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A couple of thoughts

Anyone that thinks yesterday was a good performance clearly either doesn’t watch football other than Miami games, or is delusional.

Referencing the score, or stats…further emphasizes the point. Our short yardage plays didn’t change, our plan of attack didn’t change, our aggressiveness didn’t change.

You can be happy with the win while also voicing that nothing changed week over week in terms of scheme or preparation.

Stanford would lose to FCS teams. But we’re onto SMU, another bad ACC team but at least has an OC and QB that could give us problems. Gulbranson wouldn’t start at American Heritage, and that’s the gods honest truth. He gifted us 14 points, and thank god for Malachi Toney cause he gifted us another 14-21.

I just can’t see how anyone can call themselves impartial and is blue in the face defending how we approached the game. It’s the same people that said we blew out FSU too, but if I’m referencing the score, we didn’t.
 
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PennsylvaniaCane said:
Even Stanford knew on the 4th and 1 we were running the A gap. Cant block 6 with 3.
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Dawson is so stupid we run almost 100% of the time .. .. could he have just maybe let the te slip out there ? I would have been fine if he did and it didn’t work same thing over and over .. maybe if ya told him women like it doggie style and hair pulled once in a while he would get it … mix it up
 
Tinman64 said:
Dawson is so stupid we run almost 100% of the time .. .. could he have just maybe let the te slip out there ? I would have been fine if he did and it didn’t work same thing over and over .. maybe if ya told him women like it doggie style and hair pulled once in a while he would get it … mix it up
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I wonder how tight the controls are on Beck. When they showed the OL view of that on replay where they had 3 DL over the C and Gs and 3 LBs stacked right behind them how did he not audible or call a TO? Especially running it single back out of the shotgun. I would have been fine if we lined up jumbo set with the 3 T formation in the backfield.
 
grover said:
I'm actually relieved it's not Mario or Mirabal. If it's just Dawson, there's hope things will change at least.
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Dog.

Whether it’s Mario Mirabal or Dawson is not the thing here.

Mario hired Dawson for a reason. It’s the same reason he hired Gattis. It’ll be the same reason he makes his next hire once Dawson is gone.

The next OC will fit the framework Mario wants as an offense. The same framework he’s always wanted.

The fans are continuously getting lost in the details of who has what responsibility when in fact this is the preferred identity of the program and the next OC is gonna need to be in line with it as well.

He doesn’t recruit freak show OL and power running backs from high school to be any other way.
 
WeBallinBoyz said:
Anyone that thinks yesterday was a good performance clearly either doesn’t watch football other than Miami games, or is delusional.

Referencing the score, or stats…further emphasizes the point.

You can be happy with the win while also voicing that nothing changed week over week in terms of scheme or preparation.

Stanford would lose to FCS teams. But we’re onto SMU, another bad ACC team but at least has an OC and QB that could give us problems. Gulbranson wouldn’t start at American Heritage, and that’s the gods honest truth.
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I’m just bookmarking threads at this point and will let them bury themselves soon. Anyone who thinks our offensive scheme is going to get us to 11-1 is on drugs. Glad we won and closed out the 2nd half strong but it’s fool’s gold that we’ve seen before.
 
McGahee2TheHouse said:
I’m just bookmarking threads at this point and will let them bury themselves soon. Anyone who thinks our offensive scheme is going to get us to 11-1 is on drugs. Glad we won and closed out the 2nd half strong but it’s fool’s gold that we’ve seen before.
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I mean we could go 11-1, but that’s the product of the conference we’re in and the talent we play.

People will get ****ed when I say this, but ND is definitely favored in a rematch. Miami continues to drop in power ratings week over week. Actually just wrapped up a meeting and we fell yet again in Vegas’s eyes.

IF nothing changes from here on out (I emphasize the IF, because imo, the parity in CFB is very apparent this year), this team will not win a playoff game unless it’s against a G6 or a team that’s hurt. They’d be close to a TD dog against Indiana (closer to 6), 8.5-9 ish vs Ohio State, 4-5 vs ND/Bama and A&M, around 3 to Ole Miss and Oregon, etc. We’re in the same bucket as Tennessee, Oklahoma, a healthy Missouri (not anymore but for perspective), about 3 pt faves vs Vandy, again for perspective.

But hey, I know what Mario is. So making the playoff is fine with me. I don’t expect anything more, not with this team or this approach offensively.
 
McGahee2TheHouse said:
I’m just bookmarking threads at this point and will let them bury themselves soon. Anyone who thinks our offensive scheme is going to get us to 11-1 is on drugs. Glad we won and closed out the 2nd half strong but it’s fool’s gold that we’ve seen before.
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BigDikDaddyFromCincinnati said:
They actually ran that play last night in the second half!
Not kidding. I haven't watched the replay to see if they were in a two back set, but I specifically remember shouting "BOUT TIME!!!" when I saw TWO guys pulling. I think it was a guard and a tackle, but you get my point - and I got yours. Well played btw.
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three plays in a row!
 
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I thought Beck was most comfortable in the 2nd half where the ball was coming out quicker on shorter routes. Sometimes we tend to go for the home run ball too often. That should come after runs and short passes then hit them over the top.
 
McGahee2TheHouse said:
I’m just bookmarking threads at this point and will let them bury themselves soon. Anyone who thinks our offensive scheme is going to get us to 11-1 is on drugs. Glad we won and closed out the 2nd half strong but it’s fool’s gold that we’ve seen before.
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I’m hoping not but I’m fully expecting a 24-20 type game against SMU. We should score 20+ in the first half. Instead we’ll shorten the game and be in a dogfight. It’s like we’re a number one ranked fighter who agrees to fight everyone with one foot strapped to the ground and one hand cuffed to their belt.
 
Brad_Wellson said:
If you don't think we did anything different in the second half then you're the one who doesn't watch football.
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Are you seriously telling me you didn’t know when an inside zone was coming?

Everyone knew what we were doing, the only difference is Stanford is a bottom 15 team in the country and wilted by the 2H. That and two horrendous interceptions gave us + field position.

That 4th and 1 stuff, you didn’t know an inside zone was coming?

Fletcher ran hard all night, you have to give him credit for that. But don’t make me pull up the missed tackles, the video clips, to put some of you chest bumpers in your place. We ran inside zone repeatedly with no change. Our best runs were when the RB’s bounced the handoffs outside on their own accord. We’re not going to break that many tackles weekly, even if this conference is dog****.

Every pass play was short because Stanford was giving us cushion and trying to gtfo about late 3Q. I’ll post the film if you want it too. Credit to Beck for finally taking checkdowns, but again if you think this is some revelation or turning of the corner, that’s naïve and foolish.
 
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JHallCanes said:
Dog.

Whether it’s Mario Mirabal or Dawson is not the thing here.

Mario hired Dawson for a reason. It’s the same reason he hired Gattis. It’ll be the same reason he makes his next hire once Dawson is gone.

The next OC will fit the framework Mario wants as an offense. The same framework he’s always wanted.

The fans are continuously getting lost in the details of who has what responsibility when in fact this is the preferred identity of the program and the next OC is gonna need to be in line with it as well.

He doesn’t recruit freak show OL and power running backs from high school to be any other way.
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I love people who never change their opinion even in the face of literal evidence to the contrary.
 
Meast21 said:
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.
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Great question! Who exactly are the offensive analysts & what do they do all week? If Toney gets hurt (God forbid) then what?
 
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