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Message: [QUOTE="RF2044, post: 47524, member: 40"] I have no idea how you came up with that interpretation based upon what I wrote. What I'm saying is that the coaching staff are calling a limited subset of plays that they believe the offense can execute [i.e., "doing what they have to do"], because our OL is a sieve. Teams are cheating defensively against us because they [correctly] gamble against us being unable to burn them with deep passes when they bring the kitchen sink. If our pass protection were better, we'd be able to make teams pay for overplaying the run / overcommiting on blitzes. But it isn't, so we aren't able to exploit it. Secondly, last year and this year need to be discussed separately. Last year, we had a bruising back who could make positive yardage despite being hit consistently at the LOS. We also had a better defense. So playing ball control to shorten the game made sense. We don't win games against WVU and South Florida otherwise. Ugly, sure. Frustrating, sure. But I don't see how it can be argued intelligently that this approach wasn't the "right" strategic approach, given that we got to a bowl in 2010. This year's team doesn't have the same personnel or defense, so playing ball control might not be the "right" strategy to get to a bowl. Nobody wants the offense to be crappy. I just don't think that playcalling is the primary issue--I think it is a combination of factors: poor OL / talent / lack of playmakers / etc. that have limited the coaching staff's options to a certain extent, and resulted in the playcalling being what it is--which is why I think that some of the griping about the "system" is off-target. I'm optimistic about the prediction [please note that I'm not suggesting that I know for sure, or that this will definitely happen] that better players / athletes / speed + improved OL play is going to translate into more wide open playcalling and wide open offense. I feel like we're a year or two away, but trending in the right direction with recruiting. [/QUOTE]

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