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I posted my thoughts on our first drive the other day. I have since re-watched most of the first half of our offense and here are my initial takeaways.
1. We aren't that far away from being pretty good offensively
2. I still don't know if we have a true bread and butter play offensively. It just looks like watching an NFL offense. It's a series of formations and plays that really don't compliment one another at all. It reminds me of a guy who I coached with years ago. He wanted to use every single personnel package and formation available to us in every single game. I hated it, the kids hated it. They couldn't figure out how to line up. I feel like we are trying to "trick" the other team by putting a TE position player out in the wide receiver spot and figure out if they can line up correctly. I'll show examples later.
3. The line didn't block too bad. They weren't great, but a lot of pressures came when we tried to max protect and the backs/TE's whiffed on blocks.
4. Lloyd, as talented as he is, bounces the ball way too quickly. There were a couple of runs where if he sticks it inside, he ends up better off, he was able to out run GA state defenders to the edge a couple times, but that won't be the case against SEC LB's.
The second drive of the game was short. 4 plays.
Play 1, lined up in doubles and ran a jet sweet to A. Brown. Juice Wells misses his block on the perimeter, which forces Brown to turn it up sooner, and he gets tackled by the scraping LB. If Wells makes his block, it's a big play, as we had outside leverage.
Play 2, kind of a lead power play. Lined up in doubles, with dual wing TE's. So doubles bunch. Motioned Kenion from right to left, and he was the lead blocker. He absolutely misses his block, and we get tackled for a short gain. His block was crucial. Lloyd would be one on one versus the safety with that block, because the OL worked really nice double teams and got off on backers.
Play 3, Trips right, and Ga State blitzes their RCB, off our Left. WE faked the snap and even got him to show it early. Rattler never looked over there, just staired down Stoegner, and he pushed off on a stick route. Good timing, and good throw. Both tackles were beat to death on this play. Interior linemen, picked up a nice twist stunt.
Play 4, Doubles formation, short motion from the TE lined up wide, and he runs a crossing route. Everyone else runs a go, to vacate the area. Rattler hit him in stride, but it just wasn't enough to get the yardage back.
End of drive
Drive 3 another 9 play drive, ends with a touchdown
First play is a play action pass that was open- but both Tackles and the TE whiff in protection. Rattler threw it away.
Second play was the scramble and throw to Brooks. The RT and RG picked up a twist stunt by their End and OLB. Rattler didn't need to escape the pocket, but he did and made it work.
Third play was an RPO, we ended up handing it off, which was the correct read. Line zone blocked to the right. What kills the play is both the LG and Center who are doubling the nose leave him and come off to the mike backer. The LG should've been the one to leave, as the backer scraped to him. The TE and LT block it perfectly. The Right side seems to think it's a pass play, as they didn't fire off and attack.
Fourth play is just an inside zone play, we blocked it much better this time, but Lloyd bounces it, probably because of the previous plays result. He gets good yardage, but we had it blocked fairly well inside.
Play 5 is a counter to the right. Everything gets washed down well, but the left guard who pulled absolutely whiffs on his kickout block, and the defender makes the tackle.
Play 6-doubles formation, the corner to our right blitzes, we actually passed their DL stunt off to the next guy, and the line slid the way of the blitz, but the RT was absolutely too late coming off. I'm not sure if that was Rattler's hot read or not (not usually). Sacked
Play 7- we got empty, trips left. Line picks up a twist on the right side well, he missed the wide open corner route for a TD. He throws the slant, which was covered, but did get some yardage. However, in this concept, his read should be the corner, who sat on the slant. The corner route by the Tight End in the slot was behind the corner for an easy TD.
Play 8- three tight ends to our right, single back. Just a wedge block, and the back tries to bounce it. Not much there, should've stayed inside.
Play 9 is the TD off the fake to the FB and toss out in space. The scheme was great. They got man to man, motioned, and sent both receivers across the field to create space. All Lloyd had to do was win the foot race
I posted my thoughts on our first drive the other day. I have since re-watched most of the first half of our offense and here are my initial takeaways.
