Troubling
Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2011 1:11 am
Traveled to Kent to day to watch my first game in person this year. Couple of observations...
1. Our QB is very accurate and efficient in the pocket. When he's flushed out of the pocket or when we roll him out by design he struggles mightly. Throwing on the run he often makes bad decisions and loses his accuracy.
2. Our QB is painfully slow afoot. He struggles to avoid pressure. He doesn't seem to have the pocket presence to know when to step up or slide to the outside to buy some time. He also seems to go to great lengths to avoid contact...both when in the pocket or on the run. He won't go for the extra yard, rather he slides early or steps out of bounds early.
3. Play calling really needs to be addressed. The wildcat on two straight plays to gain a yard? Terrible. If you are going to run the ball, line-up the QB under center with a lead fullback and get your yard. Then on the next fourth down play you decide to try a field goal with a kicking game that is hardly been automatic. We know how that worked out.
It seems a lot of the time we did OK on first down plays but second down handoffs in the shot gun usually lost yardage. If you don't have the confidence in your QB to mix things up with your play calling, then you don't have the right QB in the game. Red Zone play calling was obviously done to minimize risks and mistakes. You can't consistently win games this way.
4. How can we not be able to find a legitiment D1 kicker? Field goals are a crap shoot...hell, extra points have been an adventure as well. Now, we can't even kick-off. Seriously? How long will this continue year after year before we recruit a true kicker. If we had Kent's kicker today we win the game! We make the two missed field goals and we don't let them start every posession at the 40 yard line.
I have been supportive of Clawson and Schilz up to this point, and I am not ready to give up on them yet, but man we are better than what we saw today. Eventually the buck has to stop at the head coach.
1. Our QB is very accurate and efficient in the pocket. When he's flushed out of the pocket or when we roll him out by design he struggles mightly. Throwing on the run he often makes bad decisions and loses his accuracy.
2. Our QB is painfully slow afoot. He struggles to avoid pressure. He doesn't seem to have the pocket presence to know when to step up or slide to the outside to buy some time. He also seems to go to great lengths to avoid contact...both when in the pocket or on the run. He won't go for the extra yard, rather he slides early or steps out of bounds early.
3. Play calling really needs to be addressed. The wildcat on two straight plays to gain a yard? Terrible. If you are going to run the ball, line-up the QB under center with a lead fullback and get your yard. Then on the next fourth down play you decide to try a field goal with a kicking game that is hardly been automatic. We know how that worked out.
It seems a lot of the time we did OK on first down plays but second down handoffs in the shot gun usually lost yardage. If you don't have the confidence in your QB to mix things up with your play calling, then you don't have the right QB in the game. Red Zone play calling was obviously done to minimize risks and mistakes. You can't consistently win games this way.
4. How can we not be able to find a legitiment D1 kicker? Field goals are a crap shoot...hell, extra points have been an adventure as well. Now, we can't even kick-off. Seriously? How long will this continue year after year before we recruit a true kicker. If we had Kent's kicker today we win the game! We make the two missed field goals and we don't let them start every posession at the 40 yard line.
I have been supportive of Clawson and Schilz up to this point, and I am not ready to give up on them yet, but man we are better than what we saw today. Eventually the buck has to stop at the head coach.