re: Anyone who watched on TV or analyzed : deal with running game?

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Play calling was good, people need to get used to the fact that running downhill with this QB and WR's isn't priority. Good run stopping front 7's out there and crappy DB's. Shred the secondary. OL did their job. No QB Sacks.

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I don't like the sound of that at all. I don't care how good your QB and WR's are, you cannot be one-dimensional. Pierschbacher, Cotton, and Leatherwood have got to be better, the playcalling was atrocious and if what happened Saturday happens against a better team, it will be a tough game. These terrible plays where the RB doesn't get an opportunity to build up some momentum should be thrown out of the playbook.

At one point, my dad and I were talking about how it felt like "Darby up the middle" all over again.

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think in the past, we just punched the other team in the mouth until they couldn't take it anymore and we started gashing them. The repetition was good for our linemen and bad for the other team. With this passing game, I think we just haven't done that.

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I this is correct. The shift in offensive philosophy built around our current starting skill players favors the pass for good reason.

It is difficult for the OL to have 2 x elite identities. The transition from pass blocking to run blocking is a complete change of gears. From sitting back/backing up, playing in unison, anticipating/thwarting defensive rushers, and keeping a clean pocket to pure aggression, driving forward off of the ball, identifying your man and putting a helmet on a helmet to create space and work to the second level, which also requires a great deal of shared snaps on the OL to do together as a unit effectively.

That said, it does need to be a point of emphasis as it has to improve from where it is at. Down the road, UA will find a game where they need to man up and muscle the ball down the field.

A variety of playcalling adjustment, many mentioned in this thread, to force Ds to play sideline to sideline and focus on/follow motions to wear teams down and create opportunities could help in the interim.

Personally, I'd like to see pkg A: Tua and the offense as is. Let it RIP. And, since CNS is using him anyway, Pkg B: Hurts and a power run, play action heavy version of play calling. Not sure why the emphasis on trying to get Hurts to throw like Tua at this point and completely abandon his legs, which create an entirely different problem set for Ds.

Wear them out with pass in the first half and break them off with repeated nose punches in the second half.

aTm took a page out of the Auburn "how to kill the Alabama run game" playbook. They were slanting on the LoS with the DL. The slant kills the inside read but opens them to early cut-backs. Next page in the Auburn playbook they used with the slant was for the off side LB to blitz the gap when a guard pulled. Follow the guard to the ball in the backfield. When the RB looks to cut back due to the slant the blitz LB is waiting in what should have been the cutback lane.

To beat it you have to cross block behind the LoS with the H-back to pick up the gap blitz and the run has to be the outside read rather than the inside read. We kept running the inside read (in the teeth of the slant/blitz) rather than slipping off tackle outside the teeth. Running the inside read was because the game plan was to RPO the playside LB and Safety. That plan is off of the inside read. The extra steps to an outside read messes up the RPO timing.

Changing to running the outside read is a complete game plan shift away from the RPO concept to an outside power running plan.Game planning for one takes away to other.

Excellent.

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This offense is a beautiful thing to watch.

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That pass to Juedy under pressure into double , maybe triple coverage was unbelievable.

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That pass to Juedy under pressure into double , maybe triple coverage was unbelievable.

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Agreed...even watching the replay, can't believe how he threaded that one...

He also had several throws where he threw the ball to the spot he knew the receiver would be, before the receiver ever made his cut. His field vision combined with how well he anticipates is otherworldly...

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Tw1st3d

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This guy footballs.

Twisted explained it well and is essentially what I was getting at. Good front 7’s stop the inside run and creation of yards other than the inside is what will have to happen. It did and it did against AM. AM had weak safeties and a good front 7. So we ran a pop pass to the house and burned the safeties. It isn’t stupid it’s just what we needed to do to win.

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phaz

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I have been here for years.

Old computer died and I had a new e-mail. After weeks of attempting to figure out my old user ID / password I gave up and made a new one. Old name was TRey_WS.

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Old name was TRey_WS.

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