- Joined:
- Aug 20, 2012
- Posts:
- 16,036
- Liked Posts:
- 14,785
Ok, so I got home from work and watched my recording of the game (just finished it). Just a few things that I'm sure have been discussed, but am several hours late for:
Can they bench Glennon now? I don't see how Trub could possibly have a worse day than that. Did that game seriously end with only a single catch by a WR (as many as their DBs)? That kind of reminds me of the Eagles, or whomever the fuck it was, a few years ago spending an entire season + without a WR touchdown. And if we're measuring by the traditional CCS stat of "almost picks," there should have been 3x the number of completions to the opposing team than to our WRs. It's as though Glennon is just faking going through his reads in order to check it down anyways.
How is it that they didn't pull Howard? Yes, he won the game and had a pair of great runs on that OT drive; but how did the coaching staff miss him shying away from contact, refusing to turn up-field, and generally looking lame (in the literal sense) for the most part of the last 20 minutes or so of that game? Dude is tough as fuck, and he put it together at the end, but he was turning into a liability that they refused to address.
Can they bench Glennon now? Let Barth play QB if you don't want to put in Trub -- he couldn't be much worse at QB as he is at fieldgoals. And I've been all for letting Trub sit and learn the playbook until he has it down, but this constant checkdown bullshit is just sad.
Refs...fucking...fucking...refs... Holy shitballs, there exist not the sufficient epithets to expound on the utter lack of anything resembling a cogent understanding of how to officiate a football game when describing what I just watched. Cohen's foot, Howard's knee, whatever the hell that was at halftime...
Seriously, Cooper? Seriously?
And while there were some good to point to (D front stopping the run, DBs stepping up from time to time, etc.), I'd like to point to the fact that it looks like the OC and team have figured out that the "misdirection" run may be their go-to play moving forward. Not to be confused with a counter, as a counter run is essentially a back-side power run: front-side G pulling against the grain to block out the "back-side" DE or OLB who thinks he's playing contain while the rest of the line blocks out to the front side. The "misdirection" is run almost exactly like all of their outside-zone schemes with the back-side OT or TE just riding his guy down the line rather than the opposite side OG pulling back to make that block. The HB makes a hop-step to the false "front-side" to take the handoff and then cuts it back even before reading the blocks. The primary difference between this play and the other zone runs is that in most zone schemes the back-side DE/OLB is left unblocked, while in this it's a designed cutback run where that defender is accounted for. It's the run that should have been that Cohen TD, as well as the last two Howard runs. Pump that well until it dries up, or teams account for it -- making their usual zone runs even more efficient.
Can they bench Glennon now? I don't see how Trub could possibly have a worse day than that. Did that game seriously end with only a single catch by a WR (as many as their DBs)? That kind of reminds me of the Eagles, or whomever the fuck it was, a few years ago spending an entire season + without a WR touchdown. And if we're measuring by the traditional CCS stat of "almost picks," there should have been 3x the number of completions to the opposing team than to our WRs. It's as though Glennon is just faking going through his reads in order to check it down anyways.
How is it that they didn't pull Howard? Yes, he won the game and had a pair of great runs on that OT drive; but how did the coaching staff miss him shying away from contact, refusing to turn up-field, and generally looking lame (in the literal sense) for the most part of the last 20 minutes or so of that game? Dude is tough as fuck, and he put it together at the end, but he was turning into a liability that they refused to address.
Can they bench Glennon now? Let Barth play QB if you don't want to put in Trub -- he couldn't be much worse at QB as he is at fieldgoals. And I've been all for letting Trub sit and learn the playbook until he has it down, but this constant checkdown bullshit is just sad.
Refs...fucking...fucking...refs... Holy shitballs, there exist not the sufficient epithets to expound on the utter lack of anything resembling a cogent understanding of how to officiate a football game when describing what I just watched. Cohen's foot, Howard's knee, whatever the hell that was at halftime...
Seriously, Cooper? Seriously?
And while there were some good to point to (D front stopping the run, DBs stepping up from time to time, etc.), I'd like to point to the fact that it looks like the OC and team have figured out that the "misdirection" run may be their go-to play moving forward. Not to be confused with a counter, as a counter run is essentially a back-side power run: front-side G pulling against the grain to block out the "back-side" DE or OLB who thinks he's playing contain while the rest of the line blocks out to the front side. The "misdirection" is run almost exactly like all of their outside-zone schemes with the back-side OT or TE just riding his guy down the line rather than the opposite side OG pulling back to make that block. The HB makes a hop-step to the false "front-side" to take the handoff and then cuts it back even before reading the blocks. The primary difference between this play and the other zone runs is that in most zone schemes the back-side DE/OLB is left unblocked, while in this it's a designed cutback run where that defender is accounted for. It's the run that should have been that Cohen TD, as well as the last two Howard runs. Pump that well until it dries up, or teams account for it -- making their usual zone runs even more efficient.
