Offensive 2007 Passing Stats (Eye Opener)

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This is a real eye opener.... Look at his stats and where he is throwing the ball... Is this offensive Play calling, Lack of confidence throwing it down field. This stat includes Yards after catch also so you can see that a ball caught in the backfield may have gone for 15+ yds.

Throw these stats in with some three and outs due to 3 consecutive incomplete passes or a three runs or an interception and you can see why we struggled so much this year... Almost 69% of our Passes net less than 10 yds. 40% of Ainge's completions netted less than 5 yds.



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BLS      1 to 5   6 to 10   11 to 15    15 +

Cal       4       11            9            4            4
So Miss 2        9             3            4            5
FL        7        5             8            4            2
ASU      2        6             7            6            6
GA        0        6             4            4            3
MS       2         6             6             2           6
AL        1         7             8            4            2
USC      7        5              6           4             4
LL         2       5              5            2            2
ARK      1        4              4            2            2
Vandy    6       9              8            4            2
KY         7       2              8            5            6
LSU       1       4              7             3           5

       42             79             83             48             49

          13.95%    26.25%   27.57%   15.95%   16.28%
 
#3
#3
don't you think that this allow defenses to load up on the line of scrimage within 5 yards to stop both the run and the pass
 
#5
#5
It seems to me to be some sort of failed attempt at the "west coast offense" , but yea, I think it allows the D to stack the box UNLESS you have great speed or ability for YAC, which we didnt really have. It has its place if you have the right tools but I dont think we did, or at least those with the tools were on the sidelines. Either way, no matter what offense you run, ya gotta show ability to hit the deep ones for it to be successful, and we never showed the ability to do that at any given time.

I do agree with Rasputin that it should be much improved in '08.
 
#8
#8
It just shows the amount of pressure that was on ainge all year. Way to much in my opinion. Cutcliffe at times seemed to outthink himself. Run when they can't stop it and keep running. Throw when you have a bad matchup but we rarely did. We went away from what was working to often and went to something completely different. I'am no OC but if my back is averaging 6.7 yards a carry then i'am going to feed it to him until someone stops it.
 
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#9
orange parmejohn said:
i hope so Ras. a decent deep ball and a couple of upsets, and Foster just might sneak in the back of the Heisman race.
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Foster won't be close to winning the Heisman. He will have to split carries with Hardest, Creer, and maybe even Vereen. Also thats not the type of RB he is. If Larry Johnson cant get the Heisman when he rushed for 2000 yards and about 8 yards a carry then there is no way Foster will get it. Also, Foster just isn't that good.
 
#11
#11
just wishful thinking guys. but i do think that Foster has the capabilities to polish his star, next year. he does need a little more speed.
 
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#12
I can't help but think the receivers had a lot to do with this. I mean, last season with Meach/Swain/Smith I don't think the numbers looked near this skewed.
 
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hndog609 said:
I can't help but think the receivers had a lot to do with this. I mean, last season with Meach/Swain/Smith I don't think the numbers looked near this skewed.
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Those receivers had alot of yac yards. We basically ran the same plays last year just meechum turned alot of those hitch routes into long gainers.
 
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Cartervol said:
Those receivers had alot of yac yards. We basically ran the same plays last year just meechum turned alot of those hitch routes into long gainers.
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There was some of that no doubt. But surely you aren't contending Meach got over 1200 yards based on YAC are you?
 
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hndog609 said:
There was some of that no doubt. But surely you aren't contending Meach got over 1200 yards based on YAC are you?
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Nope we threw it downfield more last year. We didn't have robert meechum to throw to this season and we don't have another meechum for the foreseeable future. I would be lying if i didn't say i was flustrated with the playcalling at times this year. But what do i know i'am just a armchair qb.
 
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Cartervol said:
Nope we threw it downfield more last year. We didn't have robert meechum to throw to this season and we don't have another meechum for the foreseeable future. I would be lying if i didn't say i was flustrated with the playcalling at times this year. But what do i know i'am just a armchair qb.
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Nah, don't be too hard on yourself. :) I was "flustrated" (nice word!) for awhile and thought it was just "the finger". I later came to believe it was nothing more than a combination of Cut's phobia of ever taking a sack combined with there's little point in consistently looking deep for WR's that aren't beating coverage. We only had one serviceable threat in Taylor. Cover him and, well, you watched it yourself. I've got high expectations for Jones and high hopes for Paige. I will admit to Brisco showing me something late in the season.
 
#19
#19
most of those long balls downfield to meach came from Crompton when he was taking over for the injured (again) Ainge.
 
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#20
tim said:
most of those long balls downfield to meach came from Crompton when he was taking over for the injured (again) Ainge.
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Crompton totalled 357 yards to all receivers (not just Meach) in the LSU/AR games. Cromp does like to sling it but his numbers hardly skewed the average for the whole season.
 
#21
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hndog609 said:
I can't help but think the receivers had a lot to do with this. I mean, last season with Meach/Swain/Smith I don't think the numbers looked near this skewed.
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They helped with yards after catch (see Meachem's catches in Cal game...)
 
#23
#23
It seems like every time Crompton got on the field there was a long ball. This year it was in mop up duty, but as someone mentioned the deep balls against LSU last year. Is Cut more comfortable calling deep routes for Cromp, or is it a QB's choice kind of thing?
 
#24
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volley said:
It seems like every time Crompton got on the field there was a long ball. This year it was in mop up duty, but as someone mentioned the deep balls against LSU last year. Is Cut more comfortable calling deep routes for Cromp, or is it a QB's choice kind of thing?
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Alot of those deep passes against LSU last year were good passes, but also good catches by the WR. The 2 INT's Crompton threw this year were about as ugly as you can get.
 
#25
#25
I've covered this before, but 1 ball against LSU was a "good" throw, the other was 5-10 yards underthrown into double coverage, and was only caught b/c we had an AA WR.

Ainge has thrown alot of good deep balls in his career, our WR's inability to get seperation has alot more to do with this trend than anything.

If you people are waiting on Crompton to come in and throw it downfield and us be successful at it, you'll be waiting a long time. The only QB wearing 8 that will give us a fighting chance at a winning record next year will have a 1 in front of that 8.
 
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