A couple of thoughts

[PennsylvaniaCane]

I won’t talk too much about the offense. To me it’s still a train wreck. Nothing was fixed last night. The success we had running was largely due to effort by the backs and sloppy tackling by Stanford. Our use of tempo is the exception not the norm and I would be surprised if we used it more often.

The passing attack is perplexing. We haven’t seen Tony Johnson or Josh Moore in weeks and all of a sudden they’re out there making plays. Did they all of a sudden become good again? Maybe Moore might be up and down as a freshman but what about Johnson? Hes a 5th year senior with a solid track record. Did we just figure out we could put him on the outside? Is Marion this years Sam Brown? I just don’t see it with him but yet he’s out there getting primary targets.

All day yesterday I saw OCs go into their bag for specials on short yardage, red zone, and overtime play calls. Different formations, shifts, misdirection, etc. in year 3 I have seen maybe 2 really good play designs by Dawson. One was 2 years ago against A&M where he brought George in motion and ended up wheeling him back out at the snap for an easy walk in TD. I haven’t even seen that play since. Last night we come out on that 4th and 1 in a shotgun set. The initial camera angle showed they had 3 DL lined up over the C and Gs with 3 LBs stacked 3-4 yards right behind them. Of course we got shut down. You’re not blocking 6 with 3. If you see that as an OC do you not burn a TO or audible out of it?

Enough about our 1970s offense. I wanted to talk more about the defense. Again, stat wise it looks very good. And some things got cleaned up as the game went on.

My first beef, why did we all of a sudden become a blitz happy unit? Before FSU we would bring it every once in a while but now it seems like it’s a 100% thing? Let’s be honest. Stanford didn’t have the personnel to compete. But the plays were there. Their TEs dropped 3 maybe 4 passes that would have extended drives. Even more perplexing is our use of long blitzes knowing offenses are trying to get the ball out as fast as possible. Against a good unit they’re going to simply just fill the void created by the blitz. LVille did it to us a bunch. And I’d think Maryland will have a big day exploiting that next week. Will be a matchup issue for us, maybe not as bad as Bell was, but he’ll present issues.

Second beef is having Bain lining up wide. Again, knowing the QB is going to try and get the ball out fast why would we make his distance to the QB greater? I saw he spent more time over the tackle in the second half and it looked like we had more success with it.

All in all a good effort defensively once they woke up.

 

[lurker]

All day yesterday I saw OCs go into their bag for specials on short yardage, red zone, and overtime play calls. Different formations, shifts, misdirection, etc. in year 3 I have seen maybe 2 really good play designs by Dawson. One was 2 years ago against A&M where he brought George in motion and ended up wheeling him back out at the snap for an easy walk in TD. I haven’t even seen that play since. Last night we come out on that 4th and 1 in a shotgun set. The initial camera angle showed they had 3 DL lined up over the C and Gs with 3 LBs stacked 3-4 yards right behind them. Of course we got shut down. You’re not blocking 6 with 3. If you see that as an OC do you not burn a TO or audible out of it?

Obviously, you're not paying close enough attention to the games. Last night, instead of just running between the tackles, there was that one time where they motioned a WR and then ran between the tackles. I liked that wrinkle, and it caught me by surprise.

 

[Meast21]

Dawson is a slightly above avg OC but nothing special. No scripted drives like Brohm/Norvell to lead to easy first scores or unique gameplans to catch DC's off guard, not a lot of misdirection or spacing, zero TE action, no RB screens, not many great play designs (like the George redzone TD stated above, where did that play go?). $2M+ per year for average, so frustrating.

What do our all our offensive analysts do all week? How is there not someone compiling unique/clever play designs to copy and use ourselves? How can no one script a unique opening drive or different gameplan. 80% of this offense is feed toney and inside zone run.

 

[BigDikDaddyFromCincinnati]

We won 42-7.
Post makes me feel like we lost 42-7.

 

[PennsylvaniaCane]

We won 42-7.
Post makes me feel like we lost 42-7.

Because it was 7-7 at halftime. Our offense is designed that we have to outplay everyone much more than we should have to. We have no designed easy plays that everyone else seem to be able to run. **** that TD by Lyle was a great individual effort. It shouldn’t have to be against a squad like Stanford.

