Fire Mouser

He’s clueless. 3 points in the 2nd half 2 straight games. 7 at Colorado. He’s in over his head. Completely a failure
Don’t fire him, but do make certain that he spends a significant amount of time off season under-studying one of the top NFL OCs to better learn how he can help the team win!! I was hoping that would have happened last off season after we witnessed the weaknesses in his first season. He is also our TE coach (and a good one), is a loyal long term coach and with investing in as the OC to help him and the team get better in the future!
 
Don’t fire him, but do make certain that he spends a significant amount of time off season under-studying one of the top NFL OCs to better learn how he can help the team win!! I was hoping that would have happened last off season after we witnessed the weaknesses in his first season. He is also our TE coach (and a good one), is a loyal long term coach and with investing in as the OC to help him and the team get better in the future!
The creativity is there. That play that Rocco ran for the first down was sic.

I do think not having alpha WRs this year is a big setback.

2nd most drops in the conference is gonna make most OCs look worse than they are. But maybe you run the ball even more

Think it takes away a lot of the playbook with so many drops.

But that said he certainly can learn and grow too
 
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Play calls look great when blocks are made, backs hit the hole, QB has time, receivers run the route, passes are accurate, catches are made, and the defenders don't make a great play.
And yes, sometimes the play called isn't what's needed for that situation.

Too often this season, at least one of those things didn't go as hoped for.
 
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The trend does not look good. A good defensive staff is making good players out of poor recruits. I wonder if throwing and catching has the same learning curve as the other positions? Some offensive players just don't improve over time. Is that from poor coaching? poor learning? injury avoidance? We clearly have fewer offensive injuries the last few years.
 
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Recruiting rankings
#36 2019 #41 2020 #46 2021 #37 2022 #47 2023 #47 2024 #49 2025 #52 2026
The trend does not look good. A good defensive staff is making good players out of poor recruits. I wonder if throwing and catching has the same learning curve as the other positions? Some offensive players just don't improve over time. Is that from poor coaching? poor learning? injury avoidance? We clearly have fewer offensive injuries the last few years.
Sowell had 6 drops his first year at ECU and 7 his second year

He caught 46 year 1 and 34 catches year 2.

That seems like a high drop to catch ratio but maybe it's average
 
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Second half points this season:
KSU: 17
Iowa: 3
Ark St: 7
Arizona: 17
Cincy: 15
Colorado: 7
BYU: 3
Arizona State: 3
TCU: 7

The lack of adjustments is still a major concern. The offense was not good yesterday, but they still won. Which is great. But the offensive performance yesterday was not one that is going to win you games very often. It was more of the same game we’ve watched them play for the last 3 games and really what we’ve seen for most of the season. It shouldn’t be controversial to say that the offense still has issues.
 
Second half points this season:
KSU: 17
Iowa: 3
Ark St: 7
Arizona: 17
Cincy: 15
Colorado: 7
BYU: 3
Arizona State: 3
TCU: 7

The lack of adjustments is still a major concern. The offense was not good yesterday, but they still won. Which is great. But the offensive performance yesterday was not one that is going to win you games very often. It was more of the same game we’ve watched them play for the last 3 games and really what we’ve seen for most of the season. It shouldn’t be controversial to say that the offense still has issues.
It’s not the play calling, it’s the lack of execution and crucial penalties.

Last I heard, we were second in the conference in dropped passes. Plus, Rocco isn’t throwing well. Dumb penalties taking away big gains. None of that is playcalling.

My macro economics professor taught me the by far the most valuable lesson I learned in college, about “causality fallacy”. Some of you folks are beating that drum to death.
 
The play calling has been hit or miss the entire year, 9 games in, and we still do not have an identity. The two best plays were Rocco scrambled up the middle for a long run, its been their the entire year, and he has refused to do it. And then the QB boot, where we got the late first down, again, that play has been there the entire year. When you have the DE running the RPO down from the back side, you have to fake it to the back and keep the ball and turn the corner, it slows down that back side rush.

This week people were saying that Rocco was locking onto one receiver, and I saw a few examples of that today, just seemed like he is not scanning the field and going through his progressions and finding the open man. The line blocking today on most of the passes was horrible as best until the end. We got the C offense today, and got out of there on the road with a win.

The fact that we don’t have an identity when we have 2 backs that can legit run for 150+ ypg is the exact problem. Mouser wants us to be this cutesy play design, QB driven offense but our QB sucks right now and our receivers cannot consistently catch. Why continue to throw when we can run the ball?

We threw 8 passes the entire second half, let that be our identity and sprinkle in some throws when needed.
 
I am not a football play caller, but I suspect that Mouser can look like a genius against KU calling the dive play to Carson Hansen 50 times in a row.
 
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