yup. run blocking is violent. that tests a d line. different personel numbers start making the D shift. just can't bring down a d back to cover the short pass (to a rcvr that the back was already going to cover). it adds up.
A lot of that is the Hal Mumme/Leach school. Which would catch the D off guard ... 20 years ago. They have it figured out now. The whole concept was to help lesser teams compete with bigger teams. well, now we are in a league that is all bigger teams. They have tape. After year 1, the cat is out of the bag and strung up on the goal post.
It also gets you an avg per 1st down in 3. Don't let certain stats fool you.
Yep, we have a revolutionary offensive scheme... twenty years ago.
Yup. I remember Ken Hatfield winning games they should not have and he beat them with the clock. He did it at Air Force, Arkansas and Clemson.
that just can't be the case ... we have the portal master. (sarc)
Pretty much what happened to Tech. They were dazzled by the sparkles. But it was almost a guarantee they were not going to get a championship.
There is the reality that if this keeps up for a long time, it will be that much longer to come back from. In the current environment, we can't afford to be less than 8 wins.
Curious, what did you think was going to happen when Bennett went down for the season, and we were left with 7 rotatable offensive linemen?
There is some truth to this, no doubt. We don't have the personnel to be anything like the 2023 Wolverines. I'm not expecting that. But, firstly, the run-game personnel problems don't dictate when you snap the clock. Committing to run up-tempo no matter what is a separate but related question: that philosophy is a choice we are making and could not make. It cost us very badly this week, and will continue to cost us. Secondly, there were plenty of situations on Saturday in which even such limited running ability as we had shown would have been a better option. We were averaging 3.5 yards per carry. If we could have managed to post that on two plays from 3rd and goal at the 6 with 6 minutes to play after the false start flag, you win the game. An incompletion leaves you at 4th and goal from the six, meaning you pretty much have to kick. Similarly, after receiving the punt with three minutes to play inside our own twenty yard line, choosing to throw on first down and finding ourselves once again in 2nd and 10 pretty much closes off the entire running game half of the playbook right there. You know what happened next.
This might have been covered but... Why do we have a band? The instant the whistle blows they start blaring crap from the speakers! Do we have to do that at the end of every play? It is so annoying. The band is what makes the college experience different. Oh and the inflatables between quarter 3 and 4, how embarrassing.
That was last week, was is not? I saw plenty of video of the return.
I kind of thought we did that, especially with that dime touchdown throw from midfield to open the second half. It’s too bad we didn’t recognize that. One thing I did like was a lot of short yardage high percentage passes to keep the clock running. That would’ve been way more effective had we not left 10 plus seconds on the play clock so frequently.
