Manning should watch how Buffalo does it. They put a reciever in motion then use him to get push behind the QB. It's not like Dekkers is small either.
Bit it makes much more sense to start 7 yards back just to get back to the LOS.
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Bit it makes much more sense to start 7 yards back just to get back to the LOS.
well considering the one year Manning was with the Colts, CMC took control of the play calling for the 2018 season, no, I don't have much faith. Myers and Manning need to go and CMC needs to hire someone who can bring a 2022 style offense to Iowa State. Also, I think we need to focus more on offensive weapons in terms of recruiting too. X being the only "go to" receiver makes our offense even more one dimensional
You are welcome to do a similar breakdown. Please post it if you do.
He didn't say anything about the fans specifically. Just noted that none of us, from our position, can really pinpoint the issues. We observe symptoms and try to infer causes.
Just because you agree with 10 other comments doesn't mean they're any better informed. Bruns is just a fan who happened to play at ISU 20 years ago. He has a better understanding of football than 99% of posters on this site, self included. Probably better than 99% of the sports journalists in Iowa.
We all know the offense is bad. There are lots of things wrong, and no single "solution" is likely to fix it - even firing the entire offensive staff. But if it makes you feel better to gnash your teeth, go off king.
Not backfilling the OC position during that year was utterly bizarre from any perspective....
My big takeaways from a really well done podcast.
1. Our formations are not good. They make it too easy for the defense and don't set us up for success. We don't have the most offensive talent in the league so this is an area we have to take advantage of to scheme some advantages.
2. Our OLine is poorly coached. Multiple times where Bruns pointed out OLine mistakes that at this point in the season shouldn't be happening (half the line doing one thing while the other half does something else). At minimum we need a shakeup here in the staff this off season. OLine is so important and is a position group that should be better by now.
1. Our formations are not good. They make it too easy for the defense and don't set us up for success. We don't have the most offensive talent in the league so this is an area we have to take advantage of to scheme some advantages.
2. Our OLine is poorly coached. Multiple times where Bruns pointed out OLine mistakes that at this point in the season shouldn't be happening (half the line doing one thing while the other half does something else). At minimum we need a shakeup here in the staff this off season. OLine is so important and is a position group that should be better by now.
Excellent podcast in my opinion. Reflects a lot of detailed study of the game.
Campbell, Heacock, and Co went drastic with the D strategy about 5 years ago, we've all heard the story. Time to do the same with the offense.
When guys are totally whiffing on blocks, and there's no push with most of the line, it's execution. If their technique is poor and the cause of the problem, it's coaching. If we don't have the talent, it's coaching.
Trying to make this out to be rocket science is just good CF debate.
Thanks for heads up on Bruns podcast, will have to check out.
I realize it is hard to analyze technique or what's being taught. But it is pretty easy to see that our OL is ineffective and has been for the last 3-4 years. Sure we have seemed to get better as the season progressed, but that isn't acceptable.
Something is broke- player, coaching or both when a group with the experience of Miller, Hufford, Downing, Simmons and Remsburg. The later 4 are all RS-Juniors or RS-Seniors. That group should have been playing at a high level week 1! The other interesting thing, I haven't noticed much substitution this season a long the OL.
I would expect some coaching shift this off-season. One trend around CFB is OC Run Game & OC Pass Game. Would Campbell consider bringing in a OC Pass game to open up the offense a bit. It's pretty hard to run the ball when opposing defenses don't have to worry about passes beyond 10 yards often.
Would also be curious to hear Bruns or Rosenfels take on Dekkers' progress throughout the season. I might be wrong, but it seems like he has fell in love with passing the ball side arm. It causes his passes to float. I just don't recall him going side arm so much the first few weeks.
I realize it is hard to analyze technique or what's being taught. But it is pretty easy to see that our OL is ineffective and has been for the last 3-4 years. Sure we have seemed to get better as the season progressed, but that isn't acceptable.
Something is broke- player, coaching or both when a group with the experience of Miller, Hufford, Downing, Simmons and Remsburg. The later 4 are all RS-Juniors or RS-Seniors. That group should have been playing at a high level week 1! The other interesting thing, I haven't noticed much substitution this season a long the OL.
I would expect some coaching shift this off-season. One trend around CFB is OC Run Game & OC Pass Game. Would Campbell consider bringing in a OC Pass game to open up the offense a bit. It's pretty hard to run the ball when opposing defenses don't have to worry about passes beyond 10 yards often.
Would also be curious to hear Bruns or Rosenfels take on Dekkers' progress throughout the season. I might be wrong, but it seems like he has fell in love with passing the ball side arm. It causes his passes to float. I just don't recall him going side arm so much the first few weeks.
Not only whiffing on blocks, but we don't sustain blocks. Its like we blow off the line, hit the defender and guys stop moving their feet. We get no push.
Andrews was brought in to make guys stronger along the line and not sure I am seeing the power or even mobility I expected with a change in S&C coach.
This was my take away too. You could tell Bruns was thinking "what in the hell was that scheme or play call" several times when breaking it down.
The scariest part of this for me was 1) the scheme seems to be very predictable, 2) we don't adjust (Bruns references a play call where there were 10 people in the box and we still ran it), 3) we appear to be doing some very, very basic things poorly.
I want you to know that history suggests running from shotgun in short yardage produces a higher success rate than running from under center.
It's especially painful now watching what Golesh is doing as OC at Tennessee. Seems like a huge missed opportunity.
It’s easy to be grumpy after 0-5 on a Monday morning but let’s not take it out on the people that care enough to give us content. It’s not like Peyton Manning is knocking down doors to podcast about ISU.
This is true, but I wonder if you eliminate teams with actual running quarterbacks from the stats if they still hold up.
