- Jun 12, 2014
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Ok, let's put aside the obvious disdain for Muschamp and Driskel and someone help me understand something:
Is there something fundamentally wrong with the way we run plays out of the gun? Every week I get a chance to watch a few games before or after we play and I've been studying the way other Spread Offenses operate. Auburn, Mississippi State, Baylor, TCU, Oregon, Clemson, Texas A&M, etc...all these teams seem so smooth in the way they run their plays. And I don't just mean in the numbers they put up or their tempo...everything they do seems to be executed way faster after the ball is snapped. In the last few years, I thought our offensive troubles may be mostly attributed to poor O-line play. But, is that really the issue?
For example, look at the way we've run the ball. From catching the snap from the center, to handing the ball off to the back, to getting off our blocks, to finding a hole in the defense, everything seems a little slower than average. Compared to other teams around the country, why does it feel like we have the slowest developing running plays ever. Even our zone read plays seem like they take longer than they should. Is this a schematic issue? Do guys just not know what they're doing? Some will argue that teams will stack the box against us (which makes it hard for any team to consistently be effective), but even when we have favorable numbers to run the ball, the play usually takes so long to develop. A guy like Kelvin Taylor should be a beast in our system, but he struggles. Something just seems wonky and I don't know if it's completely on the O-line.
Besides, the obvious issue of Driskel, will the offense operate any smoother with the next QB? Driskel is obviously an awkward, rigid QB, but are our problems deeper than just the starting QB and the incompetent head coach? I could be overanalyzing this, but I just wanted to throw that out there. Maybe someone more knowledgable on the subject can elaborate.
Is there something fundamentally wrong with the way we run plays out of the gun? Every week I get a chance to watch a few games before or after we play and I've been studying the way other Spread Offenses operate. Auburn, Mississippi State, Baylor, TCU, Oregon, Clemson, Texas A&M, etc...all these teams seem so smooth in the way they run their plays. And I don't just mean in the numbers they put up or their tempo...everything they do seems to be executed way faster after the ball is snapped. In the last few years, I thought our offensive troubles may be mostly attributed to poor O-line play. But, is that really the issue?
For example, look at the way we've run the ball. From catching the snap from the center, to handing the ball off to the back, to getting off our blocks, to finding a hole in the defense, everything seems a little slower than average. Compared to other teams around the country, why does it feel like we have the slowest developing running plays ever. Even our zone read plays seem like they take longer than they should. Is this a schematic issue? Do guys just not know what they're doing? Some will argue that teams will stack the box against us (which makes it hard for any team to consistently be effective), but even when we have favorable numbers to run the ball, the play usually takes so long to develop. A guy like Kelvin Taylor should be a beast in our system, but he struggles. Something just seems wonky and I don't know if it's completely on the O-line.
Besides, the obvious issue of Driskel, will the offense operate any smoother with the next QB? Driskel is obviously an awkward, rigid QB, but are our problems deeper than just the starting QB and the incompetent head coach? I could be overanalyzing this, but I just wanted to throw that out there. Maybe someone more knowledgable on the subject can elaborate.
