Offense

[Who'sYourData?]

Just now, Bull94 said:

not sure anyone made excuses for him for 2 years.

[Bullrush33]

Stats are for losers - Raheem Morris.    Just because a defense gives up less yards does not mean less points.  Sometimes the offense is so bad it puts the team in short yardarde situations and then they get scored on.  I think points per game is a better measure of success than Yards.   UCF gives up more yards than us but they give up less points.

[deadudea]

2 hours ago, IBulleve said:

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 

Wilcox, Wilcox, Wilcox.. Yikes.

[IBulleve]

12 minutes ago, deadudea said:

Wilcox, Wilcox, Wilcox.. Yikes.

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 

Edited October 31, 2017 by IBulleve

[deadudea]

3 minutes ago, IBulleve said:

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 

Well yeah, was just pointing out that he was in on three of those plays. Sucks to be in the middle of all that. Maybe Strong is onto something about "execution."

[NewEnglandBull]

1 hour ago, IBulleve said:

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 

But he has had a down year

[IBulleve]

11 minutes ago, NewEnglandBull said:

But he has had a down year

Production wise, no doubt. Hopefully they can find a rhythm between him and Kano because those guys are too talented to simply turn into in-line blockers. 

[IBulleve]

1 hour ago, deadudea said:

Well yeah, was just pointing out that he was in on three of those plays. Sucks to be in the middle of all that. Maybe Strong is onto something about "execution."

Execution could absolutely be better. As could playcalling. Have to do a better job of getting into a rhythm early and then being aggressive once that is established. 

[DELdaBull]

It is like we don't want to score every time we have the ball on offense. 

[usfbullrider]

It's likely that Strong is running a defense heavy practice which is hurting special teams and offense.  If it gets us to the CCG he will look like a genius so I will save my judgement.