Snowflakes Thread: Offense Vs. UNLV

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This will be the thread for your snowflakes and hot takes on the offense and offensive playcalling for the UNLV game.

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Magnum P.I.

September 19th, 2015 at 3:18 PM ^

He has good burst and has fought pretty hard against contact in the last two games (in limited time). He looked good last season, too, before he got hurt. I just believe it's critical to threaten the other team with the potential for a big play--softens things up. That threat isn't going to come from Rudock, and it's not going to come from Smith.

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mGrowOld

September 19th, 2015 at 4:46 PM ^

Based on what i've seen so far I prefer Issac but man watching Smith drives me nuts.  It's like the offenisve lineman have "run here" painted on their ass because he sure loves to slam it into piles vs open field.

I'll be interested in see how the UFR grades him out.  To me it seemed like he missed a LOT of holes by insisting into running into a mass of bodies instead of green grass.  I don't get it.

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htownwolverine

September 19th, 2015 at 3:07 PM ^

We had 5 punts in this game and one turnover on downs. The inability for Rudock to hit open receivers and our sometimes mysterious play calling on short yardage has me slightly worried. Competent QB play and a little more push by the OL and we win this game 49-7.

I want to see us stomp people again however I think we need to wait another year or two to get players who have the right attitude.

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westwardwolverine

September 19th, 2015 at 3:28 PM ^

I'm going to go out on a limb and say the coaches kept the playcalling pretty blah on short yardage situations because the game was never really in doubt and they didn't want to show anything. Not to mention, they figured the offense should be able to gain a yard against UNLV no matter what. 

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Reader71

September 20th, 2015 at 11:38 AM ^

I also think, for better or worse, Harbaugh is going to call Power O on just about every short yardage play as long as he lives. He's a Bo guy, through and through, and that's why a lot of us love him. He's got a base play that he wants to run when the chips are down. He's not gonna outthink himself. He'll work to get an advantage with personnel and formations and shifts, but despite the window dressing, the play call is going to be Power O. We'll have to get used to it.

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turtleboy

September 19th, 2015 at 3:07 PM ^

Smith is a monster between the tackles, and Isaac is the outside home run threat. We have a much better chance of Isaac going all the way for a touchdown than a deep pass. I love the playaction pass to the fullback in the red zone.

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Chiwolve

September 19th, 2015 at 3:08 PM ^

Rudock is just not good - you could even tell the difference when Speight came in and even though his timing was late his deep balls gave receivers a chance.

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JT4104

September 19th, 2015 at 5:38 PM ^

LOL..those receivers dropped balls that hit them in the hands, at what point do the WR's get questioned because they still cant seperate from defenders.

If youre asking your QB's to always be perfect then maybe the WR's should run good routes and actually created seperation like I see other programs WR's do on a consistent basis.

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SAMgO

September 19th, 2015 at 3:08 PM ^

Look, I agree he should start, but he's gotta get better. Our receivers are outperforming expectations and Jake cannot hit them consistently. Just blowing drives on shitty third down passes and completely not explosive.



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Don

September 19th, 2015 at 3:30 PM ^

Brian Griese threw 6 in the entire 1997 season, and on top of that hit numerous deep passes, including a couple in the Rose Bowl. Anybody who says Rudock is the same kind of QB is nuts.

The argument that Morris has never shown anything so he doesn't deserve any playing time strikes me as pretty strange, given that he played behind an OL that couldn't block a middle school team and for a coaching staff that gave every appearance of not having a clue what it was doing.

Unless Rudock and the rest of the offense—especially the OL—improve dramatically in the next few weeks, the MSU game is going to be rough.

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LSA Superstar

September 19th, 2015 at 9:23 PM ^

I like your Griese comparison point.

I don't like your Shane Morris comparison point.  Were we to smash Rudock's three games together with Morris's two starts and rank them, you'd see that the two worst games belonged to Shane.  I know this isn't an apples-to-apples comparison, but it's not like Morris hasn't had his shot.  He looked awful.

I also, at this point, think we need to be in Trust the Coaches mode with respect to QB play.  Harbaugh has earned that.

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El Jeffe

September 19th, 2015 at 3:10 PM ^

Is punting an offensive play? Because other than the one shank I thought O'Neill was solid. He will be a weapon for us in closer contests. If we can get close to the 50 the other team will pretty much be guaranteed to start inside the 20 if not the 10.

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RainbowSprings

September 19th, 2015 at 3:12 PM ^

I know we're trying to get better, and we'll eventually get there, but this was a pretty poor showing offensively against UNLV. Rudock may be our most capable QB (sad to say), but I don't believe he's that much better than we have seen over the past 7 years. Blake O'Neill can punt the ball more accurately than Rudock can throw it.

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SpikeFan2016

September 19th, 2015 at 6:09 PM ^

Hopefully our defense can limit BYU more than anyone else they've faced. 

 

We definitely have a better D than Nebraska, and probably UCLA as well. Boise's is pretty good, but they also were playing at BYU so they didn't have to deal with a loud crowd. 

 

I think our defense is going to have to hold BYU to 21 or less to give us a chance to win. 

 

Just can't see this offense scoring more than 24 against BYU. 

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slappy09

September 19th, 2015 at 3:13 PM ^

Feel so unsatisfied watching this today. Good to see Drake getting some more carries... Need to go rewatch the beaver pounding from last weekend to satiate my football fix for the week.



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MChem83

September 19th, 2015 at 3:13 PM ^

He has shown frankly awful quarterbacking skills, and no sign of improvement. Locks onto receivers and makes consistently poor throws. Badly thrown balls probably cost us 2-3 TDs today (again), and we are now officially past the point where he can do that and not cost us any more games.

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