re: Gus Play-calling and Notable Changes

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You thinking that play doesn't work is what displays your lack of football knowledge.

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Thanks coach.

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The inside zone play is designed to suck in linebackers and safeties. When using similar formations and personnel, it allows an offense to have a quick hitting play that allows depth of plays to piggyback. When running optimally, which we aren't doing right now, sweeps and play action plays typically have less defenders in there immediate areas due to defenses having to provide extra support to stopping the inside zone.

Our right interior line play right now is bad. In order to run Gus' offense successfully, the interior offensive linemen have to be capable of maintaining a 1v1 block to allow the H-back to get to the gap backer.

Years of piss poor OL recruiting and development have significantly hindered what we can do in Gus' offense. I'm beyond frustrated by the level of talent that we have to work with and I do not seem much hope for improvement until we make a big change in that department. What I fear is that we are going to grab Ryan Pugh from Troy after this year or next and to be honest, he needs another 5-7 years before he is ready.

I'd like for us to make a run at Bill Bedenbaugh or Greg Frey, or maybe even Dwayne Ledford.

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I think you misunderstood what I was saying. I agree with you on all that. What I'm trying to say is currently, we don't have the OL personnel for that play to work and he needs to stop calling it. Because of poor execution that play kills drives and momentum 98% of the time. All it's doing now is setting up for a punt or at best case a FG. If you think it needs to stay in the playbook you need to resign your interwebz coaching position.


Thanks for your response!