When did he make this clear? Do you have a link? What exactly is the claim here: that Mirabel is calling each running play during the game or that he is responsible for designing all of our possible running plays during the week and Dawson chooses which Mirabel-designed running play to run during the game?
My understanding was Mirabal designs the plays and influences sets plus play calls. Position coach picks rotation. So it is a two part problem: 1 we don’t have many designed plays for speed backs because we run tight and almost all inside zone. 2. Rb coach doesn’t want speed backs on the field in case we run tight formation inside zone to bang the A which clearly are going to get called a bunch. If I’m off, it still is an issue that we mostly run inside zone and try to rush for an Air raid based O when the Defense has more in the box than you can block and the QB isn’t a runner.
Air raid offenses use
tempo- we dont much
Rpo- when was the last time we had a QB run it consistently? King, cam got most his yards on scrambles
4 wr sets- I bet we have run these less than 10% of all plays. Instead, we run 2 te sets and can’t spread the D out due to lack of speed on the field
Run plays- there really are only 4 that we have run: inside zone, counter, outside zone, sweeps. My complaint, we really have only run 1 the majority of the time. When UL was pinning their ears for the A gap inside zone, rpo QB runs and counters help offset the D crashing. Not to mention the one jet going for a td out of a 2te set.
OL splits - I wonder if we are giving away our pass vs run due to splits and formations. We are tight while lots of air raid OLs have 3’ between lineman on every play. Do we lineup differently on pass vs run?
Let’s face it, we run a butchered air raid. If anything, we now run a prostyle offense based off of air raid concepts. No tempo, mostly inside zone, tight splits, lots of TE sets, no QB runs. One thing we don’t do much if ever 4& god forbid 5 wr sets.
only the staff knows the real truth behind what we do. They know why we run inside zone out of tight sets with 2te a ton. Then we switch to 3wr sets. Geeeee I wonder what Miami is going to run? How about using 4 wr sets with verts then come back with the same set and run outside zone or counter?
Why does the best ol in the country need TE or WR blocking? Is it because we don’t spread the D and make them think “what are they running? Who do I have responsibility for?”
Sorry for the long response. To answer your question, I was assuming based off of multiple videos from Maribal & Dawson. IMO,
Mariobal are 100% influencing play calls, formations, tempo, TOs, and splits.
