Playcalling is fine

[Gsugradcanefan]

Yea...Richt's a below avg playcaller currently.If you think other wise, you really dont know football.

Keep in mind ...as garbage as Taggert is...he had 2-3 play calls that he essentially set up pretty well on us. We just sort of out athlete Fsu to win that game yesterday. Nothing involved coaching. At one point i honestly thought he packed it in...which i think he did. The 3 run sequence.

There was another instance when we were down 21-27 and had the ball driving with momentum, that Richt called 3 straight running plays, failing to get a first down and forcing the team to punt. We had all the momentum in the late second half to not only comeback and take the lead, but actually put the game away, but Richt couldn't get out of his own f*cking way.

 

[Kylo||_||Cane]

Nah the play calling was ***.

I spent the whole game yelling "SCREEN IT!"and "THROW A BUBBLE!" because those are plays you don't need an O-line to run (see FSU TE screen). It's like Richt doesn't get the QB's in a grove. I ain't saying bubble screen them to death but they were stacking the box all game. It would of help had we spread them out and hit them with some effective bubble screens. It could of hopefully get them out of that 2 deep look but all we did was pound the ball.

Also Perry needs to keep some of these read options. He just has to show he is willing to pull because that was the was problem with Kaaya so everyone just ran after the RB. That is what Rosier provided in the run game.

This. I don’t see the point of running the read option if the q.v. doesn’t keep it every now and then. Unless of course coach tells him not to.

 

[JimmyJohnsonsHair]

I'm not a big fan of the slow developing run plays to start virtually every series. Seems like every drive we're looking at 2nd and 9.

 

[Texxcane]

Three of the four was on short fields after the defense set them up.

The playcalling is atrocious, FSU literally lined up and blitzed the a/b gaps repeatedly and Richt never adjusted. Which is an embarrassment for any power five oc.

Outnumbering us inside but giving us the numbers outside, yet we did nothing to exposed that. Straight up amateur hour.

truth

 

[Texxcane]

it blows me away Richt has not stepped up his game what-so-ever after a) being forced to hire an OC or be fired at UGA and b) ended up fired anyway. You would sure think he would take a look at himself after all that, if we could just add a tiny bit o Mike Leach it would be perfect

 

[AllbouttheU]

What about the TD passes to Brevin Jordan and Jeff Thomas?? The drop from Cager going across the middle was perfect play that would’ve been a TD as well. u do know coaches are calling plays based on the looks the defense is giving them right?

I know the lens you judge play calling is based on how the IQ was on NCAA Football but that’s not reality. you would be a terrible play caller in a real cfb game. Yes there were calls I didn’t like but there were calls I did like as well and there were enough good calls to win the game.

Your agenda (and others) is to pin every failed drive on play calling when it’s obvious that inconsistency with the Oline play is the biggest thing keeping us from scoring 50+ a game.

This is what’s frustrating though, the TD to Jordan was a brilliant call, the Cager TD drop was a creative play, why? Because they used motion to set it up but two plays out of the 60 doesn’t make Playcalling fine. It just makes a lot of people scream for more creativity because we see what could happen if he didn’t run all vertices all the time.

 

[MiamiChris]

Someone described Mark Richt as being similar to Dabo. Both can recruit, run a program well, are positively viewed by families but neither are very good at X’s and O’s, the difference is Dabo went out and signed 2 elite Coordinators to make up for what he can’t do.

Richt has only signed 1 and refuses to give up the other. That’s the big difference because we are slowly catching up on the player side of things to Clemson.

 

[CanesNation26]

I'm not an X's and O's guru, but I can evaluate results. Here's how everyone fared versus FSU this year:

Virginia Tech: 207 yds passing, 8 y/p... 40 carries for 112 yds, 2.8 y/r

Samford: 475 yds passing, 7.9 y/p... 19 carries for 50 yds, 2.6 y/r

Syracuse: 219 yds passing, 7.1 y/p... 57 carries for 222 yds, 3.9 y/r

Louisville: 306 yds passing, 6.8 y/p... 38 carries for 115 yds, 3.0 y/r

Miami: 204 yds passing, 6.4 y/p... 46 carries for 102 yds, 2.2 y/r

We had less yards throwing, less yards a pass, and the worst yards per rush of any of FSU's opponents so far. On the flip side, we have more offensive talent than any of FSU's opponents so far. I get that it's a rivalry game, but that right there should tell you that we have a coaching problem. You think if Andy Reid is calling our plays that our offensive production looks that putrid? How about Justin Fuente with our talent? The obvious answer is no, which should tell you that Mark Richt simply isn't the best we can do. It should also tell you that there's a lot of room to improve. If we want to beat Clemson and go to the playoffs we need a very, very good offensive coordinator. We don't currently have one.

 

[Coach Macho]

these posters are full of shxt... Richt ran up the middle based on the looks the defense was giving him. We had success in running the ball up the middle against FSU more than we've had against them in years and it played a part in keeping them honest to make it possible for NKosi to execute the long ball.

