to be preceded or followed by the actual description of the play - like xxx HB Counter, or something.

7. Smash XB, which you describe as a blast, actually becomes a C gap play and a G scheme approach to the blocking - not truly an Iso/Blast play. It's a bit slower than a true blast.

8. So, as you argued so eloquently on the SW board in that 300-post thread, SAB ain't the "do-all" system it's advertised to be. It is initially explained as 'simple", and to us a coaches there is a certain sort of simplicity to it. But, it still has quite a few exceptions and "tags" and adjustments to make it fit everything you'd like to be able