Grubb needs to not believe he's the smartest man in the world. His offense looks straight out of college with the hurry up and the players looking back at the sidelines for every call, and with what seems to be 90% of the plays coming out of shotgun.
I know he can be creative and tricky, but everything is very forced or vanilla, but then again how much is that because the Oline can't do anything?
Regardless, Oline needs the improvement first and hopefully the rest follows.
Agree. But im not buying that the oline cant play better as currently constituted.if you have ever listened to Mark Schlereth opine on the struggles of an O line, he often cites the need to run the ball and do so creatively to help a line playe well. It might seem counter intuitive, but the key to running better behind a line that isnt blocking well is running more, not less, and integrating plays that force the drfense to defennd the entire LOS from sideline to sideline. Have we done that? I havent seen it.
If defenses are attacking us inside, then why arent we running away from that area? If they sre collapsing the right side, then why dont we run left? And why are our run plays seemingly ALWAYS fairly basic designs?
If they are keying on singleback formations out of the shotgun, then why dont we run i formation or more split back sets? If we are losing at the line, why dont we integrate the fullback more?
Why nit run split back sets with Charbs and K9 and force the D to guess whether the run is going left or right, or up the middle? Or out of splits, use charns to block for K9?
Point is, we have done nothing to help the run game. So between that fact and the constant procedural penalties, holding calls, inelligible downfields, etc... to me, thats coaching.
And much of that coaching has to do with Huff not adapting his scheme to his players and rather, trying to force his college approach on this team. Whether he is being FORCED to do that because he's again working with Grubb who himself is trying to force his college approach... I dont know , but it would be easy to assume the two are a package deal. Thats to say as long as Grubb is calling the plays, Huff will be running the line scheme the way Grubb wants it run. As i understand it, Grubbs approach is based on actually enducing pressure in an effort to gain an advantage in coverage. Maybe that worked in college, but in the NFL? We all saw what happened when Grubbs offense had to go toe to toe with a team who's coach knew how to call an NFL styled defense.
If you want to the line to play better, fix Grubbs approach and that in turn might help Huff actually craft a scheme that works WITH the players he has rather than against them.
