King looks so frustrated out there but Trashlee is pulling his hair out on the sideline from the sounds of it.
We rarely have a run where there’s not some form of a read, whether it be an an RPO, a bubble, a hitch — something else there — and so it’s not always as simple as, hey, they just ran it up the middle. In those situations, you expect them to play more of a coverage where the run box is lighter to run the football, and in a couple cases the other night the read told him to hand the ball off and we just simply didn’t block it good enough. We got five, they got five and we didn’t win, and we should be able to win 5-on-5 and get the back to the next level. He spits it for 8 or 9 yards, everybody’s going, OK, I get it. We didn’t execute that properly.
“There are a few times — one in particular — he could’ve pulled the ball for a big play on an RPO and he handed it. We handed it into a number and we got hit for no gain. ... They’re dropping eight. It’s not easy to go back and throw the ball, but if you get in a situation where you give him a run-pass option, where if the box numbers give it to you you can maybe spit a run for 10 yards or if they come up you can throw it behind them in more of a run read look — that’s the idea. Obviously, it didn’t work really well the other night.
