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Richt playcalling vs LSU

Zbrod95 said:
FYI @brock on the 3rd clip you put up about Brevin being open on an underneath route. Lawrence Cager was open on the other said too. The replays on ESPN showed it.
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Everybody was open. Should’ve gave Cade some play. After that first qtr I’m pulling Rosier. If not I’m for sure going with Cade or Jarren after Halftime.
 
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brock said:
Richards had his guy beat up top with room and he throws it out of bounds to Cager..
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Flat-go on both sides. Richards looks to be running a clear-out route. Rosier looks off the safety and misses a tough throw to Cager. That's the design of the play...a low% sideline throw downfield into 1on1 coverage.

Brevin Jordan open once again and not even throwing it to him
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Tunnel vision. Leads the safety into the throw. Very poor QB play.

Jordan wide open again yet malik throws it in an area where 4 LSU defenders were. Brevin might have scored here due to the open field.
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Looks like a 3-step quick concept. Rosier needs to look off the LB if he wants to fit it into Thomas but instead he stares down the right side and hesitates at the top of his drop. I don't think Jordan is supposed to be part of the progression and if Rosier threw to him it would have been a certain pick. Jordan only looks open because the LBs are reading his eyes and breaking on the ball as he throws.

Again the route design here is poor, fails to clearly define any reads for the QB and leads receivers into heavy traffic. Cager running a curl up top and doesn't even expect the ball.

Look at the delay, he would have a first down if he got the ball out faster...
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This is really bad. #3 does a good job rounding his route upfield to clear space underneath for #1 (Hightower) on the whip route. Rosier is affected by pressure that doesn't exist and is too late getting the ball out. This is all on Rosier and it's very deflating when your QB breaks the structure of the offense and doesn't execute simple throws.

So like I've been saying all along there is blame to be shared by Rosier and Richt. For every play Rosier effs up there's another one that's destined to fail by design. Benching Rosier isn't a panacea for this team's 3rd down and comp% issues.
 
@KingLew88 said:
People need to stop saying rosier males reads. He don’t read the defense before snap or after the snap. Dudes hover at the LOS and he does nothing and continues the same play. His mind is made up before the play starts and no matter what unfolds he’s going there. This a 5th year senior and Richt continues to send him back out there so it is what it is.
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And that's why the staff is having Gautheir start to call the blitz pick ups (which should be a 5th year senior QBs job).
 
hes definitely calling plays which A) have adequate protection against a stellar front 7 and B) have MULTIPLE OPEN ROUTES, not just toss up 50/50 balls, like **** IM OPEN open routes

Richt gets a playcall pass but FML if he doesnt find us another QB im going insane.
 
I blame Richt. He is the one starting a guy that after 15 starts. Still can't get past his 1st read.
 
My problem isn't the play calling per se, it's that we're using a very simple offense that requires simple reads and accurate throws, i.e. fundamentals, and we're doing so with an Al Golden/James Coley leftover when we've signed 3 QBs since. And, for what results?

It's year 3, we're not supposed to be meddling around trying to fit the old pieces into the new puzzle.

For as bad as we looked against LSU, why not let the young guys with more upside get the burn? It will have it's rough moments but we could be heading into next season with a young but pretty experienced team with most of the personnel issues already sorted out.

My concern is we enter next year facing the same predicament we're in now.
 
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HighSeas said:
Flat-go on both sides. Richards looks to be running a clear-out route. Rosier looks off the safety and misses a tough throw to Cager. That's the design of the play...a low% sideline throw downfield into 1on1 coverage.
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Should've looked off Cager and went to Richards. Richards beat His guy off the line and stacked em'. Richards could've even ran a post and scored easily. For the life of me I don't understand why He continues to go to Cager like He's really our primary deep threat.

HighSeas said:
Tunnel vision. Leads the safety into the throw. Very poor QB play.
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Agree He did a bad job looking off Safety, but I didn't like the route into a middle of the field Safety either. And LSU brought 6 on that play, should've had a better blitz beater than that.

HighSeas said:
Looks like a 3-step quick concept. Rosier needs to look off the LB if he wants to fit it into Thomas but instead he stares down the right side and hesitates at the top of his drop. I don't think Jordan is supposed to be part of the progression and if Rosier threw to him it would have been a certain pick. Jordan only looks open because the LBs are reading his eyes and breaking on the ball as he throws.

