A Few Things Bothering me about the O

[AlaskaSU]

It seems to me as if there are absolutely zero pre-snap reads taking place from our QB or our O-line. It was obvious to everyone in the Dome when Clemson would be sending rushers right up the gut, and yet we never had a quick slant across the middle or curl in there. Tommy would immediately panic and either tuck it in or heave it 10 yards out of bounds. Doesn't excuse the extremely poor play of the O-line but goodness, make some kind of adjustment and try to force Clemson to back off a bit.

Our playbook is written on the back of a postage stamp.

 

[IthacaMatt]

imagine we just did something positive on plays inside the 10 and score those 3 TDs are a leading mid 3rd..

The first half when it wasnt a melt down by the oline we had a TD dropped and at least 3 other plays for TD where the ball was thrown some other direction. We had guys open all over the first half.

the 2nd half the oline was awful. they either got run over, missed the block or just blew the assignment,

Servais doesn't have any feel in the middle of the line. What Venables did so many times was make the pre-snap motion on defense make it seem like the rush was coming from one side, but because of the empty backfield, he also had numbers on the "weak" side, and almost every time, the blitz came (1) up the middle, but from the weak side LB or Safety, or (2) just from the weakside end. Move him back to protecting the QB's blind side, and honestly, it couldn't any worse. I always thought it was easier to run block than to pass block. Put a young guy in at center.

 

[care taker]

I think people need to go back and measure the time Tommy had to make a see the field and make a decision..in real time, not replays. Then consider areas where his throwing lanes were blocked, or the first guy covered. I know of no offense or quarterback that can find receivers in under 2 secs. That is the time he had to catch the snap, see the defense, find his guys, and then set and throw with guys barreling down on him. Trevor Lawrence would have been destroyed, as well. I can never remember seeing a line of scrimmage being blown up so badly with guys frequently running untouched to the QB. And extremely large and fast guys, too.

People that say we just need some misdirection or short passes are deluded. When Tommy had just a bit of time, they worked. That rarely was the case. Clemson had more guys in the SU backfield than SU did...all night. The line is the biggest priority, IMO, and they need to do something, now.

Clemson muscled our WRs negating short reads , tommy can throw big boy outs all day long but we couldn’t run those. yet sunshine lives on those and the 50/50 balls
Early in game we tipped one of his balls was going to be a pick .off topic but don’t know if you guys saw that

 

[kcsu]

Clemson muscled our WRs negating short reads , tommy can throw big boy outs all day long but we couldn’t run those. yet sunshine lives on those and the 50/50 balls
Early in game we tipped one of his balls was going to be a pick .off topic but don’t know if you guys saw that

I wanted us to go empty. 5 wr sets very quick reads. One other thing with Clemson living off bring pressure up the gut why not design some roll outs? The lack of ingenuity, the total predictive patterns of our play calling was a major problem. This staff seems to have a difficult time with realtime adjustments. It isn't their strong suit.

 

[P Vasiloff]

Yes there are plays you run to beat pressure. Clemson did it to us! The day Chance walked out was a bad day.

Chance Aime has played in one game out of four they have played at Blinn College. He is 2-8 passing for 20 yards with a pick. He does have 95 yards rushing. Yesterday Blinn College defeated mighty Rezolution Prep Academy 72-7 and Aime did not play. Please explain to me how he is the lost savior of Syracuse University Football?

 

[Trueblue25]

Clemson muscled our WRs negating short reads , tommy can throw big boy outs all day long but we couldn’t run those. yet sunshine lives on those and the 50/50 balls
Early in game we tipped one of his balls was going to be a pick .off topic but don’t know if you guys saw that

I know you can’t speak to this directly, but is there anything you can say about how the backup WR’s look in comparison? Queeley, Cam, Sharod, Cooper and even RTB?

 

[shu 49]

Is Nykeim Johnson still on the team? I haven't seen him do anything so far this season. If you say he is still hurt, then he should not be playing. Use Lutz. The wide receivers on this team are not good. Even Jackson last night dropped a perfect pass for a touchdown. Lucky for him it would have been called back anyway. Harris can't catch anything in traffic and had a bad case of alligator arms on the first drive which would have been an important first down. Riley does have one thing down perfect, the art of the fair catch. This goes back to recruiting. Other than Jackson who has produced this year, if these are your best receivers and the guys on the bench can't get a whiff of the field, what are you recruiting? Where is Queeley, where is Courtney Jackson? Time to start giving some guys some playing time and see if they can shake it up. Hey Coach Lynch, how about incorporating the tight end into the offense. Benson had two catches last night and has a lot of speed. You are going to blow his red shirt year by playing him. Why do that to the young man if you aren't going to use his speed. I have been a big rah rah supporter of this staff. Last night it reminded me of Greg Robinson's offense. Not Good!!

It reminds me how we run zone read without the read or the chance our qb takes off.

 

[shu 49]

The mentioning of Erv really stings; I would kill for Erv, Steve, or Amba on this team right now. Thought Sean would be doing an Erv impersonation this year, but I would not mind seeing Moe move to the slot permanently, and roll with Abdul and Jarveon at rb... Also, think need to play Jordan and Jackson more than the 4 games this year...

Nykeim could be erv but we decided to not call them routes. why I don’t know.

 

[care taker]

I know you can’t speak to this directly, but is there anything you can say about how the backup WR’s look in comparison? Queeley, Cam, Sharod, Cooper and even RTB?

I’m interested in Luke Benson he put on a show at our scrimmage and got In last night and had a few catches. Im sure we put our best out there I really don’t know the gap ..
Except for the O line I don’t think there is urgency to make changes if we stumble Saturday than panic and change will happen

 

[shu 49]

I wanted us to go empty. 5 wr sets very quick reads. One other thing with Clemson living off bring pressure up the gut why not design some roll outs? The lack of ingenuity, the total predictive patterns of our play calling was a major problem. This staff seems to have a difficult time with realtime adjustments. It isn't their strong suit.

U ain’t kidding

 

[IthacaMatt]

It seems to me as if there are absolutely zero pre-snap reads taking place from our QB or our O-line. It was obvious to everyone in the Dome when Clemson would be sending rushers right up the gut, and yet we never had a quick slant across the middle or curl in there. Tommy would immediately panic and either tuck it in or heave it 10 yards out of bounds. Doesn't excuse the extremely poor play of the O-line but goodness, make some kind of adjustment and try to force Clemson to back off a bit.

Servais seemed to have a special knack for going the wrong way on many of those late blitzes up the middle.

 

[rmtsu]

beyond the WR's I'd like us to build in more swing passes and dump offs to Neal and Adams, they are good in open space and would like to see defenses have to start thinking about them more, might keep LB's occupied more often. But those 2 have good hands and get YACs. Would help to take some of the heat off the QB.

The WR's don't come back for the ball when Tommy has to scramble, they could really help, Tommy has enough mobility to escape many times but you can see the WR's either give up or don't come back. This should be a focus in practice given out OL woes. Don't know if it is addressed or worked on in practice but should be. Other thing is we don't collectively do a good job of identifying where the pressure is coming from (blitzes) and throw at the side the pressure is coming from if from the outside. Based on what we see from the stands if we can get QB and WR's on the same page to run a hot route and find it this would also be huge to counter the pressure. Part of the problem is that many times the pressure is up the middle since opposing defenses know we run straight up the middle 99% of the time, very frustrating on that account also.
Hopefully we grow and learn (coaches and players), WMU won't be an easy game but a chance to right a few things and then HC to help also before we hit and important conference stretch which will define this season.