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I remember when we ran Ogre's predecessor, Power, all the time and not just on 3rd or 4th and short.  I would love to see us run the Super-Inflated version of Ogre described in this thread on 1st down, and I don't particularly want Bryce sitting on the bench when that happens.

I suspect you'll get your wish, at least almost.

We ran Ogre quite often on first and second down last year; at least in the sense of having Nick Wilson (and sometimes Foster Sarell) in as an Ogre back/HB/Lineman. However, the usual personnel packages in these early down versions were not quite as large as that listed above as we typically had a FB in (Marx) and more often two TEs than two extra OLs.

Here is a very fun video of all of Love's TD runs last year.
All Love TDs
Without counting, I'd say that about half of these had Wilson in as the Ogre and half of those had no wideouts.

Given our expected maturation of several young OLs and the desire to utilize Love, I certainly don't see that going away. But not quite sure if we'll actually see 8 OL on the field on an early down.

[CTcard]

I remember when we ran Ogre's predecessor, Power, all the time and not just on 3rd or 4th and short.  I would love to see us run the Super-Inflated version of Ogre described in this thread on 1st down, and I don't particularly want Bryce sitting on the bench when that happens.

I suspect you'll get your wish, at least almost.

We ran Ogre quite often on first and second down last year; at least in the sense of having Nick Wilson (and sometimes Foster Sarell) in as an Ogre back/HB/Lineman. However, the usual personnel packages in these early down versions were not quite as large as that listed above as we typically had a FB in (Marx) and more often two TEs than two extra OLs.

Here is a very fun video of all of Love's TD runs last year.
All Love TDs
Without counting, I'd say that about half of these had Wilson in as the Ogre and half of those had no wideouts.

Given our expected maturation of several young OLs and the desire to utilize Love, I certainly don't see that going away. But not quite sure if we'll actually see 8 OL on the field on an early down.