I like to load the box,,,

With the success of our running game; we will see loaded boxes coming up! DC's will likely say; "make the freshman beat us by throwing it"! But, will stack the box.
I believe Elliott and Scott based a large part of what they do on Chad Morris's offense. In his vision of offensive football a team has to ensure they "make the defense wrong"! It's all based on numbers in the box or not.
Art Briles and Chip Kelly concept of "using the entire field and stretching the field" would work great for us i.m.o. You wouldn't just be able to stack the box b/c we take at least 8 go routes per game where we try "whoever on that particular play" that has the one on one. It scares DC's to death the vision of a bomb for a TD. They won't be able to play their safeties in the box and in fact, may have to play them deep. That opens up the running lanes more and the underneath passes Renfrow is so great at. Him and "hopefully a TE who can step up"!

What do you all think?

***Anything but 8 bubble screens a game***

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Re: 8 Vertical Shots Per Game Minimum!

Oct 8, 2018, 6:42 PM

I find it interesting that you cite Chad Morris offensive philosophy about making sure the defense is wrong in your critique of our prevalence of screen passes. Those are not specifically called screen passes. Instead, they are RPO's where the QB is responsible for making the best decision based upon how the defense is playing. The reason that we had so many, especially early in the game, was specifically because Lawrence is making the decision based on which play the defense is the least likely to be able to cover based on the way they are lined up.

I grow weary of screens when we use so many, but if you look at the way the defenders were playing, they were typically the smart play. Also, it's valid to look at each play in a vacuum as opposed to analyzing the playcalling of the whole game. Even though the early screens weren't as productive as we would have liked, they did serve the function of getting the secondary to play closer to the WR's, which directly led to the downfield passes opening up.

Also, I don't think it's entirely fair to judge a play call based on it's success in cases where a missed block or other missed assignment cause the play not to succeed. Regardless of how brilliant and perfectly timed a play call is, a missed block will usually prevent the play from being successful.