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I see it a bit differently and more pessimistically: we have not always been a great running team, and generally only great against the worse Ds. I think sub-5 ypc (Cuse) won’t win you many games as your identify, and sub-3 (Lou, ND) will lose you most games. ND wasn’t the first defense to shut...

I think we’d need to have a lot more of the screens and other short routes to keep defenses honest and keep variety in there. In the pass-heavy games playing from behind we are not only throwing more, were throwing differently, AFAICT. I do think we’re confusingly bad at slants.

I don’t think those stats answer the causality question. If we’re passing more only when we have already fallen behind, but aren’t getting enough out of it to pull off the comeback, that’s very different from “what could we do if we emphasized it more all game.” We certainly wouldnt have had a...

Drones is concerning since our run D has felt better against up the middle “traditional” run attacks vs mobile QBs. otherwise this looks VERY winnable

I think we COULD though - how many of the passing yards against Syracuse came late in must-pass time? IMO is our defense had done better and gotten off the field more in that game we would’ve kept running for longer, like against Louisville. Where we kept at it even though the pass was working...

I can’t complain too much about the play calls. Had we stopped some of their aggressiveness it would’ve upped our chances of a comeback. We couldn’t take advantage this time, but I’ll take going up against coaches playing for their ego with a lead any day. The dirty hits, on the other hand…

This is a telling chart. While overall we’re good at running this year IMO being bad in terms of stuff rate and line yards tells the real story - we are either real good at it or real bad at it depending on if your D is competent against our line. So I will continue to beat the...

Put King and Pyron both out there for the quadruple option and we win 70-49, easy peasy

I thought Pyron’s scramble reads improved later in the game. Would have liked to see an occasional step up in the pocket to find a receiver but the fourth and ten scramble was very nice. People here acting like this is his ceiling. Probably the same people who were ready to throw King to the...

Ugh Texas

It really seems like our WR group should be more of a strength but honestly I don’t think we’ve seen many moves from them beyond “hope you get super open”.

Frankly, the Syracuse coach wasn’t wrong, whiny as he made it. We aren’t going to out-physical many of the decent-to-better D’s we see. And yet we’ve made it more of our identity this year than last.

What do you call that failed TD attempt inside the 5? Edit: or tryin to run 37 times despite averaging 2.7?

I think we’re gonna see this playbook in the future with King too. Need to get sharper in the WR corps and pass blocking.

We lost the Syracuse and Louisville games because we stuck with what wasn’t working for too long. It wasn’t gonna work today either.

I’ve worked with a lot of STEM PhD’s making way more than even most professorships in academia. Some of them doing, honestly, pretty zero-sum-game crap in terms of advertising attention wars. Not moving forward the state of the art. Good for them for turning their underpaid worker bee years into...

This was what Key wants us to do to teams: wear them out and get separation. I wish we ran a more wide open playbook against weaker teams to get more reps for these games. Pyron looked good until the whole team ran out of gas. Glad to see us maximize his reps, hopefully the injury isn’t...

Funny about constantly recruiting your own players - it’s new for college sports but it’s mostly reality for “real world” jobs. Just not many of us who think we can get paid way more overnight elsewhere. I think as time goes by and people get more of a feel for who can get paid what where it...

Miami should be a fun matchup, could be a total shootout

I don’t necessarily know if it’s “quit” but it looks a lot like a Collins team. No ability to deal with adversity and not much confidence or coordination after getting punched in the mouth.