Well crap…My thoughts…again, post loss

Briles’ offense isnt really that bad. The problem is iit relies on good decisions by players on the options and he doesn’t make the right calls in the right situations.

The thing that drove me crazy was I believe 6 or 7 series in a row we were in Auburn territory but only had 10 points to show for it. Blame it on bad play calling (which I am), dropped passes or penalties, we deserved to lose that game. These guys are physically worn down I think and luckily with UAPB coming up and the bye they need it badly. Not having Catalon is gonna suck, I am excited to see what Slusher can do though, regardless I think this team still finished with 7 possibly 8 wins end of season and I’m happy with that in year 2 of Pittman.

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- KJ lines up under center to throw a short WR screen pass multiple times, but can’t line up under center for a QB sneak?

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Yeah we throw a screen out of it every time and it’s getting too predictable since that’s literally the only time we go under center

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Jimbo Fisher

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Every time he talks, he reminds me of Boomhauer.

I'm not prepared to heap dirt on either of our two coordinators but lets face facts here folks... neither Briles nor Odom covered themselves with glory yesterday.

I know it is cool to hate on Briles and excuse Odom but they both copulated with the canine yesterday. The Odom "bend but don't break" defense only works if your defense doesn't, you know, break. And we continue to allow opposing teams to throw the deep ball at will against us. Its not just a question of getting Catalon back in the mix. Teams had wide open throws against us before he got banged up... their QBs just missed them.

With Briles he is very much a rhythm play caller. When he is in the groove every play call works. The problem is when he gets out of a groove. "I'm going to run the inside dive on first down to establish the run game every series" only works if there is some doubt that you are going to do that or something else. The announcers were practically screaming for us to go play action on first down. But he was stuck in his rut.

I think the issues we have this season are fairly systematic. Getting time off will help a lot, but they won't fix things. This is the game plan we are pretty much locked into. Odom went with a 4-2-5 to stop the run, and until that last drive where our defense had collapse, it worked to stop the run... not so the passing game. Briles tried to pound the ball and be aggressive and it kind of worked up until it absolutely had to work.

We need more talent and more depth, or at least not such a "oh frick me" run of games, for this system to flourish on both sides of the ball.

I think we go bowling this year, and we have a decent shot at 7-5. More help is on the way for next year so I would not start shoveling dirt on us just yet. Perhaps... perhaps we should just relax a little bit. We were not going to get through this stretch of our schedule without getting beaten up. It just was not going to happen with this team and our current depth. No matter how hard they played.

I kid you not... there is a decent chance that when all is said and done this may be the most difficult schedule that Arkansas has ever played and quite probably one of the most difficult in NCAA history. Lets not start panicking here.

I like briles, and Odom. But what Sulli said above is spot on.

they both screwed the pooch yesterday. Why in the name of beelzebub did Briles have us run, run, run 1st down all damn game. And Pittman's comment about it was ... well... WTH..

and Odom, the over the top stuff constantly, outmanned everywhere and the soft coverage sucked.

BUt, we are better... just so close to a much better record. When is better good enough, and when is it not.

For now, Better is good... BTW anyone watch Leache's presser yet? one blunt dude!

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It’s great in the ACC, Big 12, and Pac 12. Not in the SEC where teams have speed and edge setters to (largely) take away the horizontal passing game and east-west stuff.

As Jimbo Fisher once said, it’s tough to be cute with your offense in the SEC because we have more “big fast and fast big” down here.

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I mean i just flat disagree here. Not very many teams even in the sec can take the whole field away with their defense. The offense is a math problem every play. You almost always see someone pop open somewhere due to that or you have an outlet. It's designed by stretching the field to put pressure on the defense with a true 11 on 11 matchup.

I feel like i see people come open and run game shows up pretty consistently.

I also see us consistently miss those opportunities. Fail to to execute when we see them. And to top it off we seem to do this in the worst situations.

We are getting better but we don't seem to have that do or die moment in us. Or the will to put our foot on someone's throat and end the game early. We're still just happy to be in it and grinding.

Yeah after Pittman's comments I'm concerned he's got him handcuffed and it really shows in the red zone and first down.

That would be bad.

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It’s great in the ACC, Big 12, and Pac 12. Not in the SEC where teams have speed and edge setters to (largely) take away the horizontal passing game and east-west stuff.

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You now have some version of the same offense at Arkansas, Ole Miss and Tennessee. All schools that are in the top 5 in total offense in the SEC overall and numbers 1,2 and 6 when looking at conference play only. The offense will definitely work in this league.