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Crawford's take on the offense

http://www.courier-journal.com/blogs/crawford/blog.html

Great blog post by Crawford about the offensive problems.

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I generally agree with what he's talking about. I guess there are no magic plays, but if week after week we see the same deep cover-2 zone, maybe come up with SOMETHING to counter that. Don't just accept that we're going to have to throw short -- that's what they want you to do.  It's not like we're playing the '85 or even the '06 Bears.

Why waste Brohm's talent on dink/dunk? How awful is it going to be watching cantwell throw 100 MPH passes on 4 yard curls to Peter Notcha?

The thing Crawford said that sticks out the most is that it is an offense that relies on the talents of the players -- not getting guys open.  

Petrino's offense was about getting people open.  They never just ran routes -- everyone on the play went somewhere for a reason it seemed. And people got open -- so it didn't matter who the players were, as long as they did what they were supposed to do, the play succeeded.

But Petrino also put people in a position to succeed. He didn't ask Lefors to throw the ball downfield, and (other than the UK game in 2005) he didn't ask Brohm to run the dink/dunk/finesse offense that lefors ran.

And in terms of game planning -- last year's WVU was a clinic in finding a weakness and exploiting it.  Play-action passes to the seams -- I think we started EVERY offensive possession with that. Remember Herbie's call: "The linebackers are biting SO HARD on play-action."  

But have we changed our offensive game plan once this year? It's the same set of plays over and over.  

All of which is to say, things are Different now -- not exactly breaking news.

But Crawford has done the best job I've seen of describing why.  

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Newfound Respect For Mr. Crawford
Impossible to argue. Too bad the season is nearly lost. Let's hope that somehow Kragthorpe gets this message, and we can grow next season (thought I'd never say that).
Go Cards!

by Red Rage on Nov 11, 2007 1:27 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

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