USC game. What did we learn

Mavric said:
Raiola was only pressured on 7 out of 43 drop-backs, despite USC blitzing 22 times.  Reports of poor line play are greatly exaggerated (at least in the passing game).

That was Raiola's second-lowest rated game of the year (Rutgers).

Raiola was 1/7 throwing 20+ yards downfield.  He was also only 1/3 from 10-20 yards.  Tough to do much on offense when all you can do is run and throw short passes.

Thankfully EJ out-snapped Dowdell 48 to 15.

Lloyd had the longest catch on the day by a receiver, despite only playing 10 snaps.  I thought he and Barney might see more snaps with Holgorsen in charge.

The OL was only charged with one hurry and no sacks.  Again, people who claim the line is doing poorly don't know what they're looking at.
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I agree Mavric. The OL was not to blame for this loss. They gave Raiola enough time. If anything, it was Raiola who looked confused, slow, and constantly missing the open guys. This game came down to us scoring two field goals instead of TDs. The recipe for this game was to get ahead in scoring and force USC to chase the game and make mistakes. We didn’t. We are not a come from behind team. We are a get ahead and hold on to dear life team. The reason we lost this game was bad QB play by Raiola and horrible decisions by Rhule. Rhule should have left HH in game for last drive and used timeouts more efficiently to conserve time. Instead, all plays were rushed and we don’t have the athletes for that. 

 




11:40 - We had a discussion about running stalk & go off these WR screens a few weeks ago.  We get it here and for the life of me I can't figure out why DR didn't turn this ball loose. 

I don't get the wisdom of having the #3 WR running a corner route to accompany this concept and he gets bullied & rerouted, but I can't imagine that's what they were looking for here.  This seems like an easy read for DR if he was looking for Banks and he's so wide open there's opportunity to throw this late and even later still.  

 
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I still can't tell if he actually stepped out of bound.  But watching it live, it sure seemed like he did.

Also, on the last play, I don't think he was in a position to see the hold/DPI.


 
6 hours ago, floridacorn said:

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Yes, that is exactly what was discussed here. It was right there for a TD and DR didn’t pull the trigger. Frustrating. 
 

I would like to know if this has been in the playbook all along, or was this added by Holgorson?

 
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BigRedBuster said:
Yes, that is exactly what was discussed here. It was right there for a TD and DR didn’t pull the trigger. Frustrating. 
 

I would like to know if this has been in the playbook all along, or was this added by Holgorson?
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I am guessing it has been in forever, that is a super popular goal line play.  HS teams use it like crazy.  

Usually the QB will just throw to the spot because it is always open, maybe DR just got spooked and took his eyes off the spot and that was the end of that play.  

 
BigRedBuster said:
Yes, that is exactly what was discussed here. It was right there for a TD and DR didn’t pull the trigger. Frustrating. 
 

I would like to know if this has been in the playbook all along, or was this added by Holgorson?
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I would guess it's been there.  We tried a similar play a couple of games ago and DR airmailed a wide open Banks down the sideline.

 
It almost feels like Raiola's game is centered on being comfortable in the pocket. As in, it's starting to look like he's too comfortable in the pocket.

If you're modeling your whole thing around Mahomes, then actually play like Patrick. He has an intensity in his pocket prescence - and he also rifles the ball out to his receivers on medium length passes.

@Mavric: Regarding your post about rushing data from this one: I love our yards per carry stats in this game. Including Raiola's sack yardage, we were at 4.8 YPC. Without Raiola's data and for just our backs, we were at 5.9. 5.9 is a huge breath of fresh air for our team.

But why does the first scripted drive not prioritize the run, especially with lead blocking? We pick up a first down but then we're again throwing from the shotgun which has proven to be low-percentage for us early in the game during the last half of the season, then the drive stalls and we're punting.

 
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Undone said:
@Mavric: Regarding your post about rushing data from this one: I love our yards per carry stats in this game. Including Raiola's sack yardage, we were at 4.8 YPC. Without Raiola's data and for just our backs, we were at 5.9. 5.9 is a huge breath of fresh air for our team.

But why does the first scripted drive not prioritize the run, especially with lead blocking? We pick up a first down but then we're again throwing from the shotgun which has proven to be low-percentage for us early in the game during the last half of the season.
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Because that's not what Holgorsen does.

 
Mavric said:
I would guess it's been there.  We tried a similar play a couple of games ago and DR airmailed a wide open Banks down the sideline.
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I can't imagine they didn't have versions of it in, but that particular play w/Banks was a true wheel route.  It did demonstrate how badly defenses have been jumping those screens.  I would have had to come back to that, it's not just a red zone concept, and I've never actually run in it that area of the field because I don't like screens in that area of the field.  

 
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