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Not talking about players here.

Why did we play zone with 7 and 12 yard cushions ALL DAY LONG. 3rd and 5 - give it to them. Saw that 4 to 7 times.

We blitzed 3 times total. We are not getting pressure so we get go prevent D all day. My question is... Where were the formations and the agressive stunts form the Baylor and TCU game.


Now the other side of the ball. Great first play. OK then we climb back into the shell. We can throw DOWNFIELD. It is not illegal.
Maybe it is because the QB's were dodging blitzers. ( What a concept )

Be unpredictable.

I really thought we were going to pull this all together and have a break-out game - NOPE - we did not even call the plays to have a break-out game.

Alright I'm out for now. Time to concentrate on bringing in this new deal at work.

Dazed and confused

Why when we had the wind to our backs in the first quarter did we only throw one or 2 times? Strange, strange play calling.

And why did we have the wind at our backs in the first quarter anyway? We won the toss and deferred. Don't we get to pick which endzone we want to defend? Don't we want the wind out our backs in the 4th quarter?

BUS wrote:Not talking about players here.

Why did we play zone with 7 and 12 yard cushions ALL DAY LONG. 3rd and 5 - give it to them. Saw that 4 to 7 times.

We blitzed 3 times total. We are not getting pressure so we get go prevent D all day. My question is... Where were the formations and the agressive stunts form the Baylor and TCU game.


Now the other side of the ball. Great first play. OK then we climb back into the shell. We can throw DOWNFIELD. It is not illegal.
Maybe it is because the QB's were dodging blitzers. ( What a concept )

Be unpredictable.

I really thought we were going to pull this all together and have a break-out game - NOPE - we did not even call the plays to have a break-out game.

Alright I'm out for now. Time to concentrate on bringing in this new deal at work.

Dazed and confused

Bennett allowed Baylor to wear his team down. It was obvious we weren't the bigger team - but no matter, we played straight up D the entire game - bo blitzes, stunts in the 4th Q.

Bennett is no Schumman. Compare the defenses...even ignore the first year of Bennett.

I don't know. It seemed to me we were playing the broken levee D all game.

This team may still be reeling from the fumble on the Aggie 2.

Sometimes a single play can change an entire season.

what a pansy-ass excuse that is. Look we got blown out by the Aggies-it wouldn't have mattered if Eric Dickerson had scored against the Aggies from the 2. We were totally outclassed at every single position on the field

Stallion wrote:what a pansy-[deleted] excuse that is. Look we got blown out by the Aggies-it wouldn't have mattered if Eric Dickerson had scored against the Aggies from the 2. We were totally outclassed at every single position on the field

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Regardless of being "outclassed", we were in that game thru most of the 1st half. Yeah, we got blown out, and that supports my reason as much as any other.

And the psyche of a young team, trying to turn a corner from a losing past, is much more fragile than the physical violence that goes on between the lines. Winning and losing have one thing in common-- both can become a habit.

We played a very passive defense against Tulane. From what I saw, we blitzed more than three times, but I did take notice that every single time we blitzed, our DBs were 15 yards off the line. Tulane WR did a simple hot read route and they had an easy catch.

And they threw opposite Humphrey all game. He left a small cushion, but they didn't touch him. They threw at the 10 yard Jones/Lindley cushion the entire game.

Did anyone else notice that when Haynes came in the game and immediately pressed the WR, Tulane had to call a timeout?

The times our corners were aggressive, our defense held up well. I think that the reason we played so far off the line was that our safties were having to sneak up and support the run. So we didn't want the corners expesed deep. But as some point, you have to press them and force them to throw the deep ball. We had one play where a corner got burned. Jones bit on playaction, was running to the line, and his WR was wide open. But our safties and DBs were fast enough to recover and make the play. If I were a defensive coordinator, once I saw that I would have been pressing all game, daring them to throw the deep pass. Especially when they threw into the wind. But it was never done.

Out players played without passion. Our offensive line was completely awful. There was no energy on the field. But sometimes a passive gameplan, "coaching scared", can cause the players to play a bit soft.

If I were on this D, I would be pi$$ed at the play calling from the OC.

And how motivated would you be if you were on the O side, seeing the same predictable calls from the bench.

I thought this offense would be more wide open after a year of working under Burns. But the only thing different is now Sledge gets the passes thrown last season to Foster.

And if I can figure it out, you know opposing coaches are ready.

SWC2010 wrote:If I were on this D, I would be pi$$ed at the play calling from the OC.

And how motivated would you be if you were on the O side, seeing the same predictable calls from the bench.

I thought this offense would be more wide open after a year of working under Burns. But the only thing different is now Sledge gets the passes thrown last season to Foster.

And if I can figure it out, you know opposing coaches are ready.

Part of that is because of the damn spread. We can't block at all, and instead of leaving TEs or RBs in to block, we send everyone out. Long routes don't have time to get open, so you check down to the possesion WR, which is the Sledge/Foster spot.

A good offensive coordinator will realize what he has and go to formations that work. We have to run power, conservative formations, keep the D off the field, until these guys can block well enough to run a spread.

I sure am glad we send our TE out otherwise Kennedy, the one on the Lombardi watch list, wouldn't have those 3 catches for 10 yards in 4 games. What's up with that?

Dooby wrote:And why did we have the wind at our backs in the first quarter anyway? We won the toss and deferred. Don't we get to pick which endzone we want to defend? Don't we want the wind out our backs in the 4th quarter?

The rule is that if you win the opening toss you can defer to the second half on making the first decision regarding possession. We deferred, and Tulane elected to receive. We then chose which end of the field to defend (the wind at our backs).

In the second half, we had the choice and chose to receive. Tulane got to pick the end of the field to defend, taking the wind at their backs in the fourth quarter.

The problem is that when you defer and take the wind at your back, you need to hold the other team and get them to punt against the wind. If you let the other team take approximately 10 minutes off the clock in possession time and allow them to score and you don't, you are f'ed.

On another note, how many passes did our DB's drop that could have been INT's. I counted at least three. There could have been others but I tried to keep my eyes closed as much as possible.

And, how about that end around play. I haven't seen that run so much since watching an intramural flag football game.