What did we learn Indiana edition
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Jeremy
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Jeremy
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They all establish the LOS. Very good lines, effective running game to set up passes. Oregon ran the T with an extra tackle on the goal line.
DrinkinwitTerrellFarley
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I saw quite a few comments on social media about the lack of motion and creativity in Nebraska's offense.
Eh, it's semantics at this point but those aren't identities. They have a good OL so they are better on offense. OK.
By the way, Georgia is #93 in the country in rushing yards per game. They run for three more yards per game than Nebraska does.
Oregon is #70. Alabama is #59. So I'm not sure they're as good at running the ball as you're assuming they are.
A balanced west Coast offense but with a difference. They have certain plays that they know work because they run them to perfection. They have backs that can pick up hard yards when needed. And they all have at least one receiver that can get behind a defense. We have none of those things for starters.
The answer to some of this is we don't have a dual threat QB to keep the defense somewhat honest. Dylan is a pocket passer who doesn't have line play to give him a chance. That threat is huge when you don't have burners at receiver. Seen this before with Zac Taylor, but he was able to run some. Sam Keller. Statue's. Statues work in an NFL system with NFL players. Again, looking at our roster and team on the field, how many NFL 1st or 2nd or 3rd round picks do we have? On either side of the ball? Maybe 1 amongst this roster currently............maybe? Seems like the same old story. We just don't have the horses to compete week in and week out.
Again, that's not really an identity. A bunch of teams run West Coast Offense, with varying degrees of success.
Which plays can they run to perfection?
Having good players is not the same thing as having an identity.
lo country
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You're correct with stats. Depends on what you are trying to prove. I'm not a fan of Satt so I use total offense.
IMHO, scheme has given way to identity. I'm not sure what teams have a definitive "scheme" save the academies. You see a lot of mixes of what works, thrown in with the available talent. The whole "scheme with who you have, not who you want" comes to mind. I just don't know what we have. What is our "bread and butter" play. Seems like we try a lot of different things. What would our scheme be? Our identity? I don't know.
Total Offense
UGA is 36
Oregon is 27
Bama is 19
NU is 91
Indiana is 1
I don't disagree. I was specifically responding to his comment about "effective running game to set up passes."
lo country
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No worries. I used it to segue way into our scheme or identity. I really have no idea. Last year, I'd say zone read/rpo with tru option. But now, nada.
gossamorharpy
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I caution many fans and the narrative that is popping up more and more recently about wanting a dual threat qb. We’ve spent the last 15 years, except with tanner lee, with dual threat QBs and I think MAYBE 1 of those seasons did said qb actually play every single game.
On the list of things that is broken with this team, qb play ranks near dead last for me.
Undone
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Just some random discussion here. In the Illinois game, if you take out sacks as negative rushing yardage we had 397 yards of total offense. Raiola had 297 yards passing. There was nothing wrong with that, passing to move the chains was fine.
It was in the short yardage situation where we were really exposed in that game as not being able to run.
I was told that "Rhule wants to run zone read and dual threat QB's." It seems that went out the door when we signed Raiola, maybe because Dominic said "you aren't running him in zone reads" or whatever it is. I have absolutely no problem with that and actually have wanted to try something different and have the pass-first guy, and we have him.
But how the hell are we at this point where we averaged 3 yards per carry but Indiana averaged 6.5?
What this staff put together for an offensive plan seems to have really fallen apart in the last two games. What will the plan be in these last five, just throwing post route bombs to Neyor and seeing what happens?
Undone
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Another underrated thing that has happened this season though is that the schedule wound up being way tougher than the majority of fans (including myself) thought it would be in the offseason.
From the fans' perspective, the "chasing 3" thing was predicated on the idea that if we went 5-7 last year and lost several of those games by 3 points, all we needed was a QB with a pulse and that record would go to either 7-5 or 8-4.
Well we got the QB with a pulse, and he's actually good even as a true freshman. But it turned out that Illinois and Indiana are actually good. That part will be huge in factoring into the final W/L column.
This year's team probably doesn't lose to last year's Minnesota, Maryland, or Michigan State. But it turns out that this doesn't mean anything for this season at all.
From the fans' perspective, the "chasing 3" thing was predicated on the idea that if we went 5-7 last year and lost several of those games by 3 points, all we needed was a QB with a pulse and that record would go to either 7-5 or 8-4.
Well we got the QB with a pulse, and he's actually good even as a true freshman. But it turned out that Illinois and Indiana are actually good. That part will be huge in factoring into the final W/L column.
This year's team probably doesn't lose to last year's Minnesota, Maryland, or Michigan State. But it turns out that this doesn't mean anything for this season at all.