Great Season But Offense Needs to be Overhauled!!

[gogeta4]

Watching some Georgia Mark Richt games. We might be headed to power run and play action offense. Mark Richt had no choice but to pass it this season once Walton got injured. Going back to Georgia days Richt always had to two back system to count on. With RB recruits coming in like Lorenzo Lingard, Cam Davis, and Realus George at FB we will likely go back to a power run team with a few RPO's for Nkosi Perry (hopefully). I would love to see Mark Helfrich join this staff as our 10th assitant coach but I don't see that coming. Your Thoughts?

There is no need to watch old Georgia tapes. I expected the offense you are describing when Richt was hired. I was thrilled at the prospect. I posted it here. Gorgeous basic power football. Georgia totally turned the physical tables on Auburn yesterday and they were birthrighted to do so, via the 45 average rushing attempts per game and power commitment. Meanwhile we open the game with a hesitant pitch toss and seemed to think we had no chance to do anything straight ahead. Just once I wish we had used the hurry up and run the ball approach, with authority. It looked decent up the middle a couple of times with Homer on quick hitters but the game was long decided at that point.

Somewhere along the line Mark Richt became a wimp. He heard about the RPO and decided it sounded cute. Hey, 2 for the price of 1. I'll fool the world. Head coaches as they get older generally move in that direction, toward clever as opposed to physical. Too exhausting to knock huge human beings out of the way. I saw it with Shula. Same with Bowden. Countless other examples.

It's always hilarious that Shula is somehow given credit for adapting to Marino, when all he did was doom the Dolphins to irrelevance via the pantyhose passing style. The Dolphin rushing attempt numbers plummeted to comical level, sometimes single digits. They led all game at San Diego in a 1994 playoff matchup yet were out rushed 40 attempts to 8.

That's the danger of becoming mesmerized by passing and finesse. The Canes had fraud rushing attempt numbers all season, as I've mentioned here. Miami was 13th in the ACC in rushes per game at barely 32. Last season in Richt's first year we were 12th in the ACC at barely above 33.

Richt had only one season like that in Georgia, in 2008.

If we've going to rely on this RPO and shotgun garbage then it needs to be more sophisticated, and founded around a physical running game. If you watch teams like Clemson and Auburn there is tons of motion and attempted confusion but lots of it is camouflaging very basic running plays. They'll spread out all the bells and whistles but if you ignore those distractions and simply watch the offensive line and the handoff they could not be more basic. Essentially they are running standard plays but with fewer people remaining in the box to contain them. Auburn in particular is known for that.

Meanwhile the Canes rely on these semi-apologetic delayed looping handoffs. I knew we were in trouble beginning with the Notre Dame game because the wrinkle we added to the running game was an inside misdirection play with Homer. Yeah, it popped a couple of times. Who cares? Once again that means you are trying to fool people instead of knocking them aside. Not going to happen.

Watch Stanford or San Diego State or Georgia and you see commitment to a more traditional offensive approach. Or watch countless teams who have fully committed to an athletic quarterback out of the spread. The Canes keep doing it in half assed fashion, like running laughable shotgun fakes with a Brad Kaaya incapable of running the ball, or this season the limited permutations with a Malik Rosier incapable of throwing the ball.

Exactly!! That’s why it’s mind boggling why Mark Richt committed to this simple RPO offense with a inaccurate QB. Richt failed by not putting Rosier in a system similar to Clemson or Auburn to hide his QB weakness.



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dude richt had brad kayaa run the rpo all year last year..He isnt the offensive genius we thought he was. I like Jedd Fisch offense better

 

[King Slayer]

Mark Helfrich should be target #1 no questions asked. Bring him in, we’re in the playoff next season.

Unfortunately Ritch has tied himself to being the play caller and de facto OC.

Yup, really difficult to imagine us getting Helfrich if he doesn't have play calling authority.

Yet no one not even Chip wanted the great Helfrich. Wonder why no one wanted this great OC that could score points

 

[2001]

You seriously want us, in 2017, in south florida, to run a two back power offense in a phone booth? Why?????

Give me what Clemson, Auburn, OU, Frost, etc etc run.

 

[Caneadian]

You seriously want us, in 2017, in south florida, to run a two back power offense in a phone booth? Why?????

Give me what Clemson, Auburn, OU, Frost, etc etc run.

Watch what a real offensive coach in 2017 does with Nebraska. It may not happen next year, but Scott Frost will have them playing like UCF did this year. He said on the radio he needs more speed at Nebraska and that he'll find it. Like it's so obvious to see how Richt has failed with the offence.

 

[AlaskaCane]

Rosier is awful... in no shape or form is he a D1 caliber QB... he needs to head back to Mobile and apply at jiffy lube

He makes a great college backup.

He makes a great scout team QB if there is a dusk threat on the radar, other than that he's complete garbage... Williams is more gifted NOW than Rosier will ever be lol

 

[SmokeyRone]

I was a huge critic of Richt's playcalling. I see predictable, slow developing plays (even considering the slow looking RPO), no deception, without scheming to take advantage of opponent's weakness. We couldnt light up teams with zero defense.

However, maybe it was more a talent/execution problem? Offensive line was almost always blown off the line, and often defenders went through untouched.
What ranked teams or conference CG teams had such terrible OL play? We may have set the record for failed 1st and goal series, and failed third and shorts. What offense succeeds with horrible OL play?

QB play was judged by some early game winning plays/drives that we havent seen in over a decade. But in totality, it was mostly awful. Rosier's bar was to make easy throws and some runs, and that turned out to be too high. Every QB we faced, besides BCU, VT and ND, was light years better. Cane imagine an offense that would have been easier for Rosier to succeed with. He cant hit wide open receivers ten yards away most of the time. And we had wide open receivers all day all year, despite no running game (Evidence that supports Richt).

Running game with a horrid OL, and a underwhelming Walton was handicap enough, but his injury really limited more than any playcalling. They couldnt get a third and 1 no matter what the playcall was.

Richt's playcalling, even if I think its low energy, timid and predictable, was enough for us to blow out most opponents, win big games, and go undefeated, if executed to a reasonable level.

Get a ******* OL and a QB! Only then will an OC matter. Im off the Richt's playcalling hate train, but got a ticket for the " Richt better have a qb in year three or its on him" train.

 

[SmokeyRone]

Rosier is awful... in no shape or form is he a D1 caliber QB... he needs to head back to Mobile and apply at jiffy lube

He makes a great college backup.

He makes a great scout team QB if there is a dusk threat on the radar, other than that he's complete garbage... Williams is more gifted NOW than Rosier will ever be lol

Interesting. Kaaya would have had some monster numbers this year, but still choked and puked away 4 or more losses. Rosier is about as limited as a QB can be, and he was a vast improvement. ****. Imagine if we had any half ***, real QB? Like the clowns at Pitt, UNC, etc? Someone with minimum passing skill, average speed, and not a panzy, and we will have the best QB play in 2018 in 14 years!