Beat a dead horse: Hawks need deep routes to push safeties and Lbkrs back

uihawk82

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I have brought this up many times as have many more posters. Heck there was just a thread about why we didnt start throwing deeper earlier.

I thought we might do this in year 3 of GD offense but we didnt at least early.

UNI did a great job of attacking our safeties and linebackers, going medium and deep and getting big plays.

The hawks continue to run into 8-9 man fronts with 5-7 blockers.

We need to take 20-40 yard shots down the field to push the safeties back. I thought Jake looked deep sometimes and I saw some receivers like Hamilton breaking open but we didnt target them.

It is just part of the equation in football to out flank and outnumber, out power and out finesse the opponent.

Can any of you add thoughts of why this happens or how the offense can be more complete?
 
The routes were there, the protection was there, Jake just played too conservatively. Something good happened nearly every time we threw the ball more than 20 yards.
 
They went deep 4 times. Separation seems to be there this year where it wasn't last year. This doesn't concern me. Yet. The lack of intermediate throws made me scratch my head though.
 

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