Play Calling Poll

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Volador

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First, I am elated that teams #119/120 have won the last 9 games. Some of the W's have been UGLY but, only thing better than 9-0 is 10-0.

For the past 10 years or so, I have been skeptical of our coaches sending in effective offensive plays. Someday's I would swear that they have no ability at reading any defensive scheme. And YES, our offense has failed to execute many chances but, more often than not, our plays just seem to be met by the defense right at the line of scrimmage. (and I do not think that anyone can argue that our Offense has under delivered this Fall)

Therefore, just wondering what other VNers think about our play calling:
 
#2
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Honestly I like it sometimes and hate it others. But I'm not sure if it's the play calling, audibles, options taken by Dobbs, or execution.

Maybe it's a little of everything and when it clicks it's awesome but when it doesn't it looks rough.
 
#4
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It's been limited by the Oline and Dobbs inability to throw the intermediate and deep routes with accuracy.... Mostly due to the Oline playing like dung
 
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#7
First of all Dobbs is a poor passer and very very poor OL. going into the year all we heard was how much better our OL would be plus we thought Richmond was a future first round draft pick, Richmond is to slow to play tackle he cant move his feet quick enough if he cant play guard or center then he is a poor back up at best, Dobbs did look a little better throwing the ball yesterday but look at who we were playing.
 
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#10
Just poor play calling! Coordinator not taking advantage of our talent, it is as if coaches are restraining the offense.
 
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#11
IDK, but it seems the best coached Olines (and teams in general) can run various plays out of the same set. We did this some last year with the jet sweep and fake jet sweep. 90% of time nobody in the stands or sidelines are fooled when Hurd is in the backfield - he's going to get the ball off guard/tackle - hit in the backfield or LOS - and then drag people 3-4 yards.
 
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utvols74 said:
IDK, but it seems the best coached Olines (and teams in general) can run various plays out of the same set. We did this some last year with the jet sweep and fake jet sweep. 90% of time nobody in the stands or sidelines are fooled when Hurd is in the backfield - he's going to get the ball off guard/tackle - hit in the backfield or LOS - and then drag people 3-4 yards.
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If we, the uninformed & non-coaches, can tell what the play is going to be then how can they think our opponents aren't going to know? At least with 2 backs in the backfield they have to guess WHICH one will get the ball.
 
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Volador said:
First, I am elated that teams #119/120 have won the last 9 games. Some of the W's have been UGLY but, only thing better than 9-0 is 10-0.

For the past 10 years or so, I have been skeptical of our coaches sending in effective offensive plays. Someday's I would swear that they have no ability at reading any defensive scheme. And YES, our offense has failed to execute many chances but, more often than not, our plays just seem to be met by the defense right at the line of scrimmage. (and I do not think that anyone can argue that our Offense has under delivered this Fall)

Therefore, just wondering what other VNers think about our play calling:
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Same old song, different verse.
 
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kxtop said:
Just poor play calling! Coordinator not taking advantage of our talent, it is as if coaches are restraining the offense.
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I wish that was true, but it isn't. Look at the tapes of the games and you see that when most of the plays fail, at least one player did not do his job. It only takes one of the 11 players to fail to do his job to screw up the play. That is why General Neyland would not run a play in a game until they had practiced that play 1000 times. With today's playbook, one is luck to practice a play 100 times in Fall practice, especially this early in the year. The offensive line had n injury prior to the first game. All that Fall practice had a player missing and someone who had less practice at that position had to fill in. One would expect that timing would be disrupted and mistakes made. So don't be in such a hurry to blame the coaches.
 
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Debord play calling is atrocious. He should not be an OC. He is an OL coach at best and we will lost at least 3 games because of him.
 
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We go to the quick screen to often.
We need more passes between the hashes.
Slants, tight end seam, Hurd slipping out five yards over the middle.
I'd also have a throw back to Dobbs after a pitch.
 
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O Line is poor at run blocking. They struggle getting to blocks on LBs at the 2nd level. Even poorer at pass protection. Straight bull rush by front 4 (no stunts) collapses our pocket regularly. Stunts....Katie bar the door. Tackles struggle with speed rush on the edge.

But the bigger issue is decision making by Dobbs. If you recorded the game, go back and watch offensive plays. Pause if needed. His decision making is poor. Checks down when people are more open down field. Flushes the pocket and runs into trouble when he could step up or side step in pocket and throw. On the occasions he does throw to the right man, accuracy is often an issue.

Play calling is not great....predictable and vanilla. But Dobbs' decision making and O Line ineptitude makes it look even worse. My 2 cents
 
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#21
I realize it don't fit into our offensive scheme, but I sure would like to mix in more two back sets in the offense. I formation, split backs. At least not be so predictable.
 
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luthervol said:
We go to the quick screen to often.
We need more passes between the hashes.
Slants, tight end seam, Hurd slipping out five yards over the middle.
I'd also have a throw back to Dobbs after a pitch.
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This right here. Especially the slants and tight end seam. :rock:
 
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