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What will you be looking for vs Ball State?

canecountry3 said:
Curious to watch these guys:
Jacolby George - more targets
Markell Bell - in pass pro
Justin Scott - more reps
Kiko - quiet game last weekend
Robby Washington - more reps

Curious to see:
If there will be more emphasis on the run
If we will incorporate more screens
If there will be any adversity and the response
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I expect more vanilla…
 
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Defense:

1. No chunk plays
2. No coverage busts. We're going to be playing better offenses with better QB's in many games going forward. Need to make sure coverage is consistent every play.

Offense

1. Strong and consistent run game against Ball St as the competition
2. Better scheming to get our WR's open throws that don't rely on Cam buying time in the pocket (which will become more difficult to accomplish as the competition improves). We see some open throws, but not as many as other high powered offenses. Many of Cam's great throws and completions to date this season (against weak competition) have been as the result of him buying time in the pocket waiting for WRs to come open. This needs to improve against better teams going forward on our schedule such that Cam has somewhere to go with his first and second looks.
 
I’d like to see us open up the run game bag with some different looks. See some motion.
 
I'd like to see more consistency in the 1st half.... Cam is "him" but i want to see more normal plays work & not him having to run around patty mahomes like... Would also like to see Sam Brown shake off some more funk/rust & make a nice play to build confidence in games that "shouldn't" matter/be hard..... outside of that really just want us to stay injury free & dominate like we should to give 1.5 quarters to freshman/young guys.... fun to watch them
 
On offense:
More dominant run blocking
More explosive runs
Early PT and impact from one of the young WR's (Ray Ray, Trader, Carr, etc)

On defense:
DT rotation - Have Scott, Moten, Horton earned more PT?

Special teams:
Punt returns have been an adventure so far. Need improvement there
 
PalyCane said:
Defense:

1. No chunk plays
2. No coverage busts. We're going to be playing better offenses with better QB's in many games going forward. Need to make sure coverage is consistent every play.

Offense

1. Strong and consistent run game against Ball St as the competition
2. Better scheming to get our WR's open throws that don't rely on Cam buying time in the pocket (which will become more difficult to accomplish as the competition improves). We see some open throws, but not as many as other high powered offenses. Many of Cam's great throws and completions to date this season (against weak competition) have been as the result of him buying time in the pocket waiting for WRs to come open. This needs to improve against better teams going forward on our schedule such that Cam has somewhere to go with his first and second looks.
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Well said. This team is capable of giving us some headache's. Coming out and dominating them is a step in the right direction, another small step in showing that we're built differently this year.
 
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I want to see Ward hit on some longer throws, stretching the field more.
I want to see Johnson on a jet sweep.
Williams, TE, needs to get more involved.
Would like to get a decent look at Washington at CB.

Against FAMU, they had backups playing in the 2nd quarter, throwing off the communication. It's good for putting them under more pressure, but the optics of it are bad. It makes the team look inconsistent.
 
Balls Taint doesn't appear to pose a threat so play the younglins early and often like we did vs FAMU. Also, move Mesidor to DE, allow Trader and Carr to play with Ward, and keep using the TE in the passing game until a team takes it away.
 
252cane said:
I see a lot of complaints about him but he didn’t even start last week. The starters were oj and hill on the outside and porter at nickel
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I haven’t rewatched it in detail so someone can correct me if I’m wrong, but I feel like he blew the coverage on their big throw down the sideline on the first field goal drive. Then I think he got caught up in the shuffle on a drag route on a 3rd and ten on their last drive of the first half that wound up in a field goal. Not trying to bash him or anything as I know he gets enough of that, just pointing it out.
 
I watched some of their game against Missouri State last night. They’re not very talented, but they did throw a ton of formations and eye candy out there. I honestly don’t know that I’d favor them against FAMU on a neutral field.

So I’d just like to see us not get caught up in all the smoke and mirrors and let any big busts happen. That, no injuries, get Ward some big stats and play the young guys a lot like this past weekend.
 
This is a game, being against a *decent* opponent and flowing into the meat of your schedule.. teams use these games heavily when scouting and game planning tendencies. Games like this are used by teams to fine tune and craft a script and see how it goes. This is where you either show a bunch of nothing and be very vanilla if there are more formations/alignments in your bag. Or if you've shown all/most of your formations but still have play designs in your bag... you go against your grain and run reverse tendencies or tendency breakers and run plays and designs out of different sets than you plan or would like to do in those first few conference games before the bye week. Then the bye comes and you try to shake it up again if you have to or draw up new stuff.

