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Concrete Helmet

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i dont understand why we do this.
In a fully functional downfield passing plan throwing a toss sweep in once in a while even on 3rd down seems to me to be the way to keep DB's cheating on their drop if they're manned up. Come back the next time in a similar situation and fake the pitch and go deep down the middle....

Strange how some coaches realize you have to stretch the field in multiple directions and with multiple looks while others try repeatedly to pound a square peg into a round hole.
 

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Strange how some coaches realize you have to stretch the field in multiple directions and with multiple looks while others try repeatedly to pound a square peg into a round hole.
I feel like our athletic department just totally ignores getting any input from people who actually know football when they're hiring a football coach.
 

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I feel like our athletic department just totally ignores getting any input from people who actually know football when they're hiring a football coach.
The really sad part is they shouldn't have to...it's supposed to be their job, but I doubt our current AD and staff even watches our games let alone any others in his free time.
 

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You picture a guy calling plays just to see if it will work this time IF his team executes the play precisely. Then, if it doesn't get the job done, he sports a grin not frustration.
Sometimes a play just doesn't work and that doesn't make it a bad play. A good offensive coach knows why the play doesn't work after seeing it and then decides when it may work...maybe he looks for different personnel on the defense later in the game, perhaps they had an injury, or perhaps the play might work better without motion and a quick count or maybe position on the field where there is more field to work with, mid field vs inside the other teams 20,.....these are the things that make good coaches good or great...

I hate to say it, but I think we get the same recycled plays without the all-important thought process.
 

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Sorry, you meant we should throw in some toss sweeps?
Everything works sometimes, in the right situation. Screen passes work when they are playing soft fearing the deep pass. Playaction works when they expect the run.

Nothing works well when you are predictable.
 

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Nothing works well when you are predictable.
We are far too predictable and not just in play selection. The entire pace the offense works at is constant. The cadence and the overuse of motion are cringeworthy. I'd have to look closer at film, but it doesn't look like we ever use different formations to run the same play(SOS was well known for doing this)
 

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We are far too predictable and not just in play selection. The entire pace the offense works at is constant. The cadence and the overuse of motion are cringeworthy. I'd have to look closer at film, but it doesn't look like we ever use different formations to run the same play(SOS was well known for doing this)
Pace: Takes so long to snap the ball. I don't get it. I know I know Coach, it doesn't matter if they execute.

Cadence/Motion: It is hard to watch. Why does he insist on taking a man off the field, essentially? Do something with the player in motion once in a while.
 

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Somehow given Trackhawks as well. Texas is gifting players Lambos. Crazy.
Imo... this is the bad part of capitalism. Free markets are great except when they aren't.
 

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Pace: Takes so long to snap the ball. I don't get it. I know I know Coach, it doesn't matter if they execute.

Cadence/Motion: It is hard to watch. Why does he insist on taking a man off the field, essentially? Do something with the player in motion once in a while.
I remember Meyer constantly harping on the need to have a numbers advantage so when a fast guy gets in space, he can break it.

BN starts with 10 on offense. If you go with that, the 11th guy better have the talent and speed of a Harvin. Even then, what a waste that would be.
 

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Everything works sometimes, in the right situation. Screen passes work when they are playing soft fearing the deep pass. Playaction works when they expect the run.

Nothing works well when you are predictable.
Nothing works when you're inconsistent either.

You can win if your predictable, but you better have more talent, strength, toughness and be absolutely consistent.
 

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Everything works sometimes, in the right situation. Screen passes work when they are playing soft fearing the deep pass. Playaction works when they expect the run.

Nothing works well when you are predictable.
I think he opens up the playbook this year… didn’t want to reveal much in first two seasons.
 

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Cadence/Motion: It is hard to watch. Why does he insist on taking a man off the field, essentially? Do something with the player in motion once in a while.
It's worse than that. At least three times in the Arkansas game alone, the pre-snap motion actually moved an extra defender into the very exact space where the play was designed to go. And every single time, the defender contributed to the play on the ball resulting in limited or no gain. It's like we are cock-blocking ourselves.

I thought he hired an army of analysts to self-scout. Are none of them seeing this? Are they showing him the film on this? Is he dumb, or arrogant? Or both?
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