[Podcast] All In on Offense – Distorting the Defense with Buffalo Offensive Coordinator Andy Kotelnicki

[Podcast] All In on Offense – Distorting the Defense with Buffalo Offensive Coordinator Andy Kotelnicki

By Keith Grabowski | Posted 7/2/2019

Today’s guest on the Coach and Coordinator podcast is Andy Kotelnicki, offensive coordinator at the University of Buffalo (N.Y.). Currently in his fifth season at Buffalo, Kotelnicki worked with the quarterbacks during his first two years with the Bulls before turning to the running backs two seasons ago. Offensively in 2017, Kotelnicki led Buffalo to a No. 2 ranking in the Mid-American Conference in yards per game and set a school record for total offense in a single season. Kotelnicki has coached three All-MAC players and helped quarterback Tyree Jackson set the school record for passing yards thrown by a freshman.

Prior to Buffalo, Kotelnicki coached at the NCAA Division III level for two years at Wisconsin-Whitewater, serving as their offensive coordinator. The two years Kotelnicki was there, Wisconsin-Whitewater went a combined 28-0. Kotelnicki also had offensive assistant coaching stints at D-II University of Mary (Bismarck, N.D.), his alma mater University of Wisconsin-River Falls and Western Illinois. Kotelnicki joins the podcast today to talk about different ways to distort the defense.

Show Notes:

1:20 Concept of distortion

7:30 Distorted formations

14:55 Protecting the box

19:58 Distributing reps each week

26:00 Planning during the week

29:30 Outside zone and run families

36:50 Aiming points and cutups due to distortion of defense

42:26 Getting players to understand

46:56 Working the reps in practice

54:27 Adjusting aiming points to different fronts

1:01:55 Distortion, motions and having purpose