If you want anyone to show up, gotta make the change

[Dcuse]

Don't pretend to speak for me. I'm using my tix and I will feast on the crow you will be serving when the offense performs with Rickie at QB.
I really don't like how quickly so many of you turn against people after two losses. You all must have been amazing 20 year olds.

Do yourself a favor... put him on ignore. His next positive post will be his 1st.

 

[Scooch]

Don't pretend to speak for me. I'm using my tix and I will feast on the crow you will be serving when the offense performs with Rickie at QB.
I really don't like how quickly so many of you turn against people after two losses. You all must have been amazing 20 year olds.

It’s sports. No one is wishing for Collins to have a miserable life. He seems like a nice guy. However, he’s been lousy at QB and that’s what we’re discussing here.

It’s not about “turning against” someone. What does that even mean?

No one owes Rickie Collins an endless supply of support. He’s a football player on the team we follow. If he plays poorly the expectation is that he’ll be replaced by someone we hope will play better. Like everyone at every position. If our punter shanked 5 punts in 2 games who would be admonishing those who wanted him replaced?

I imagine everyone here hopes Collins plays a masterful game against Pitt if he’s kept as the starter. I doubt anyone is actively rooting against him.

 

[djorange1989]

We can’t afford a loss against Pitt if we want to go to a bowl. Obviously Carney is a complete mystery but everyone knows, including his own teammates, that Collins basically guarantees us a loss against Pitt. It is frustrating, how many times under Babers did horrible backup play kill us? Here we are again. Gotta have a viable backup to Angeli next year but for now, gotta salvage this season. Maybe Carney salvages nothing but freaking try

 

[baggerbob]

We can’t afford a loss against Pitt if we want to go to a bowl. Obviously Carney is a complete mystery but everyone knows, including his own teammates, that Collins basically guarantees us a loss against Pitt. It is frustrating, how many times under Babers did horrible backup play kill us? Here we are again. Gotta have a viable backup to Angeli next year but for now, gotta salvage this season. Maybe Carney salvages nothing but freaking try

Regardless Steve might not be able to play at the beginning of next year, and Rickie hasn't shown the ability to run the offense.
You need to find out soon whether anyone on
the current roster can.

 

[HRE Otto IV]

Really? When do you want to run it...on 3rd and 6? Or do you think we don't run it on fist down enough?

In regards to your comment after first down incompletions, with McCord there was not that many incompletions on first down. This season there has been more incompletions if they pass on first. But I would guess there has been a much higher percentage of plays than you think, where we may have gotten an incomplete on first and then passed again on second down as Nixon knows he has to after that.

The issues is we are not good at rushing and don't get many yards when we do it. Which means you can run on first down. You can run on second if you got 4 or more yards on first, which is not all that often when running the ball. On 3rd down we can run if we have 3 or less to go, and you still may have to go for it on 4th. You can throw a very occasional exception in there but that is about it. And you can't always run in those situations as that is too predictable. And then you get people saying Willis needs to get more carries. I don't think we should be running the ball that often if not efficient. But if you say he needs to get a higher percentage of the share than he is getting in comparison to the share Nixon is getting, i would say i agree a little bit. But Nixon is a bit better option in situations where its not a likely run, which is a large percentage of the plays, as we are not an efficient offense right now.

Our OL is big but not athletic, in general. There is no explosion happening. If you take Willis's numbers and subtract out his single longest run from each game, he is averaging 3.08 per carry. Even Rickie is averaging 6.3 yds/attempt passing. You can't sustain drives when rushing 3.08 yds per typical run. Hence why Nixon is passing it more often. Now i agree we could probably scheme the run game a little bit better, but from what I see, the OL is more of the problem.

IMO we haven't run the ball well since Marrone's OL recruits left. That said I do not think it is all talent. Some of it IMO is system.

Our highest YPC RB's the last 10 years:

2025 Willis 4.32 26th ACC (only RBs) / not Top 100 Nationally (includes QBs)
2024 Allen 4.43 21st / not Top 100
2023 Allen 4.18 26th / not Top 100
2022 Tucker 4.52 13th / not Top 100
2021 Tucker 5.85 5th / 63rd
2020 Lutz 5.72 8th / 80th
2019 Neal 5.09 13th / not Top 100
2018 Neal 5.47 12th / not Top 100
2017 Neal 5.54 6th / 90th (tied)
2016 Neal 4.90 16th / not Top 100


Really we ran the bal the best with Gilbert. Early Dino era was decent. The last 4 years have been crap.