Offense looked like the game was just a big walk through to them. Played like a team that expects the other guys to just lie down and hand them yardage. The play calls didn't show respect for the opponent and neither did the line play.
Against a team like that you should be able to hurt them in a variety of ways. and NU didn't show that ability. They were crashing inside zone and the zone read super hard and NU showed very little off that to punish them for it. I haven't done a full re-watch but I saw triple option just once. If they're taking away two make them deal with three.
The outside zone was even working fairly well but they didn't do a lot of that until Maurice came in. I suspect playbook is an issue for Mills still and they can only call so much with him at RB. Possibly the case with Cam at C as well. His snaps were awful and I didn't see much in his blocking that made up for it.
You saw that huge seam route to Stoll, that was an RPO with pulling linemen that he kept and threw the seam and it burned them badly. The triple pitch to Wyatt was a nice gain, but 7 yards on 3rd and 10 doesn't do you any good.
Martinez was overthinking bigtime, he got away with at least two picks being dropped. Not getting the ball out on time at all, I dunno if he isn't comfortable with his WRs yet or what.
It's a young team, you're going to get stretches like this from them where it just looks sloppy and uninspired. Better this week than next, I guess. Montez and Shenault are going to find ways to score points.
