Richt's (over)use of 4 verticals

[LuCane]

There's nothing wrong with 4-verts. It's about timing and when to use it.

There's no logical reason for running it 3 times in a row.
There's also no logical reason to run it when you're being heated up with the blitz. Get the **** ball out of the QB's hands.

At this point right now, Coley's offense looks much better than Richt's. When Coley got 2-high last year he ran the CB's and Safeties off with verts (or smash routes) and sent Yearby on an angle route. We killed Linebackers with this.

It's not some briliant play design but at least it attempts to put a defender into a conflict. (the MLB)

Which is what I said above.

I had a conversation yesterday that stuck with me. Perhaps Coley just had a better sense for his personnel than Richt currently does?

Maybe that's oversimplification because I still don't get running 4Vert AND throwing the RB on streak when you know you're playing with 4 guards. I don't think we did that last year at any point.

 

[The Franchise]

Grab bag city. 3rd and 3 run 4 vertical while VT is constantly teeing off on you. Foster must have felt like VTs OC felt a couple years ago when we let a horrific Logan Thomas annihilate us with a hundred uncontested 10 yard passes completing over 80% of his passes for 360 yards.

 

[avicenna75]

The North Carolina game was the most egregious example, IMO. That defense is pathetic yet we let them off the hook largely via play calling and timing of it. There's nothing wrong with 4 verticals in attacking situations, as others have emphasized. But we had receivers far too deep when all we needed was a basic third down conversion. I mentioned it immediately following that game. I couldn't believe the difficult deep sideline throws we were asking Kaaya to make when North Carolina was all but ignoring short stuff over the middle and out of the backfield.

We go for it on 4th down in that game and challenge the end zone when all we needed was a couple of yards. There weren't even routes designed to pick up a couple of yards on that play. As soon as Kaaya forced it I yelled to the guy seated next to me that we were trying a 1 in 3 pass when there should have been multiple 2 in 3 options.

It's all about stealing a few percent here and there. These Canes are doing it in reverse, sacrificing a few percent in so many categories. I almost want to punch something because I envisioned a power based I formation team, and all the wonderful residue that flows from that.

Totally agree. I understand it's natural for fans to nitpick every play, but it's concerning when your consistently calling low percentage plays when all we need is a first down. I remember that 4th and 1, I said to myself, I hope Richt doesn't get too cute here. Sure enough he goes for a PA seam play that would have needed to be thrown perfectly to convert the first.