Reply to thread

Message

[QUOTE="HRE Otto IV, post: 4012657, member: 5685"]
The drive I have the biggest issue with is the 1st drive. The other drives aren't that bad. Although I would argue that a 2nd and 9 is still a running down for us given our talent.

Trying to loosen up the D will not ever happen with our QB, WRs, and OL. So IMO that IS the wrong thing to do. We cannot execute. I guess I have no faith in our pass game, while you have some faith. What you are saying makes sense if you think we can do better than 50% passing.

1st Drive
We give Tucker the ball on 1st down and lose yardage. I don't expect him to get it the next 2 plays. We gain the first down. Next set of downs we could have given him the ball on 1st down. 2nd down was a run, but was that designed or a scramble? 3rd down I don't expect a Tucker run. Next first down is a sack, so I don't expect Tucker to get it after that. So out of 3 first downs Tucker got it once. On the only 2nd down he could have ran, he did not get the ball. So that is 1 out of 4 possible plays we gave it to Tucker. That isn't enough.

Also my issue was pre down 10 points.

1st downs we gave it to Tucker 4 out of 7 times and only 3 were runs. I don't think we should hand it off to Tucker every 1st down but certainly over 50% of the time. And the combo of Shrader runs (where were they too?) and Tucker runs should be close to 2/3 of the time. That is the situation we unfortunately are in. Calling four 1st down passes out of seven plays isn't a recipe for success with this team.

There is no reason what so ever in a close low scoring game we should call 40+ pass plays with only 22 Tucker runs and <5 Shrader runs. We should play to our strengths.
[/QUOTE]

Verification

What is a Syracuse fan's favorite color?