Looking at this film for the first time, the commentator and I see a lot of the same things but he doesn't watch the OL as much as he needs to.
On one QB counter, the center gets pushed back by the NT which causes the pulling guard to have to loop around, which allows the LB to fill closer to the gap. He blames the lackluster play on the pulling guard and not the center and guard double teaming the NT and getting no push.
We run a read option concept which has two reads and three options. I ran this in HS when I coached. The problem is it looks like an inside zone or power while reading the back side DE. If he crashes the QB can keep it. Now, we also run a bubble screen concept on top of this. If the DB is lined up way off or is bailing, the QB has the option to throw the bubble. Not hard, but on the play I watched the QB would have to have eyes in the back of his head to see whether the bubble is open or not because it was run to the play side and not the back side. Makes it impossible to read the backside DE and the playside bubble at the same!!
On another inside zone play toward the end, we run left, show strong right, USF is lined to our right in a 3/3 look with an LB lined up outside on our RIGHT. We are running left, inside zone. The basic blocking scheme is the LT takes the playside DE. The LG goes straight to the #1 LB, the center and RG will double the nose and RG will move to the #2 LB, the RT goes straight to the #3 LB. This leaves the backside DE and the overhang LB unblocked, BOTH on the right side where we are running away from. The QB typically accounts for the backside DE.
Now, running the spread is a numbers game. We have 5 OL and 2 backs. That leaves 4 WRs. They have 7 in the box, so its 7 v 7 against our run game, which means they are cover 0, or man to man. Their 4 dbs against our 4 wrs.
When presented with this, you can't block everyone in the box. You don't enough blockers, so check to a pass play. We don't and run inside zone. It gets blown up, but not because of them. We block it fairly well, except the RT lets the DE go and proceeds to go to the BACKSIDE overhang LB, literally the last guy in the box that can make that play. If he goes to the #3 LB, EJ can occupy both the DE and the over hang LB by himself and then we have numbers in the run game and the pass game.
This **** is mind boggling. And before anyone thinks this is just good theory, when Mack Brown went back to UNC and I was still coaching, we went to CH and had some one on ones with his OC and DC. Phil Longo is an air raid guy and he looked at what we were doing, exchanged some terminology, and he confirmed what we were doing.
I have a copy of Spurrier's playbook from around 1994. Its not what made him special. Every HS and college runs the same ****, blocks it about the same way, its when you call it and the quality of players that make it special. Spurrier was a master at this. Meyer just had better talent. Mullenz calls a good game for the most part but lacks Meyer talent. But there isn't a run play or pass play that is unique to his playbook. That's all bull****.