CU WR Stellato commits to UK

[Soupbean]

Good point, football teams are much more than just a collection of players. The best teams have synergy developed between the players which normally comes from reps and coaching. You can have 10 guys in sync doing their correct thing on any given play and if the 11th does the wrong thing the play can fail.

No question. Plus when you are playing in sync and with a single purpose you just play faster as a team because there’s less wasted motion. Everyone’s mind is in it so they all react quicker.

I can hear all the military folks saying to themselves, “No Sh#%!”

 

[Catfanlou]

I don’t understand why our offense did not feast on quick short passes . Out of Qb hands in less than two seconds . Slants, hitches, flat, screens, comebacks, curls instead of long passes . We need to use their speed attacking our qbs against the defense .

 

[gamecockcat]

I don’t understand why our offense did not feast on quick short passes . Out of Qb hands in less than two seconds . Slants, hitches, flat, screens, comebacks, curls instead of long passes . We need to use their speed attacking our qbs against the defense .

No shit. I agree with you wholeheartedly. Many, I mean MANY, other posters have posted the same sentiment/question. Tell me Barrion Brown on a short cross wouldn't have been so much more effective and a better use of his skills than throwing bombs his way. I am still dumbfounded by how poorly our offensive game plan was designed and the selection of plays utilized throughout the season. Hamdan was obsessed with pushing the ball down the field despite a terrible OL who couldn't hold blocks, QBs who were not good at long throws and receivers who were bad at 50/50 balls. Definition of insanity...

 

[Rembrandt90]

I don’t understand why our offense did not feast on quick short passes . Out of Qb hands in less than two seconds . Slants, hitches, flat, screens, comebacks, curls instead of long passes . We need to use their speed attacking our qbs against the defense .

Because quick, short passes don't work against press coverages and packed defenses.

You may have noticed that a lot of quick, short routes got jumped by opposing defensive backs, leading to pass deflections, interceptions, and some pick-6s. That happens when you throw quick, short passes to receivers who are well covered. It gets even tougher when your QB can't read coverages or when your receivers can't run accurate routes on pace.

Opposing DCs are smart. That's why they are SEC coordinators. They look at film and quickly see that UK's OL can't block blitzes or quick edge rushers. So they press our receivers and rush our QB with tactics they have seen on film from our previous games. This makes them vulnerable to a hitch and go route, but only if our OL gives our QB enough time to find the receiver and the QB can actually hit the receiver.

We have just summed up why Stoops and Hamdan are replacing their QB, WRs, and almost all of their OL. Stoops says he can fix this. I believe he is sincere. We will see if he can actually put a productive SEC OL on the field, because that is a prerequisite. On the whole, I like the changes so far. Stellato and Dowdell are big gets. Calzada, unlike Vandagriff, has a high floor. But we still need a new SEC caliber LT, and it would be nice to snag one more big, athletic receiver. There is still time.

 

[gamecockcat]

Because quick, short passes don't work against press coverages and packed defenses.

You may have noticed that a lot of quick, short routes got jumped by opposing defensive backs, leading to pass deflections, interceptions, and some pick-6s. That happens when you throw quick, short passes to receivers who are well covered. It gets even tougher when your QB can't read coverages or when your receivers can't run accurate routes on pace.

Opposing DCs are smart. That's why they are SEC coordinators. They look at film and quickly see that UK's OL can't block blitzes or quick edge rushers. So they press our receivers and rush our QB with tactics they have seen on film from our previous games. This makes them vulnerable to a hitch and go route, but only if our OL gives our QB enough time to find the receiver and the QB can actually hit the receiver.

We have just summed up why Stoops and Hamdan are replacing their QB, WRs, and almost all of their OL. Stoops says he can fix this. I believe he is sincere. We will see if he can actually put a productive SEC OL on the field, because that is a prerequisite. On the whole, I like the changes so far. Stellato and Dowdell are big gets. Calzada, unlike Vandagriff, has a high floor. But we still need a new SEC caliber LT, and it would be nice to snag one more big, athletic receiver. There is still time.

I'm a bit confused. UK has a bad OL and almost never has time to throw long. But we can't throw short because of press coverage, QB unable to read the defense and receivers don't run crisp routes. So,we should not throw at all? Seems like a lot of other teams throw short passes all the time as does the NFL. I don't disagree with your observations in total, but you're painting a picture that suggests we shouldn't throw short or long - what's left?

 

[bigblueinsanity]

I don’t understand why our offense did not feast on quick short passes . Out of Qb hands in less than two seconds . Slants, hitches, flat, screens, comebacks, curls instead of long passes . We need to use their speed attacking our qbs against the defense .

One can only wonder, because our offensive attack was the opposite and killed us because we didn't have the OL for it.

We should've had barion on crossers all game long vs anyone that plays man. That's where he feasted as a freshman. Instead im guessing his nil conditions ruled that out because it was obvious we were mandated to throw it deep to him.

I guess we'll see what happens this year. It is possible our offense was just hamstrung by nil divas, which you could definitely see during coen's return.