It’s not that the play shouldn’t go away, it’s just that it’s run too much, and run to often on 1st down. Well, that lead headed proposition has ended many games after the attempts to do that with the wrong personnel repeatedly failed. I suppose the logic is “if we can’t get a yard we don’t deserve to win”. At least that’s the opening bid impulse for many OC’s and Head Coaches. The urge is to put every fat guy that you have on the line, bunch the QB up under center, and hand the ball off to the running back who will power into the line that has pushed the defense back 2 yards thus netting 6. You have the ball on the 1 yard line on the left hash mark. There is a “no duh” magic about that statistic that few people recognize.
It’s better to spread out the line and run standard short pass and edge run packages to score when inside the 10, than to try to bull through the pile of humanity on the line. Josh dug up an analytics review from Geoff Schwartz at SB Nation, and what it found was really interesting. I guess it is the only way that the offense has to beat its red zone torpor don’t get stuck there. We’ve seen that with the jet sweeps where the same formation and motion was used to distract from the neatly executed tight end screen pass. Sometimes you run a play to set up a better play. Oops, that got the offensive line pushed a yard back into the backfield and pushed the quarterback into the running back which netted three or four lost and a 4th down. What goes up next? Something tight, with the QB under center, and what looked like it was supposed to be some sort of option dive and QB roll to the right. Well, that didn’t work, either, so much so that it lost a few feet. Obviously, that didn’t work, so let’s try putting the QB under center (we all heard the complaints about the shotgun trick) and running a fullback dive/gut play. It’s so easy just to get a yard or two O-Line push and wriggle into the middle to nudge things across the line. The halfback ISO into a jumbo configured line seems like it’s an appealing call so close in. I’ll just have to call them on it and they can argue their points in the comments section. At this point the homers will drop in with “you aren’t the OC”, “you don’t know”, and other deferrals/appeals to authority. It even visited the Brad Cornelsen press conference in regard to the -4 that we put up after getting the ball all the way to Notre Dame’s 2 foot line. But the secret main problem with the Notre Dame contest last Saturday just will not go away. The last one is where we’ll pick this one up we’ve jawed about the other stuff so much it is boring. The FSU season opening swoon, the Florence (which will forever be known for ECU inexcusableness), “That Game in Norfolk”, and the Notre Dame Game score loss.
The 2018 season has been seriously odd, that’s for sure.
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