Stealing play call signs? Eddie?
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what was average 3rd down position...my guess is 3rd and 8 or more...
that is not all on QB...
Yep, not going to make too many 3rd and long. We can’t win first and second down.
He has to be pretty predictable to go that many 3rd downs and not even get lucky once. Our passing offense has been atrocious since Stoops has gotten here regardless of QB. Is Gran just overmatched against SEC defensive coordinators?
1st and 2nd down have also been a disaster.
3rd and 8, and Gran runs it up the middle 90% of the time. Yea, he's predictable.
I don't know how you couldn't. I sure have. 3rd and 1 and we are lined up in the wildcat I am pretty sure the RB that gets the snap is coming right up the middle.
Gran coached for 25 years before he got a coordinator job. Obviously it wasn't obvious that he was cut out to be one. It's either that or Stoops has handcuffed him like the others that were here.
Eddie Gran's offense route tree has 4 branches. It ain't hard to figure out when your WR's run 4 routes total.
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Steal play calls hell, Gran is so predictable he just gives them away.
He could write his play calls on the back of his hand - doesn’t need that play chart
Agree. He goes through those plays as if he is Bill Walsh or some shit. It doesn't get more vanilla than Gran.
No I think it has more to do with poor play calling on 3rd down. Even on 3rd and 8. We either pass it 2 yards hoping for missed tackle or we throw a 25 yard hard pass. What ever happened to the receiver going just pass the chains and throw it to him. Seems like it would have a higher chance of success!
If 1st down goes poorly, the play calling becomes all about safely getting to a punt instead of trying to move the chains.
No one needs to steal our play calls..we are predictable beyond belief. Watch the game on tv and count the # of times the play goes somewhere that’s different than what you read before the ball is snapped.
I don't know but I swear the last two games Its uncanny how many times we've thrown into double coverage. We were laughing about it last night and said, "how is it humanly possible for us to throw into double coverage EVERY plass play!!!!! What have they got, 12 DBs!
On the wheel route to Ros he was TRIPLE COVERED. I couldn't help but fall out laughing. Some of it is due to Sawyer being hurt and floating balls like me out there to where safeties have time to go across the field to break up play but still . . .
I was relieved that we didn't use any of our "trick" plays. The last time that we fooled a team was ........
My question is it our route running, lack of speed, play calling, or what that makes it almost impossible to get a guy open? We leave guys wide open all the time, but it seems as though we never get anything easy. It's been like that since Gran got here. Is the SEC defensive coordinators that much better than him, or is the vanilla low risk offense keeping talented players away?
Yeah unless Sawyer has a brain injury his shoulder and wrist injuries dont cause him to throw into double coverage . We are still screwed because Stoops isn't going to gamble doing anything but running him out there .. Mark my words .. we will even more conservative on O because of the past 2 games . Its how Stoops thinks .. the less " fancy" you get the less chance something bad goes wrong .... and the side effect to that is the sticks never move . He will whittle the playbook down even farther . Its how he thinks . Big Ten football mentality from the 70-80-90's .. hell even that group of shit teams somewhat caught on about todays offensive schemes and attacks .
It’s not just us noticing this . Even the commentators were criticizing one play call on a 3rd and 5. Like Rogers said , there was only one option for the quarterback to throw to , if it was covered (it was) there was no where else for Sawyer to throw.
Neal Brown has had some good offenses since he left UK and Gran did well at Cincinnati. Maybe Stoops is handcuffing them?
