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<blockquote data-quote="Sideways" data-source="post: 412265" data-attributes="member: 2451"><p>You seem to be asking if our difficulties on offense last year and I suppose 2015 were due more to our own shortcomings or to changes our opponents have made. I lean towards it being mostly on ourselves. One poster observed problems at tackle which is understandable that position has been an ongoing concern for years. It is hard to recruit players big enough to play tackle and fast enough to make the downfield blocks required by this offense. In addition, there is the Mills factor. Yes, Kirvonte did a fine job in replacing Mills and Marshall (don't forget about him) but Mills had that "It" factor. He was a perfect fit for our offense and the Bback position. Don't ask me what the "It" factor is I know it when I see it. Kind of like Justice Potter Stewart on the Supreme Court asked about pornography. He said "I can't define it but I know it when I see it" Same thing with Mills. He was a guy that a defense HAD to account for. He was a guy that defensive players would look at and point to in warm ups . "Yeah, that's the dude that can beat us" One other factor is not having a true threat on the outside. Ricky was very good but he was not Bey Bey, not Steven Hill and not Smelter. </p><p></p><p>Sure defenses make adjustment, practice for our offense and do special drills to defeat cut blocks and all that other stuff but if some son of a ***** is going at your knees and you see Lynch or Marshall come zipping by there is not going to be much you can do about it. Put enough people on their tails and this offense will go. Control the ball, shorten the game, limit the other team's possessions and be sound on both defense and special teams and we will win a lot of games. It's really not that complicated.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sideways, post: 412265, member: 2451"] You seem to be asking if our difficulties on offense last year and I suppose 2015 were due more to our own shortcomings or to changes our opponents have made. I lean towards it being mostly on ourselves. One poster observed problems at tackle which is understandable that position has been an ongoing concern for years. It is hard to recruit players big enough to play tackle and fast enough to make the downfield blocks required by this offense. In addition, there is the Mills factor. Yes, Kirvonte did a fine job in replacing Mills and Marshall (don't forget about him) but Mills had that "It" factor. He was a perfect fit for our offense and the Bback position. Don't ask me what the "It" factor is I know it when I see it. Kind of like Justice Potter Stewart on the Supreme Court asked about pornography. He said "I can't define it but I know it when I see it" Same thing with Mills. He was a guy that a defense HAD to account for. He was a guy that defensive players would look at and point to in warm ups . "Yeah, that's the dude that can beat us" One other factor is not having a true threat on the outside. Ricky was very good but he was not Bey Bey, not Steven Hill and not Smelter. Sure defenses make adjustment, practice for our offense and do special drills to defeat cut blocks and all that other stuff but if some son of a ***** is going at your knees and you see Lynch or Marshall come zipping by there is not going to be much you can do about it. Put enough people on their tails and this offense will go. Control the ball, shorten the game, limit the other team's possessions and be sound on both defense and special teams and we will win a lot of games. It's really not that complicated. [/QUOTE]
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