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<blockquote data-quote="takethepoints" data-source="post: 620142" data-attributes="member: 265"><p>A few observations:</p><p></p><p>• Before the game I kept posting in the threads about the <em>OL</em> that our real worry was the <em>DL</em>. Yep. The OL looked ok for it's first game in a new offense - the whole O looked ok for a first game, imho, especially since it was against the defending national champion. The DL and LBs left something to be desired. Admittedly, they were working for the first time in a new D, had the appropriate teething problems, and were on the field far too long. But this was where our concerns should have been pre-season.</p><p></p><p>• Did I mention that it was a first game in a new O? Yes, I see I did. Everyone bellyaching about Tobias's play should remember that. I thought he played pretty well and I don't understand the folks here who say he can't throw. He can. And he can run. What he needs - listening, Coach? - is more double options to run. He was running too many called QB sweeps. He's talented, so that worked. For awhile. Mind, I understand the decision process.</p><p></p><p>• I said before the season that I suspected that Graham could end up as our starting QB on sheer athletic ability. I'll stand by that. I don't know that he will; we'll have to see how the O works when it isn't up against a top 10 D. There's no question that he's something on a football field, however.</p><p></p><p>• We have to learn how to run the shotgun spread so as to eat more clock. If there was one thing I didn't like one bit in the game it was that we were in and out too quickly. I know Coach and P want to run an up tempo O. Fine. We should do that most of the time. We should also be ready to run the O for ToP as well. Clemson did it and wore our D out fairly quickly.</p><p></p><p>• One of the things I liked about the spread option is that a team that blitzed as much as Clemson did was asking for and usually got it. It's bothersome to suddenly have to worry about the blitz when we finally have a QB(s) who can throw. But there it is. The RBs will simply have to get used to it. Again, more double options would help.</p><p></p><p>• I know what Dabo's bedtime prayer after the game was. "Dear Lord, thank you for your infinite mercy and for not making my team face James Graham in the spread option offense." Because, sports fans, that would have been a very different ball game. We would have lost, of course, but it would have been different.. And no question that James would have been our starter, imho.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="takethepoints, post: 620142, member: 265"] A few observations: • Before the game I kept posting in the threads about the [I]OL[/I] that our real worry was the [I]DL[/I]. Yep. The OL looked ok for it's first game in a new offense - the whole O looked ok for a first game, imho, especially since it was against the defending national champion. The DL and LBs left something to be desired. Admittedly, they were working for the first time in a new D, had the appropriate teething problems, and were on the field far too long. But this was where our concerns should have been pre-season. • Did I mention that it was a first game in a new O? Yes, I see I did. Everyone bellyaching about Tobias's play should remember that. I thought he played pretty well and I don't understand the folks here who say he can't throw. He can. And he can run. What he needs - listening, Coach? - is more double options to run. He was running too many called QB sweeps. He's talented, so that worked. For awhile. Mind, I understand the decision process. • I said before the season that I suspected that Graham could end up as our starting QB on sheer athletic ability. I'll stand by that. I don't know that he will; we'll have to see how the O works when it isn't up against a top 10 D. There's no question that he's something on a football field, however. • We have to learn how to run the shotgun spread so as to eat more clock. If there was one thing I didn't like one bit in the game it was that we were in and out too quickly. I know Coach and P want to run an up tempo O. Fine. We should do that most of the time. We should also be ready to run the O for ToP as well. Clemson did it and wore our D out fairly quickly. • One of the things I liked about the spread option is that a team that blitzed as much as Clemson did was asking for and usually got it. It's bothersome to suddenly have to worry about the blitz when we finally have a QB(s) who can throw. But there it is. The RBs will simply have to get used to it. Again, more double options would help. • I know what Dabo's bedtime prayer after the game was. "Dear Lord, thank you for your infinite mercy and for not making my team face James Graham in the spread option offense." Because, sports fans, that would have been a very different ball game. We would have lost, of course, but it would have been different.. And no question that James would have been our starter, imho. [/QUOTE]
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