There were times when Nkosi, in the RPO, handed it off to Homer when he shouldve kept it but that's on the QB to make the right read which he'll continue to get better at

Reason #239 why you get zero respect around here. You don't even know WTF an RPO is.

You're talking about READ/OPTION, nitwit.

 

[Coach Macho]

I just re-watched first half. I see posters saying Richt ran the ball against 8 man lines in the first half. I looked at EVERY play. It never happened! Not even ONCE. So many people have an agenda here but HONESTY should be a minimum requirement on this board. In NEVER freaking happened. You posters who said so should be banned. JMO. Either you tell the truth or get off this web site. Frankly you have an agenda that has nothing to do with what is best for UM football. Don't lie about this crap. You are NOT a Cane if you lie about these things.

We definitely ran into 8-man boxes, specifically inside the red zone.
I don't know WTF an 8-man line is though. Never seen an 8-man line on this level.

 

[Coach Macho]

Last drag route I can recall was the one Ahmonn housed vs Duke last season...

That was a slant.

 

[mackjones]

I'm not an X's and O's guru, but I can evaluate results. Here's how everyone fared versus FSU this year:

Virginia Tech: 207 yds passing, 8 y/p... 40 carries for 112 yds, 2.8 y/r

Samford: 475 yds passing, 7.9 y/p... 19 carries for 50 yds, 2.6 y/r

Syracuse: 219 yds passing, 7.1 y/p... 57 carries for 222 yds, 3.9 y/r

Louisville: 306 yds passing, 6.8 y/p... 38 carries for 115 yds, 3.0 y/r

Miami: 204 yds passing, 6.4 y/p... 46 carries for 102 yds, 2.2 y/r

We had less yards throwing, less yards a pass, and the worst yards per rush of any of FSU's opponents so far. On the flip side, we have more offensive talent than any of FSU's opponents so far. I get that it's a rivalry game, but that right there should tell you that we have a coaching problem. You think if Andy Reid is calling our plays that our offensive production looks that putrid? How about Justin Fuente with our talent? The obvious answer is no, which should tell you that Mark Richt simply isn't the best we can do. It should also tell you that there's a lot of room to improve. If we want to beat Clemson and go to the playoffs we need a very, very good offensive coordinator. We don't currently have one.

They say ' statistics ' don't lie. ' Insightful post.

 

[Coach Macho]

I've talked to an ACC defensive coach that beat us and his exact words when talking about our offense were...

"We didn't see anything that scared us."

And that's Richt's offense in a nutshell. It's predicated simply on his players being better than yours. There's little to no scheming involved. We do nothing to get guys open. Preparing for his offense would be easy breezy, all you really have to worry about is guys like Jeff Thomas making a few plays. (hard to prevent that) But the actual scheme itself is nothing to worry about if you're a DC.
And most of Jeff's targets are vertical anyway, so if you can get adequate pressure on our QB then you can prevent some of his big plays.

How do you have an athlete like Thomas and not do anything to get him in space? No bubbles? No hitches? No drags or slants?
A guy that fast can steal hitch all day...and he would be a nightmare trying to cover on a drag with his speed crossing the field.

 

[CanesNation26]

They say ' statistics ' don't lie. ' Insightful post.

It’s a small sample size- it’s only one game- but it’s evidence of a larger trend. We’ve had lackluster and underwhelming offensive output since Richt’s gotten here, even as we’ve slowly upgraded our offensive talent.

 

[thegrove]

Canes are entirely predictable, love CMR as head coach, recruiter, manager, etc. WE NEED AN OC that can call plays, that can develop deception - that will not be predictable. Recruit a top OC and let him at it! What's remarkable is that every DC knows what we're going to do next and we are still winning. Now it's Perry's team....give him something to work with.

 

[dirtyred786]

Richt is not a great play caller but he's not as bad as some of our fans protray him to be. Richt looks to run the ball and so do I. Did he have me ****ed yesterday, **** yeah. Our ol is getting better at running the ball. We just can't run it against good dl's. If you remember last year we struggled running against garbage dl's

Yeah but we use the same running plays over and over out of the same formations. No jet sweeps all season, not hb tosses or sweeps all season. We run right in between the tackles 95 percent of the time. We need more power concepts because our oline is not very good at zone blocking

 

[CANE]

 

[Ammok]

you can't fix stupid

The Shichtshow is great for some

 

[Mikesmith29150]

Yeah but we use the same running plays over and over out of the same formations. No jet sweeps all season, not hb tosses or sweeps all season. We run right in between the tackles 95 percent of the time. We need more power concepts because our oline is not very good at zone blocking

My whole additude changed last night. We need a oc

 

[caneworld]

Alabama complained about playcalling then Tua came
Louisville is supposed to have amazing playcalling then lamar left
LSU had terrible playcalling then burrow came
Notre Dame had terrible playcalling then Book came


We have terrible playcalling until we get an offensive line. Only so much trickery can be done without an offensive line.
Everyone loves Oklahomas offense but they have a dominant o line and great quarterbacks in recent years. Wait till we get a better o line and perry matures and we could be dominant

You think Perry is going to mature with this sort of playcalling from the 18th century...