 

[Meast21]

We won 42-7.
Post makes me feel like we lost 42-7.

because against better teams we'll be in big trouble if our offense doesnt evolve. See UL game..

 

[BigDikDaddyFromCincinnati]

Because it was 7-7 at halftime. Our offense is designed that we have to outplay everyone much more than we should have to. We have no designed easy plays that everyone else seem to be able to run. **** that TD by Lyle was a great individual effort. It shouldn’t have to be against a squad like Stanford.

They play two halves. Both count. Cumulatively.

You wrote a nice word salad. Have you considered sending your run schemes to Coach Dawson?

 

[BigDikDaddyFromCincinnati]

because against better teams we'll be in big trouble if our offense doesnt evolve. See UL game..

You still scared of the boogey man?

If we throw four picks against anyone, we will lose.

 

[Cane44]

Sweeps to toney with ability to run or pass should be a 2-3 play staple every game. Then once teams try to cheat it, you burn them with a trick/fake play off of that.

 

[QSTOKES]

Don’t wanna see Marion on my field ever again

 

[AUcane]

I won’t talk too much about the offense. To me it’s still a train wreck. Nothing was fixed last night. The success we had running was largely due to effort by the backs and sloppy tackling by Stanford. Our use of tempo is the exception not the norm and I would be surprised if we used it more often.

The passing attack is perplexing. We haven’t seen Tony Johnson or Josh Moore in weeks and all of a sudden they’re out there making plays. Did they all of a sudden become good again? Maybe Moore might be up and down as a freshman but what about Johnson? Hes a 5th year senior with a solid track record. Did we just figure out we could put him on the outside? Is Marion this years Sam Brown? I just don’t see it with him but yet he’s out there getting primary targets.

All day yesterday I saw OCs go into their bag for specials on short yardage, red zone, and overtime play calls. Different formations, shifts, misdirection, etc. in year 3 I have seen maybe 2 really good play designs by Dawson. One was 2 years ago against A&M where he brought George in motion and ended up wheeling him back out at the snap for an easy walk in TD. I haven’t even seen that play since. Last night we come out on that 4th and 1 in a shotgun set. The initial camera angle showed they had 3 DL lined up over the C and Gs with 3 LBs stacked 3-4 yards right behind them. Of course we got shut down. You’re not blocking 6 with 3. If you see that as an OC do you not burn a TO or audible out of it?

Enough about our 1970s offense. I wanted to talk more about the defense. Again, stat wise it looks very good. And some things got cleaned up as the game went on.

My first beef, why did we all of a sudden become a blitz happy unit? Before FSU we would bring it every once in a while but now it seems like it’s a 100% thing? Let’s be honest. Stanford didn’t have the personnel to compete. But the plays were there. Their TEs dropped 3 maybe 4 passes that would have extended drives. Even more perplexing is our use of long blitzes knowing offenses are trying to get the ball out as fast as possible. Against a good unit they’re going to simply just fill the void created by the blitz. LVille did it to us a bunch. And I’d think Maryland will have a big day exploiting that next week. Will be a matchup issue for us, maybe not as bad as Bell was, but he’ll present issues.

Second beef is having Bain lining up wide. Again, knowing the QB is going to try and get the ball out fast why would we make his distance to the QB greater? I saw he spent more time over the tackle in the second half and it looked like we had more success with it.

All in all a good effort defensively once they woke up.

You bring up a good pt about blitzing. We seem to be much more reliant on it lately and we get gashed. Would rather not blitz so often but hey, what do I know?

 

[jmiller]

Houston fans warned us about Dawson and that play with George against Texas A&M was Mirabal not Dawson. Dawson said at the press conference Mirabal seen the Kansas city chiefs do it and told Dawson we should do it.

 

[Astcloud11]

because against better teams we'll be in big trouble if our offense doesnt evolve. See UL game..

That WASN'T a better team though. We SHOULD'VE treated UL like they were a 5-1 rival with a good defense, and yeah, we didn't. Stanford is not good, and deserved the vanilla play calling treatment until they held our offense to 7.

 

[Groz73Cane]

because against better teams we'll be in big trouble if our offense doesnt evolve. See UL game..

