to account for Sean Clifford, who he suggests will run no more than 4-5 times per game. not looking for QB running to be as significant as it was with Trace. he pointed to our extensive talent at RB, WR and TE as reasons. Jed pointed out that under Trace the last 3 years that he bailed the OFF out numerous times with his legs. will be interesting to see how this works if the balance of production has to move from QB to the other skilled positions. OL will have to grow up quick.
Phil suggesting a small change to RPO will be implemented
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Wow. What a novel thought. Phil really went out on a limb there.
Rhane relied way, way too much on pre-called QB runs last year with Trace, even when Trace was obviously play hurt. So it will force Rhane to be more creative. Big put up or get fired year in store for Rhane. I also assume that Clifford is going to be a more accurate passer than Trace was last year and the WR's have to be able to catch the ball better (as it could not be much worse than last year). So i expect some more straight pass plays being called. Hopefully Clifford can throw a nice, accurate slant pass as that is something that is deadly if the QB can throw it and something that Rhane did not do much last year.
Let's hope this isn't the only change Rahne is looking to make. With the excitement building around the potential of the defense, nobody wants to get into a situation where the offense/team is being carried by the other side of the ball.
that would be interesting - completely skip the RPO step and go to a pass. do you ever remember us doing that the last 3 years? makes sense though.
O-line, O-line, O-line. The offense will only be as good as the O-line let’s them be. No McSorcerer or S Barclay to get creative, if not incredible, bail-outs.
is he confusing terms? Its not the RPO that has the QB running, its the option game that has the QB running. You can run an RPO with the QB never running. See the Philadelphia Eagles, even with Foles, they ran a lot of RPO, but they don't run option.
I like RPO, pre and post snap, and hope we keep doing it. That said, we can change the personal all day on the OL, but until we change the blocking schemes, the OL will struggle.
This is a very common misconception. There was 1-2 game where Trace was not as accurate as he could/should have been. The rest of the games were on the WRs. So many times the young WRs cut their route too early or too deep, even by a yard means everything. They also sat down in man and ran through zones way, way, way too often. Of course people blame the QB but that just wasn’t the case at all. That’s where we will see incredible improvement this year. Parker will be the biggest upgrade we have seen in coaches since JoeMo replaces Donovan.
given Trace and SB magic it may have compensated some OL shortcomings. it is not clear that the 2019 OL will be improved this year in terms of talent.
The passing offense was awful last year. The drops were just a symptom, but there was no rapport between Trace and receivers, a lot of times no one was getting open (except for Friermuth), timing was off all year, Trace kind of lost confidence in the passing game (except for Friermuth) and tried to compensate by running too much.
If the passing offense is anything like that this year, they're in trouble, they're going to lose 5 or 6 games and Clifford will get sacked 30 times.
You know they have the raw athletic talent to be really really good at wideout. So let's hope the coaching problems resolve themselves.
We'll know early. Last year it was pretty evident against App State that the offense wasn't clicking, and by Illinois you knew it was going to be a problem.
This is clearly Rahne's responsibility. If he wants to be an OC at this level he has to prove this year that he can do it.
If the passing offense is anything like that this year, they're in trouble, they're going to lose 5 or 6 games and Clifford will get sacked 30 times.
You know they have the raw athletic talent to be really really good at wideout. So let's hope the coaching problems resolve themselves.
We'll know early. Last year it was pretty evident against App State that the offense wasn't clicking, and by Illinois you knew it was going to be a problem.
This is clearly Rahne's responsibility. If he wants to be an OC at this level he has to prove this year that he can do it.
Don't worry. It will be blamed on breaking in a new QB (and RB and a couple of OLs). Rahne is one of the great young minds of college football, haven't you been told?
Phil says Al Golden will be calling plays on D. Jay will be OC and call plays from his Xbox
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