SWC75
Bored Historian
- Joined
- Aug 26, 2011
- Messages
- 34,525
- Like
- 67,262
Nathaniel Hackett told Chris Gedney before the game that we were going to play "Doug Marrone football- establish the run!" Doug, on his show, said that they wanted more big plays and felt they had to establish the run to "open up the seams" downfield for the receivers.
Toledo had 8 men in the box already and SU receivers were running free on every play. The Rockets were giving up 278 yards per game passing. We have a red hot quarterback who has performed besty in the no-huddle passing game, (as in early vs. USC). When he only passes occassionally he loses his rhythm and then we get the over-throws and bad decisons. We've got a great corps of receivers and two running backs both of whom need to be in space. They are not effective between the tackles. Our best running plays come after completed passes, (like Bailey's run). We have waited 30 years for a passing team that could take advantage of the fast track of the Dome and we finally have one. The best thing this team can do is to us the pass to set up the run, not the other way around. Make them cover the whole field and then hit them in the gaps that open up. Don't run the ball to make them defend the line of scrimmage and occassionally go deep. Heck, they already have eight in the box. The are already set up for the pass from the moment they line up.
I called this opnion into the Bud and the Manchild Show and Bud said the answer was that Marrone is an NFL guy and the NFL is a running league. No it isn't. The 2008 Saints, Doug's last team, ran the ball 398 times and passed it 666 times, (61.5%). I called into Brent Axe nand he said that "running the football is the eprsonality of this team." The personality of a team is based on it's personnel and this team has the personnel of a passing team. brent said that the fans are always asking for more passing, that we are doing well and we should be statis with being 3-1. But we are 3-1 with two overtime wins and a one TD win over an FCS team. All those games would have been easier to win if we'd played to our stengths and passing the ball is our strength.
Toledo had 8 men in the box already and SU receivers were running free on every play. The Rockets were giving up 278 yards per game passing. We have a red hot quarterback who has performed besty in the no-huddle passing game, (as in early vs. USC). When he only passes occassionally he loses his rhythm and then we get the over-throws and bad decisons. We've got a great corps of receivers and two running backs both of whom need to be in space. They are not effective between the tackles. Our best running plays come after completed passes, (like Bailey's run). We have waited 30 years for a passing team that could take advantage of the fast track of the Dome and we finally have one. The best thing this team can do is to us the pass to set up the run, not the other way around. Make them cover the whole field and then hit them in the gaps that open up. Don't run the ball to make them defend the line of scrimmage and occassionally go deep. Heck, they already have eight in the box. The are already set up for the pass from the moment they line up.
I called this opnion into the Bud and the Manchild Show and Bud said the answer was that Marrone is an NFL guy and the NFL is a running league. No it isn't. The 2008 Saints, Doug's last team, ran the ball 398 times and passed it 666 times, (61.5%). I called into Brent Axe nand he said that "running the football is the eprsonality of this team." The personality of a team is based on it's personnel and this team has the personnel of a passing team. brent said that the fans are always asking for more passing, that we are doing well and we should be statis with being 3-1. But we are 3-1 with two overtime wins and a one TD win over an FCS team. All those games would have been easier to win if we'd played to our stengths and passing the ball is our strength.