Agreed, with all of it. But,… Wah, Wa..Wah.. BooF**king Hoo. JFC, can we at least wait 24 F**king hrs before we do the B*t*h and Breakdown routine. Enjoy the win, then bust everyone’s B*lls. Please for the love of God.. 24f**king hr rule. Thank you for the excellent analysis.

 

[ssvir]

I won’t talk too much about the offense. To me it’s still a train wreck. Nothing was fixed last night. The success we had running was largely due to effort by the backs and sloppy tackling by Stanford. Our use of tempo is the exception not the norm and I would be surprised if we used it more often.

The passing attack is perplexing. We haven’t seen Tony Johnson or Josh Moore in weeks and all of a sudden they’re out there making plays. Did they all of a sudden become good again? Maybe Moore might be up and down as a freshman but what about Johnson? Hes a 5th year senior with a solid track record. Did we just figure out we could put him on the outside? Is Marion this years Sam Brown? I just don’t see it with him but yet he’s out there getting primary targets.

All day yesterday I saw OCs go into their bag for specials on short yardage, red zone, and overtime play calls. Different formations, shifts, misdirection, etc. in year 3 I have seen maybe 2 really good play designs by Dawson. One was 2 years ago against A&M where he brought George in motion and ended up wheeling him back out at the snap for an easy walk in TD. I haven’t even seen that play since. Last night we come out on that 4th and 1 in a shotgun set. The initial camera angle showed they had 3 DL lined up over the C and Gs with 3 LBs stacked 3-4 yards right behind them. Of course we got shut down. You’re not blocking 6 with 3. If you see that as an OC do you not burn a TO or audible out of it?

Enough about our 1970s offense. I wanted to talk more about the defense. Again, stat wise it looks very good. And some things got cleaned up as the game went on.

My first beef, why did we all of a sudden become a blitz happy unit? Before FSU we would bring it every once in a while but now it seems like it’s a 100% thing? Let’s be honest. Stanford didn’t have the personnel to compete. But the plays were there. Their TEs dropped 3 maybe 4 passes that would have extended drives. Even more perplexing is our use of long blitzes knowing offenses are trying to get the ball out as fast as possible. Against a good unit they’re going to simply just fill the void created by the blitz. LVille did it to us a bunch. And I’d think Maryland will have a big day exploiting that next week. Will be a matchup issue for us, maybe not as bad as Bell was, but he’ll present issues.

Second beef is having Bain lining up wide. Again, knowing the QB is going to try and get the ball out fast why would we make his distance to the QB greater? I saw he spent more time over the tackle in the second half and it looked like we had more success with it.

All in all a good effort defensively once they woke up.

Edit the headline - that's a lot more than "COUPLE"

 

[SIBCanes]

We won 42-7.
Post makes me feel like we lost 42-7.

My god sound like Peter, we won. Defense played a great game that is our identity

 

[OrangeBowlMagic]

Houston fans warned us about Dawson and that play with George against Texas A&M was Mirabal not Dawson. Dawson said at the press conference Mirabal seen the Kansas city chiefs do it and told Dawson we should do it.

Hang on a second.

All week I was told the run game was 100% Mirabal and Dawson just calls what he’s told to call.

Now you’re telling me that not only is the run game Dawson’s, but actually it’s Mirabal coming up with creative short yardage plays???

LMAOOOOOOOOO this place is demented.

 

[Hoyacane1620]

I watched the first half and turned it off. The camo uniforms blended in with the grass background making it hard to see and I could tell the game wasn’t going well.

NGL, I switched off to other games after the first two series. I was so angry. I checked back every few minutes to see nothing changed.

After they tied it up and went into halftime, I watched the entire second half. I just couldn't believe it was the same crap playcalling and running into the back of the center...

 

[ssvir]

Because it was 7-7 at halftime. Our offense is designed that we have to outplay everyone much more than we should have to. We have no designed easy plays that everyone else seem to be able to run. **** that TD by Lyle was a great individual effort. It shouldn’t have to be against a squad like Stanford.

We punted one time the whole game bro.

The field was slick and our RBs kept falling w/o contact and the WRs had numerous drops from the wetness - all drive killers.

 

[ssvir]

NGL, I switched off to other games after the first two series. I was so angry. I checked back every few minutes to see nothing changed.

After they tied it up and went into halftime, I watched the entire second half. I just couldn't believe it was the same crap playcalling and running into the back of the center...

GHEY