I'm going to say it now since we won...

[TravelingPanther]

Re: I'm going to say it now since we won...

I could not disagree more. Our play calling was fine. It was freaking Drake. We knew going in we were going to walk all over them no matter what, so we may as well keep the play calling vanilla.

The play calling last week at ISU, for instance, was perfection. It was a perfect mix of power, speed, running, throwing, etc. And more importantly is was super aggressive.

You can be vanilla without trying to run the way we did.

[TravelingPanther]

Re: I'm going to say it now since we won...

This not showing film thing has nothing to do with it. If that was the case we still have every play we ran against ISU to run.

On top of that, I'm talking more scheme than individual plays. If Drake has 8-9 guys in the box and is bringing blitzes non-stop, it's ridiculous to continue to try and establish the run game when we don't need to. Had we continually beat them with the passing game it would have made them play more honest defense, in which case the run game would have been dominant.

[UNIDebo]

Re: I'm going to say it now since we won...

I wish big man X got that interception. Would of be interesting seeing what the Drake qb would try to stop a 300+ lbs nose tackle

[arealcat]

Re: I'm going to say it now since we won...

We weren't trying to continually establish the run game. There is less risk in running the ball, and it's easier to control the clock without the risk of incomplete passes. Against Drake, there is no reason to throw the ball all over the place and run up the score. Get an easy win and go home.

[TravelingPanther]

Re: I'm going to say it now since we won...

We weren't trying to continually establish the run game. There is less risk in running the ball, and it's easier to control the clock without the risk of incomplete passes. Against Drake, there is no reason to throw the ball all over the place and run up the score. Get an easy win and go home.

In the first quarter we were clearly trying to establish the run against a stacked defense. Remember when we kept punting because we couldn't run for a first down?

[TravelingPanther]

Re: I'm going to say it now since we won...

I'm talking about first half offense and second half defense. Play calling in both sucked.