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Post by Bubba the Trojan on Oct 11, 2021 6:30:18 GMT -6
DT was not able to view much of the came and only listened to maybe 1 quarter all together. My takeaways from what I gathered: 1.) Gunnar should have started all season but everyone that watched practices told us that. 2.) We should have cruised but didn't. Sounded like poor coaching and penalties. So, this was indeed a W for the Trojans and that's great! But, was it a W for Chippy head scratcher? Penalties hurt us, but only because of the timing. We had 6 penalties for 60 yds, but in all cases they extended drives or allowed GA Southern to wiggle off the hook. For example, GS was going to attempt a 4th and 1, had a procedural penalty, made it 4th and 6. Brought the punt team on and before they could snap the ball, our defender positioned over the center clapped his hands and they nailed us for simulating offensive signals, giving back the 5 yds they had just given us. Then there’s was a questionable defensive holding, that if it occurred, it was at the beginning if the play at the line. Those 2 penalties amounted for 20 of the 60 yds, so not necessarily a penalty ridden affair.
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Post by buzzlightyear on Oct 11, 2021 6:40:34 GMT -6
DT was not able to view much of the came and only listened to maybe 1 quarter all together. My takeaways from what I gathered: 1.) Gunnar should have started all season but everyone that watched practices told us that. 2.) We should have cruised but didn't. Sounded like poor coaching and penalties. So, this was indeed a W for the Trojans and that's great! But, was it a W for Chippy head scratcher? What is very clear ( and I mean without argument) is that with Powell hurt that for a game and half before that Gunnar should have been in the game. It is also very clear ( without argument) that both qb's are often stymied by the goober calling the plays. There is NO adjustments to what the D is adjusting to us. Often we start off like gang busters. The other teams D makes adjustments and we keep running the exact same thing. I had pointed to our last drive second down and it was OBVIOUS that an audible should have been called regarding Tez but was not. So again, I wonder if the QB's even get a chance to audible or they must run the play called. Time and time again we run into the line side with 4-5 D players where we have 3 blockers. (The HC we don’t speak of) must allow for audible calling when if in this running scenario as above an RPO to other side would be much more effective. I think the QB issue is simple. Is one superior to the other? There obviously opinions but hard to compare an injured Powell to Gunnar because that is a no brainer. THUS THE PROBLEM we gave a NO brainer doing the play calling. Final point. When we come to a line with a QB who is experienced and that would be BOTH of them must be able to audible out of a BAD call for the D they are facing. Our offense would be MUCH better allowing whomever is in there to make those calls. Defense has been good enough to have us in every game. Offense has potential to compliment that but is stymied NOT by who is playing QB but the pathetic adaptability of our head coach to situations on the run. There is no other explanation for our first drives being really good most of the time and then ptt, ptt, ptt..........You can not run a running play with straight blocking technique against 1-2 men extra defensively. You can't pass on the simple audible at the goal line like this past week on second down with Tez lined up as inside receiver on R side of formation with the defense they were in. Goober must allow for the QB who is experienced to do a pre-snap read of a gimme.
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Post by Troystet on Oct 11, 2021 6:55:15 GMT -6
Wasn't at the game but was watching highlights of Ole Miss/Arkansas, Bama/A&M etc and was astonished at the number of deep balls thrown and completed to basically wide open recievers. We have a 6"5 reciever in Todd that can run and you are telling me we can't get him open deep or these other recievers???
