I just dont understand how a majority of our offensive calls are confined to 6-7 plays and then we run them someone always screws up. For gods sake it's not like we have a giant playbook they need to learn. When you practice 6 freaking plays all summer you damn sure should be entirely perfect at executing those plays but inevitably someone screws it up and BM (yes Ive changed his last initial to reflect my opinion of his coaching) now has an excuse to keep on trying till we get that darn play right.
Maybe, someday we’ll have a setup where fans can say what they would run before every play and the majority will be able to indicate what’s run and it get sent to a device to tell the QB. If the play doesn’t work, that fan doesn’t get to vote anymore.
Wasn’t there some leage doing something like this last year? Not XFL or USFL but I thought some league had fan majority vote on play to run. Wild stuff.
No one was complaining about offense? Half the fan base was clamoring for a new OC including big money boosters. I think people convinced them self the offense was ok since the defense was putrid. how do we score? Billy run game fits are actually pretty good. So that helps is score. We win games against teams with less talent . Very rare have we beat a more talented team with Billy as coach as his system works best when he can our talent people and his players are just better. It is his passing game concepts that hurt the most.
You're right. People were complaining about the offense but not to the extent of the defense. If anything, that strengthens my point. Yes, our offensive philosophy is flawed. And that's why it can be defended More easily than others. But those others aren't better because the opposing team somehow doesn't know what they're going to get. Those other offenses are better systematically. They aren't better because the others team doesn't know what's coming. They are better because of their concepts. I firmly believe that just about any defensive coordinator could say about an opponent what Miami's coordinator said. That was, "We took their top five to seven plays that showed up in every game last year: a reverse, crossing routes, tailback screens—and I'll be danged if in the first four or five plays those things showed up". Yeah, no surprise, Florida's offense did what it believes it could do best.
We didn't average 30 points a game last year. We averaged 26.5. College Football Stats - College FB Team Points per Game | TeamRankings.com
The offense was good against the patsy teams. Look up the rankings, offense and defense weren’t that far apart. Terrible red zone. Everyone stacks the box and shuts down the run easy peasy. The screens and shallow passes get eaten up. We don’t spread the field or run quick hitter slants etc that give the players a chance for yac. Stop, turnaround and wait, Now you’re doing the Billy Pockey
Per Shane Matthews, many of the wr routes were poorly executed and could have been corrected in real time! Another issue, their DL reeked havoc on our OL. The game plan should have been less steps dropping back and making quicker throws. Obviously, it was not the game plan, and this coaching staff OUGHT to have made adjustments. Maybe just maybe, Mertz wouldn't have been hurt.
Another difference, explained by Shane Matthews, hours and hours of practice to get the timing down to make throws.
As much as I appreciate a little rubbing salt in your opponent's wound, I think their DC is kind of a moron for saying that. They were in man coverage all day and there were many plays that would have absolutely pantsed Miami if Mertz was able to pick the right receiver. That plays well with fans who are in the "Napier sucks and calls the same plays all the time" camp but in reality it's more of a "Napier and his staff suck at teaching the quarterback to read a defense." Napier's game-day glitch is that he doesn't prepare his quarterback to actually do the right thing, not that he doesn't know how to call plays. Mertz looked off one-on-one matchups about a dozen times, completely threw the ball to the wrong place when he did pick up on the right match up, and literally threw ZERO passes to his outlet - who often was completely uncovered and could have gained 10-15 yards since every Miami player was lined up in the box. I have no idea if Lagway can read a defense, but if he can he will have a field day if anyone else tries what Miami did. Unfortunately, I have little confidence that Lagway will be any better prepared than Mertz. Want to add: Miami will face teams who have quarterbacks who CAN read a defense, and if they stay in man coverage for every play like they did Saturday everyone is going to be talking about how their defense fell apart after their incredible performance at Florida. Anyone who's watched the replay of this game should know otherwise. I like Mertz, he's a good egg and a solid person, but he made Miami's defense look like a pro team Saturday. Other than some questionable matchups (Boardingham probably shouldn't line up Mano a Mano with Miami's best pass rusher) the offense was well called and receivers were getting open all day. This was all about QB play and whatever 'coaching' Mertz is getting.
So Carl Reese boasted he stopped Spurrier's offense in 95, not 97, as the post says. LSU held us to 28 the week after we hung 62 on Tennessee, so I guess he did. He even held clinics on it. Of course the next year we scored 42 on LSU IN ONE HALF and Spurrier made a quip about it. So Johnson had nothing to do with the Reese boast. But you are right Johnson didn't help us much in 97. i'm still mad he would throw away our SEC title so he could go get drunk. Danny nor Timmy would ever do this.
It really was as bad we think, because even he doesn't pick up on some things that made those plays worse. Like if Badger got a td on the long throw it would only have been because Mertz underthrew it, making it not be the post it was supposed to be. He was always behind the db. That's bad personnel as well as bad placement. If KJ had gotten the td or goalline catch it would have been not about a good throw and catch but that the defending was so bad while in position to get an int. Even Montrell's td was a mistake by their LB Harris getting sucked in. Mertz' int was a play that was open at the 7 to 5 yard line that Mertz should have had down from rote muscle memory as it was open before the pressure got to him. Our offense is a low yield offense until CBN can teach it appropriately, and I would be intellectually naive to think that will happen.
To your point about how we scored by running the ball last year, 50% of that run game transferred to a conference rival.
Stellar commentary!!! I wonder how these players and coaches prepare for games? Do they look at last year's film, since there's nothing current to look at in game one? I am no expert, but when I listen to Shane Matthews explain how the route running isn't good and the timing with throws are off, common sense tells me these players are not being coached up!
BTW, not sure if you saw this by Shane Matthews. The old podcast is good, but especially the first 16 minutes are outstanding! https://www.youtube.com/live/wCGm2UIauhs?si=dI546IVhpO_E9KDZ
