Pros and cons of _________ based on the USF game

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O-line play and issues vs what USF was doing?

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Gap penetration at LG/Center.
No push head-up at LG.
No push at RT until the last 3 drives (after changing out the RT).
LG not able to pick up twists that came to him.
RT could not handle an outside edge speed rush.
RT could not handle the DT when hisstepped out then did a cross-over to inside rush.
DT's pinch down and blitz off the edge.

The inside penetration killed our Inside zone.
Pinch with tight edge blitz killed the Outside zone.

LT/LG/Center were not slide stepping together. With that disconnect there was no way to run consistantly to the left.

RT had no push and no punch to slow a cross-over rush - That killed the Outside Zone to the right.

When they finally got some push after the RT change out, the outside zone to the right started working.

For most of the game, Alabama had no real ground game. That made the OL sitting ducks for the passing down blitz packages.

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OC play calling

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Perfect example of whatwas wrong with the play calling on Saturday...

Milroe fumble near the goal line.

OC got to cute with his call. QB has not been under center all game. D interior has been getting penetration all game.

So let's call a play to get the QB as close to the penetration as possible so he can get a snap transfer in a way he has not done much so the ball (which was snapped perfectly) can squrt between the QB's hands. Then let's have the QB do a quick pivot and fool the D with a tight-to-the line jet sweep to get on the edge. When interior penetration will blow it up and a certain hard pinch from the edge will also blow it up.

In that game, a tight-to-the LoS jet sweep is a horiible call anywhere on the field. A pop-pass sweep would be a little better out on the field. but a deep swing toss or hand-off speed sweep to get the WR away from the pinch and penetration is a much better choice.

The D is shuttling down your between the tackles run game. The D is in the QB's lap with pinching and penetration. The answer is getting the ball quickly on the edge with an HB lead or quick short/perimeter passing or tunnel screens. Put the ball where they are not - should not be a hard choice to make in calling plays.

Watched the film over again. What seems to have contributed to Milroe's fumble was the fact he was momentarily distracted by Law's hesitation to go in motion. When Milroe moves his right foot back Law is standing still and looking in the opposite direction. Milroe kicks his foot back again then Law moves.

This is an interesting perspective and I agree with you. Our offensive problems were not all on Jalen but he plays a part in it. Let’s give Ty some experience to see what we really have with him.

From a playcalling standpoint nothing really stood out as good.

As a disclaimer, it's difficult to get anything going when you're giving up immediate pressure, but you can't just "stick to the plan" if the plan isn't working- or in this case the other teams plan is tailor made to combat yours.

If you know they're running a zero blitz, it's fine to have 1 guy (Williams) running vertically, but you've got to have a mesh or flat concept in the play or you're asking for negative play. The rush was getting home before the receivers were into their routes most of the night. You can do several things to mitigate that.

You can move the pocket by design- As poorly as Formby played there were times where he actually created a pocket for Jalen, but Jalen scrambled right and ran right into the rusher.

You can audible to a max protect when you see the blitz and hope your guy beats their guy.

You can invite the blitz and throw screens behind it. Traditional RB screens, tunnel screens, TE screens- they were vacating the middle section of the field often and we couldn't punish them for it because we were running seams and verticals or deep digs.

You can spread them out and force them to defend the perimeter. We could have jet sweeped and orbit motioned them to death saturday night and it just wasn't called.

That looked like a Tommy Rees offense Saturday night. For all of BOB's faults, I thought the one thing he was good at was that if an opponent was adamant about taking something away, he would call plays over and over and over that attacked the weakness left behind. When Brian Robinson ran for a million yards against Ole Miss it's because they repeatedly put 6 guys in the box to stop the homerun, and we just turned around and handed the ball off and went right down the field 8 yards at a time. We didn't try to throw deep against a deep cover 2 shell, we just turned around and handed it off and beat them to death. There just weren't any in game adjustments Saturday night. We stuck to the game plan. They eventually wore down, but it was really playing with fire and asking a lot of the defense. What happens if they hit on any of those 3 wide open bombs that they missed?

Deboer sort of hinted at this in the offseason- but Jalen has a tendency to resort to what he's good at. It won us a lot of games last year, but it's going to be difficult to bring home a trophy if his options are run or throw it deep (his stregnths). I'd hoped to see some improvements on his weaknesses, which would really make him an elite QB

I would like to see the coaches honestly say what the plan was. It almost seems like they were being stubborn to a fault. Once they put in Pritchett and ran a short route to Ryan Williams it was all over.

Pros:
Home run hitting DB'S
Home run hitting WR's
Milroe's legs and arm are weapons
Jardon Roberts blocking
Team still played tough through alot adversity

Cons:
RT struggles and OL as a whole, but hoping issues get fixed with Proctor back.
OC - Where are the slants and screens to help vs the blitz? Hot routes need to be added immediately
Milroe - appreciate him keeping eyes downfield, but needs to look to run more vs a team blitzing like that.
Tackling. Way to many missed tackles