Rod Is Godly
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I said TVD cannot read defenses last year, because Smith would be open A LOT and not get looked at. We just threw deep passes to the other side.. HOWEVER, it’s on GATTIS to build an offense around what TVD can and CANNOT do!!! Instead of putting him into this $hitty offense where he has to overthink!!! This offense just says **** the vertical passing game (what TVD did best last year) we just gonna dink and donk! TVD ain’t who people thought but Gattis is worse! Only uses one side of the field (which makes sense if TVD limited) however, he doesn’t have a decoy on the other side AT ALL and doesn’t attempt a pass beyond 15 yards! Recipe for disaster! That means we only use about a 30 yard window horizontally we throw into smh! When it’s on the short side it’s even smaller! Hence the interception on the short side while running two WR’s outside the hash doing outs against press coverage on timing routes where the QB just does his drop and throws it to the spot! Scheme is horrible!!!! This is your first passing play of the game!? You’re expecting them to play back when you have shown NO deep passes all season!! When every other team on the schedule so far has played up and dared you to throw deep and you have not even tried to unless it’s a play action enos trick play smh. This play call was one of the worst calls I’ve seen in a while!
I know that no matter what I say I wont change people's minds but I really really think theres more to this than Gattis having a bad offense or bad play-calling. I am not absolving Gattis for our lack of offensive production at all because at the end of the day hes the head guy on that side of the ball, but this play should've worked.
Im no OC guru or football genius, but I'll break it down as I see it. (bare with my picture quality, first time uploading images)
We lined up in Shotgun Tight, not my favorite formation, however definitely a beneficial one in a run heavy scheme as you can get some run blocking help from receivers on the second and third levels when matching up against zone defense in particular.
Now insert NCAA '14.... My favorite game ever. Know every play like the back of my hand. This is the exact play Gattis ran. The fact that its in an 8 year old game means that its not some "bad play" Gattis drew up. This play works. Stick concepts work. The stick man either gets hit on the comeback, or settles into a soft spot in the zone, its not hard AT ALL. We ran the play better than this actually because we had our RB on a delayed comeback route out of the backfield after his blocking assignment. This is a BABY play. You run this play when your QB needs a quick completion to get going. Its simple. So I guess the question is where did we go wrong.
In my non-offensive coordinator opinion, the play was doomed to fail when TVD predetermined he was going to Mallory before the snap. That shows me he doesn't understand the concept of this play (not blaming him, coaches need to teach this). NO MATTER WHAT, you can not lock in pre-play to a target on the short side of the field in this concept. The short side of the field will never allow the receiver running to the flats to create enough separation from the receiver running the comeback. If you go short side, it will simply be too crowded with defenders, as we saw with the INT.
If TVD pre-snap locks in on Arroyo, the closer receiver toward the far boundary, he gets a better view of the space on the field. Ladson is open here for an at least 4 yard completion and easy start to this game. The CONCEPT works. Based on how they were playing their zone, Redding would have gotten open at the top of the screen in the flat as well, the only issue there is that he has nowhere to run to as the boundary is there so theres no throw to be made.
Long story short, the play works and its not a bad call. What was bad was either TVD deciding to lock in on Mallory, or him not being coached to understand you cant lock on to the short side of the field on that play.
. Pretty much everyone runs that stick concept, because as I'll keep reiterating, its EASY. Not sure why people are calling a wide open 4 yard pass on the first play a "bad" play but realistically youre not always running Go routes off rip.
