Recipe for failure

[DocCatsFan]

Take a redshirt freshman QB, give him a terrible offensive line, and then throw in a group of receivers who are slow, cannot get any separation at all and can't catch the ball.

 

[and_go_cats]

Take a redshirt freshman QB, give him a terrible offensive line, and then throw in a group of receivers who are slow, cannot get any separation at all and can't catch the ball.

Totally agree.

All indicative of poor recruiting, development, and scheming....aka it's on Fitz and the coaches. And yet all we hear about is execution.....maddening.

 

[Gladeskat]

Take a redshirt freshman QB, give him a terrible offensive line, and then throw in a group of receivers who are slow, cannot get any separation at all and can't catch the ball.

Then add a team distracted by the '95 Rose Bowl team coming to town. I hope Fitz had a fun time this weekend.

 

[Gladeskat]

Totally agree.

All indicative of poor recruiting, development, and scheming....aka it's on Fitz and the coaches. And yet all we hear about is execution.....maddening.

An execution would be a great idea. How many ropes do we have?

 

[lunker35]

We are in year 10. There can't and shouldn't be excuses anymore. These are all kids that were recruited and "developed" by the coaching staff. The performance today was inexcusable. The entire offense was just awful. It was an unwatchable game today.

 

[DocCatsFan]

Totally agree.

All indicative of poor recruiting, development, and scheming....aka it's on Fitz and the coaches. And yet all we hear about is execution.....maddening.

Let me also add that while Thorson might be struggling a bit (who isn't?) I really don't see him as the main problem. If you were at the game and were able to look down field during the development of pass plays you would see that virtually nobody was EVER open. Amazing how you can have 5 guys in a pattern and not one of them gets more than a foot of separation!

 

[BFDCat]

If you were at the game and were able to look down field during the development of pass plays you would see that virtually nobody was EVER open.

This! It was totally maddening. Most of the time Thorson had enough time, he just didn't have anyone to throw to. I can't believe all our WRs are that bad, it has to be the plays or coaching or something.

 

[BFDCat]

Oh yeah, and when they did manage to get open they dropped the freaking ball.

 

[Firekat]

Recipe to beat the 'Cats: shut down the running game and play man to man on the receivers.

 

[Purple Pile Driver]

This! It was totally maddening. Most of the time Thorson had enough time, he just didn't have anyone to throw to. I can't believe all our WRs are that bad, it has to be the plays or coaching or something.

Never open. I watched them closely today, and they are plain bad. Sorry to be so blunt, but Andrew Luck would have had to eat the ball on most plays today. Thorson had a very poor game, but with putrid play calling, zero play making deep this will continue to happen.

 

[mybrotha]

Yes

 

[Mr. Stupor]

Take a redshirt freshman QB, give him a terrible offensive line, and then throw in a group of receivers who are slow, cannot get any separation at all and can't catch the ball.

You forgot having a non-accountable coach for life who is arrogant and thinks he knows everything and won't change a thing.

 

[stpaulcat]

You forgot having a non-accountable coach for life who is arrogant and thinks he knows everything and won't change a thing.

Who's arrogant? You're just not paid nearly as much.

 

[Mr. Stupor]

Never open. I watched them closely today, and they are plain bad. Sorry to be so blunt, but Andrew Luck would have had to eat the ball on most plays today. Thorson had a very poor game, but with putrid play calling, zero play making deep this will continue to happen.

Our receivers are a joke. And our WR coach is the WORST in all of college football. How he keeps a job is beyond me.

 

[Fanaticat98]

Never open. I watched them closely today, and they are plain bad. Sorry to be so blunt, but Andrew Luck would have had to eat the ball on most plays today. Thorson had a very poor game, but with putrid play calling, zero play making deep this will continue to happen.

+1. First game I've seen in person this year so it is easier to see what was going on downfield. Much of the time the routes were either designed poorly or run poorly; either way it is not an individual problem so it comes down to coaching.

On one third and long there were 4 receivers and none went past the sticks. Other times when Thorson was scrambling it seemed the WR didn't know how to improvise to get open.

 

[beetlemania74]

Recipe to beat the 'Cats: shut down the running game and play man to man on the receivers.

That's been the recipe for a few years now, even during the successful 2012 season. That year, we disguised it a bit because we had V. Mark, but we still struggled at times. Nebraska, in particular, waa good at shutting us down with this approach.

The only way for us to succeed on offense, I think, is with a true duel threat QB, ala Persa.