Offense

N

NU fan in Denver

New member
Is it just me or do we seem to run the same 15 or 20 plays over and over. I alluded to the screen pass to ross in an earlier post and that play worked for 2 games. Then teams figured it out. Baylor stopped it a couple of times and the time we ran it today it was stopped.

The pass routes seemed the same all day. We threw the ball to peterson on the flag route about 4 or 5 times today. It worked once or twice, but then MU stopped it by having the safety come over. Is there a receiver in that route pattern that runs over the middle to hold the safety? When we have third or 4th and short we either run a slant to the slot or short out to the te or the receiver.

Our running game either goes off tackle or a pitch to ross. It just seems that we aren't very diversified in our play calling. I haven't seen any counters or an occasional give to the full back.

 
We don't really have the players to do much else right now. I think the offense will be ok. As i've said before, the main problem in that game was that we were playing against Brad Smith. The man was incredible and we need to give him credit. It's a one man team. I'm just sad that a guy like that has to be stuck in a sh**hole like Missouri. 24 points is not bad for our offense. we can't expect to score 40 points every game.

 
No we can't expect the O to score 40 each week, but this is a pattern that I have noticed over the last couple of weeks. The further into the season we get the more game film opposing teams see. They are going to start to key on the tendencies of the offence. Hopefully BC is running the same plays so he can run a counter play off of them to fool the remaining teams. I think we have the players to show something different. I haven't seen a deep ball in quite a long time. All spring all everyone could talk about is how taylor could throw the deep ball. Where is it? The WCO is designed for a variety of things. One of them is short passing with a run after catch. Our receivers don't seem to be getting alot of YAC.

 
Because they're not fast/explosive/great athletes. Exactly why we can't throw the deep ball.
Click to expand...
Hardy is supposed to be a burner. Brooks is supposed to be the prototypical receiver we need. Bowman is our next lockdown corner. At least these were the recruiting reports. We had the #3 recruiting class so you can't say we don't have athletes. Hell at least give it a shot. Maybe we can catch a few interference calls.

 
Hardy and Brooks do appear to be good athletes but I don't see either of them making an impact this year. Maybe Brooks doesn't get the offense yet, and maybe Hardy is a little banged up. I think next year these two can make an impact. The guys that are getting most of the reps during the games are not going to make anything special happen. I think we need to find a way to get Nunn the ball more, he may be the only real threat we have as far as YAC goes.

 
I think its facinating how ZT's "favorite" target has changed thru the season. Franz Hardy was the favorite for the first few games, then Nunn and Mulkey became the targets of choice. At MU it's Swift (9 catches) and Peterson (3 catches). These last 2 guys didn't catch a ball till the 4 or 5 game! Mulkey only caught 1 against MU and Nunn only caught one (the long play then the fumble). Is ZT just finding the "best" recievers? Or is new talent revealing itself?

IMO that we have become a one-dimensional passing team because the OL is so ineffective.

 
Good point about Zac's favorite targets changing from game to game. I think the point you made is that Zac really doesn't have a favorite target. He finds the open recievers and he gets them the ball. I'd much rather him do this than try to force a pass to one of our "better recievers". (assuming we have some recievers that are better than others)

 
Is it just me or do we seem to run the same 15 or 20 plays over and over. I alluded to the screen pass to ross in an earlier post and that play worked for 2 games. Then teams figured it out. Baylor stopped it a couple of times and the time we ran it today it was stopped.
The pass routes seemed the same all day. We threw the ball to peterson on the flag route about 4 or 5 times today. It worked once or twice, but then MU stopped it by having the safety come over. Is there a receiver in that route pattern that runs over the middle to hold the safety? When we have third or 4th and short we either run a slant to the slot or short out to the te or the receiver.

Our running game either goes off tackle or a pitch to ross. It just seems that we aren't very diversified in our play calling. I haven't seen any counters or an occasional give to the full back.
Click to expand...
Thats about 17 more plays than the last staff had

 
We never run counters or anything to throw the defense off. The defense pursues the play and gets the hit... there is no misdirection.

I don't understand that. No reverses or counters... or anything to make the swarming defenses slow down... they do this to us all the time. Most of Missouri's big plays were because we overpursued... didn't stay where we were supposed to be. But we rarely pull this kind of misdirection on other teams. We line up to pass... we pass... we line up to run, we run. And always fairly predictably. it's been this way for awhile now.

Osborne had his "up the middle" style, but at least it felt like there was a plan there.

 
Talking about the recievers not being playmakers...we saw what Marlon Lucky did on KR today...and we know he can catch a ball because he did a lot of it in high school...HMMMMM PUT HIM THERE!! that could help some...

 
Talking about the recievers not being playmakers...we saw what Marlon Lucky did on KR today...and we know he can catch a ball because he did a lot of it in high school...HMMMMM PUT HIM THERE!! that could help some...
Click to expand...
Whyd we quit throwing to peterson in the 2nd half?

 
Talking about the recievers not being playmakers...we saw what Marlon Lucky did on KR today...and we know he can catch a ball because he did a lot of it in high school...HMMMMM PUT HIM THERE!! that could help some...
Click to expand...
Whyd we quit throwing to peterson in the 2nd half?
Click to expand...
In case you didn't notice, he was double teamed after his first touchdown catch. When you catch 3 passes for 65 yards, defensive coordinators make sure to limit your catching ability.

Brad Smith did to us today what Crouch did to teams when he was a QB. Mobile QB's are the toughest to stop. You don't know if they are going to throw, or option pitch it or run with it or fake the handoff...to many variables to consider. I am just glad he won't be part of that offense next year.

 
Last edited by a moderator:
Back
Top