1. We aren't that far away from being pretty good offensively
2. I still don't know if we have a true bread and butter play offensively. It just looks like watching an NFL offense. It's a series of formations and plays that really don't compliment one another at all. It reminds me of a guy who I coached with years ago. He wanted to use every single personnel package and formation available to us in every single game. I hated it, the kids hated it. They couldn't figure out how to line up. I feel like we are trying to "trick" the other team by putting a TE position player out in the wide receiver spot and figure out if they can line up correctly. I'll show examples later.
3. The line didn't block too bad. They weren't great, but a lot of pressures came when we tried to max protect and the backs/TE's whiffed on blocks.
4. Lloyd, as talented as he is, bounces the ball way too quickly. There were a couple of runs where if he sticks it inside, he ends up better off, he was able to out run GA state defenders to the edge a couple times, but that won't be the case against SEC LB's.
The second drive of the game was short. 4 plays.
Play 1, lined up in doubles and ran a jet sweet to A. Brown. Juice Wells misses his block on the perimeter, which forces Brown to turn it up sooner, and he gets tackled by the scraping LB. If Wells makes his block, it's a big play, as we had outside leverage.
Play 2, kind of a lead power play. Lined up in doubles, with dual wing TE's. So doubles bunch. Motioned Kenion from right to left, and he was the lead blocker. He absolutely misses his block, and we get tackled for a short gain. His block was crucial. Lloyd would be one on one versus the safety with that block, because the OL worked really nice double teams and got off on backers.
Play 3, Trips right, and Ga State blitzes their RCB, off our Left. WE faked the snap and even got him to show it early. Rattler never looked over there, just staired down Stoegner, and he pushed off on a stick route. Good timing, and good throw. Both tackles were beat to death on this play. Interior linemen, picked up a nice twist stunt.
Play 4, Doubles formation, short motion from the TE lined up wide, and he runs a crossing route. Everyone else runs a go, to vacate the area. Rattler hit him in stride, but it just wasn't enough to get the yardage back.
End of drive
Drive 3 another 9 play drive, ends with a touchdown
First play is a play action pass that was open- but both Tackles and the TE whiff in protection. Rattler threw it away.
Second play was the scramble and throw to Brooks. The RT and RG picked up a twist stunt by their End and OLB. Rattler didn't need to escape the pocket, but he did and made it work.
Third play was an RPO, we ended up handing it off, which was the correct read. Line zone blocked to the right. What kills the play is both the LG and Center who are doubling the nose leave him and come off to the mike backer. The LG should've been the one to leave, as the backer scraped to him. The TE and LT block it perfectly. The Right side seems to think it's a pass play, as they didn't fire off and attack.
Fourth play is just an inside zone play, we blocked it much better this time, but Lloyd bounces it, probably because of the previous plays result. He gets good yardage, but we had it blocked fairly well inside.
Play 5 is a counter to the right. Everything gets washed down well, but the left guard who pulled absolutely whiffs on his kickout block, and the defender makes the tackle.
Play 6-doubles formation, the corner to our right blitzes, we actually passed their DL stunt off to the next guy, and the line slid the way of the blitz, but the RT was absolutely too late coming off. I'm not sure if that was Rattler's hot read or not (not usually). Sacked
Play 7- we got empty, trips left. Line picks up a twist on the right side well, he missed the wide open corner route for a TD. He throws the slant, which was covered, but did get some yardage. However, in this concept, his read should be the corner, who sat on the slant. The corner route by the Tight End in the slot was behind the corner for an easy TD.
Play 8- three tight ends to our right, single back. Just a wedge block, and the back tries to bounce it. Not much there, should've stayed inside.
Play 9 is the TD off the fake to the FB and toss out in space. The scheme was great. They got man to man, motioned, and sent both receivers across the field to create space. All Lloyd had to do was win the foot race
