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Watching Cinny and the Bills tonight is enough to break your heart. All the ways they come up with to move the ball.

What bugs me the most is how Dawson/Mario respond to defenses. Talk about football in a phone booth...they seem to cower when stressed into the fetal position of two and three TEs.

Forget about trying to stress the defense back by spreading the field or placing your playmaker in motion. Forget simple quick passes to play makers. Just turtle into smash mounth football and third and longs.
 
NE Canes said:
Watching Cinny and the Bills tonight is enough to break your heart. All the ways they come up with to move the ball.

What bugs me the most is how Dawson/Mario respond to defenses. Talk about football in a phone booth...they seem to cower when stressed into the fetal position of two and three TEs.

Forget about trying to stress the defense back by spreading the field or placing your playmaker in motion. Forget simple quick passes to play makers. Just turtle into smash mounth football and third and longs.
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This is what UM is paying 80 million dollars for. Literally nothing we do on offense threatens the defense at any level. There is nothing inherent in this system that stresses the defense in any way. Nothing. No scheming, no setting up plays, no motion, no counters, no misdirection no eye candy nothing!

What is the point of running super tight compressed heavy run sets that draw the entire defense into the box if all you are going to do is run right into the defense? Why wouldn't you ever try to run wide with speed out of that formation? You could toss it to Brashard who would be lined up as a RB and get around the corner or we could have Harrell and Smith in the backfield, or Ray Ray and Smith or Smith and Chris Johnson or any combination of speed so that the defense has to respect us going wide in either direction. We could have a full house backfield of Smith, Fletcher and Johnson and have the threat of power up the middle or runs to the outside.

It's as if this staff is not allowed to do anything creative with the talent they have on the roster. There are so many great ways to stress a defense and move the football if you are weak at QB but this staff wants nothing to do with any of it and it's quite frankly bizarre and I want to know why. None of the ideas I put forth are super cutting edge. None of them are risky trick plays. I thought that the essence of game day coaching and the prep leading up to it was the process of solving football related problems by looking at your rooster and using it in such a way that it exploits the opposition yet I see no desire or inclination by this staff to do anything that remotely resembles that.
 
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I though we had good game plans earlier in the season, but this was just…I get altering the normal plan because TVD can’t be trusted, but how was running up the middle all the time supposed to help? Didn’t this offense used to be a little confusing? Didn’t they used to find different ways to get the ball to guys? And all of a sudden we don’t throw to Restrepo anymore? It’s like they thought the way to mitigate TVD was to change every single thing that has worked this year.

I’d really love to hear what the idea was.
 
I just don’t get it. How could the offense look so promising earlier in the year, especially against A&M, only to revert back to the same offense from last year again? Is it the fact that they’ve lost complete and total faith in TVD or is Mario’s philosophy creeping in again? Puzzling.
 
FrancisSawyer said:
This is what UM is paying 80 million dollars for. Literally nothing we do on offense threatens the defense at any level. There is nothing inherent in this system that stresses the defense in any way. Nothing. No scheming, no setting up plays, no motion, no counters, no misdirection no eye candy nothing!

What is the point of running super tight compressed heavy run sets that draw the entire defense into the box if all you are going to do is run right into the defense? Why wouldn't you ever try to run wide with speed out of that formation? You could toss it to Brashard who would be lined up as a RB and get around the corner or we could have Harrell and Smith in the backfield, or Ray Ray and Smith or Smith and Chris Johnson or any combination of speed so that the defense has to respect us going wide in either direction. We could have a full house backfield of Smith, Fletcher and Johnson and have the threat of power up the middle or runs to the outside.

It's as if this staff is not allowed to do anything creative with the talent they have on the roster. There are so many great ways to stress a defense and move the football if you are weak at QB but this staff wants nothing to do with any of it and it's quite frankly bizarre and I want to know why. None of the ideas I put forth are super cutting edge. None of them are risky trick plays. I thought that the essence of game day coaching and the prep leading up to it was the process of solving football related problems by looking at your rooster and using it in such a way that it exploits the opposition yet I see no desire or inclination by this staff to do anything that remotely resembles that.
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100% Agree, When his name came up as ahead coach everyone forgot he got fired from FIU, the somewhat success he had in Oregon was off the Nike brand, he has always been a horrible game time coach. This will go down as the worse hire UM every made.
 
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I wouldn’t have a problem with it if it was creative and deceptive like what Jamey Chadwell runs which is a hybrid spread triple option run based offense
 
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