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Richt is 3-4 against the spread this year with the three covers coming against Savannah state North Carolina (which wouldn’t have covered without the 21 the defense scored) and Toledo. I’m not sure what it was last year but I would guess around .500 considering seeing all the close games with lesser teams. The point is when a team doesn’t cover it is typically bad production on offense or high scoring games from both teams. The odds makers look at matchups on the field first and start to set the spreads so what this tells us is that the experts say our talent is greater then the other teams talent and that should result in a spread of whatever number. The fact that we aren’t covering tells me that we aren’t utalizing our talent properly and putting our guys in positions to win. The defense ranks towards the top nationally despite the fact they are constantly put in bad positions, we have to make changes to the offensive coaching staff and get a guy in there that has a sole focus of running the offense.
 
Coach Macho said:
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.
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Read through this thread and a million others and this is what I’ve been preaching, but the cult didn’t listen.

There’s literally no pre snap movement , motion, shifting, flexing , nothing. There’s nothing to cause confusion or brakedowns. And get easy scores.
 
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Coach Macho said:
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.
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It is predictable. This is what bronco did - stacked the box on first down bc he knew we were likely to run. 2nd and long, rush 4 but blitz 2 extras, thereby taking away gaps and applying pressure. 3rd and long - drop 6 and somehow get some pressure with edge rushes. That was the formula all game long and we just could not adjust to it. Sad.

We just don’t do our OL/QB any favors by calling slow developing plays with a slow delivery qb (rosier) and an OL that simply cant hold blocks. We should take a page out of uva’s Book - all their pass plays were short passes with the ball leaving the QBs hands quickly.
 
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Canesfreak89 said:
Richt is 3-4 against the spread this year with the three covers coming against Savannah state North Carolina (which wouldn’t have covered without the 21 the defense scored) and Toledo. I’m not sure what it was last year but I would guess around .500 considering seeing all the close games with lesser teams. The point is when a team doesn’t cover it is typically bad production on offense or high scoring games from both teams. The odds makers look at matchups on the field first and start to set the spreads so what this tells us is that the experts say our talent is greater then the other teams talent and that should result in a spread of whatever number. The fact that we aren’t covering tells me that we aren’t utalizing our talent properly and putting our guys in positions to win. The defense ranks towards the top nationally despite the fact they are constantly put in bad positions, we have to make changes to the offensive coaching staff and get a guy in there that has a sole focus of running the offense.
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I don't gamble (not against it, just don't) so this was pretty interesting. Thanks....and agreed.
 
If we scrap that zone blocking scheme it would do wonders for the o line. Less finesse, more firing off. Shouldn’t be hard to scrap since we only have 2 run plays 🤷🏾‍♂️ Inside and outside zone.

3 run plays if you factor the FB dive that we run 100% of the time out of the I.
 
If we scrap the entire coaching staff, it would do wonders for this program.

While we're at it, scrap everyone on the board of trustees as well.
 
LoyalCane24 said:
By no means is the playcalling awesome. But its definitely good enough
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How do you come to that conclusion? Serious question. Last night was probably the worst coached game I have seen at UM. This offense is beyond atrocious. Forget playcalling for a second. Name me one thing this offense consistently does well. We can barely get out of our own way half the time. Then we get hot for a little while then its back to total futility. Chise made a good point when he said that yoyo stuff is the hallmark of an unprepared team.

Getting back to playcalling, how do you come to the conclusion that it is good enough? Good enough for what exactly? Teams are routinely loading the box and daring us to throw and instead of trying to make them pay with all the skill talent we have, Rick prefers to just keep running the ball into 8-9 man fronts behind a line that cannot run block thereby putting his QB in terrible and predictable 3rd and long situations and you think that's good?

Rick is so petrified of turnovers that he has in effect completely stunted the development of this offense by slowing the game to a crawl and negating his speed and skill advantage. Rick would rather purposefully run into 9 man fronts that he knows won't be effective and go 3 and out over and over again then risk a turnover trying to exploit the oppositions arrogant 9 man fronts with the passing game. Then he blames it on execution and pretends like the other team was amazing and so on. That post game press conference was a total sham. Rick is the very definition of coward.
 
Coach Macho said:
Do we run any other plays out of empty, or just QB draw?

Any other run plays besides inside/outside zone?

We have a high school playbook.
Anybody who thinks our offense is perfectly fine can't possibly watch other (good) college football teams.
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We’ve never thrown in an empty this season.
Every time Choc is in the game it’s a FB dive also. Could we occasionally use him as a real FB to block someone and let Homer find a crease?
 
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Doesn’t matter who is in the game guys. Richt won’t use the talent correctly. He had Kaaya running RPO!! Good OC’s find ways to get the ball to the playmakers. He wants to win his way only. The days of lets just over talent teams in college football is done. Of course you need talent but you also need to schematically create advantages. Either you adapt or die!!!

Few things we can add to the offensive system

1. Motioning
2. More spacing
3. True Rpo
 
Those back to back runs with Gray on 3rd and 1 and 4th and 1 were the microcosm of this game last night. Absolute nightmare play calling.
 
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