Again the route design here is poor, fails to clearly define any reads for the QB and leads receivers into heavy traffic. Cager running a curl up top and doesn't even expect the ball.
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But if you look at the bottom of the screen, LSU brought a corner blitz from the boundary. And you could see the Safety cheatin' over, should've been and easy read & throw. And I'm not a fan of throwing to the trips side, defenses tend to overload that side with defenders.

HighSeas said:
This is really bad. #3 does a good job rounding his route upfield to clear space underneath for #1 (Hightower) on the whip route. Rosier is affected by pressure that doesn't exist and is too late getting the ball out. This is all on Rosier and it's very deflating when your QB breaks the structure of the offense and doesn't execute simple throws.

So like I've been saying all along there is blame to be shared by Rosier and Richt. For every play Rosier effs up there's another one that's destined to fail by design. Benching Rosier isn't a panacea for this team's 3rd down and comp% issues.
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If you look at LSU's coverage, they seemed to rotate from a 1-High to a 2 high. I think He should've gone to the WR at the bottom of the screen who ran His route into the hole in the zone. And this is another example of why I don't like throwing to the 3 receiver side too much.
 
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Rosier has had the chance to dissect plays and games from the sidelines when Kaaya was here and was also a full time starter last year. Up to this point, with all his supposed preparation, he is still unable to check down recievers or call audibles at the line of scrimmage when he sees a defensive opening. Not to mention his inability to hit the side of a barn with a ******* football.

You can have the best play caller out there and he still won't be able to get it done. Rosier just doesn't get it. Unfortunately, he never will.
 
It goes both ways...Malik isn't good, but Richt does him no favor.

Go look up our average 3rd down and distance. We're always chuckin on third and long. You'd figure, with such a bad QB like Malik Rosier, we'd run more. But, nope. Bottom 30 in the nation in rush attempts per game pretty regularly.
 
A slightly above average QB would've blown them out. Guys were open all day long, and its hard to establish a run game when the defense has 0 respect for the pass.
 
BoxingRobes said:
It goes both ways...Malik isn't good, but Richt does him no favor.

Go look up our average 3rd down and distance. We're always chuckin on third and long. You'd figure, with such a bad QB like Malik Rosier, we'd run more. But, nope. Bottom 30 in the nation in rush attempts per game pretty regularly.
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A few times we had got positive yardage on the early downs only for it to be negated by a holding penalty or false start setting it back to 2nd/3rd and long. That has got to stop
 
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Kendall Boy Cane said:
To me, the play calling is just vanilla but if it gets rolling it can be effective. It is especially effective when you have a lead. Against LSU, they knew we needed to throw ourselves back into the game and they just sent 4-5 guys with their ears pinned back.

Now, it has to bother Richt when he's making flawless calls, Rosier makes the right read, and he still can't execute.
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Defintlely would like to seem some differentiation in the route trees. Maybe they’re so vanilla, though, because Rosier can’t read the field well enough to throw anything besides all verticals or screens.

Some motion would be fricken nice, too.

Praying we see both.
 
TheOriginalCane said:
Most of this "playcalling" thread has been focused on the passing game.

Richt's playcalling in the running game has been HORRENDOUS. I don't know what in the **** goes through his mind, but we run ONE TYPE OF RUN over and over and over again. That stupid ******* "QB holds the ball to one side and running back veers off-tackle". We rarely run sweeps, traps, cutbacks, or anything else that takes advantage of the other team's defensive tendencies.

As just an example (for contrast), on that LSU long run, the play started out in a wide direction, and when we overpursued, the cutback found a wide open middle of the field that allowed the RB to score almost untouched after he got through the DL.

I am so **** sick of RPO, or at least how it is applied at UM. RPO doesn't get the WRs wide open (one positive that people mentioned above), so let's dump the RPO and go back to simply calling good plays.

I appreciate that Richt thinks that playcalling has reinvigorated him, but it is time for him to move into a "consultant" role as he brings in an OC who has an innovative approach (and is not named Richt).

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Tough to get the run game going with no threat of the pass....
 
CaneSwag1995 said:
Defintlely would like to seem some differentiation in the route trees. Maybe they’re so vanilla, though, because Rosier can’t read the field well enough to throw anything besides all verticals or screens.

Some motion would be fricken nice, too.

Praying we see both.
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Whatever you want to call it. Fact is Richt would've taken one of the best DCs in the game to the woodshed if Rosier completes 55-60%.
 
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