Goalline play calling

[Hawkeyerick]

I hate to question play calling because there are a million things that go into it that we the fans on the outside don't understand or are not privy to. However, as a former coach one thing that drove me nuts about KOK and now Davis(which leads me to think it is a KF thing) is the play calling sequences on plays from inside the 5.

It seems like we will often get in our 2 TE 2 back set and run on second down and then run our PLayaction rollout pass from the same formation on 3rd down. If you know those are two plays you want to incorporate down there it would put more stress on the defense to playaction pass on 2nd down when the defense will bite on the fake. On 3rd down(especially after you tried to run twice and got stoned) the defense is now really looking for PLayaction so your fake often doesn't fool anyone.

Just an observation and my opinion.

 

[Igothawked]

I agree 100%. Even mentioned the exact same thing in the other thread about this sequence.

 

[Igothawked]

http://www.hawkeyenation.com/forum/football/49686-game-lost-when-kf-kicked-20-yd-fg.html

 

[Hawkeyerick]

Hadn't read through that yet. They probably have a reason, but it just seems like it takes the element of surprise out of that play fake when you do it on 3rd down.

 

[DuffMan]

we dropped a td pass on that play. no issue at all with playcalling.

 

[Hawkeyerick]

You do have a point duff, however the guy that dropped it was covered originally and then was in scramble mode. I guess my point is that the whole reason you play action pass is to try and get a guy coming forward to slip that TE behind him to immediately get an easy lob pass to a wide open guy. On third down no one is honoring the play fake. Just my opinion...but you do have a point. Dropped passes are killing the offense more than play calling. It's tough to win when your quarterback is struggling and your wr's and te's are dropping every other good pass or are bobbling them and not getting yac