Bill Superman said:
Off_The_Wood said:
Was the other thread on this just deleted?
Regardless, I'm not in love with these offense hires. And I'm a staunch Elko defender. It would be one thing if our offense has been elite and the strategy was to retain that identity. But I was really hoping for an infusion of new philosophies/perspectives.
The offense was elite until Klein threw in the towel for kstate. The identity is there, it was the playcalling by Klein in crucial moments and not plying to Reed's strengths that was our downfall.
There's plenty to be upset with re: Klein and the O because of the last 2 games but I noticed something as the season progressed.
Earlier in the year, it seems the playcalling was LOTS more unpredictable. By the end of the season I felt like our playbook was down to around 20 different plays. It's almost like whatever didn't work early was trashed. It doesn't take a genius level DC to figure that out. That Xs and Os problem compounded our Jimmy and Joes problem Elko mentioned several times over the season....our schemes on both sides of the ball were mostly on point but our failures game when plays broke down or -one- guy on D made the wrong read. Hell broke loose when our physical talent wasn't enough to overcome mental mistakes.
No idea if I'm right, just a hunch...but it looked to me that by the texas and miami games...I could almost predict the exact play just by looking at the set and motion/lack of. Marcel is a perfectly adequate QB to run our offense when a) he's 100% healthy, b)he's got the time to read through progressions and c) given a wider range of plays. By the end of the season when we played really good defensive teams...he maybe had time for a primary read and then either run or check down route. Dinged up Marcel doesn't want to run as much and it seems like our check down route vs texas and miami was always a receiver standing 2 yards behind the LOS picking his nose.
I am hoping against all hope that Wiggins calls a more innovative game. Klein was conservative 95% of the time (which was fine! And it mostly worked!) and WTF the other 5%. I think it would be a terrible idea to change schemes and nomenclatures at this point...Wiggins has all of that knowledge in his head since he's been coaching it for the last 2 seasons. Maybe we'll mix in some simple wheel or angle routes as check downs. Let him cook up the playbook and make the calls and let's see what happens. If that doesn't work out next year, then we'll fire everyone.
