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<blockquote data-quote="SOWEGA Jacket" data-source="post: 832159" data-attributes="member: 4334"><p>I get that play calling can be Monday morning quarterbacked every game. What I personally don’t like with Patenaude is that everything he runs are plays that you see every team run every game. There are no wrinkles to any of his plays. Hence, when the players do everything right the play succeeds. When something goes awry (as happens to every team a lot) we are dead in the water. A good OC can create plays that not only work when run as designed but also can work with a blown assignment thrown in. That‘s why I’ve used the term “vanilla” for Patenaude. Right now, no defense is confused by our pre snap motion or our alignments. They already know our plays because their offense runs the same ones. So the thought in a defenders head at the snap is which play is it then react. What you see from high end OC’s are plays that make defenders doubt their initial reaction which costs them a step or two in reaction time.</p><p></p><p>Last year in the Natty, Bama’s OC ran that play with Devonte Smith lining up in the slot and then doing an A back arc only to stop and go back the same direction for an easy catch and 1 on 1 with a LB. They scored off it once and I think picked up a 1st down off the other. Not a flashy play at all and not a play they normally ran. It was just something drawn up to get their best player in space. This stuff isn’t that hard and you don’t have to be a “career” football guy to come up with wrinkles. Right now, Patenaude can experiment because we stink and our OLine can’t really block so he could be using this time to revamp his play book. Instead, we’ll keep running handoffs 5 yards behind the LOS with an OLine who has proven they can’t block it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SOWEGA Jacket, post: 832159, member: 4334"] I get that play calling can be Monday morning quarterbacked every game. What I personally don’t like with Patenaude is that everything he runs are plays that you see every team run every game. There are no wrinkles to any of his plays. Hence, when the players do everything right the play succeeds. When something goes awry (as happens to every team a lot) we are dead in the water. A good OC can create plays that not only work when run as designed but also can work with a blown assignment thrown in. That‘s why I’ve used the term “vanilla” for Patenaude. Right now, no defense is confused by our pre snap motion or our alignments. They already know our plays because their offense runs the same ones. So the thought in a defenders head at the snap is which play is it then react. What you see from high end OC’s are plays that make defenders doubt their initial reaction which costs them a step or two in reaction time. Last year in the Natty, Bama’s OC ran that play with Devonte Smith lining up in the slot and then doing an A back arc only to stop and go back the same direction for an easy catch and 1 on 1 with a LB. They scored off it once and I think picked up a 1st down off the other. Not a flashy play at all and not a play they normally ran. It was just something drawn up to get their best player in space. This stuff isn’t that hard and you don’t have to be a “career” football guy to come up with wrinkles. Right now, Patenaude can experiment because we stink and our OLine can’t really block so he could be using this time to revamp his play book. Instead, we’ll keep running handoffs 5 yards behind the LOS with an OLine who has proven they can’t block it. [/QUOTE]
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