Just how slow are we on offense?

[DAWG61]

Who wants to do the research? How slow are we compared to the rest of the country? SEC? vs Penn State last two years and this year? Vs Mullen's offense? How much faster are the top 10 offenses? TIA whoever wants to look it up. Our turtle offense is destroying us.

 

[War Machine Dawg]

Who wants to do the research? How slow are we compared to the rest of the country? SEC? vs Penn State last two years and this year? Vs Mullen's offense? How much faster are the top 10 offenses? TIA whoever wants to look it up. Our turtle offense is destroying us.

I haven't bothered checking the numbers after this week's slate of games, other than to calculate our pace of play. But after 5 games, we're averaging 65.2 plays per game. That puts us middle of the pack to lower middle of the pack nationally and one of the slowest in the SEC as of last week. Alabama is approximately even with us, but the caveat with them is that they're in massive blowouts every week and slow down their pace after halftime. When Tua and the 1s are in the game, they're as fast as anyone. The fact that even ball control speak Saban has started to let his O go up tempo speaks volumes. We need to speed the 17 up on offense.

Click this link for a site that keeps pace of play stats and updates it weekly. Looks like it was updated today, actually, so it should be up to date as of Week 5.

 

[thatsbaseball]

Mentally or physically ?

 

[Drebin]

I haven't bothered checking the numbers after this week's slate of games, other than to calculate our pace of play. But after 5 games, we're averaging 65.2 plays per game. That puts us middle of the pack to lower middle of the pack nationally and one of the slowest in the SEC as of last week. Alabama is approximately even with us, but the caveat with them is that they're in massive blowouts every week and slow down their pace after halftime. When Tua and the 1s are in the game, they're as fast as anyone. The fact that even ball control speak Saban has started to let his O go up tempo speaks volumes. We need to speed the 17 up on offense.

Click this link for a site that keeps pace of play stats and updates it weekly. Looks like it was updated today, actually, so it should be up to date as of Week 5.

One of the reasons Bama's plays per game is so low is because they are a quick strike, high scoring offense.

As for us, yes, our pace is slow and it's a big part of our problem. Conservatively, we ran probably 10-12 more plays per game last year than this year. That's a big difference.

The way we slow the game down and stand over the ball....we never get in a rhythm, our offensive linemen fall back on their heels, and we get fewer opportunities to make a play. Our coach is allegedly very intellectual, so I don't know why he can't figure that out.

 

[BossDawg78]

We are soooooo slow...that I actually dread our time on offense. Not just because it will more than likely be a 3 and out, but I can't STAND watching the play clock and Fitz run around trying to get the play in.

 

[bruiser.sixpack]

Yeah. Put the plays on a sleeve he can wear on his forearm.***

 

[Msubulldogfan1]

Looks like we are about the 120th most up tempo team in the country. That’s a problem.

 

[DAWG61]

Looks like we are about the 120th most up tempo team in the country. That’s a problem.

Huge problem and what's worse is we are identifying it before the coach and QB are it seems.

 

[Bulldogg31]

I’m sure they are aware the pace is slow. I said in an earlier post it looks like they’ve put an additional “check with me” in after the defense shifts to match the formation we’re in. I don’t know if that’s a lack of understanding of the offense or what, but it looks like we added a step in the process that will hopefully phase out as we get more comfortable.

Five games in it shouldn’t be there that’s for sure.

 

[the dog is on the loose]

I wonder how penn state handled this when moorehead was there?

 

[ShrubDog]

Well I just posted this above but will do it again. We snap the ball w 3 seconds every time giving the DL the ability to get a good jump. This is junior high stuff.

 

[missouridawg]

I wonder how penn state handled this when moorehead was there?

We were all told that about 5-6 games in the season the offense would start to click. Nick will be in his 5th game next Saturday. I sure as hell hope they are right.

I can’t belive how easy the offense moved the ball in games 1-3 and now we look like we have significantly inferior players against two teams in which we have more quite a bit more talent. I wasn’t expecting us to score 40 points a game or anything, but getting to 24-28 points against UK and UF is not asking a whole lot.