WTKA Roundtable 9/5/2019: I Agree With Al Borges
Things discussed:
- We could run the Arc Read/Split Zone thing every play. Borges calls it the "QB bluff run."
- Freshmen: Hayes killed it, the RBs killed it.
- You could see they had some screens in the offense—
- Not crisp—Craig compares us unfavorably to Bowling Green.
- Charbonnet: Has a chance to join A-Train and Hart as great pass pro RBs
- Shea: decision-making still not great, but accurate and efficient
- MTSU tried to get to the perimeter, "did so belligerently." Brian liked their offensive gameplan, not so much defense.
- First time Brian charted some off coverage—greater diversity. Natural to play Cov2 against teams that are trying to get outside.
- Gray: UFR less encouraging than live.
- Mason not ready. Goes so hard he ends up on the ground and can't get back to the play.
- Michigan has to find a way to get Josh Uche on the field. Hutchinson looked close to a breakout. Did work inside.
- Army: Their offense is all about 10 minute drives: three yards is a win because they'll go for every 4th and 1. Rice is so bad and played Army pretty evenly.
- Around the league: Justin Fields, Wisconsin, Penn State: impressive starts. Michigan State, Nebraska, Purdue. Northwestern has a five-star QB who comes in and sucks.
- State: Man you need some offensive tackles.
- Nebraska: congratulations you have a slot receiver; you already had a good one.
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September 6th, 2019 at 8:59 AM ^
Strikes me that Don Brown could have his best year ever in terms of mixing coverages and clever insights about how to make a patchwork defense go. . . reap little glory for it. Life's like that.
September 6th, 2019 at 11:02 AM ^
Not getting blown apart by OSU would help amend that.
September 6th, 2019 at 9:47 AM ^
Anyone have the link that Sam is talking about. Says it's on their youtube page but I could not find it.
September 6th, 2019 at 10:46 AM ^
Everyone is over-analyzing the spike. They screwed up and got lucky that the ball kind of-maybe touched the ground which allows them to say that they didn't use the timeouts for a reason. I'm with Brian on that one.
September 6th, 2019 at 11:46 AM ^
Agree. It's concerning how unprepared Harbaugh seems to make decisions in late game situations. If he's not as involved in the play calling, this should be easy for him to focus on.
September 6th, 2019 at 2:34 PM ^
OR Assign Sometime to track it for him.
September 6th, 2019 at 2:34 PM ^
OR Assign Sometime to track it for him.
September 6th, 2019 at 12:17 PM ^
Random thought: It seems that success rate could perhaps not be the best stat to use to evaluate an offense like Army's. If the goal is to get 3-4 yards per play most definitions of success rate will never count first or second down as successes. Army is perfectly happy turning 1st and 10 into 2nd and 6 into 3rd and 3 into a first down, but only the last play in that sequence counts as "success" by most definitions.
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