I wonder how many times we run into a pile when X has man coverage.
Zone blocking in short yardage sounds like a disaster, and in general has been in any yardage.
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Zone blocking in short yardage sounds like a disaster, and in general has been in any yardage.
Happens way too often.
If teams are stacking the middle when we are in shotgun on first down - where are the screen passes to a Stanley, Noel, or whomever laterally? That would loosen the D from bunching up the middle.
I'm sure Rus is a great kid and a phenomenal student athlete and ambassador to the program. But when we use him series after series of terrible running plays, where is the benefit? Use an extra receiver out there or a different TE. Tyler Moore is 250 lbs, a much better athlete than Rus, and probably ok at run blocking at this point.
Bruns had a similar review a couple games ago. Seems like nothing has been fixed. People talk about how we don't have as much talent as other teams and while that may be true to an extent we can't also have predictable and crappy schemes that make it even harder on us.
KU has been running all over many teams in the league this year. We are not behind them in talent. We may not have the talent to win the league, but I don't think anyone expects us to do that either. We have the best defense in the league. Given that, we should have enough talent on offense to be middle of the pack in the league. The issue here is not talent.
Jesus, he basically lit up the offense. He's correct. Surprised he did though. Basically said what I did and more on the offense in a thread post game
I don't know how to diagnose but recognized we had been tipping our "pitches" with personnel years ago. Again, didn't know enough to articulate but when certain guys lined in certain formations I knew what was going to happen.
That's without access to game film or any real knowledge of the ins/outs of scheming and how to scout.
Seems like our elite talent masked this past 4 years or was able to overcome.
Now to see what happens.
That's without access to game film or any real knowledge of the ins/outs of scheming and how to scout.
Seems like our elite talent masked this past 4 years or was able to overcome.
Now to see what happens.
One thing that makes the contrast between offense and defense is that it is a lot easier to be successful on offense with less talent than defense. You can scheme your way to success on offense with less talented guys. On defense that only gets you so far, as in the you still have to read, react and make a play. Obviously everything is easier with talent, but there have been some dynamic offenses in years past at programs that don’t get a lot of talent. Defense is a lot more talent driven. Heacock is an absolute wizard.
I wouldn't give him too much credit. He was forced to criticize the offense. If it didn't, his credibility would evaporate. Below are the latest offensive and special teams stats. They've been this bad for weeks.
- Rush Offense: #118
- Pass Offense: #32
- Total Offense: #84
- Scoring Offense: #107
- Passing Yards per Completion: #124 @ 9.87
- Red Zone Offense: Tied @ #105
- Sacks Allowed: Tied @ #81
- Tackles for Loss Allowed: Tied @ #85
- Turnover Margin: Tied @ #104
- Blocked Kicks Allowed: Tied @ #122
- Blocked Punts Allowed: Tied @ #127
- Punt Return Yards: #101
- Punt Return Defense: #6
- Net Punting: #63
- Kickoff Return Yards: #126
- Kickoff Return Defense: #48
I couldn’t agree more. Why is he getting credit for pointing out things now that a great majority of us saw four games into the season?
I've noticed the same thing with this WR group. X is giving every ounce of effort he can and then there's a lot of guys that get beat to the ball regularly and are getting out of bounds as fast as they can on the rare instance where they do catch it. That position group is scary, I hope there are some young guys getting ready.
It's similar to a lot of the breakdowns he's done, mostly because the offense is having the exact same issues. Not just talent issues, just basic fundamentals that still aren't even being attempted at times. That's been the most exasperating part, it's a rebuilding year where I just haven't seen much building on the offense, just the same problems from the same people all year.
It's similar to a lot of the breakdowns he's done, mostly because the offense is having the exact same issues. Not just talent issues, just basic fundamentals that still aren't even being attempted at times. That's been the most exasperating part, it's a rebuilding year where I just haven't seen much building on the offense, just the same problems from the same people all year.
Well yes, it actually went beyond that though. Like he called the 4th down play "the 2nd worst playcall he's ever seen in his life"
Was actually critical of coaching and players. Granted, he's way behind the curve on that. But he finally did it
CycloneErik
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He implied it. Thats the best you're gonna get out of him
I agree with most of what he said, but to his point on Purdy I think there is a lot of revisionist history going on there and I think Chris said something similar on the pod with Blum. Most final drives with Purdy when we were down a score ended up in a turnover or no points. Seems like a consistent problem within the program.
I think it was Phil Parker of Iowa who said unless ISU goes tempo they usually have a pretty good idea what they are going to run every play.
Why would Brun's want to give up his day job to coach?
Coach Mac tried to get me into coaching but it's not for me. No desire to work from 5 AM to 10PM, no desire to travel around recruiting, etc. Yeah it's nice money but you pretty much have no free time to enjoy stuff outside of football.
This.
We have always looked frantic and unprepared during the 2 minute drill.
And yes, this year's team had the talent to at least make the CCG.
