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Interesting stat on our running game

TruCane81 said:
The play calling was rhythm killing.

Momentum is of the most importance in developing the confidence and efficiency of a young team.

Enos was multiple for the sake of being multiple and way too random. He called plays to a personal philosophy as opposed to game planning for where his team really was. This is one difference between good and bad coordinators.

Good ones game plan for exactly where their team is at, lean on their strengths, and grow confidence with success. One momentum is attained, they slowly build on it.

Humility is so important. We relied on under center deep, slow play action when we should have relied on shotgun quick, short play action. We relied on slow, outside zone when quick, inside zone was what got us the chunk plays.

We hardly ever took the easy money the defense gave us.

Just no feel for the game and personnel.
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Having the worst mark in the country for average distance on 3rd down speaks a lot to this.

We never, ever just take what is there. And when you have an athletic advantage with your skill players, what is there often turns into much more with a slipped tackle or two. But we must enjoy being in 3rd and 9. Baffling.
 
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Canesfan1899 said:
Well, I mean the last 20 years prepared me but I this is the first time I turned a game off before it was over since Cuse in 99 and that was the Duke game. I bought the off-season bravado and thought this was really going to be different.
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Just messing with ya brother.

Brutal year.
 
Does it occur to anyone that the run game works a little bit because nobody expects it? If they thought we were a run first team, they'd shut that sht down. 3rd and shrot anyone?
 
The Franchise said:
Better offensive scheme and tougher players.
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Clemson really isn't a consistently great running team. They are the past 2 years - but that's largely because of Ettienne.

2011 - 2017 they only finished higher than #35 in the country in 2015 when DeShaun Watson ran for 1,100 yds.

Miami pretty consistently averages more ypc than Clemson.

Clemson's passing game is way more effective than ours - and that along with their system & pace like you've said, allows them to get more plays/carries.
 
DMoney said:


Looks like, as expected, our rushing numbers were skewed heavily by sacks. The rushing game was actually quite explosive when given an opportunity.

It is perplexing that Enos refused to run the ball. We ranked 110th in rushing percentage. Help your young OL and inconsistent QB by handing off to your excellent backs.
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We have 2 coordinators who dont have a feel for the game. Been frustrated all year watching us have a legit running game but a moron at oc who doesnt know how to take advantage of running game, it shouldnt take us all day to score points. He has no feel for the game which is why our redzone offense and 3rd down offense has been **** poor! Same with our 3rd down defense, coach baker likes to call blitzes where the opposing qb sees it, but than run zone behind it, that's coward football.
 
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skeeter said:
Oh yeah, I was just making it a point...Being explosive in run game is huge, Dallas and Harris both made a lot of 20+ explosive runs, but the big plays skews the ypr in the oppo direction...Not as bad as sacks skew in that direction, but definitely some skew. So we shouldn't be confused with a consistent, high-success rate running game. Isopp will be good, but success rate bad. Always nice for chunk plays...We had nice chunk plays and explosiveness in the air too, at least for an offense as bad as us.

It's sacks, 3rd down conversion rate, and success rate...The explosiveness is there in both aspects, just would have tone Oklahoma or Memphis type explosive to combat the overall lack of success rate, and even then that would bring us up to just an average offense instead of a bad one.
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I agree we're too boom or bust and struggle in short yardage - and have been for a while. Our tiny little RB's haven't helped there either.

But if you look at DeeJay & Cam's combined carries in our losses, you can see we needed to run the ball more:

UF - 18 - 110 - 6.1 ypc
UNC - 24 - 167 - 7.0 ypc
VT - 8 - 85 - 10.6 ypc
GT - 21 - 160 - 7.1 ypc
FIU - 20 - 136 - 6.8 ypc
Duke - 8 - 44 - 5.5 ypc
 
So, when is that prick Enox getting fired? Because if not, expect more of the same...

Also, Chaney & Knighton will be standing on the sideline all year if Enox is still calling this offense.
 
kryptonite said:
Does it occur to anyone that the run game works a little bit because nobody expects it? If they thought we were a run first team, they'd shut that sht down. 3rd and shrot anyone?
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We pass more often on 3rd and short more often than we've run, and that's been since Game 1.
 
Astcloud11 said:
We pass more often on 3rd and short more often than we've run, and that's been since Game 1.
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That's one thing I don't fault enos for...we have no ability to run when they know it's coming. There's just no way we can line up and run for 2 yds with any consistency, so why try? We've all seen it for years now. It's baffling, but it's true.
 
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kryptonite said:
That's one thing I don't fault enos for...we have no ability to run when they know it's coming. There's just no way we can line up and run for 2 yds with any consistency, so why try? We've all seen it for years now. It's baffling, but it's true.
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we cant in the slow plodding turtle offense he runs, that allows Defenses to rotate personnel in, drink a martini, and line up, and he runs no zone read either,
 
Another interesting stat is that our 5* RB got exactly 0 carries this season, including in a game where Deejay Dallas AND Camron Harris were out.
I'm sure Lingard and these 2 stud RBs we have committed will be getting a lot of playing time next season though, I mean it'd take a group of absolute idiots to not get any of them the ball next season......oh wait
 
caneaddict said:
we cant in the slow plodding turtle offense he runs, that allows Defenses to rotate personnel in, drink a martini, and line up, and he runs no zone read either,
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Yeah, but once they've had a few martinis, the run should really open up.
 
OrangeBowlMagic said:
Having the worst mark in the country for average distance on 3rd down speaks a lot to this.

We never, ever just take what is there. And when you have an athletic advantage with your skill players, what is there often turns into much more with a slipped tackle or two. But we must enjoy being in 3rd and 9. Baffling.
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That's a great point. It's the opposite of the Dolphins, who for years were settling for the underneath stuff, even on third down.

I have argued for years that the Canes should hurry up and run the ball. After you make a first down hustle up there and attack with a basic slashing run. You'll have dispersion all over the map but the one thing you won't have is 2nd and 19. Then if it's 2 and 7 you can accept a swing pass to set up 3rd and short.

Ohio State for years has run all these early-down underneath crossers near the line of scrimmage, knowing darn well they may gain 2 yards upon efficient tackle, but if you miss now an athletic player is dashing toward the far sideline.

I like our slant passes but N'Kosi simply isn't accurate enough and Williams takes too long to get there. Plus there's simply too much reliance on that type of thing, and not the necessary offshoots.

Deep sideline throws should be reduced. Those windows are tiny. The sideline is an extra defender. Those plays don't match our current personnel at all. You can get away with those plays if you have an elite quarterback and elite greedy receivers. Otherwise whenever I see middling college or pro teams making those calls it's like a low percentage waste, setting up that 2nd and long or 3rd and long.
 
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