100%
Multiplicity & versatility is the name of the game.Mike Leach always used to rail against how people misunderstood balanced offense. It's not running 50% and passing 50%, its being able to punish your opponent in either fashion when the opportunity presents itself.
The best power attacks now are masters of space. Our cavemen are on the rocket ship, and we've blasted off.
It's a whole new world.
As well he should be. Proof of concept when recruiting QBs in HS and the portal. Come play in our system behind our OL with our variety of receivers.
you should trademark that "CamRaid" It's good!
I think it’s QB and OL. Receivers are really good but Cam has been given enough time for the long patters to develop downfield. That takes great pass protection. Ward has an incredible amount of times to throw and he’s very accurate with a strong arm. After 4-5 seconds receivers are coming open no matter what.
Definitely one of my favorite, soo much Air Raid stuff and it was clicking.. I almost lost it when we scored on one of my favorite concepts, a lincoln special too, shallow sting.. Cant believe it got called back because Bell was an *******..
I said it more than anyone the last two seasons. I beat that dead horse to a bloody pulp.
Nothing has to change. They were stacking the box with 8 and 9 men in the box. In the 2nd half, they started respecting our pass more, and that allowed us to gash them with the run.
And Michigan stinks right now + UGA barely survived over Kentucky.
Ball State played the run hard. Had at minimum six in the box with a S crashing the moment Ward turned to the RB.
Add on top of that our O-line is not 100%
And with the clock rule changes and teams playing slower with the helmet radios Bud Elliott has now been mentioning what we have been saying forever which is that if you shorten games and only get 8 drives then it only takes a few mistakes to get upset by an inferior team.
This is the inherent weakness in a run heavy offense. You can throw numbers at it and nullify the ground game even if the blocking is good. You have 5 linemen and a tight end. You can’t block two guys with one so if a defense commits 7,8 or 9 guys to stopping the run, there will always be multiple unblocked defenders. Ball State was going to stop the run even if it meant giving up 500 yards passing. Miami adjusted accordingly and threw it all over the place. There were 7 run plays called in the first half. In the second half, with the Ball State defense completely worn down, we were able to run the ball easily for over 200 yards.
