SpiderRico
Well-Known Member
...which is another reason this whole GD experiment is a complete disaster. He mentioned (on KXNO) that one of the things in KFs press conference on Tuesday that was pretty telling to him was when KF talked about a specific time in the ISU game where JR held the ball too long on a pass play because the receiver didn't go to the area that JR thought he was going to be. That, to me, is the whole freaking problem with this BS offense. I can't understand, for the life of me, why you would have an offense that asks college receivers AND college QBs at Iowa (most of which won't sniff the NFL), to BOTH read the defense and have the route be dictated by what the defense is doing. So instead of designing plays and schemes to attack different defenses...essentially putting the onus on the OC to design and call the right plays, you call a play that has multiple route options and then sit back and depend on 18-22 amateurs to read the defense and have both the QB AND the receiver on the same page. Talk about a recipe for disaster...which is exactly what we've seen in the last 3 years.
It would seem a lot more productive, to me anyway, to have receivers use their natural speed and athletic ability to run pre-designed routes so they don't have to think about what they are doing and just have the QB responsible for reading the defense and reading specific keys (i.e. safety dropping or cheating, corners in press coverage or zone, linebackers blitzing, etc) and then choose the route on that particular play that should be open.
In fact, our strategy in our pass offense is the exact antithesis of our defensive philosophy. Norm (and now Phil) have always talked about using primarily a simple, base defense so that the players don't have to think....they can just play. A thinking athlete is a slower, less reactive athlete.
Now that I've heard some of this and applying that to what I'm seeing on the field.....I think that is 95% of the issue. Look at all of the times that JR has hesitated in the pocket instead of just letting it go....I guarantee you its because he expected, for example, the receiver to "sit", but he kept going (or vice versa).
Bottom line....this offense just blows!
It would seem a lot more productive, to me anyway, to have receivers use their natural speed and athletic ability to run pre-designed routes so they don't have to think about what they are doing and just have the QB responsible for reading the defense and reading specific keys (i.e. safety dropping or cheating, corners in press coverage or zone, linebackers blitzing, etc) and then choose the route on that particular play that should be open.
In fact, our strategy in our pass offense is the exact antithesis of our defensive philosophy. Norm (and now Phil) have always talked about using primarily a simple, base defense so that the players don't have to think....they can just play. A thinking athlete is a slower, less reactive athlete.
Now that I've heard some of this and applying that to what I'm seeing on the field.....I think that is 95% of the issue. Look at all of the times that JR has hesitated in the pocket instead of just letting it go....I guarantee you its because he expected, for example, the receiver to "sit", but he kept going (or vice versa).
Bottom line....this offense just blows!
