Richt better call plays a whole lot better than last season.
I've watched and rewatched our games - and the play calling was atrocious. Even in our bowl win - the entire first and most of the second quarter - his play calling sukked, and our QB insisted on scrambling INTO opposing players.
I'd like to hear a breakdown of the play calling and what was wrong with it. I'm not saying it wasn't bad, I'm just not sure that's what I saw.
What I know I saw was an OL that couldn't open holes or give the QB much time and a QB who thought he was about to get sacked even when he wasn't. Also, I saw a head coach who didn't seem interested in adjusting to what he had as opposed to what he wished he had, especially at the QB spot. Richt should have abandoned the pretense that Kayaa was ever going to run and let him play from the gun.
Is this what people mean, or were the actual plays bad- like running the wrong play against a specific defense?
OK. Let's say your Oline can't open up lanes. Play after play, they got eight in the box, and you do four or five 3-and-outs.
Richt would continue trying to run right up the middle - all game - and nothing was EVER there.
SEC mindset. Run, run, run, run, run, run, run, pass, run, run, run, run, run run run run pass, run, run, etc.
It's true - You gotta run, and the running game opens up the passing game. All true.
But the inverse is also true.
If they've got eight or nine in the box - and you've been stuffed fifteen times in a row - do you not think this calls for an adjustment?
The PASSING GAME ALSO OPENS UP THE RUN.
When we DID pass, Kaaya was throwing in the dirt, running right at tacklers, or holding it too long going for too much at a time. Short. Quick. Just like we saw Richards break in the Bowl Game. OH! We got something going now!
If you don't have time for long throws - don't keep trying it. If you don't have any run blocking - don't keep trying it and going three and out. If the only thing that's working is short, quick passes - then do what's working.
That's all I'm saying.
Rick needs to get off his *** and get aware of what's working, and what's not.
No team can defend everything. The trick is to find what they don't have covered - or can't stop.