TGHusker
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Could be - he also says he doesn't mind being the last to call for Satt's firing - being cautious.
Should we fire Satterfield??
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BigRedBuster
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Please God....for everything that is good. Start figuring out how to make the defense pay for being so aggressive in defending the screen passes. There has to be counter plays that do that. It has to be something that is well known in the OC world. If they can figure that out, then maybe there was an ounce of good that could come from calling 33 screen plays per game.
gossamorharpy
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There’s not a single conference game this season that convinces me otherwise. 6 of our 22 completions Saturday resulted in negative yards. Rhule isn’t blameless here but if I’m to take his word and believe satt has autonomy to call the offense then satt is the one who’s gonna catch my blame when our offense is pedestrian at best and continually shows that we are incapable putting our players in a position to succeed
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gossamorharpy
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Raiola’s TD pass, the anticipatory quick slant against pressure is an example. A quick Te release that stops or short drags would work. There are ways to counter pressure outside of us calling screens that we are clearly incapable of executing on
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CharBroiled
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Watching Satterfield's offense has been much like watching Danny Langsdorf's offense without the YOLO bombs. These swings and screens aren't working at all but he continues to go to the well. The last drive, the OSU LBs and DBs were licking their chops and breaking towards the flat at the snap as they knew what was coming.
Husker in WI
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I was frustrated with the screens too, but that's just not true. Both times we just missed the guy covering the RB. Lutovsky here - you may notice the only LBs/DBs even in frame are the blitzing nickel, and the manned up LB who makes the play:
And this one is a more obvious screen, but it's still lined up for success. I think Fidone was supposed to pick off the trailing man defender (you can see him look at the LB during the play, but he's already further upfield than Fidone at that point), and then the RB can follow Benhart to set up his block on Fidone's defender. But Fidone got too far upfield, recognized he couldn't make that block legally, and just refocused on the guy in front of him.
It was too many screens, and we were not blocking them well. But these are each one missed assignment from being really good playcalls, and it's not like the missed assignments were beyond the capabilities of the players. Like if you're one MA from a touchdown but that asisgnment is Jacory Barney blocking JT Tuimoloau, that's still a bad call. Cody Simon is fine, and he had good technique which made him more difficult to block. But Lutovsky and Fidone have to make those blocks. And if we pull every play out of the playbook where a player might not make a key block, we won't have any plays.
Undone
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Totally agree.
What I personally recall as a pretty accurate recap of the Illinois game was that we were fairly aggressive with downfield throws all game in that one. I realize we have a crowd here that doesn't like that kind of game, period, but we put up 397 yards of offense in that game if you take out negative sack yardage.
That's a good number. And we attacked in the red zone all night - pretty unsuccessfully - but we did it.
It seems like Satterfield & the staff kind of went a different route starting in the Rutgers game. Like, not that much different, but different enough.
And I don't really see how we could roll out this short pass stuff against UCLA with a good conscience. But I'll be happy if we do and it somehow works.
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BigRedBuster
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The frustrating thing is, there was a point in the OSU game that we went away from nothing but screen passes and it seemed like the entire offense opened up, even the run game. I think it was around the time of the TD drive that went 74 yards.
Then, at the end of the game with so much going well….right back to screen passes.
Now, if we could also get Dylan to not be quite so strong on the deep balls…..
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Savage Husker
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what’s wild is how frequently the offense melts under pressure with the game on the line
BigRedBuster
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I hesitate to say this because the they played so well for the vast majority of the game. But, I would say the defense was the side that melted down at the end giving up that drive that they hadn’t done all game.
Even though, that last drive was frustrating.
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floridacorn
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floridacorn
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If you're familiar with how Narduzzi plays defense, he's essentially funneling your entire offense into throwing 9 routes and comebacks. That's a very simplified version of it, but it's his core philosophy. As an offense, you can swim upstream against this look, or take your shots.