Aggie Fans, tell me about Jake Spavital's First Year back as OC...

Asking a legit question won't get any bites. You have to turn this into a Chavis thread

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Where do you feel like you ended the year offensively from a concept, scheme and execution standpoint? IE-Do you like what direction you were headed? Is the line coach and the run-game changes an obvious answer to that question?

Also, how much of the QB position being in flux and also having experience issues with a greenhorn to blame for the potential issues and lack of production per se?

Just curious how much you actually plan to adapt or change things up schematically versus how much you're expecting Allen and the QB position to meet the system halfway in terms of experience and development after several starts and offseason development.

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We went with much more emphasis on power running in the bowl game and it was really effective. Hard to say if that was a game plan specifically for the bowl game opponent that was easier to execute because of the long prep time, or it was a sign of things to come.


The new line coach (Christensen) was already working with us and the theme in offseason talk has been about getting more physical, so I think many expect us to try to establish the run more. It might be gradual though, and we aren't going to stop spreading people out. I am curious to see if people look at our offense in a few years, once we have more TEs on campus and have adapted, and still consider it the "air raid". I don't think the coaches are too concerned with those labels, they just want to adapt and find something that works best

As far as QB play, the struggles last year were certainly part of that and it's to be expected when breaking in a new QB. We certainly expect the QB play to be better this year since Allen has starts under his belt, and if Murray were to somehow beat him out he would have to prove to be really special.

The offensive line and drops from WRs deserve their blame too though, along with the running game issues. I'm interested to see how our offense looks in that Arkansas game. That was when we really started to see some big issues last year and were able to cover it up with some big plays to pull out the win. In the years before that, it was when we really started to hit our stride

I wanna see Kyler running some up-tempo option in that offense.

1. Sumlin said from day 1 that he will run the scheme that works best. Enter running game scheme changes.

2. Allen will be very good. Not even concerned about him or QB play in general.

3. A one-dimentional offesne is easier to stop. We still ran the HUNH-type offense but with run olays and tempo dictated to fit the situation. We have way to much talent to NOT spread the ball around. I think we were trying too hard at ball control to calm Snyder's tempo bitching. That's just me speculating.

4. We will run the ball more as needed. We will also force other teams to keep scoring pace. This thread is about offense, but the idea is to get the defense in a position to stop a particular scheme. Force the other O to score fast and scheme against that very type of O. (Enter......Chavis). Don't know if it will work, but on paper it is a sound strategy.

Check the #s
Scoring O: 32.1 (36th)
Total O: 440.8 (33rd)
Passing O: 297.2 (14th)
Yards Per Attempt: 7.6 (43rd)
Rushing O: 143.7 (88th)
Yards per Rush: 4.5 (53rd)
Red Zone Scoring %: 84% (56th)

Clearly a down year for A&M even though its fairly easy to argue we had a top 30-40 offense even with a bad leader at QB then a true freshman coming in midyear. The run #s are too low and changes have been made to improve them. I think the leash was put on Hill & Allen (early on) which is why we say so many short passes. I fully expect everything with the exception of passing yards to improve this year.

Christenson was fired from Wyoming

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by SDVTiger
Christenson was fired from Wyoming

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If you insist on turning a football thread into a flame war, I'll just point out that Christensen, who is our OL coach, has never been fired as a coordinator, unlike your DC.

We started three first year receivers(true freshman Speedy Boil, RS freshman RSJ, and sophomore JUCO transfer Josh Reynolds), and Malcom Kennedy, our slot threat, was hurt most of the year. I expect our passing game to simply be better just because they won't be sooooo green, and Christian Kirk at slot has supposedly been a revelation. I'm not sure about two back sets and what not, as we haven't been able to see anything from practice, but even if that's something as simple as motioning RSJ from the slot to an H-back, then I'm happier with that than bringing a TE. Our best 4 receivers are more dynamic and simply better football players than whoever our second running back on the field would be. All the Christensen stuff is good simply from the stand point that our running game was really not that great, and we need to try something. I'm not sure how it will work out, and I'm not exactly sure what he brings, but all I know is if felt like half the time when we ran the ball, we ran half back sweeps and we sucked at them.

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If you insist on turning a football thread into a flame war, I'll just point out that Christensen, who is our OL coach, has never been fired as a coordinator, unlike your DC.

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Boom.

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