Jimbo Fisher is not just a championship-winning head coach. The new head coach for Texas A&M football has also called plays for his teams, and he’s bringing an offense that will look much different than Kevin Sumlin’s.
Sumlin ran a spread, up tempo offense. It was great for teams with less talented offensive lines, and was especially great with a generational talent like Johnny Manziel.
But when facing elite defenses, like Alabama or LSU, it was rarely successful. It felt gimmicky at times. The offense was not built to sustain leads or keep its defense fresh, It’s what led to four blown leads in a calendar year (UCLA, Tennessee and Ole Miss in 2016 — even though they won those first two — and the UCLA collapse in 2017).