Offense-All summer, I was excited to see a return to the Relf coast offense. Slightly skeptical because the spring game looked like Dak 2015 offense. Well, guess what? We just ran the Dak 2015 offense with WillIams yesterday. If we run the Relf offense (I.e. run 65-70% of the time)we win the game by 2 tds, easy. Fitz would have hit 150 yards on the ground by himself yesterday.
We must return to a run based, spread option offense. I actually think we can fix the offense but it requires Mullen to well, not be Mullen.
1. Fix the RB situation. Move Dear to RB, permanently. He is the starter. He gets majority of the carries and shares with Holloway. Shump can be our H back or FB. He is actually useful at that role. It's clear since the first time Dear touched the ball, he is a faster Jrob.
2. Fix the QB situation. This is easy. Fitz is the guy in a spread option attack. Even Dan and Damien can't argue with that.
3. Play our big "freshmens" receivers. Both of them. For blocking purposes and deep balls that Fitz can actually throw pretty well.
4. Bring back our play calling with Relf. We saw glimpses of it...just not enough. Focus on some power stuff and less attacking the edge.
Defense-We have huge problems here and it starts with everybody. We are terrible tacklers. End of story. This is our most difficult fix. We are more athletic than we have been in a while but we don't have football players or instincts. Could be the new scheme in the first game...but there was last year and the year before that, so. Oh yea, Richie Brown needs to sit. Not a leader. He was out of position all game and missed the 2nd tackle(after Jung) on the goal line. We need James and Simmons because they are good but also to add rotation depth on the line. Guys were gassed at the end thanks to Dan Mullen. I don't know the answer with the secondary because, quite frankly, that's the position group in football I know the least about. I do know our safeties are fast, quick, and can jump out of the gym. But, I would trade all of them for that safety out of South Panola (can't remember his name) that had none of those skills but was a hell of a solid safety. Look, We had Jonathan Banks and Darius Slay as our corners one year and the secondary was still our weak point. At some point, we gotta look at secondary scheme and coaches.
We are gonna be ok on special teams. Graves is solid. Yesterday was like that junior high basketball game where everyone on the team double dribbles or travels. **** happens. Blame Damien for not centering the ball.
If we lose to South Carolina, well, we all know it's 2-10. We won't though. Just take the under.
We must return to a run based, spread option offense. I actually think we can fix the offense but it requires Mullen to well, not be Mullen.
1. Fix the RB situation. Move Dear to RB, permanently. He is the starter. He gets majority of the carries and shares with Holloway. Shump can be our H back or FB. He is actually useful at that role. It's clear since the first time Dear touched the ball, he is a faster Jrob.
2. Fix the QB situation. This is easy. Fitz is the guy in a spread option attack. Even Dan and Damien can't argue with that.
3. Play our big "freshmens" receivers. Both of them. For blocking purposes and deep balls that Fitz can actually throw pretty well.
4. Bring back our play calling with Relf. We saw glimpses of it...just not enough. Focus on some power stuff and less attacking the edge.
Defense-We have huge problems here and it starts with everybody. We are terrible tacklers. End of story. This is our most difficult fix. We are more athletic than we have been in a while but we don't have football players or instincts. Could be the new scheme in the first game...but there was last year and the year before that, so. Oh yea, Richie Brown needs to sit. Not a leader. He was out of position all game and missed the 2nd tackle(after Jung) on the goal line. We need James and Simmons because they are good but also to add rotation depth on the line. Guys were gassed at the end thanks to Dan Mullen. I don't know the answer with the secondary because, quite frankly, that's the position group in football I know the least about. I do know our safeties are fast, quick, and can jump out of the gym. But, I would trade all of them for that safety out of South Panola (can't remember his name) that had none of those skills but was a hell of a solid safety. Look, We had Jonathan Banks and Darius Slay as our corners one year and the secondary was still our weak point. At some point, we gotta look at secondary scheme and coaches.
We are gonna be ok on special teams. Graves is solid. Yesterday was like that junior high basketball game where everyone on the team double dribbles or travels. **** happens. Blame Damien for not centering the ball.
If we lose to South Carolina, well, we all know it's 2-10. We won't though. Just take the under.
