re: Jonathan Rumph

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what dp you base your lack of separation allegation on? please link plays so we can see...

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Just an impression from rewatching the last three games. I've been critical of Mason, but there weren't a lot of plays were he had receivers really wide open. Most of his YAC have come off of very short passes, partly because deeper receivers were tightly covered and even when he hit them they didn't run far.

I started compiling some numbers a few weeks ago. In the Nebraska game, passes that travelled more than 5 yards past the LOS accounted for just 35 YAC on 7 completions, and 20 of that came on one play. In the GT game, there was 39 YAC on 13 completions of passes that travelled more than 5 yds past the LOS. I'll try to compile the Clemson data if I get a chance.

Those are pretty low numbers, due to several reasons. One, Mason wasn't doing a great job of hitting guys in stride. Two, the receivers didn't have a lot of separation, at least not by the time the ball got there. A third possibility is, like the Conley play I linked earlier, that Hutson simply waited too long to throw the ball and the defense got into better position. And it's also possible that some receivers are getting good separation but aren't targetted by Mason and I haven't seen them on TV. Since you can't always see the entire route on TV, it's kind of tough to tell what was the predominating factor.

If I have a chance I'll try to go back and look at Clemson.