Needing to score 20 is about the defense
I don't see us needing 40 this year other than maybe Ohio State but, yes, that's the question and concern with this preferred style of play
What are the bigger jackpots ahead? It seems to me that a win at USC puts PSU in the driver's seat for a playoff spot. A loss and it's an uphill climb to make the playoffs.
It more than that. While spreading it around the play calling has been pedestrian... They don't need to hide their cards but a lot of building a great offense a few bricks at a time works for me. You guys with nothing but ants in your pants jump to whatever conclusion you want.
This whole hold your cards thing is so overblown by fans. Don't remember where I read it, but heard coaches prefer to put stuff on tape so that the opposition has to spend practice time prepping for it. Since practice hours are limited by rule the more plays and formations that are on tape the more you spread the opponents time out, spending it reviewing a wider assortment of different things, vs. spending time mastering how to oppose a smaller set of plays/formations.
While this is true, you are also spending that same percentage of your practice time on that wide assortment of formations/plays as your opponent instead of mastering the smaller playbook.
Possibly, depends on your plan for running it again or not, which is a decision you control. But the opponent doesn't know what's coming either way.
Even if you run it once you are still practicing it enough that your players know it. I'm just saying that it's not that much of a win to force your opponent to spend time preparing for something if your team has also spent time preparing for it.
How much practice time did we waste trying to make another team waste prep time?
We think we only need 20 and we probably lose. Franklin gets too conservative, plays not to lose, relies too much on the defense and it burns us. We need to be aggressive on offense and put the pressure on them. We have a 5 star QB who is supposedly a first round pick not an afterthought game manager. Best tight end in the country, two stud RBs with different styles to keep the D off balance and good receivers. A very good O-Line. Time to deliver. If we have ball control as part of being agressive and innovative on offense, great, but we can't be too conservative and thinking the defense will win it for us. USC can score. That was Joe's achilles heel through the years that burned him in some big games.
