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What sets the Ohio State game apart is that we finished drives. Four scoring drives by the offense, all touchdowns. Not a flawless outing offensively; we missed some big chances. Coming up a yard short on third down and missing a 46 yard field goal to make it a two possession game late could have cost us the game. But settling for three on any of our touchdown drives would have cost us the game, too.
Bud usually comes up with a new wrinkle for Georgia Tech every year, too.
This might be the greatest username I've seen so far.
I will say, Newsome's skill set is limited. He seems to only have success in a spread option offense. It says something that every single year he was here, we had to abandon his zone blocking scheme because it wouldn't work in a pro style offense.
Pre-Newsome, yes, but Stiney had attempted to implement a zone blocking scheme without really knowing anything about zone blocking prior to Newsome's arrival. So damage was already being done to the O line, and then Newsome drove it into the ground.
Stinespring's tenure as OC was marked by the left hand not knowing what the right hand was doing. Newsome can have success with his scheme. Witness his success at Emory & Henry after leaving here. But here, Stiney kind of just let Curt do his own thing and didn't account for the type of OL he was producing.
Plus the OL recruiting went to shit.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a Newsome apologist. But the bulk of the offensive ineptitude still falls in Bryan's lap.
Yeah, but three of the five offenses he mentioned were Bustle's, and the other two were Stiney's first two years, when he was basically still going through the same motions he'd seen Rickey use. There's no doubt that it eventually devolved into superior talent covering up for schematic deficiencies; the spike in output under Tyrod was from within the same system that Glennon had produced offenses ranked in the triple digits.
2003 is kind of a rip your heart out year. Statistically it was a great season, and there was reason to believe that Stiney was going to be a hotshot OC. But the doors fell off shortly thereafter.
Ken should have gone low and hit Lambert around low ribs/hip level. Would have completely upended Lambert and Ken wouldn't have had his bell rung on the play like he did.
The likelihood of our offensive output being static and equally divided among all quarters of play across the entire season is approaching nil. It has never happened, and I would put money on it never happening within any of our lifetimes. If history teaches us anything, there will be games where we score bunches of points, and there will be games where points are at a premium. Ultimately, I will say again, if the offense averages 28 ppg across the season, it is underperforming.
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# | Wyatt Teller's "Shoulders Broad Enough to Handle All the Attention" at Starring Role on OL Interestingly enough, DW4 wore a shirt and tie to class every day.
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It was the fact that he referenced a 59% completion rate. That was Brewer's from last year. So he posted stats for five years but then referenced a stat from last year.
Plays of 20+ yards from scrimmage
- 2010: 12th
- 2011: 20th
- 2012: 61st
- 2013: 95th
- 2014: 95th
Yikes.
All stats courtesy of cfbstats.com BTW.
Definitely, we both want the same thing: wins. And sure, there's gonna be games where our offense runs into a buzzsaw. I'm not talking about facing the occasional brick wall defense. I'm saying over the course of a full season, an offense that averages 28 points per game is underperforming. We can't use the fact that we have an elite defense to gloss over the fact that our offense isn't contributing its fair share. We did that for a decade and it hurt us as a program.
And one of those is even on a Saturday! /s
I think you've kind of hit on something. Outside the corner spots, there really is no such thing as a static position in our backfield anymore. Torian has said Clark will always be on the field on D by moving around from safety to nickel as the situation warrants. So basically our backfield is becoming all hybrid positions.
I think we see the differentiation between whip and nickel erode to the point where the only difference is the specific assignment on a given down. The question then, is, what exactly will Cornell Brown's job description be?
Are you sure OP wasn't welcoming him to big boy football at his new home in the Kansas JUCO scene? Seems more likely.
Your last sentence says it all. The problem wasn't the script, it was the fact that we weren't using scripted plays they way they're supposed to be used. You basically bring 25 plays in, and based on the results of those 25 plays you know what's there and what's not in any given game. Then you attack. It was more like we were using scripts because that's what you're supposed to do. When the script was over, we still tried to do what we wanted to do anyway, not what the scripted plays showed were working.
Kind of like how we became a pistol offense by going to Texas for a weekend. It was a really half-assed approach to running an offense for a while. Kind of like we were looking around at how offensive coordinators do their job and trying to mimic it without understanding what we were doing. Incompetence will eventually catch up to you.
Some added context.
Red zone scoring% ranking
- 2010: 6th
- 2011: 103rd
- 2012: 18th
- 2013: 112th
- 2014: 34th
Red zone TD% ranking
- 2010: 40th
- 2011: 105th
- 2012: 100th
- 2013: 95th
- 2014: 97th
That last stat, you're saying that's the percentage of all of our TDs that season that were scored on a play where the ball was snapped inside the opponent's 20, right?
I read it as "with an improved quarterback."
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# | Wyatt Teller's "Shoulders Broad Enough to Handle All the Attention" at Starring Role on OL I'll say this. I love a good suit. I try to keep up with fashion and subscribe to a couple of the clothes by mail programs like Trunk Club and Fashion Stork. To me it's not wearing a suit that makes Hoos unbearable. It's their pretentious, cocky, elitest, bourgeoise, yuppy, entitled, whiny, hidebound, narrow, classist, self-aggrandizing, vainglorious, narcissistic sense of self-importance.
Some of the nicest, most genuine people I've ever met wear a suit every day, and some of the most insufferable assholes wear camo.
What surprises me most on this one is to be reminded that eight games into the '13 season we were sitting at 6-2. Lefty came close to having a very good first season.