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[QUOTE="qdawgg, post: 1163420, member: 52"]
Or he talked about what he wanted to do but didn't really know how to effectively implement it or game plan for it based on what teams we were playing.  It's easy to make a blanket statement about what you want to do, a ton of teams would love to run an offense like Oregon but not very many people can implement it successfully.  And really that is the most important part.

I'm not sure he ever really deviated from his plan.  From the start his idea of stretching the field was to throw the screen pass.  We had a couple games where we threw a deep ball on the first (or second) play of the game and then never returned to that same play.  We would run the ball successfully and then switch to a different play before the defense had even committed to stopping the run.

You can force defenses to do what you want if you are really talented on offense but when you're not, in some ways you need to run the plays that are working and force the defense to adjust before modifying the offensive play calls.  I think this is one area that GM was not successful with
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