Denard Scrambling

There were designed run plays for Denard, but he had some scrambles as well. I agree though, that when he gets the hang of making good decisions about when to run as opposed to when to pass, he's going to be even more of a headache for the defenses of the world . . . .

I bet Denard loves scrambled eggs covered in cheese. I know I do.

it seems like denard can do some things with this feet.  this will be something to monitor in coming weeks. 

It's like Troy Smith, except faster.  Hopefully we can show OSU our pain from 2006 this year in November.

Yes, and now with his Allen Iverson head fake he is even more elusive.

Watching the head fake, two plays come to mind.  the first was Barry Sanders' head fake on Rod Woodson which caused Woodson to tear his ACL.  The second was a bounce pass fake by Jalen Rose against UD-Mercy. It doesn't need to be stated, but Denard's pure athleticism is amazing. 

If Denard can consistently throw accurately to his receivers he would become more dangerous than he already is.

I love loved that they finally threw back in the Denard fake run to drop back pass play that destroyed teams last year one of the greatest ways to either make a defense stay honest or catch them cheating up and throw for big yardage.

I haven't heard much on mgoblog (though I could have missed it) talk about Denard's running style changing this year on many plays in that he will now often follow a blocker tentatively moving laterally before trying to burst through a hole. This play has often resulted in 3 yard gains and sometimes in a TFL.

This works against Denard's strengths which are his speed and shiftiness and allows the defense to stack up against him. It's a bit disheartening when Borges calls that play and then when last year's RR plays go in that's what ends up getting the big gainers.

It seems like we do the same thing every game...have the intention with running with the backs and throwing the ball, until it doesn't work, then revert back to just letting Denard create.  Denard is such a good runner and creator.  It just makes me nervous when I see him in the pocket.  He consistently makes bad reads, throws into coverage, and pre-determines where he's going with the ball before reading the defense.  It's great that he can create, run, and scramble.  But, man I'm nervous when we face a dominant front 4/7 that forces him to throw.  I hope I'm wrong and that he devlops as a passer.  But, IMO he still makes the same mistakes and mis-reads that he's always made, which leads me to believe he "is what he is" and won't develop much in this area.  Love the kid, amazing athlete, but can't see him as a great QB.

His passing definitely was off, and in the post-game pressers neither Hoke nor Denard gave an adequate answer, despite being asked several times - each - about it.

Fellas UM will continue to be unbalanced until Denard can start consistently making throws. He has a cannon for an arm but lately he has no idea where the ball is going when he throws it. Makes u wonder about that 70% passing during practice.

On the flip side, those things are all correctable and hopefully he gets it down this week or at least by the Conf opener

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Denard's scrambling is different this year.  I can't count how many times last year he'd be sitting int he pocket for way too long on a pass play and I'm yelling at the TV, "Run! RUNNNN!!! You have rockets for legs, the first down is right there, and the field is WIDE OPEN!"

But either he'd been coached to run only on designed run plays or he'd determined that for himself (Tate certainly had no problems scrambling).  So the result would either be a sack or a forced throw into coverage, often picked off.  It was really frustrating.

This year is different.  He sees green and nothing open, he takes off.  This does make him more dangerous, and I think it cuts down on our turnovers too.  Makes the difference between TO or sack and first down.  That's HUGE.