re: Kendall Briles

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You want to see something crazy. Watch the difference in his touch passes from the first couple of games.

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Amazing. I used to hate those intermediate routes and swings out to kern. But he isn’t throwing them high and hard anymore.

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We’ve had at least 50 half assed QB up the gut run plays that have been stuffed. Maybe 100. There has to be a little delay there. The QB has to at least bring the ball up for a half a second to back the linebackers off. We do neither, and KJ is lucky to get back to the LOS most times. Still calling that play in the 11th game. It’s great against directional schools for the blind, but Alabama, Auburn, LSU, aTm, Ole Miss and Mississippi State eat that shite up.

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Addressed but since you rewatched, how many were with collapsing pockets?

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We pull at least one flim flam double reverse trickeration play per game, but I have yet to see one single well executed screen to a running back all season. We love double reverse handoffs, but I have yet to see a pitch out wide to a running back.

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He has thrown to Rocket and Smith a few times running from the backfield. Rocket caught them and made yards a few times. Smith is all thumbs catching.

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KJ is absolutely night and day from where he started.

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And how much has the play calling opened up since he has learned a touch past?

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Addressed but since you rewatched, how many were with collapsing pockets?

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I only counted called plays that were obviously for KJ. The only variation I counted was a play action handoff, because I can’t imagine a worse call than to fake handoff to a running back, and then send your QB into the same gap that the RB would have ran into. Almost no chance for success on a play like that, unless your O line is dominant.

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We ran that play twice be Texas when aj green took it around the end for a touchdown and the other time when rocket took it and reversed field and I think may have scored a touchdown as well.

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And when KJ takes it up the gut, it is stuffed against almost all opponents where our offensive line doesn’t dominate. It draws the linebackers up to fill gaps. As you stated yourself, the only real success with the play has been when the ball is handed off.

Briles is inarguably the best we’ve had since Petrino. I just think we aren’t that far from being a great offensive team, we just throw away too many downs and series on called plays with low chance of success. No need to be an arse. I never said I could do it, but I’ve played and watched football for 40+ years. If you pay attention to it, you know what works, and what doesn’t.

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We pull at least one flim flam double reverse trickeration play per game, but I have yet to see one single well executed screen to a running back all season. We love double reverse handoffs, but I have yet to see a pitch out wide to a running back.

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Screens and pitches require offensive lines that can move and pull and get to different levels.

Ours have not gotten to that level yet.

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just not executed.

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This is why some question Briles play calling ability.

If the plays were executed properly by the players, there would be no questioning imo

A couple of those runs would have been big pickups if DJ was faster. I was saying put someone else in and then Trelon fumbles.

No matter how many yards we need on 3rd down Briles will find the play that throws it short of the marker.

I’m telling you guys a lot of the conservative playcalling is due to Pittman. You think the OC called for the kneel down there? With a qbs that’s only thrown 3 picks all year and one was a Hail Mary at half another was just a hellacious play by a Texas safety. But god forbid we try and take a shot before half with our 1st td receiver