Not DB room. There’s depth issues at safety, idk if anyone outside of Poyser is an NFL player, CB though? Brantley has been a very very good starter in B10 last two seasons… if he is struggling to crack our top 3 or 4? Yeah we up
Last year it made sense. You see that Rush Expl% vs Pass Expl%. If our pass game isn't going to be as explosive this year (lets be real there is very little shot that wont see a pretty decent regression) we NEED to offset that with the run game becoming more explosive. Simple as that. I mean obviously all this **** works together. If you have an elite qb playing at an elite level it makes it easier to run. And if your main objective when you do run is just ensuring your picking up 5 with no care about explosive plays because you Know you have that elite Qb and that giving him those 3rd and 4th and shorts that that consistently positive run game provides will lead to far better results...well it's a flywheel. When it's working, that's excellent. And it led to our best offense like ever. But anyone thinking that is just automatically going to continue being as successful this year is crazy. What if defenses don't fear our Pass game as much due to Ward being the #1 pick vs Beck maybe being a fringe 1st at best, and our Wrs being significantly less experienced/worse. I mean MAYBE it doesn't regress too much. But I wouldn't bet on it.
But as or more often than not this type of Run game that we implement can get closer to: 2, 4, 4, 3, 6, 1, 5, 0, 6. Obviously if you make the gains sufficiently high enough Every attempt, that's going to be better lol. Is that going to be reality though WITHOUT the threat of Cam Ward at Qb? If you were a defense playing us last year were your going to load the box to stop the run, or prioritize stopping Cam Ward, Restrepo, Arroyo, George, Horton, and Brown?... Compared to this season with Beck, Lofton, and whoever our top 4 WRs end up being?... Are defenses going to commit more or less to stopping the run this season? I'll just go ahead and guarantee more right now.
More downs where you're just dink and dunking and 4 yards and a cloud of dusting teams offensively is a recipe for a single penalty to **** your entire drive that you can't overcome, or give the defense more opportunities at creating a turnover. The best offense would be the one that scores a TD in 1 play every drive, Not the one that needs 32 plays of picking up exactly 2.5 yards per play starting at the 20 to score every time. Obviously no offenses are actually like either those scenarios. But it illustrates the point.
I want to know as well. I'm certainly not D$ but based on the information we have I believe that Brantley is doing both. He will play inside in our "Nickel" and "Dime" packages in the more traditional sense where he is covering a or one of the slot receivers. When it comes to the Nickel position that is prevalent in modern football Keonte Scott will start there and will likely be backed up by Damari Brown who will also provide competition and depth at outside CB and possibly Safety. Does that make sense?
Don’t worry, the last part will happen.
Praying it’s for real, dog
This is the exact kind of back-and-forth you want in a scrimmage right here. The last thing you wanna hear is one side dominating. This is a good sign, just gotta get JoJo healthy and producing and we’re gonna be really good.
Can you please stop talking about the tight splits, Anyone that uses that as an excuse, knows nothing about football! We had a top five run game in the country last year, what more do you ******* want? Smh
Who gives a F
CK! SMH our running backs are better than him this year!
And anyone on here that this surprises, is an idiot! This kid doesn’t have it and actually it’s not even close. He’s a career back up here or maybe if he’s lucky a starter at a group of five team but I don’t even think he has that talent.
Pringle is better than Humphrey!
Beck will produce just as many explosive places as Cam. Some people on here just don’t understand how good Beck is, and on top of all that, he’s a lot faster than Cam was.
Listen, I’m gonna say this respectfully, you know nothing about football in terms of controlling a football game and I know you’re gonna keep going with your agenda here but it’s stupid and it’s not realistic to how winning football is played at this level. The goal is to control the game and the way our run game functions, it controls the game. You want something different, that will never win a national championship, then go watch a different team. This is the type of run game that wins titles, don’t believe me, go watch Georgia or Alabama and all the titles they’ve won the last 10 years. It’s the exact same run game.
If you’re talking about Emery, if you saw him play in the bowl game or against Clemson or FSU, I think you know how that went. It went like crap!
Actually, the safety room looks good.
Martinez was very important but our running backs this year are better than him. Enjoy the show this year because that run game is going to be elite.