Arizona article on spread offense

[Falconboy]

That Omar didn't take off a tone when he saw a dropped 8 or 9 man defense. For crying out loud! Do you really need your coach to tell you to take off and use your 4.5 speed a get a pretty much guaranteed 1st down!! :shrug: Also Omar should be starting to call his own audbiles. It can throw the defense off when Omar can use his own judgment at the LOS to exploit mismatches.

[Jacobs4Heisman]

you're right -- Omar sucks -- he hasn't even donated any money to the Sebo center yet.

I seem to remember one of the big knocks and then praises on J5 was him leaving the pocket too early in his younger days and then correcting it his senior year. I would much rather have a quarterback who happens to be an athlete than an athlete playing quarterback. Omar is most definitely the former.

As far as audibles here's a question. In a very loud environment, such as the one we will see in 5 days, would you rather have a signal system from the sidelines that keeps everyone on the same page, or an audible system that nobody can hear resulting in false starts and delay of game penalties?

[Falconboy]

you're right -- Omar sucks -- he hasn't even donated any money to the Sebo center yet.

I seem to remember one of the big knocks and then praises on J5 was him leaving the pocket too early in his younger days and then correcting it his senior year. I would much rather have a quarterback who happens to be an athlete than an athlete playing quarterback. Omar is most definitely the former.

As far as audibles here's a question. In a very loud environment, such as the one we will see in 5 days, would you rather have a signal system from the sidelines that keeps everyone on the same page, or an audible system that nobody can hear resulting in false starts and delay of game penalties?

I can understand wanting your qb staying in the pocket long enough to go the proper reads. But when you see 8 and 9 guys dropped in coverage , trying to throw it into that kind of coverage is just asking for a interception. And if we had a rb in the game , and if we couldn't have short pass to a rb to gain a good 7-9 yds. then we've got problems. I just hope Omar doesn't try to become the complete opposite of what J5 was and tries to make stuff out of nothing. We should've gotten that kind of bizzare defense snuffed out with the simple smart playcalling. I'm getting real befuddled at the playcalling from the coaches. Some of of they call is just plain bizzare. Too many dumb plays at the exactly the wrong time to run them. I hope and EXPECT them to get it worked out by next Wed.

[BelieveNBG]

...and we sure have had some flat 3rd quarters. The defense adjusts at the half but we don't seem to counter quickly enough. It shouldn't take a whole quarter to figure out what moves to make. This dates back to NIU last year and again at UT and again at Wisky and again at Ball State.

[JohnnySwoop '85]

Yeah...what BelieveN said.

3rd Quarter = "The coaches quarter"

But then again this is the same coacching staff that always designs the series that start the game with scoring drives.

net, net great ability at constructing a strategy and game plan. questionable about making revisions during the length of halftime. And that is most negative thing I have ever said about our coaching staff...because other wise they have performed quite well and has made our program one of only 12 or 13 schools to have won a bowl in each of the past two years.

[Falconfreak90]

Yeah...what BelieveN said.

3rd Quarter = "The coaches quarter"

But then again this is the same coacching staff that always designs the series that start the game with scoring drives.

net, net great ability at constructing a strategy and game plan. questionable about making revisions during the length of halftime. And that is most negative thing I have ever said about our coaching staff...because other wise they have performed quite well and has made our program one of only 12 or 13 schools to have won a bowl in each of the past two years.

That's one of the very few things I can gripe about our staff as well. I don't get why we come out flat in the 3rd sometimes....and that lies with the staff.