Best in the Big10 or the country? Lol! When they actually start catching passes that hit them in the hands, remember what routes they're supposed to run & can block someone over 140 lbs I'll take it seriously.
Na.. you can tell its not being coached the way it should. There isnt enough emphasis on making the end commit or his world ends.
While you are correct, there is a reason you see so much less zone read now than you did a few years back. Once defenses started running the 'scrape exchange' it forced offenses that wanted to continue to run the play to add more complexity, either by changing their blocking scheme to account for that scrape or combining it with other concepts. At that point, you're back to the timing, recognition, and rep problems you mention with the option.
The Big Ten is weak on WR's across the board though of all units NU's corps is among the least unimpressive.
Have you actually watched Oregon's running game? They run a lot to the outside true enough but they are extremely physical at the point of attack.
I remember being flabbergasted after that, and Meyer was as well. Zone read thta has another option element, very creative. Not sure why we didn't see that again. Maybe we did and I just don't remember it.
I like this group of kids. Kenny Bell, Quincy Enunwa, Tim Marlowe, Jamal Turner and Jordan Westerkamp bring quite a bit of talent to the table. WR is not the easiest position to play as your numbers are based upon the style of your offense, and the abilities of your QB. I think this group stacks up against any group pretty well. Swift and Petey were good ones. I'll take these guys though any day of the week.
you've lost it....you've seen kenny Bell and Enunwa catch passes in games, jamal sit on the bench and Jordan play Highschool Football. and you're going to stack them up against the best in the Country? Come on..
Best nationally would be Tennessee, Southern Cal, Clemson, West Virginia and Oklahoma. UGA and Arkys should turn heads this season as well.
Yep. And in a big way it is, in terms of moving the defensive pieces around as a complement to other things. To me, if you're going to track these things then options and screens should be considered their own plays in the stat sheet because of how one goes about defending them. The whole pass/run "balance" argument is a bunch of baloney. The only reason anyone even keeps track of whether or not it is a pass play is for the sake of the rules. One can draw up the same play, and depending on the angle of the pass it would get counted as either a forward pass or a run. To the defense, it's the same play and that's what ultimately matters. How many times you pass or run isn't very important. Much more important is when, and how, and what spacing the team uses, blocking schemes, route combinations, formations, sets............those are the important things to track. The fact you can tabulate run/pass as a simple ratio doesn't mean nearly as much as me saying Nebraska will run Play X with Rex in a singleback set at a depth of 5 yards. The fact that teams that have a 50/50 ratio will usually pass on second down following a failed first down run is noteworthy, but that kind of thing is never mentioned in all of the pass/run debates surrounding the sport. The 50/50 ratio is a big global tendency that doesn't get anywhere near the level of detail one needs to prepare for that team. It's about as significant as what color they wear, tbh. That's why coaches talk about it, because it doesn't mean anything if anyone knows it or not.
Oh ya mean they block hard? Yeah, most teams do that. The LOS is generally a physical place. However, I didn't see Darron Thomas breaking a tackle then making a pitch, or Lamichael James steamrolling a MLB. That's what I meant, and that's what I want to see.
