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The issue is personnel not play calling.
The QB is a game manager that has to be carried & protected in order to have success. He doesn't elevate the players around him & therefore has to be bailed out on a game by game basis.
He can work short to intermediate passes, but when Defenses drop back in Cover 3 & Cover 4 Shells playing 2-high he struggles with coming off his first progression making late read ill-advised throws that end up as picks. He's not a strong arm thrower, he's a lobber on Deep balls & it's primarily up the WR to make a play to go get it. His ball placement is going to be available for both Defender & Receiver to catch it.
The same issue he had at UGA last year, he doesn't see Defenders at the top of the route breaks. He throws to a spot & doesn't have the ball velocity to fit it in tight windows the way he thinks he can. Because he was so used to Bowers just snatching everything out of the air, he grew accustomed to thinking everyone he throws to is supposed to do that, so he throws a lot of flutter balls with the expectation that it will just be caught. And for the most part it will be... Just not always who he intended it for.
As far as the run scheme, that's a much larger issue that goes beyond just play calling.
We have been desperate on building this reputation of being "Tuff n Fizzicull!", which means we're going to have to sacrifice diversified rushing attack for brute force glory.
It's the run game that everybody gets all hot & heavy over all offseason, so I don't get why people are complaining about it now. The only difference between this year & last year's run game is the RB1.
Our top 2 RB's are slow bruisers; you can't run a lot of outside & stretch zones with the style of backs the Offense is built around. They're downhill locomotives, what they do best is running straight ahead. It works when they play against teams that don't watch film & haven't figured out how to collapse the B gap by following the pulling Guard to the ball, but unfortunately, not every DC is as unprepared as we need them to be.
Which is why the run game has only really worked in 2 games this year.
It's easy to make Dawson the scapegoat, but the reality is, the play calling is tailored to what the team is, which is a Methodical sledgehammer, that can break glass easy, but also sometimes meets a titanium wall.
All offseason, all we heard was how the Offense was going to be more balanced & more efficient because we didn't have the wild Gunslinger making a bunch of risky throws back there anymore. Everything was going to be safe & sound... Well unfortunately, this is what a safe & sound balanced ball control Offense looks like; Some weeks it works, most weeks it doesn't, it leaves points on the board & leaves you susceptible to having dogfights with teams that are more explosive than you.
Last year's Offense was dangerous because Defenses didn't know where the punches were coming from. This year's Offense is safer because Defenses know exactly where the punch is coming from.
I have seen the phrase predictable play calling a lot; That's what a balanced ball control Offense is... Predictable.
The QB is a game manager that has to be carried & protected in order to have success. He doesn't elevate the players around him & therefore has to be bailed out on a game by game basis.
He can work short to intermediate passes, but when Defenses drop back in Cover 3 & Cover 4 Shells playing 2-high he struggles with coming off his first progression making late read ill-advised throws that end up as picks. He's not a strong arm thrower, he's a lobber on Deep balls & it's primarily up the WR to make a play to go get it. His ball placement is going to be available for both Defender & Receiver to catch it.
The same issue he had at UGA last year, he doesn't see Defenders at the top of the route breaks. He throws to a spot & doesn't have the ball velocity to fit it in tight windows the way he thinks he can. Because he was so used to Bowers just snatching everything out of the air, he grew accustomed to thinking everyone he throws to is supposed to do that, so he throws a lot of flutter balls with the expectation that it will just be caught. And for the most part it will be... Just not always who he intended it for.
As far as the run scheme, that's a much larger issue that goes beyond just play calling.
We have been desperate on building this reputation of being "Tuff n Fizzicull!", which means we're going to have to sacrifice diversified rushing attack for brute force glory.
It's the run game that everybody gets all hot & heavy over all offseason, so I don't get why people are complaining about it now. The only difference between this year & last year's run game is the RB1.
Our top 2 RB's are slow bruisers; you can't run a lot of outside & stretch zones with the style of backs the Offense is built around. They're downhill locomotives, what they do best is running straight ahead. It works when they play against teams that don't watch film & haven't figured out how to collapse the B gap by following the pulling Guard to the ball, but unfortunately, not every DC is as unprepared as we need them to be.
Which is why the run game has only really worked in 2 games this year.
It's easy to make Dawson the scapegoat, but the reality is, the play calling is tailored to what the team is, which is a Methodical sledgehammer, that can break glass easy, but also sometimes meets a titanium wall.
All offseason, all we heard was how the Offense was going to be more balanced & more efficient because we didn't have the wild Gunslinger making a bunch of risky throws back there anymore. Everything was going to be safe & sound... Well unfortunately, this is what a safe & sound balanced ball control Offense looks like; Some weeks it works, most weeks it doesn't, it leaves points on the board & leaves you susceptible to having dogfights with teams that are more explosive than you.
Last year's Offense was dangerous because Defenses didn't know where the punches were coming from. This year's Offense is safer because Defenses know exactly where the punch is coming from.
I have seen the phrase predictable play calling a lot; That's what a balanced ball control Offense is... Predictable.
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Geno Smith & Nick Mullens made Dawson.