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Limited to 2 areas of improvement

Overall... amazing season! Our Frogs took us to a Playoff game and a National Championship game. AMAZING SEASON!! NO ONE was beating Georgia last Monday.

Limiting my suggestions to only two improvements I would like to address:

Offense
Play calling - We rely on the big play too much. It got us by but too scary to consistently rely on. We need to be ok running the ball, or 7-12 yard passes. All season it was "great we got 7 yards on the ground. Let's not run it anymore this drive." Too often our drives were incomplete first down, bubble screen for 2 yards and on 3rd and 8 72 yard TD catch. This should be a plus not a strategy to rely on. Heavy reliance on the big play doomed us in the game against Georgia IMHO. We didn't know how to get a drive going.

Defense
Pass Defense off the play action - This seemed to be the achilles heel for our defense. Michigan scored several times under a minute (particularly with the post/skinny post route) and Georgia .. well .. Georgia..

Those would be my two areas of focus limiting improvement to only two areas.. anyone else?
 
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Mean Purple

Active Member
Overall... amazing season! Our Frogs took us to a Playoff game and a National Championship game. AMAZING SEASON!! NO ONE was beating Georgia last Monday.

Limiting my suggestions to only two improvements I would like to address:

Offense
Play calling - We rely on the big play too much. It got us by but too scary to consistently rely on. We need to be ok running the ball, or 7-12 yard passes. All season it was great we got 7 yards on the ground. Let's not run it anymore this drive. Too often our drives were incomplete first down, bubble screen for 2 yards and on 3rd and 8 72 yard TD catch. This should be a plus not a strategy to rely on. Heavy reliance on the big play doomed us in the game against Georgia IMHO. We didn't know how to get a drive going.

Defense
Pass Defense off the play action - This seemed to be the achilles heel for our defense. Michigan scored several times under a minute (particularly with the post/skinny post route) and Georgia .. well .. Georgia..

Those would be my two areas of focus limiting improvement to only two areas.. anyone else?
What gets me is we run the ball very well. And we should play for first downs more. That still gives times for big plays, but brings more balance and helps the qb settle in. Others mentioned too much 3 down. We aint getting a guy home as much. bring in a 4th guy (hybrid lb/de) and move a safety down to mid level and then absolutely scheiss their [ Finebaum ] up.
 

BelPTex

Member
I'd love to see some analytics regarding returns versus starting at the 25. My gut tells me that the risk does not equal the reward.
Agree. Receiving kickoffs doesn't seem to be organized. The deep man catches the ball and then makes a split second decision on what to do.
Are there better options than putting all the responsibility on the player who must first focus on catching the ball? The return decision needs to be based primarily on depth of the kick and hang time. Could another player closest to the kick receiver make the call on whether to fair catch or run? That player would be able to focus on the kick relative to the charging kickoff team and the response from potential blockers without having to worry about catching the ball himself. These calls could also indicate what type of return to run. Maybe a kickoff receiving captain is already being used, but it never looks like it.
 

HickoryFlameFrog

Active Member
The play calling against most of the Big12 worked reasonably well. That stat about having more 50+ plays did not do squat against UG.
Moving forward I would like to see a better variety on 1st down. Maybe a pass to the TE for 5-10 yards instead of that pass out to the side line for a 3-5 yard loss. 2nd and 3-4 gives the offense a lot more options compared to 1 and 10 after a deep incomplete.
 
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