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Post by Troystet on Oct 11, 2021 6:58:05 GMT -6
DT was not able to view much of the came and only listened to maybe 1 quarter all together. My takeaways from what I gathered: 1.) Gunnar should have started all season but everyone that watched practices told us that. 2.) We should have cruised but didn't. Sounded like poor coaching and penalties. So, this was indeed a W for the Trojans and that's great! But, was it a W for Chippy head scratcher? What is very clear ( and I mean without argument) is that with Powell hurt that for a game and half before that Gunnar should have been in the game. It is also very clear ( without argument) that both qb's are often stymied by the goober calling the plays. There is NO adjustments to what the D is adjusting to us. Often we start off like gang busters. The other teams D makes adjustments and we keep running the exact same thing. I had pointed to our last drive second down and it was OBVIOUS that an audible should have been called regarding Tez but was not. So again, I wonder if the QB's even get a chance to audible or they must run the play called. Time and time again we run into the line side with 4-5 D players where we have 3 blockers. (The HC we don’t speak of) must allow for audible calling when if in this running scenario as above an RPO to other side would be much more effective. I think the QB issue is simple. Is one superior to the other? There obviously opinions but hard to compare an injured Powell to Gunnar because that is a no brainer. THUS THE PROBLEM we gave a NO brainer doing the play calling. Final point. When we come to a line with a QB who is experienced and that would be BOTH of them must be able to audible out of a BAD call for the D they are facing. Our offense would be MUCH better allowing whomever is in there to make those calls. Defense has been good enough to have us in every game. Offense has potential to compliment that but is stymied NOT by who is playing QB but the pathetic adaptability of our head coach to situations on the run. There is no other explanation for our first drives being really good most of the time and then ptt, ptt, ptt..........You can not run a running play with straight blocking technique against 1-2 men extra defensively. You can't pass on the simple audible at the goal line like this past week on second down with Tez lined up as inside receiver on R side of formation with the defense they were in. Goober must allow for the QB who is experienced to do a pre-snap read of a gimme. Interesting points...especially the audibles. Only game I attended was Southern so it was hard to judge anything by that game. Pretty sure I could have completed a pass on them. I know with Franklin, Brown, KE, Brown again that we would check to the sidelines to change calls. Are we still doing this??
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Post by buzzlightyear on Oct 11, 2021 10:37:38 GMT -6
In another era before switching positions in college, I was a QB in high School. If we had a certain gap dive and they were doing a run blitz or something like that and that meant the play we had was going to run head on into an extra defender the coach told me to change the dang play cause what was called ain't probably going to work. He said I can see it from the side and the coaches in the booth can see the switch and if you call the audible they are probably less likely to jump out of that D set they are in then if you look over at me and call something. I wonder why (The HC we don’t speak of) has NO common sense if you have TWO experienced QB's. Yes and every now and then I might have screwed up but some plays are simply bonehead to go ahead and run.
Watch one Green Bay Packer game (The only NFL team I will watch) and Rodgers is the best in the business but you will get the idea. Plus, I bet with either one of our QB's they could avoid the one yard loss plays on first or second down that we often run right into the defensive play WHICH IS CALLED PRESNAP not a late shift.
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Post by Bubba the Trojan on Oct 11, 2021 19:19:19 GMT -6
Wasn't at the game but was watching highlights of Ole Miss/Arkansas, Bama/A&M etc and was astonished at the number of deep balls thrown and completed to basically wide open recievers. We have a 6"5 reciever in Todd that can run and you are telling me we can't get him open deep or these other recievers??? Tdd was targeted multiple times Saturday night, with very good results, including a TD. I saw him at the spring game in '19 and have wondered when he would be used because he lit it up in that scrimmage.
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Post by Trojanfan2 on Oct 12, 2021 7:28:34 GMT -6
Just one play makes me wonder (I am sure there are others) We were 2nd and goal on our last scoring opportunity and we split two wide to R with Tez being inside. Their safety on him was playing straight up or only slight inside technique (shading inside). Their other safety shades heavy to the L side off our formation approx just over our L guard. There is no way that he can get over without presnap movement to have Tez not hard slant in for TD. This is the part I don’t get. Did Gunnar not see that or is he not allowed to audible because their formation on D could not have stopped that play. There are likely and there are what is given to us that we must take. Plus it was Tez!! Did Guru have a great play called (that went no where) or if they hand u a play to make on a platter we don’t want to take it because Guru/Goobers might work? I saw the same thing and wondered why. Johnson could have counter stepped in either direction and been open on a slant, but an inside slant would have been the most open.
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Post by cornhole on Oct 12, 2021 15:23:42 GMT -6
Just one play makes me wonder (I am sure there are others) We were 2nd and goal on our last scoring opportunity and we split two wide to R with Tez being inside. Their safety on him was playing straight up or only slight inside technique (shading inside). Their other safety shades heavy to the L side off our formation approx just over our L guard. There is no way that he can get over without presnap movement to have Tez not hard slant in for TD. This is the part I don’t get. Did Gunnar not see that or is he not allowed to audible because their formation on D could not have stopped that play. There are likely and there are what is given to us that we must take. Plus it was Tez!! Did Guru have a great play called (that went no where) or if they hand u a play to make on a platter we don’t want to take it because Guru/Goobers might work? I saw the same thing and wondered why. Johnson could have counter stepped in either direction and been open on a slant, but an inside slant would have been the most open. I’d guess the play calling system is dumbed down so that offensive staff can understand the calll.
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Post by Troystet on Oct 12, 2021 15:40:14 GMT -6
ChipPic2 ChipPic3 He will get back to you on that question after he looks at film
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