A lot of critical posters this year and it will be a long offseason listening to complaints about the offense. While complaints are justified the content is overwhelmingly ignorant and redundant. My suggestion is to take the game today as an opportunity to educate yourself.
Before the snap identify our formation(doubles/trips - open or closed/2 tights) the defensive setup...which often changes quickly. Watch the line battle every play because you'll be able to see ball action even while watching line play. Pick a different side or player each time. On plays that don't work (subjective) identity the defensive player that disrupted the play and quickly rewind and see where he came from, who missed the assignment and make a judgement on whether they were put into position to succeed.
If you take this suggestion please don't come back and rail on players. Every down is a battle for each of them and you don't always win but you need to win together consistently. You may be disappointed in players you've been lead to believe are studs. You might be surprised by guys like lalk or appreciate why shontrelle does what he does. You also might extrapolate some strategy.....lets all keep our fingers crossed it doesn't go like the Iowa game.
Many of you like to be critical and you'll probably enjoy this. For many at least this might help you from making uninformed/overgeneralized comments for the next 9 months. You'll be able to compare your analysis of factors on a more detailed level than "read option sucks", "we only run two plays" or "why run up the middle on 2nd and long".
Before the snap identify our formation(doubles/trips - open or closed/2 tights) the defensive setup...which often changes quickly. Watch the line battle every play because you'll be able to see ball action even while watching line play. Pick a different side or player each time. On plays that don't work (subjective) identity the defensive player that disrupted the play and quickly rewind and see where he came from, who missed the assignment and make a judgement on whether they were put into position to succeed.
If you take this suggestion please don't come back and rail on players. Every down is a battle for each of them and you don't always win but you need to win together consistently. You may be disappointed in players you've been lead to believe are studs. You might be surprised by guys like lalk or appreciate why shontrelle does what he does. You also might extrapolate some strategy.....lets all keep our fingers crossed it doesn't go like the Iowa game.
Many of you like to be critical and you'll probably enjoy this. For many at least this might help you from making uninformed/overgeneralized comments for the next 9 months. You'll be able to compare your analysis of factors on a more detailed level than "read option sucks", "we only run two plays" or "why run up the middle on 2nd and long".
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