just noticed something interesting on mattgrothe.com

[I Bleed Awesomeness]

i was just looking under the stats section from last year for matt and i noticed something pretty interesting about our 3 consecutive losses to ru, uconn, and cincy.  all 3 of those games matt attempted more passes than he had any other game all season.  in addition to that, he attempted to run the ball more times those 3 games than any other game all season.  wow.  what does that tell me?  well, for starters it tells me the coaching staff put ALL of their trust in matt during these 3 games and had basically no faith in anyone other than him.  while i cant necessarily knock that theory when i first think about it because u want the ball in the hands of your best player, it obviously shows matt needs more playmakers around him.  i think next year with a year under our young rb's belts, it will help take some of that pressure off him.  pretty strange eh?

http://www.mattgrothe.com/07stats.html

[TRUTH D. Antagonist]

i was just looking under the stats section from last year for matt and i noticed something pretty interesting about our 3 consecutive losses to ru, uconn, and cincy.  all 3 of those games matt attempted more passes than he had any other game all season.  in addition to that, he attempted to run the ball more times those 3 games than any other game all season.  wow.  what does that tell me?  well, for starters it tells me the coaching staff put ALL of their trust in matt during these 3 games and had basically no faith in anyone other than him.  while i cant necessarily knock that theory when i first think about it because u want the ball in the hands of your best player, it obviously shows matt needs more playmakers around him.  i think next year with a year under our young rb's belts, it will help take some of that pressure off him.  pretty strange eh?

http://www.mattgrothe.com/07stats.html

it's a chicken or egg type thing.

did the coaching staff plan to put it all on Grothe, or did Grothe take over out of necessity because nobody else was getting it done?

[I Bleed Awesomeness]

i was just looking under the stats section from last year for matt and i noticed something pretty interesting about our 3 consecutive losses to ru, uconn, and cincy.  all 3 of those games matt attempted more passes than he had any other game all season.  in addition to that, he attempted to run the ball more times those 3 games than any other game all season.  wow.  what does that tell me?  well, for starters it tells me the coaching staff put ALL of their trust in matt during these 3 games and had basically no faith in anyone other than him.  while i cant necessarily knock that theory when i first think about it because u want the ball in the hands of your best player, it obviously shows matt needs more playmakers around him.  i think next year with a year under our young rb's belts, it will help take some of that pressure off him.  pretty strange eh?

http://www.mattgrothe.com/07stats.html

it's a chicken or egg type thing.

did the coaching staff plan to put it all on Grothe, or did Grothe take over out of necessity?

matt doesnt call plays. 

[TRUTH D. Antagonist]

matt doesnt call plays. 

really?!?!?!  well thanks for the news flash, captain obvious.

he does, however, improvise a lot.  if he ran more, factor in scrambles on broken pass plays.

pass plays also tend to increase when the team is penalized excessively for holding, false start, etc., which is a result of other players not getting it done.

feel free to respond by telling me the sky is blue, tho.

[MikeG]

when you are behind, you have to pass more. With Grothe's style, if no one is open or he sees an opening, he/s running.

Unless you look at all games and not just losses, you can't make a viable assertion imo.

[TRUTH D. Antagonist]

when you are behind, you have to pass more. With Grothe's style, if no one is open or he sees an opening, he/s running.

Unless you look at all games and not just losses, you can't make a viable assertion imo.

good point.

[I Bleed Awesomeness]

matt doesnt call plays. 

really?!?!?!  well thanks for the news flash, captain obvious.

he does, however, improvise a lot.  if he ran more, factor in scrambles on broken pass plays.

pass plays also tend to increase when the team is penalized excessively for holding, false start, etc., which is a result of other players not getting it done.

feel free to respond by telling me the sky is blue, tho.

all im trying to say is those stats are pretty strange considering those were our 3 regular season losses, especially consecutively.  oh, and the sky is blue.  now go **** yourself.

[JoeB]

when you are behind, you have to pass more. With Grothe's style, if no one is open or he sees an opening, he/s running.

Unless you look at all games and not just losses, you can't make a viable assertion imo.

That explains Cincy and UConn since we were down, but not Rutgers.  The easiest answer is that we didn't do a good enough job running the football in those games.  Thats why we threw so much.

[Orlando Bull]

Could it have something to do with Walt being out? Did we only run behind him this year?

[MikeG]

when you are behind, you have to pass more. With Grothe's style, if no one is open or he sees an opening, he/s running.

Unless you look at all games and not just losses, you can't make a viable assertion imo.

That explains Cincy and UConn since we were down, but not Rutgers.  The easiest answer is that we didn't do a good enough job running the football in those games.  Thats why we threw so much.

we were down in the fourth quarter. We passed and Grothe ran quite a bit towards the end of the game