Campbell is conservative by nature. It's going to cause us to lose a game every now and then, but it'll keep us in most games and steal a few wins we otherwise might not have had. We started on the 9-10 yard line that drive, its not like we had field position in our favor.
We need improvements in the nuanced difference between conservative ball-control and limited imo. I’d hope we’re able to be conservative when beneficial, and open things up when not.
One could argue we weren’t “ball control ” enough on Saturday, if we’re also not going to fully utilize our personnel:
-Ball control would have run on 3rd and 1 the series prior, or at least pinned them down with a punt had 4th down still occurred. Likely getting the ball back near midfield.
-conservative would not have passed 41 times when the running backs were getting 4.5 ypc and Purdy had space to take off. You pass that many times without giving the DEs something to think about, and something bad is going to happen.
-often missing out on field position on punt returns, particularly when going for the block. That’s not conservative or ball control, that’s being limited.
Do we have the kicker and/or ST we need for this approach?
What games have we benefited from the offense going completely limited? Perhaps TCU, but that’s dependent on the false dilemma that the best the offense can do is to not completely **** the defense.