Attack, Attack, Always to the Attack!!
Offensive, Defensive and Team philosophies below:
"Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom."
"I don't want to get any messages saying, "I am holding my position." We are not holding a Goddamned thing. Let the Germans do that. We are advancing constantly and we are not interested in holding onto anything, except the enemy's balls. We are going to twist his balls and kick the living shit out of him all of the time. Our basic plan of operation is to advance and to keep on advancing regardless of whether we have to go over, under, or through the enemy. We are going to go through him like crap through a goose; like shit through a tin horn!"
"There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change; it is, 'To use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wounds, death, and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time."
George S. PattonNow folks, General Patton was speaking to men who were going into battle. He was speaking of war. Football is not war, it is not a millionth of the horror and atrocity that is war. Football is however, the greatest physical struggle we will ever experience in our scholastic careers. We attack and defend territory, we attempt to mentally and physically disrupt our opponents schemes and we sure as shootin try to break their will on the field.Patton's attitudes are relevent! We are a nation at war and this is a world of struggle. Do not forget this as you prepare for the gridiron contests ahead. Attitude precedes and largely dictates all to follow. What you learn now will always be at your side in your life to come. Agree or disagree with GS.P., you are better for the mental conversation.
As an aside, one of Patton's dictums was "Grab-em by the nose and kick-em in the ass". In practice what he was talking about was to engage an enemy in the front, flank them with tanks and roll up their lines of communication and supply in the rear. It was a wildly successful strategy in the Western European theater of WW2.
A football analogy would be the play-action-pass. Run the ball; the defense responds by loading the box/attacking the run game and then throw the ball off of play-action against a thinly defended or out-of-position defensive backfield.
