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Interesting video praising and critiquing the UM offense vs UF...

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I wouldn’t mind going a little faster but I think for this particular game, the gameplan was perfect.

Coming in, if I’m Dawson, what’s my main advantage? My line against their depleted DL. By far. I love that matchup. Plus, they’d been playing basically 2-high safeties all year and daring people to run. Usually, against most teams, and when they’re at full strength, that’s and advantage for them. But not this week.

What’s the spot I feel least confident about? My receivers against their DBs. Again, especially with the linemen out, by far the strength of that defense is on the back end.

Next, if I’m confident I can run the ball, stay ahead of the sticks, grind them down since they’re depleted, and I don’t want to go vertical too often, what’s their only avenue to beating me? Me turning it over. I think their offense is buns. My defense is playing lights out. They have a mentally and physically broken quarterback with a play caller who’s way out of his league. I want to limit their possessions because they’re not going to go 4, 5, 6 long scoring drives on me. 21 or 24 wins this game easily. If I’m wrong and they move the ball, we can adjust. We have it in our pocket. But the only way this ****ass offense is beating me is if I beat myself.

Then on top of all that…it pours most of the first half.

I do think we can utilize more tempo, for sure. But again, against that specific matchup, we played the game perfectly. If we don’t have one of the genuinely worst calls I’ve ever seen, the game is 20-0 about 5 minutes into the second half, and it’s a laughable rout. ****, whens the only time we got nervous? When Beck threw a pick on the first play of a drive, then we threw it 3 times and punted the next drive.

I’m a throw first kind of dude. Last year’s offense was **** to me. But we needed it, because we knew as soon as we got off the bus, the other team had about 24 points. That’s not the case this year. This is a complementary football team and in a game where it’s raining and you are playing literally a 55-gallon of bootyjuice for an offense on the other sideline, I’m totally fine with just playing conservatively, and grinding them to dust.

Remember, they rarely stopped us even with playing this way. In 5 first half drives, we had one three and out, the other 4 were touchdown, 1st and goal at their 6, first and 10 at the 21, and a CJ Daniels drop from another first and 10 in the redzone. Drops and penalties are the only thing from that game being about 20-0 at the half. Then of course, drive #6, the first one out of the half, is a Marty Brown TD that’s robbed.

We played to win the game. Know your opponent.
 
rccollins said:
I loved watching this guy last year break down cam’s games. He’s just fun to watch. Thanks for the heads up, OP. Will watch later.
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Keith is a good guy, Ive gotten to know him a bit. I do think that if he was there and could see the slick conditions, he might have slightly altered his view (which I agree with overall)

With our Dline and defense in general, you want to be able to play from ahead as much as possible.
 
The downside to playing a methodical ultra slow pace is it limits our scoring opportunities. We could be dominating a game and only lead 10-0 or 14-7 because there’s so few possessions. It sort of reminds me of UVA basketball under Tony Bennett - they could be dominating a game and you’d look at the scoreboard and it’s 29-23 at the half. It can often allow overmatched opponents to hang around, and leaves little margin for error with turnovers and other costly mistakes.
 
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Gables Canes said:
The downside to playing a methodical ultra slow pace is it limits our scoring opportunities. We could be dominating a game and only lead 10-0 or 14-7 because there’s so few possessions. It sort of reminds me of UVA basketball under Tony Bennett - they could be dominating a game and you’d look at the scoreboard and it’s 29-23 at the half. It can often allow overmatched opponents to hang around, and leaves little margin for error with turnovers and other costly mistakes.
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I think playing fast early and letting your defense play from ahead, is the way to go. And then grind teams late as they get fatigued. When you have guys like Bain and Mesidor, you want them to only have to worry about the throw game for the last quarter, quarter-and-a-half of a game...
 
EudocimusAlbus said:
His points of a slow offense putting our defense to sleep make some sense, but I didn't see a major drop off between halves although they did score on a drive.
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I think the slow offense puts our offense to sleep more than anything else. The run game is one thing, but it’s hard for the passing game to be firing on all cylinders and have timing and rhythm when you’re milking the clock the way we’ve been doing.
 
OrangeBowlMagic said:
I wouldn’t mind going a little faster but I think for this particular game, the gameplan was perfect.

Coming in, if I’m Dawson, what’s my main advantage? My line against their depleted DL. By far. I love that matchup. Plus, they’d been playing basically 2-high safeties all year and daring people to run. Usually, against most teams, and when they’re at full strength, that’s and advantage for them. But not this week.

What’s the spot I feel least confident about? My receivers against their DBs. Again, especially with the linemen out, by far the strength of that defense is on the back end.

Next, if I’m confident I can run the ball, stay ahead of the sticks, grind them down since they’re depleted, and I don’t want to go vertical too often, what’s their only avenue to beating me? Me turning it over. I think their offense is buns. My defense is playing lights out. They have a mentally and physically broken quarterback with a play caller who’s way out of his league. I want to limit their possessions because they’re not going to go 4, 5, 6 long scoring drives on me. 21 or 24 wins this game easily. If I’m wrong and they move the ball, we can adjust. We have it in our pocket. But the only way this ******* offense is beating me is if I beat myself.

Then on top of all that…it pours most of the first half.

