Raiola to transfer to Oregon?
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What a terrible take.
I'm not sure who Max Chadwick is, never heard of her. But NU created an offense for Raiola. That statement in the image isn't even remotely true.
PasstheDamnBallGuy
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That's interesting. What offense did they create for him?
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You disagree?
We switched from Satterfield's Sean McVay-ish 12 man personnel, shotgun set thing to a base 11 man personnel scheme that often empties the backfield into a hybrid spread, very similar to Andy Reid's scheme.
Husker_In_WI
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Eh, we created an offense for Raiola but then largely abandoned the downfield passing game element when it became clear the combination of our pass protection and his bad pocket presence couldn't make it work. It was in the best interest of the team (and Raiola's health) to abandon that, doesn't mean he has to like it as the long term plan.
Louisville would actually make a lot of sense, Brohm turned Aidan O'Connell, Tyler Shough, and (going back to WKU) Mike White into draft picks and got David Blough into the league.
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Just glad to hear someone agree that we created an offense for Raiola as a starting point to the discussion. That fact is actually really important to the conversation. Like, we demoted Satterfield, brought Holgorsen in, ditched the two tight end stuff and got setup for Dylan's sophomore year...and then really didn't do much "Vintage Dana Holgorsen" stuff at all.
If you're referring to the Minnesota game as the pivot point where we "abandoned the downfield passing game element," I don't think anybody can argue against your point. But I think what really happened was that Dana had a stroke or something and forgot he had one of the best running backs in the country in that game.
When it hit him how completely stupid it was to ask Raiola to drop back as much as we did and only give EJ 14 carries in the Minnesota game, he snapped out of it really quick.
I suppose both things can be true at the same time in that respect.
But to say that Raiola wasn't a good fit for our offense - as if we were 'square peg, round hole-ing' him or something - seriously displays a total ignorance of the situation with him decommitting from Georgia at the last minute, signing with us, and everything that happened after that point until now.
PasstheDamnBallGuy
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I think you are reaching because of the mahomes stuff. Using 11 personnel doesn't mean we ran the chiefs offense and honestly we didn't have more TE or HB that should have got more playing time from what I saw so I wouldn't even say that part was specifically for Raiola. I don't think it was particularly close to what the chiefs run not even counting the fact that the chiefs are constantly changing as is Mcvay for that matter.
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Sure, good points there. But back to the Twitter guy’s take.
When Rhule got here, he snags Jeff Sims out of the portal. A 6’4” running back masquerading as a QB. We ran zone read type stuff and there were QB running plays.
Then Raiola decommits from Georgia. We run ESSENTIALLY the same playbook from Satterfield’s year one playbook but we replace QB runs with lame little arrow routes to our tight ends from H-back position.
Then in year three we ditch the 12 man sets. We run RPO stuff out of the gun, largely based on 11 man sets and kind of going “spread lite.”
So was Raiola “a bad fit for our offense?” If that’s a true statement then Matt Rhule is basically an idiot.
I truly bought into the pre-season looking like the 49's O......
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One place Satterfield really went wrong was wasting time running zone handoffs to Dowdell in the first 9 games of the year. Should have had Emmett in there.
Found that out in the Wisconsin game that year.