Coach Strong & Coach Gilbert will do one of these two

[Flowers4Heisman]

Option one: Blame themselves. They will pull out the old playbook and watch last year's games to see what worked and didn't. "We aren't calling the right plays."

Option two: Blame the O-line and execution. "The plays are fine. It's the O-line. We need a meeting with everybody on the O-line."

 

My hope is that the players, players like QF, Tice and D.J., are comfortable enough with the coaches to tell them it's the plays being called.

 

[Sillybull]

I think Coach Strong keeps his promise slowing down the offense, no reason to blame him :

[BDYZR]

CWT proved that this offense will not work with these players. I hope CCS learns that soon.

[Apis Bull]

2 hours ago, Flowers4Heisman said:

Option one: Blame themselves. They will pull out the old playbook and watch last year's games to see what worked and didn't. "We aren't calling the right plays."

Option two: Blame the O-line and execution. "The plays are fine. It's the O-line. We need a meeting with everybody on the O-line."

 

My hope is that the players, players like QF, Tice and D.J., are comfortable enough with the coaches to tell them it's the plays being called.

 

He did both

[JTrue]

Bold prediction from the OP. I'm going to go one step further. This weekend we're either going to:

1. Win

2. Lose

[DELdaBull]

The blocking that I have seen is so terrible that the plays called are irrelevant.  

[Flowers4Heisman]

4 minutes ago, DELdaBull said:

The blocking that I have seen is so terrible that the plays called are irrelevant.  

One would think he qualifies to coach the O-line guys.

Coaching Experience
Year	Position	Institution
2017	Offensive line/run game coordinator	University of South Florida
2016	Offensive line/run game coordinator	University of Texas
2015	Co-offensive coordinator/offensive line	University of Tulsa
2014	Co-offensive coordinator/offensive line	Bowling Green State University
2013	Offensive line	Eastern Illinois University
2012	Offensive coordinator	Coffeyville Community College
2007-11	Offensive line/tight ends	Butler Community College
2006	Graduate assistant	University of Houston
2005	Assistant strength coach	University of Houston

[Fold FB Invest in BB]

46 minutes ago, DELdaBull said:

The blocking that I have seen is so terrible that the plays called are irrelevant.  

Agreed.

When you're average lineman is 6'4" and 308 lbs, and your not running over Stony Brook, that means:

Strength and conditioning is bad or

technique is bad or

Stony Brook has a good DL.

Maybe some combination of those 3, but, they were playing in our backfield. That really hinders anything you try to do on offense.

[Publix Substitution]

Now that I've had some time to rest on it I think that the play calling was different for these first 2 games than it will be the rest of the season. The coaching staff probably wanted to run basic plays for 3 reasons.

1) Our team has more talented players. Basic plays and running down the middle SHOULD have worked better than it did.

2) Limit turnovers. Turnovers would be the only reason that we lost these games. We did succeed at this.

3) Keep play calling basic since the season is early and the coaching staff is new.

I expect to see riskier and more complex play calling now that the competition level is increasing and we've had some games under our belts.

[bullsfan27]

With the offensive line could the problem be we are running a power system with a line used to running the spread.