Hawaii-hawk
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Hi all! I’m sure there’s probably a place to greet everyone as a first time poster but wanted to address a few concerns I had on situational play calling I noticed last night first.
Offense: 3rd downs and short, ball gets snapped, Russ drops back, gets early pressure....and has no one to dump it off to because no receiver is within 10 yards of him and has to either scramble or gets sacked. This isn’t 10+ yard gain we need, this is 2 or 3 yards on a 3rd down. At least 2 drives were killed in this way. how anyone can call for deep routes to all receivers, no check down option, and max protect when all you need is 2 yards is incredibly bad situational play calling imo.
On one of those drives Russ even connected with I think DK but was reversed due to penalty. But whether it works or doesn’t is irrelevant, a bad play call is a bad play call, Russ needs more short yardage options when short yardage is all you need.
Meanwhile 3rd down and longs. On one play we had 3rd down and 13. Lateral behind line of scrimmage with just 1 blocker. Goes for a yard and our drive is killed.
So to sum up: if it’s 3rd and short we call for deep routes and no short options and on 3rd and forever we call for laterals.
Those are drive killer play calls. Our first 3 drives, the first one ended in touchdown with zero deep balls. The next 2 drives were both 3 and out based on deep routes on 3rd down and short. This needs to be cleaned up imo. Badly
Defense: our 3 man rushes are killing me. True, we won on a 3-man rush but that was a miracle. In virtually every other time we try it it gives up huge yardage. The reason should be apparent: 5 o-linemen vs 3 defenders= 2 defenders get double teamed and that leaves you with 1 man you are counting on to not only beat his man, but do so fast enough and with position to make a play on the quarterback. ESP with a quarterback like Murray, that’s extraordinarily hard to do. With just 1 more man you increase your 1on1 matchups to 3, this triples your odds of someone getting the job done. 3man rushes in critical situations is garbage. The fact it actually worked speaks to the players effort and luck more than any scheme because the scheme is terrible imo.
Likewise our 7 man rushes are killing me. Multiple times in multiple games, almost always ending badly for us, maybe because we are bad at disguising them? Or teams are so much better at having dump off screens than we are? Last night we rushed 7 on a 3rd down i think and the receiver was wide open in the end zone. But it was a bizarre 7 because only 4 initially rushed while 3 stood in no mans land for a couple of seconds as if focused on spying Murray before deciding to rush. Too late, Murray gets the ball off and no one is within 10-15 yards of the receiver. Not good.
At the end of the day good game against a quality opponent! Am really hoping situational play calls improves though
Offense: 3rd downs and short, ball gets snapped, Russ drops back, gets early pressure....and has no one to dump it off to because no receiver is within 10 yards of him and has to either scramble or gets sacked. This isn’t 10+ yard gain we need, this is 2 or 3 yards on a 3rd down. At least 2 drives were killed in this way. how anyone can call for deep routes to all receivers, no check down option, and max protect when all you need is 2 yards is incredibly bad situational play calling imo.
On one of those drives Russ even connected with I think DK but was reversed due to penalty. But whether it works or doesn’t is irrelevant, a bad play call is a bad play call, Russ needs more short yardage options when short yardage is all you need.
Meanwhile 3rd down and longs. On one play we had 3rd down and 13. Lateral behind line of scrimmage with just 1 blocker. Goes for a yard and our drive is killed.
So to sum up: if it’s 3rd and short we call for deep routes and no short options and on 3rd and forever we call for laterals.
Those are drive killer play calls. Our first 3 drives, the first one ended in touchdown with zero deep balls. The next 2 drives were both 3 and out based on deep routes on 3rd down and short. This needs to be cleaned up imo. Badly
Defense: our 3 man rushes are killing me. True, we won on a 3-man rush but that was a miracle. In virtually every other time we try it it gives up huge yardage. The reason should be apparent: 5 o-linemen vs 3 defenders= 2 defenders get double teamed and that leaves you with 1 man you are counting on to not only beat his man, but do so fast enough and with position to make a play on the quarterback. ESP with a quarterback like Murray, that’s extraordinarily hard to do. With just 1 more man you increase your 1on1 matchups to 3, this triples your odds of someone getting the job done. 3man rushes in critical situations is garbage. The fact it actually worked speaks to the players effort and luck more than any scheme because the scheme is terrible imo.
Likewise our 7 man rushes are killing me. Multiple times in multiple games, almost always ending badly for us, maybe because we are bad at disguising them? Or teams are so much better at having dump off screens than we are? Last night we rushed 7 on a 3rd down i think and the receiver was wide open in the end zone. But it was a bizarre 7 because only 4 initially rushed while 3 stood in no mans land for a couple of seconds as if focused on spying Murray before deciding to rush. Too late, Murray gets the ball off and no one is within 10-15 yards of the receiver. Not good.
At the end of the day good game against a quality opponent! Am really hoping situational play calls improves though
