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<blockquote data-quote="Legal Jacket" data-source="post: 170568" data-attributes="member: 601"><p>1. That's irrelevant. My point is our base offense doesn't have a solution when there is an elite front seven, not that a great defense can shutdown an offense, regardless of style. Put differently - how would YOU scheme a response to the situation where we are getting our butts kicked in the front 7? Our offense is based to a much greater extent on us being able to dominate their front seven than other offenses that are designed to test DBs or OLB in coverage.</p><p></p><p>If the D is taking the BB option out of consideration and is also sealing the edge, we have to go to something else to move the ball. Look, I love our offense. I think its great and I think it really works. Maybe we would improve enough in the passing game at the next level to where we would be able to run slants and other quick hit passes to keep the D honest.</p><p></p><p>2. The corners are also largely irrelevant (though they will be much tougher to block). The safeties are the problem. There aren't nearly as many to the house runs in the pros as there are in college; the main reason for that is that the DBs speed at the pro level is ridiculous. Even when we hit on an option and had an opening on the edge I think it would close a lot more quickly than usual. Cutting 25 yard gains to 10-15 yard gains would make it a lot more difficult to quickly march downfield.</p><p></p><p>3. The Pitt game in 2013 was not that impressive of an offensive game. We scored 21 points and had only 276 yards rushing on 53 attempts. That's exactly my point. Our BBs combined for 26 carries and 127 yards - which would be fine if we were also passing for another 300 yards on top of that. Vad ran 17 times for 44 yards. At the pro level I don't think you'd have your ABs running for 90 yards on 6 carries.</p><p></p><p>Pitt was the same team that gave up 27 points to New Mexico, 55 points to Duke, 24 points to Old Dominion, 41 to Miami, 27 to Bowling Green, etc. So using them as an example - especially where they really only had Donald as a better than average player on defense - kinda proves my point. Imagine what we'd have done against them if you added an elite OLB.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Legal Jacket, post: 170568, member: 601"] 1. That's irrelevant. My point is our base offense doesn't have a solution when there is an elite front seven, not that a great defense can shutdown an offense, regardless of style. Put differently - how would YOU scheme a response to the situation where we are getting our butts kicked in the front 7? Our offense is based to a much greater extent on us being able to dominate their front seven than other offenses that are designed to test DBs or OLB in coverage. If the D is taking the BB option out of consideration and is also sealing the edge, we have to go to something else to move the ball. Look, I love our offense. I think its great and I think it really works. Maybe we would improve enough in the passing game at the next level to where we would be able to run slants and other quick hit passes to keep the D honest. 2. The corners are also largely irrelevant (though they will be much tougher to block). The safeties are the problem. There aren't nearly as many to the house runs in the pros as there are in college; the main reason for that is that the DBs speed at the pro level is ridiculous. Even when we hit on an option and had an opening on the edge I think it would close a lot more quickly than usual. Cutting 25 yard gains to 10-15 yard gains would make it a lot more difficult to quickly march downfield. 3. The Pitt game in 2013 was not that impressive of an offensive game. We scored 21 points and had only 276 yards rushing on 53 attempts. That's exactly my point. Our BBs combined for 26 carries and 127 yards - which would be fine if we were also passing for another 300 yards on top of that. Vad ran 17 times for 44 yards. At the pro level I don't think you'd have your ABs running for 90 yards on 6 carries. Pitt was the same team that gave up 27 points to New Mexico, 55 points to Duke, 24 points to Old Dominion, 41 to Miami, 27 to Bowling Green, etc. So using them as an example - especially where they really only had Donald as a better than average player on defense - kinda proves my point. Imagine what we'd have done against them if you added an elite OLB. [/QUOTE]
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