Less technical and more just broad view

Would like to see us run the ball a little more effectively. Hoping to see about 40 carries with around 300 yards on the ground and only throw it about 25 times.

Seems like we run way too finesse for a team with 2 backs over 225 pounds. I want to see the big dudes eat on Saturday. OL and RBs. We haven't ran as effective as I expected *and* it's been against light boxes for the most part. Vanilla, yes, but more of the same gripes we had with Parrish. 5-6 yards every time... but never the big play.

Defensively, just look locked in and not whatever they were doing in the first half last week. Refocus like we did against UF and don't just turn it on in the red zone.

Then, I'd love to see a lot less 7 man protection in the passing game. Let it be 5v5, or 6v5, or 6v6. If they want to send 6-7 guys we should be abusing them in the passing game. Teams rarely/almost never send 7 guys against us but we dial up our protection for it every time and let them bait us into it.

Seeing this way too often and it's been that way under Mario since he got here - really seems they try to baby/protect the OL when they don't need to. Teams start mugging the LOS and we dial up a heavy protection and they bail into a 7-8 man zone coverage and you get Ward sitting back there and having too much time and no one open. TEs and RBs doing nothing or bailing to the flats too late. Send the RB/TE and get them out of pass pro and let Cam beat them to death in the quick game where they vacate so teams stop doing that so much - this is more of a put it on film for future opponents kind of thing.

Same exact thing happened to TVD starting against UNC and GT and he couldn't figure it out. Cam is figuring it out better and has mobility to make plays out of nothing but it limits the explosive plays the way you design them and limits what you can actually dial up and puts Cam in more error prone situations making something out of nothing. Basically where his fumbles/interceptions come from in the past.

Knit picking, I know.
 
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JayCane20 said:
This is a game, being against a *decent* opponent and flowing into the meat of your schedule.. teams use these games heavily when scouting and game planning tendencies. Games like this are used by teams to fine tune and craft a script and see how it goes. This is where you either show a bunch of nothing and be very vanilla if there are more formations/alignments in your bag. Or if you've shown all/most of your formations but still have play designs in your bag... you go against your grain and run reverse tendencies or tendency breakers and run plays and designs out of different sets than you plan or would like to do in those first few conference games before the bye week. Then the bye comes and you try to shake it up again if you have to or draw up new stuff.

Less technical and more just broad view

Would like to see us run the ball a little more effectively. Hoping to see about 40 carries with around 300 yards on the ground and only throw it about 25 times.

Seems like we run way too finesse for a team with 2 backs over 225 pounds. I want to see the big dudes eat on Saturday. OL and RBs. We haven't ran as effective as I expected *and* it's been against light boxes for the most part. Vanilla, yes, but more of the same gripes we had with Parrish. 5-6 yards every time... but never the big play.

Defensively, just look locked in and not whatever they were doing in the first half last week. Refocus like we did against UF and don't just turn it on in the red zone.

Then, I'd love to see a lot less 7 man protection in the passing game. Let it be 5v5, or 6v5, or 6v6. If they want to send 6-7 guys we should be abusing them in the passing game. Teams rarely/almost never send 7 guys against us but we dial up our protection for it every time and let them bait us into it.

Seeing this way too often and it's been that way under Mario since he got here - really seems they try to baby/protect the OL when they don't need to. Teams start mugging the LOS and we dial up a heavy protection and they bail into a 7-8 man zone coverage and you get Ward sitting back there and having too much time and no one open. TEs and RBs doing nothing or bailing to the flats too late. Send the RB/TE and get them out of pass pro and let Cam beat them to death in the quick game where they vacate so teams stop doing that so much - this is more of a put it on film for future opponents kind of thing.

Same exact thing happened to TVD starting against UNC and GT and he couldn't figure it out. Cam is figuring it out better and has mobility to make plays out of nothing but it limits the explosive plays the way you design them and limits what you can actually dial up and puts Cam in more error prone situations making something out of nothing. Basically where his fumbles/interceptions come from in the past.

Knit picking, I know.
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The amount of 7 man protections we run is honestly a bit ridiculous. last year I kinda understood cause Frosh QB or when TVD was playing shook, but this year nah. Sometimes yeah, but we did it a LOT against UF even when they were like obviously rushing 3.... And people were wondering why WRs weren't getting open. 3-4 WRs vs 8 DBs...
 
Memnon said:
Cam McCormick
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