As sick as I was Thursday night about our performance, I saw a LOT of good things. This can be a very good to a great football team depending on how the coaching staff handles this from here on. I hope Thursday night was considered a practice game and not a predictor of things to come.
Here is my point. We only ran 67 plays. Not acceptable. 35 of them were running plays, 32 were passing plays. REALLY NOT ACCEPTABLE! I think most fans but more importantly, our coaches, would say that WR is our deepest and most talented position. I also believe our coaches would say that our throwing QB is our second most talented position on our team. Pass protection(at least from first game perspective) is next. RB would be 4th and run blocking would be 5th.
OK now, looking at the stats, Rudolph averaged 8.31 per attempt and averaged a 68% completion.rate. He is hitting 2 of every 3 passes. WE NEED TO BE A PASS FIRST TEAM!
Basically, we need to be a pass first team. PLAY TO YOUR STRENGTH'S, COACH. We need to pass to set up the run. We need to let our OL do what they do best. Let our QB do what he does best. Let our best position group touch the ball the most times. Furthermore, this would benefit the RB's. The running lanes would then get bigger as teams spread out to stop the pass.
Not only that, but Central Mich strength of their defense was their DL. So we ran our weakness against their strength. Tell me how smart that was unless it was on purpose. If our coaches wanted it to be a tight game or if they wanted to practice run blocking to instill toughness, the OK. Otherwise, let's pass the damn ball, coach.
Here is my point. We only ran 67 plays. Not acceptable. 35 of them were running plays, 32 were passing plays. REALLY NOT ACCEPTABLE! I think most fans but more importantly, our coaches, would say that WR is our deepest and most talented position. I also believe our coaches would say that our throwing QB is our second most talented position on our team. Pass protection(at least from first game perspective) is next. RB would be 4th and run blocking would be 5th.
OK now, looking at the stats, Rudolph averaged 8.31 per attempt and averaged a 68% completion.rate. He is hitting 2 of every 3 passes. WE NEED TO BE A PASS FIRST TEAM!
Basically, we need to be a pass first team. PLAY TO YOUR STRENGTH'S, COACH. We need to pass to set up the run. We need to let our OL do what they do best. Let our QB do what he does best. Let our best position group touch the ball the most times. Furthermore, this would benefit the RB's. The running lanes would then get bigger as teams spread out to stop the pass.
Not only that, but Central Mich strength of their defense was their DL. So we ran our weakness against their strength. Tell me how smart that was unless it was on purpose. If our coaches wanted it to be a tight game or if they wanted to practice run blocking to instill toughness, the OK. Otherwise, let's pass the damn ball, coach.
