Time after time, we saw Ole Miss go hurry-up and snap the ball with >20 secs on the play clock. We're lucky to snap it when we're in 'hurry up' with 10 secs left.
I know the offense looks vanilla from the stands. But, why are we so bad getting to the line and getting a play called and executed in a reasonable amount of time? The play clocks starts pretty close to when the whistle blows - 40 seconds. We huddle for several seconds, we jog to the line and fiddle around for a few seconds, we wait, we have motion all the way across the formation pretty much every single play and then, with about 5 seconds or so, we snap the ball. God help us if we have to call an audible because we're usually down to 10 seconds before we even recognize that fact and then it's like herding cats to get everyone lined up and ready.
If we run 65 plays in a game, maybe 20 of them look like we're well organized, the snap gets made in plenty of time, the play is well-designed and is appropriate for the situation, personnel, down and distance, etc. - and 20 may be a very optimistic number, honestly. The other 45 seem rushed, no logical reason for being run, disorganized, have the wrong personnel in the game, etc. That's just plain bad coaching.
Maybe we should simplify the playbook. Get 15-20 plays perfected and see if that makes a difference. All this motion presnap doesn't break any of our mediocre WRs open, so why continue to do it? We're not fooling anyone on defense and it's like a needle in a haystack to find a really good play that the defense doesn't expect from our offense.
The 4th down pass to Dowdell on the PA/rollout was a well-designed play and the call was excellent (BTW, did we run that same play even ONE more time? I don't think so). The double move bomb to Maclin was a good call (although we may have just gotten lucky that Maclin's CB was blitzing - I certainly don't think Hamdan is aware enough to have anticipated that). Those two plays are far outweighed by the numerous plays that are laughably bad calls throughout the game. Not to mention the complete breakdown in organization which resulted in burning TOs, rushed plays at the end of the half that cost us a chance at a FG, etc. I mean, 3rd and 9 and he calls Boley on a QB draw? I mean, WTF is he thinking? We did limit the number of bombs, which was a positive. But, how many times did Calzada throw into double and triple coverage? Is he not being coached to look to the next option if one of his first options is double+ covered? Who is coaching these QBs to be so awkward at throwing the football? Boley had a receiver breaking open right before the rush got to him and he didn't throw the ball. Under Stoops, I can't remember any QB other than Levis (who wasn't great at it) who've been coached to throw to a spot instead of waiting until there's plenty of daylight to throw the ball. The offense is just not well-coached , well organized, well thought out, well game planned.
Maybe a dumbed down offense with a new play caller would be more effective. Not sure it would be any worse.
I know the offense looks vanilla from the stands. But, why are we so bad getting to the line and getting a play called and executed in a reasonable amount of time? The play clocks starts pretty close to when the whistle blows - 40 seconds. We huddle for several seconds, we jog to the line and fiddle around for a few seconds, we wait, we have motion all the way across the formation pretty much every single play and then, with about 5 seconds or so, we snap the ball. God help us if we have to call an audible because we're usually down to 10 seconds before we even recognize that fact and then it's like herding cats to get everyone lined up and ready.
If we run 65 plays in a game, maybe 20 of them look like we're well organized, the snap gets made in plenty of time, the play is well-designed and is appropriate for the situation, personnel, down and distance, etc. - and 20 may be a very optimistic number, honestly. The other 45 seem rushed, no logical reason for being run, disorganized, have the wrong personnel in the game, etc. That's just plain bad coaching.
Maybe we should simplify the playbook. Get 15-20 plays perfected and see if that makes a difference. All this motion presnap doesn't break any of our mediocre WRs open, so why continue to do it? We're not fooling anyone on defense and it's like a needle in a haystack to find a really good play that the defense doesn't expect from our offense.
The 4th down pass to Dowdell on the PA/rollout was a well-designed play and the call was excellent (BTW, did we run that same play even ONE more time? I don't think so). The double move bomb to Maclin was a good call (although we may have just gotten lucky that Maclin's CB was blitzing - I certainly don't think Hamdan is aware enough to have anticipated that). Those two plays are far outweighed by the numerous plays that are laughably bad calls throughout the game. Not to mention the complete breakdown in organization which resulted in burning TOs, rushed plays at the end of the half that cost us a chance at a FG, etc. I mean, 3rd and 9 and he calls Boley on a QB draw? I mean, WTF is he thinking? We did limit the number of bombs, which was a positive. But, how many times did Calzada throw into double and triple coverage? Is he not being coached to look to the next option if one of his first options is double+ covered? Who is coaching these QBs to be so awkward at throwing the football? Boley had a receiver breaking open right before the rush got to him and he didn't throw the ball. Under Stoops, I can't remember any QB other than Levis (who wasn't great at it) who've been coached to throw to a spot instead of waiting until there's plenty of daylight to throw the ball. The offense is just not well-coached , well organized, well thought out, well game planned.
Maybe a dumbed down offense with a new play caller would be more effective. Not sure it would be any worse.
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