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Room for improvement
Oct 26, 2012, 9:34 AM
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Great win. It seems to me that when we praise a certain group their performance falls off. We've got to be able to run the ball and pass protect better. I know it's hard to get pumped up in that atmosphere, I just hope we are saving our complete game for Nov. 24.
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Enthusiast [143]
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the inability to run the ball and our insistance on running
Oct 26, 2012, 9:43 AM
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it straight up the middle every time was disappointing.
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CU Medallion [20866]
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Wake sold out to stop the run. They put lots of men in the
Oct 26, 2012, 9:45 AM
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box and wanted to force TB to throw. Pick your poison.
GO TIGERS!!!!!!
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Team Captain [462]
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I agree, but
Oct 26, 2012, 9:47 AM
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With them loading the box, I have a sense that those plays were intended to keep those defenders close to the LOS in order to exploit the advantages outside in the passing game.
One thing about football is that plays are sometimes called - not because the coaches expect them to gain significant yardage to have success - but rather to set up a big gain later on, either off of play action or off of a defensive alignment. I suspect many of the inside run plays were called specifically for that purpose.
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Team Captain [462]
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Also: our OL has serious issues
Oct 26, 2012, 9:54 AM
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in the inside running game, so we shouldn't expect those plays to be big gainers. Also, gotta give lots of credit to Nikita Whitlock: pound for pound he's by far the best nose tackle in the country. I wish we had one just like him on our DL.
Perhaps I'm fooling myself into believing there were strategic reasons for sticking with the inside running game. I was questioning those calls as well, and have to believe that a highly-paid and very good OC is calling those plays for a reason, considering the difficulty we have running them...
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Connoisseur [370]
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Re: Also: our OL has serious issues
Oct 26, 2012, 10:34 AM
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I got the impression last night that Chad was working on that very thing by calling all those inside runs. He was forcing game experience on the OL, and you are very correct in stating he was setting other things up and he wanted them close to the LOS. We saw several times how open Sammy was and that is one was to do it. The OL is still a work in progress and will continue to have hic-ups from time to time.
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Team Captain [462]
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I was really surprised how aggressive
Oct 26, 2012, 12:41 PM
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Wake's defensive game plan was. Lots of M2M with only one safety high at only about 12 yards deep.
It was clear that their priority was to take away the running game, which they certainly accomplished. But, our primary and most explosive offensive threats are in the passing game - seems like they would have softened up and tried to avoid giving up the big plays, instead of taking such risks against Sammy.
I guess they thought maybe Sammy still isn't healthy...
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Rival Killer [2800]
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Well they found out Sammy was plenty healthy!***
Oct 26, 2012, 12:43 PM
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CU Medallion [18892]
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Any yardage gained on running plays is just a bonus
Oct 26, 2012, 12:49 PM
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To Morris. Every running play is designed to set up something else
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Team Captain [462]
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TITCR
Oct 26, 2012, 1:09 PM
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Except in years when he has a more dominant running game, in which case the inverse would be correct.
He essentially sees the game as a simple math equation with only three variables: (1) number of plays run, (2) yards per play, and (3) points scored.
Maximize variables 1 and 2, and 3 should also be maximized. Maximize variables 2, and variable 1 doesn't matter. Maximize variable 3 and neither variable 1 nor 2 matters.
If running the ball more frequently than passing would maximize one or more of variables 1, 2, or 3, he would do it. Otherwise, it is just a matter of personal preference whether to run or pass.
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