I think I understand the Greg Davis offense

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lightning1

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and why it's so easy to defend against.
Call a run play with a passing audible. When you get to line of scrimmage, if defense is set up to stop the run, audible to predetermined pass play.
Call pass play with a running audible. "" "" ""
Since Jake is almost always looking for the check down, 2 yard, "careful" pass, it's relatively easy to bait him out of a run play and into a passing play, without worrying about putting your defense in a bind. A 2 yard pass is not hard to defend from a base package, after all.
Defenses can basically put 11 guys within 10 yards of the LOS on every play and scheme accordingly. It's like having another bye week for defensive coordinators that have to prepare for us.
 
Why is it that CJB can make the GD offense work to where it looks 'explosive' but when JR is in the game it looks 'horizontal'? This has everything to do with the QB...period. Same thing happened at Texas-- when he had a QB that could toss the rock and run, they were unstoppable. BUT, when you have a QB with limited arm strength, pocket awareness, and is not a true dual threat, the offense struggles.
 
Impossible, not even GD understands the GD offense. It was specifically designed in Texas to confuse everyone, including himself.
 
lightning1 said:
and why it's so easy to defend against.
Call a run play with a passing audible. When you get to line of scrimmage, if defense is set up to stop the run, audible to predetermined pass play.
Call pass play with a running audible. "" "" ""
Since Jake is almost always looking for the check down, 2 yard, "careful" pass, it's relatively easy to bait him out of a run play and into a passing play, without worrying about putting your defense in a bind. A 2 yard pass is not hard to defend from a base package, after all.
Defenses can basically put 11 guys within 10 yards of the LOS on every play and scheme accordingly. It's like having another bye week for defensive coordinators that have to prepare for us.
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Yes, yes you do understand the Davis offense. Unfortunately so do all other teams unless we can throw it downfield, which has happened in our last 3 wins.
 
OkstHawk said:
Why is it that CJB can make the GD offense work to where it looks 'explosive' but when JR is in the game it looks 'horizontal'? This has everything to do with the QB...period. Same thing happened at Texas-- when he had a QB that could toss the rock and run, they were unstoppable. BUT, when you have a QB with limited arm strength, pocket awareness, and is not a true dual threat, the offense struggles.
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I think CJ chooses to push the ball down field, in spite of what he is "supposed" to do. He'd rather leave the passing play called and wait for a receiver to get open down field, rather than audible to a running play that the defense is dictating.
That's why most of us believe CJ is the better QB. He wants to dictate to the defense what he wants to do on offense, not the other way around.
 
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