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Message: [QUOTE="sufandu, post: 380391, member: 874"] That's fine, but you try and give yourself as many opportunities as possible. If your best playmaker is on the bench, you're short changing the team and not just in the redzone. If he's on the field more, maybe we have a chance at some of those big plays that Marrone said we needed at the beginning of the season. If we get those, we don't have to worry about bogging down inside the 20. And why are we only handing the ball off to Broyld. We need to create ways to get him the ball in space where he works best. Or why not use his quarterback ability. We could split him out and throw him a backward pass where he has the option to throw to Clark running a go route, Nassib sneaking around the opposite side with noone paying attention, or running it if nothing else is open. My criticism isn't just with not using Broyld. About a week ago someone else mentioned the end arounds (they're not end arounds necessarily but the effect is the same) they run to Sales or Lemon. Why are we running those with our slow guys? I know Kobena is hurt but use Clark in that way. Why not go empty backfield when PTG is in the game to give the D a different look. Or we could have Smith and Gulley in at the same time. Split PTG out, fake a dive with Smith, and flip the ball to PTG coming around end (WVU runs this type of play with it's small quick shifty guys a lot). You could run the same type of thing with a zone read. It would be almost triple optionesque but out of the spread. Or maybe instead of Smith you could use AAM. If we spread a team out and force them to put a bunch of DB's on the field, who wants to get in AAM's way with a head of steam. Finally, why do we need an off week to come up with something new like the 'tank' formation. That is something that shouldn't be that hard to come up with, especially since other teams have done things like this for a few years, see Stanford and San Francisco in the NFL. My point is, there are things the coaching staff could do to maximize personnel that they're not doing, and it doesn't involve a whole new scheme. The things I've mentioned are tweaks that I've seen other teams do. I'm certainly not smart enough to have come up with any of it on my own, so it shouldn't be that hard for our coaches to work it in. P.S. You failed to acknowledge any of the other points I made in my post regarding coaching. [/QUOTE]

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