re: This sounds familiar (BOB playcalling )

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Bryce scrambling for his life every play because no one was open

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Part of this was after his injury Bryce couldn’t really push the ball downfield and DCs knew it so they dropped 8 and sat on our routes leaving Bryce with nowhere to go with the ball.

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the route trees for the WR were terrible

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Yes they were really bad. Horrible actually.

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abandoning the run game down inside the 10

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Our OL wasn’t great, our RBs undersized or still recovering from injury and our TEs didn’t block well. He didn’t trust our guys to go power and he probably wasn’t wrong against good front 7s.

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the terrible gameplan for Milroe

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Agree with this. Watching him run the Bryce spread passing attack was like watching a second grader take a physics test.

But it must be pointed out that you can’t implement a new offense in the middle of the season so we were kind of screwed because we didn’t have a backup QB capable of running the offense we had installed preseason.

All that aside, I think the biggest indictment was that we were being described by other coaches and players as “predictable”, “vanilla” and “uninspired”.

Compared to our offenses under Kiffin and Sark it was like watching an old school B10 offense with about 10 pages and where they could care less about surprise and would just go strength on strength. Problem was we weren’t talented enough to win those matchups with Bryce at 80% and a mediocre for our standards group of skill players.