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In fairness, he did nothing wrong on 2 of those plays. The holding was on McCants and Soloman missed his block. The cut block whiff was unacceptable though edit: the play McCants held on, the bubble was to Kano. Essentially the exact same play, same drive and Soloman missed. There's definitely an execution factor on the tape

USF 38-17 Tice MVS 425

Went back and watched some of the game film. Aside from the obvious, a couple things I noticed: 1. We are not blocking on the perimeter like we did last year. I think most of that comes from playing without an edge as mentioned by players. 3 plays in particular stuck out. Bubble screen to Wilcox for 5-6 yards comes back for holding on mccants. Bubble screen to Wilcox, Soloman whiffs causing a short gain. Would've been 5-6 yards before he had a 1 on 1 with the safety. Outside zone to DJ on first down, Wilcox misses his cut block allowing for the defender to come free and get a TFL. 2. We are not good at trapping/countering aka power run scheme. We simply don't get enough push inside between Ruff/Atterbury or Ruff/Hall and the pulling guard/tackle gets blown up in the back field causing a cluster ****. Need to go back to primarily zone blocking scheme and to mix it up by pull the play side guard to get to the edge. 3. On one of the sacks, Q had a wide open Kano who snuck across the field and Q just didn't see him. Would've been an easy first down. I'd like to see more of this used in the passing game. WR cleared out the coverage on the right side and Kano, who lined up on the left, snuck across on a drag and found the opening. Something they should definitely come back to. I took more notes if anyone has any questions. If not, on to Uconn. #BeatTheHuskies

We got beat by a DT QB that had no intentions of throwing anything except screen plays 99% of the game. Difference was, they used him in the running game with QB powers on the edge and draws.

Start strong, finish strong. Well done. /optimism

This offensive staff is playing Guess Who and you have a 50/50 shot (#6/#2) of being correct.

Look/sound familiar?

Just because they tried to run the ball outside doesn't simply invalidate everyone's concerns. It's the lack of creativity in the run game, whether it's inside or outside zone. Zero misdirection on those run plays. Did we even run the jet sweep action, zone play like we did against Tulane? Serious question, I don't remember.

Preparation stems from the top down.

I agree. My bad for not making my post more clear, I was referencing how CCS and Gilbert failed to prepare the players for this situation.

Sure, Adams was great there's no denying that. Antoine and MVS are perfectly capable of running it themselves. Heck, we could even run it with McCants and let him run over a CB or from an empty set and have DJ run the JET to allow more weapons outside for the play action side of things. The jet action is as much about misdirection as it is having speed to get to the edge. Knowing QF could keep it will hold the LBs from flowing to the edge. If they over-flow, Q keeps it. Then off of that, you can fake the jet and hit a quick slant/bubble option back side. These are the type of things the old regime were great at drawing up. Each motion play has 3-4 plays off of it depending how the defense aligns and defends it. That's how you "take what the defense gives you".

Stats are great when they fit your agenda. Compare and contrast with the defenses we have played against thus far. This offense is solid - good. The problem is it should be great. This offense was never going to be bad. There's too much talent and the schedule is horrendous. It's simply under achieving due to pride which is infuriating.

Gilberts offense sounded good stat wise. Heck, it looks good this year stat wise. The ability to adjust is what makes a coordinator great. Btw, where the hell is the 18 wheeler package Texas ran with Heard last year?

They are putting up 70 with inferior talent. Their offense looks eerily similar to ours last year with the motions and option reads all over the place. Coincidently, ours looks a lot like theirs last year. Kind of up tempo, kind of not. Kind of a good offense, kind of not.

The jet option/veer play last year was unstoppable. It is so tough for a LB or safety in the box to stay committed to your lane and not let your eyes get caught in the window dressing. Too bad we didn't execute what the defense gave us for a complete game on offense, defense and in the kicking game.

I understand people saying Q should've ran the clock down, but that situation shows what we are getting with CCS. Lack of preparation and awareness in these situations is stunning. On that last play with 11 seconds left or whatever it was, we had a delay of game....with 3 timeouts left. Why not use the timeout and give yourself more time to think of something. I know it wouldn't have mattered in he grand scheme of things, but good lord.

100% dead on from a micro standpoint. Point being, more aggressive play calling earlier in the game could've prevented being in that situation. Also, running the ball doesn't mean you have to lose all the window dressing and misdirection that causes false steps and open holes. That's my problem

I absolutely agree on Houston making adjustments.

Move Shaun King to OC

We were. Doesn't mean they weren't gassed. Houstons D was as well. Notice the amount of scoring in the 2H vs 1st H

They weren't. Not nearly as many as there should have been. Which is 100%. Every single running play should have an option for our best player to touch it. Not only were a majority of them not options, they weren't good option plays. Last year we had the Jet/Veer where Quentin rode the Jet to the Guard spot and the made the decision, holding the LBs allowing the WR more time to get to the edge. Now it's just classic Trap, Counter, inside and outside zone.

The offense was fine if you have 2014 talent. The defense was gashed because they had been on the field forever

We are never going to get OL here than are flat out Maulers. Dang sure not an OL that's going to blow Ed Oliver off the ball. Planning to run the ball anywhere near Ed Oliver is a flat out mistake from a schematic standpoint. Sure, tell your players they need to make that block, but do not plan for that. The misdirection is gone, the reads and making defenses guess are gone. Gilbert can't even draw up a screen correctly. Having the TE slide into the boundary in motion and the. Throw the screen lol. What a joke. Literally forecasting the play. Just line him up out there so it's an easier block and he gets more leverage. 85% of our run plays don't have a realistic reads on them. And good lord, please stop running the counters. They are awful.

Extremely limited at a QB? We lost to a team that was limited at QB. Quentin threw for 325 yesterday and was chucking it around the yard. Theres no equal blame here. It's on the coaching staff for coming in and completely changing a system that doesn't fit our players. We lost yesterday because of pride

Gilbert is awful awful. Not only from a schematic point but also calling plays on game day. This is on CCS more than anything. Bringing in his guys that just got canned rather than bringing back the offensive staff. CCS is a glorified D.C. He doesn't know violation about offense.