Maryland Snowflakes: The Offense
November 11th, 2017 at 6:54 PM ^
November 11th, 2017 at 9:26 PM ^
If I were those boys, I'd be outside on some practice field throwing long passes and routes the entire next two weeks any chance I could. Get that fricking timing down, get used to the elements outside and get after it. The B1G is there for the taking. That part of the offense could put the next two opponents away early. That's the only thing thats missing right now. Fuckin A boys!!!
November 11th, 2017 at 6:54 PM ^
November 11th, 2017 at 6:56 PM ^
November 11th, 2017 at 7:03 PM ^
November 11th, 2017 at 7:10 PM ^
November 11th, 2017 at 7:19 PM ^
He didn't come out for the 2nd half. He's probably more valuable than any of the others.
November 11th, 2017 at 9:31 PM ^
See, the timing is off between those two. Those two should go out tomorrow for an hour or two and just play. Get it done. It's that simple. You want to get good at something, you go out and do it over and over and over until it's right.
November 11th, 2017 at 6:55 PM ^
McKeon wants everyone to shut up. Home fans, away fans, ushers, everyone.
November 11th, 2017 at 7:16 PM ^
November 11th, 2017 at 9:33 PM ^
That's funny. I hope he does it to Urban when he has one of his psychotic fits on the sidelines when they are getting their asses kicked.
November 11th, 2017 at 6:55 PM ^
November 11th, 2017 at 7:21 PM ^
I thought the second one was pretty good. DPJ needed to make a play there and drew a PI call.
November 12th, 2017 at 12:05 AM ^
was excellent. On the money. DPJ needed to make the play and he got a PI. To be honest thats on par with what O'Korn threw to Black in Florida game.
Peters rising.
November 11th, 2017 at 6:57 PM ^
Can’t complain with 8-2 as this is where many of us thought we’d be in July-August, but if we want to get to 9-2 the level of play has to go up next week.
Hope Onwenu is healthy next week.
November 11th, 2017 at 7:02 PM ^
November 11th, 2017 at 7:13 PM ^
November 11th, 2017 at 6:57 PM ^
November 11th, 2017 at 7:00 PM ^
and moved the offense. At least in the limited time I was able to watch...
November 11th, 2017 at 7:18 PM ^
It's not the most exciting offense/game plan, but I will take it any day when we don't turn the ball over and score 5 touchdowns. Our red zone offense was very good, too.
Onwards.
November 11th, 2017 at 6:57 PM ^
November 11th, 2017 at 6:58 PM ^
145 yards and 2 TD's. I missed most of the game moving my new wife in so how did he do?
November 11th, 2017 at 7:03 PM ^
He was fine. Missed a deep ball that would have been nice to hit. Made one bad read, but I think intentionally threw it behind to actually throw McKeon a little open on the play. Otheerwise he just did what he had to do, which was take care of the ball and hit one easy seam route to Gentry for a TD while the game was still competitive.
November 11th, 2017 at 7:03 PM ^
November 11th, 2017 at 7:41 PM ^
You got married before living together? What is this, 1950?
November 11th, 2017 at 7:45 PM ^
November 11th, 2017 at 6:59 PM ^
November 11th, 2017 at 6:59 PM ^
I hope Higdon is ok.
November 11th, 2017 at 6:59 PM ^
I will go forward at the altar call at church tomorrow for this, my friends.
November 11th, 2017 at 7:14 PM ^
And I forgot to wear my M hat in the second half. My bad, guys.
November 11th, 2017 at 7:00 PM ^
It's disappointing that other teams can field semi-competent offenses with walk-ons starting and we can't complete a pass more than 5 yards downfield.
November 11th, 2017 at 7:28 PM ^
run the ball. complete some short passes to move the chains. avoid the INTs. keep them from scoring. go home with a blow out win.
this game plan would have easily beaten MSU.
i'm sure there will be more intermediate and deep routes the next two weeks.
November 11th, 2017 at 7:44 PM ^
The problem is that today's game plan won't beat Wisconsin or OSU. And to expect Peters to suddenly be able to air it out without in-game experience is asking too much.
November 11th, 2017 at 7:50 PM ^
i don't think throwing a couple more extra deep balls this game comes close to the 300 pass plays he will throw in practice this week.
November 11th, 2017 at 7:55 PM ^
he clearly is not one yet. He hasn't shown anything in two starts that makes you think there is a big step up coming in time for Wisc and OSU. And that's exactly what we need in order to win even one of those two.
November 12th, 2017 at 9:29 AM ^
I think it could beat both.
November 11th, 2017 at 7:01 PM ^
Won't be able to run for a lot vs teams expecting it and zoning in on it. Passing game suffers from basic lack of execution from QB to blockers to receivers.
There was an element of the team taking the foot off the gas today for sure. I think Higdon going off made everyone acutely aware of the risk of getting injured in a game you're winning easily and that is playing tricks on people's minds.
But that doesn't change the fact that this team can only execute half of the team's offense to any level near satisfaction. It's not gonna change, IMO it's gonna have to be a fluke type thing with defensive and ST scores for us to win vs Wisky or OSU.
November 11th, 2017 at 7:02 PM ^
November 11th, 2017 at 7:02 PM ^
November 11th, 2017 at 7:04 PM ^
We went vanilla after we were up big. We showed a lot of different formations in first half. You can see coaches trust Peters more and more. That being said, it is a work in progress and points will be hard to come by next week. We simply don't get the ball to the WR's at all. We tried DPJ but only completed pass to WR I remember was a tunnel screen. Still way better than where we were 4-5 weeks ago.
November 11th, 2017 at 7:11 PM ^
Our passing game is like 99% the stuff that a good D will take away very quickly i.e. screens, underneath stuff, rollouts with crossing routes. It's all designed to make easy passes for QBs that don't require a lot of reads.
There is no evidence that we can do better. I don't think we've been in the position to 'hide' more than maybe 1 or 2 trick plays for the final games, so I don't think this is a matter of them just waiting to unload. This is what our coaches are comfortable running.
November 11th, 2017 at 7:18 PM ^
At the start of the game we came out with all sorts of motion and had guys shifting all over. You are right but it is vanilla but was the first time I remember us using that much motion and pre snap adjustments since Peters took over. I'm not arguing we are doing anything special, just that it seemed like a progression from the last couple weeks. Like I said, points will be real tough to come by next week. We have to get WR's involved.
November 11th, 2017 at 7:33 PM ^
You won't go deep more than a few times a game, so the bread and butter to open up the D are those medium range passes. It seems like whenever we try these passes, the receivers aren't open. But then we only see where and when the QB throws, so it's often hard to say if he missed a guy that was open or messed up the timing of the play. But it's not unique to Peters, the same happened with O'Korn and Speight too. Either our playcalling is really bad on this, all of our QBs are bad or our receivers are very bad at route running. I suspect it's a mix of those three elements.
November 11th, 2017 at 7:38 PM ^
I agree about the WR's. The only plays we seem to run are the streak to DPJ or some sort of screen. I have no idea why we aren't getting more production but we will definitely need it next week.
November 11th, 2017 at 7:59 PM ^
We have a QB who is not ready yet, and WR's who can't get open. Not being snarky, it just seems pretty obvious.
November 11th, 2017 at 9:15 PM ^
You are correct about those two things and I'm still surprised we aren't getting more production. One catch by a wideout today is just stunning to me.
November 11th, 2017 at 7:04 PM ^
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November 11th, 2017 at 7:18 PM ^