Jalen Hurts.
At Bama he is a game manager. Running an offense based upon power run game and designed QBs draws with some downfield passing mixed in. Jalen couldn’t hit the ocean with a pass for 3 years there.
Enter Lincoln Riley. Numbers are off the charts. Throwing the ball to wide open receivers, running wild, scoring a ton of points and blowing people away.
The rules of modern college football are heavily skewed toward the offense. Linemen are at times 5+ yards downfield field run blocking on RPOs, making keys for linebackers almost non existent. Defensive backs can’t touch wide receivers without getting a PI and when they tackle if they hit too hard they get thrown out of the game. Offensive design and play calling are the single most important characteristics of a football team in today’s college football, assuming a reasonable level of talent.
Now ask yourself if what we see offensively from Miami is what will win us the most football games and attract the best offensive talent. I don’t think Riley will have trouble recruiting offensive players anytime soon. Is 12 and 13 personnel groupings against non fbs schools with a run-centric offense who we want to be?
I love finally seeing some jet sweep and motion and shifts, and I love Jarren’s ability to throw the short and intermediate routes.
I hate the red zone offense- need to throw the fade when receivers are isolated and not to a smurf, that is when you use a physical receiver like Hightower. I hate the 3rd down conversion percentage. Teams bring pressure Jarren checks down and we punt. I want more out of the gun. I want to see them spread out the defense with 4 and at times 5 wide.
The kicker that kind of sums up my frustration is what I call players being High School open. In High School games defenses get confused there is a coverage breakdown and receivers often just run out with no one picking them up. I watch a lot of CFB and I regularly see players high school open. I never see it in a canes game. Guys get open by running a great route or just being faster than the corners, but we don’t cause communication and coverage breakdowns the way seemingly the rest of the college football world does.
At Bama he is a game manager. Running an offense based upon power run game and designed QBs draws with some downfield passing mixed in. Jalen couldn’t hit the ocean with a pass for 3 years there.
Enter Lincoln Riley. Numbers are off the charts. Throwing the ball to wide open receivers, running wild, scoring a ton of points and blowing people away.
The rules of modern college football are heavily skewed toward the offense. Linemen are at times 5+ yards downfield field run blocking on RPOs, making keys for linebackers almost non existent. Defensive backs can’t touch wide receivers without getting a PI and when they tackle if they hit too hard they get thrown out of the game. Offensive design and play calling are the single most important characteristics of a football team in today’s college football, assuming a reasonable level of talent.
Now ask yourself if what we see offensively from Miami is what will win us the most football games and attract the best offensive talent. I don’t think Riley will have trouble recruiting offensive players anytime soon. Is 12 and 13 personnel groupings against non fbs schools with a run-centric offense who we want to be?
I love finally seeing some jet sweep and motion and shifts, and I love Jarren’s ability to throw the short and intermediate routes.
I hate the red zone offense- need to throw the fade when receivers are isolated and not to a smurf, that is when you use a physical receiver like Hightower. I hate the 3rd down conversion percentage. Teams bring pressure Jarren checks down and we punt. I want more out of the gun. I want to see them spread out the defense with 4 and at times 5 wide.
The kicker that kind of sums up my frustration is what I call players being High School open. In High School games defenses get confused there is a coverage breakdown and receivers often just run out with no one picking them up. I watch a lot of CFB and I regularly see players high school open. I never see it in a canes game. Guys get open by running a great route or just being faster than the corners, but we don’t cause communication and coverage breakdowns the way seemingly the rest of the college football world does.