I do think we can utilize more tempo, for sure. But again, against that specific matchup, we played the game perfectly. If we don’t have one of the genuinely worst calls I’ve ever seen, the game is 20-0 about 5 minutes into the second half, and it’s a laughable rout. ****, whens the only time we got nervous? When Beck threw a pick on the first play of a drive, then we threw it 3 times and punted the next drive.

I’m a throw first kind of dude. Last year’s offense was **** to me. But we needed it, because we knew as soon as we got off the bus, the other team had about 24 points. That’s not the case this year. This is a complementary football team and in a game where it’s raining and you are playing literally a 55-gallon of bootyjuice for an offense on the other sideline, I’m totally fine with just playing conservatively, and grinding them to dust.

Remember, they rarely stopped us even with playing this way. In 5 first half drives, we had one three and out, the other 4 were touchdown, 1st and goal at their 6, first and 10 at the 21, and a CJ Daniels drop from another first and 10 in the redzone. Drops and penalties are the only thing from that game being about 20-0 at the half. Then of course, drive #6, the first one out of the half, is a Marty Brown TD that’s robbed.

We played to win the game. Know your opponent.
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Good stuff, bro.
 
Gables Canes said:
The downside to playing a methodical ultra slow pace is it limits our scoring opportunities. We could be dominating a game and only lead 10-0 or 14-7 because there’s so few possessions. It sort of reminds me of UVA basketball under Tony Bennett - they could be dominating a game and you’d look at the scoreboard and it’s 29-23 at the half. It can often allow overmatched opponents to hang around, and leaves little margin for error with turnovers and other costly mistakes.
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Good analogy. I hated watching UVA basketball.

But they did win the national championship playing that boring style. After winning seemingly every game by 4-5 points.
 
Gables Canes said:
I think the slow offense puts our offense to sleep more than anything else. The run game is one thing, but it’s hard for the passing game to be firing on all cylinders and have timing and rhythm when you’re milking the clock the way we’ve been doing.
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In general, it's an interesting take both sides of the ball may be impacted. I can rationalize both. I will add, and to your point and some of which the content creator mentioned, I doubt the slow pace is something that aligns with Beck. Though he isn't a gunslinger, he's a QB with a history of racking up yards. As a viewer, it's a bit monotonous and less exciting, but that's also because maybe we were accustomed to last season's offense.
 
EudocimusAlbus said:
In general, it's an interesting take both sides of the ball may be impacted. I can rationalize both. I will add, and to your point and some of which the content creator mentioned, I doubt the slow pace is something that aligns with Beck. Though he isn't a gunslinger, he's a QB with a history of racking up yards. As a viewer, it's a bit monotonous and less exciting, but that's also because maybe we were accustomed to last season's offense.
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The slow pace aligns with playing in rain, which we've had to do in 3 of 4 games this year.
 
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Gables Canes said:
The downside to playing a methodical ultra slow pace is it limits our scoring opportunities. We could be dominating a game and only lead 10-0 or 14-7 because there’s so few possessions. It sort of reminds me of UVA basketball under Tony Bennett - they could be dominating a game and you’d look at the scoreboard and it’s 29-23 at the half. It can often allow overmatched opponents to hang around, and leaves little margin for error with turnovers and other costly mistakes.
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ALL OF THIS. Also you dont get reps for younger guys because opponent can hang around and the score isnt wide enough.. Like I mentioned before, the method works for Mario in big games but every year he gets clipped in a game he shouldnt lose. He can take UO into Ohio St and slap them up, but then they get clipped by Stanford. Its a method that leaves you vulnerable..

We DOMINATED the gators and then found ourselves nervous after they had ONE productive drive, their offense was non existent.. How about if we play a team with an actual QB and offense?
 
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k9cane said:
I think playing fast early and letting your defense play from ahead, is the way to go. And then grind teams late as they get fatigued. When you have guys like Bain and Mesidor, you want them to only have to worry about the throw game for the last quarter, quarter-and-a-half of a game...
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It's kind of just math.

If you think your defense is going to hold them to a scoring drive once every 6 possessions, just as a general example, then if you only give them the ball 6 times, you expect them to score 7 points.

If you go fast and turn the ball over, or punt quickly, create more plays, etc....and you give them 12 possessions, you expect them to score 14 points.

Yes, your offense should be able to score more if you have more plays/possessions, I get that. But in this particular game, you're playing Make-A-Wish kids on the opposing offense. They're TERRIBLE, and you know that.

Let's say FSU scores 40 tomorrow night. I think, next week in Tally, you'll see a much quicker and "open" offense, because we know we won't win the game with 20 points. Against UiF, the only thing that gets you beat is turning the ball over and giving them short fields. That's literally it. And we saw it, they had one drive all night long. The gameplan Saturday was opponent driven, and it worked very well.
 
k9cane said:
Keith is a good guy, Ive gotten to know him a bit. I do think that if he was there and could see the slick conditions, he might have slightly altered his view (which I agree with overall)

With our Dline and defense in general, you want to be able to play from ahead as much as possible.
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I'm reasonably sure he'd assess the conditions and say you should throw it short to guys that can score.
 
k9cane said:
I think playing fast early and letting your defense play from ahead, is the way to go. And then grind teams late as they get fatigued. When you have guys like Bain and Mesidor, you want them to only have to worry about the throw game for the last quarter, quarter-and-a-half of a game...
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Teams should either maximizing their total snaps or grinding it out, never in between.

The best teams should go fast then slow like you said.
 
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