% of unassisted tackles - bodes well

[Millhouse]

http://www.footballstudyhall.com/2014/2/24/5437400/college-football-spread-offenses

10th in the country in percentage of offensive unassisted tackle percentage

hopefully this means we have an offense that gets people the ball with space around them - we just might not have the playmakers to do anything with it yet

devils advocate, it could just be that we ran a zillion bubble screens that corners were waiting for

 

[NateW]

OCGM loves him some bubble screens. Broyld and Estime can be dynamic in those situations so it's definitely a good strategy. Let's just hope we can work them into a more comprehensive game plan than he put out there for the first portion of the year. His play calling really improved the last quarter of the schedule and I anticipate it will continue in that direction. Combo that with better execution due to almost everyone back on O with a full year of the scheme under their belts and we might be able to actually put up some points next season in league play.

 

[baggerbob]

The bubble screen isn't bad if the receivers block downfield, as Ashton did for Brisly. Whoever plays next year needs to block, or sit, just catching passes isn't good enough, if the play gets blown up because you didn't block.

 

[Millhouse]

OCGM loves him some bubble screens. Broyld and Estime can be dynamic in those situations so it's definitely a good strategy. Let's just hope we can work them into a more comprehensive game plan than he put out there for the first portion of the year. His play calling really improved the last quarter of the schedule and I anticipate it will continue in that direction. Combo that with better execution due to almost everyone back on O with a full year of the scheme under their belts and we might be able to actually put up some points next season in league play.

i don't want any coach who loves bubble screens. it's like hoping for offsides penalties to take you down the field. if it's given to you, you don't turn it down, but you don't depend on it

 

[NateW]

i don't want any coach who loves bubble screens. it's like hoping for offsides penalties to take you down the field. if it's given to you, you don't turn it down, but you don't depend on it

It can be a good strategy when you have superior skills guys to an opposing teams DBs and LBs. I've seen us absolutely decimated by it too many times over the years to disregard it as a situational strategy. However, I agree with you that when it becomes your prime objective as an offense you are not going to beat good defensive teams with it. OCGM was bubble screen overkill early in the season causing me to yell at the TV in child like tantrums many times. I was terrified by cool kid early on but he grew on me toward the end of the season.

 

[All4SU]

The bubble screen isn't bad if the receivers block downfield, as Ashton did for Brisly. Whoever plays next year needs to block, or sit, just catching passes isn't good enough, if the play gets blown up because you didn't block.

AB definitely improved in he he blocking department. Early on, he simply wasn't blocking. Agree 100% that it's a critical component for this offense.

Bubble screens under The Bubble!

 

[baggerbob]

AB definitely improved in he he blocking department. Early on, he simply wasn't blocking. Agree 100% that it's a critical component for this offense.

Bubble screens under The Bubble!

That's why getting Custis, and Enoicy was so important, you can double stack both sides, and they are big enough to make a block, and give Ashton, and Brisly room to operate. If people cheat up you have Custis, or Enoicy one on one, throw the ball high and the DB is in trouble, they both are a load to bring down. Our red zone percentage should pick up when these 2 get more experience.

 

[IthacaMatt]

The bubble screen isn't bad if the receivers block downfield, as Ashton did for Brisly. Whoever plays next year needs to block, or sit, just catching passes isn't good enough, if the play gets blown up because you didn't block.

Instead of a near-lateral pass to start the play, I'd rather see the receiver start his move downfield. We should throw more slants and outs, not just have the receiver turn and stand there, waiting for the ball.

 

[Chip]

i don't want any coach who loves bubble screens. it's like hoping for offsides penalties to take you down the field. if it's given to you, you don't turn it down, but you don't depend on it

We'll know this answer in the next couple years. But I don't think he loves bubble screens. I just think given what he had to work with (and losing Flemming in game 1), he thought it was the best way to get the ball in the hands of his best athletes. Our WR group wasn't the best combination of polish and athleticism. Some had one or the other, no one really had both. Some of that was just due to inexperience. I didn't even mention the inexperience issue at QB.

With the new group of WRs coming in, I would guess his long term vision is more passing plays down the field. And using bubble screens as part of that chess match.

 

[Millhouse]

We'll know this answer in the next couple years. But I don't think he loves bubble screens. I just think given what he had to work with (and losing Flemming in game 1), he thought it was the best way to get the ball in the hands of his best athletes. Our WR group wasn't the best combination of polish and athleticism. Some had one or the other, no one really had both. Some of that was just due to inexperience. I didn't even mention the inexperience issue at QB.

With the new group of WRs coming in, I would guess his long term vision is more passing plays down the field. And using bubble screens as part of that chess match.

i don't really think that mcdonald is spence part two (it sure read that way, my fault) - i was being more hypothetical.

rob spence is rare.

this is random but if it had ever occured to o'leary to run the bubble screen in 2001 in that inept kickoff classic, they would've torn us up. i didn't know what a bubble was but i was thanking god that he didn't either during that game

 

[Chip]

i don't really think that mcdonald is spence part two (it sure read that way, my fault) - i was being more hypothetical.

rob spence is rare.

this is random but if it had ever occured to o'leary to run the bubble screen in 2001 in that inept kickoff classic, they would've torn us up. i didn't know what a bubble was but i was thanking god that he didn't either during that game

Spence is very rare. He had a one trick pony version of the bubble screen. He wasn't just throwing a quick out to the slot WR and then having his outside WRs try to clear a path with less humans out there. He had entire orchestrated play where everything clogged right in the middle. Paulus look one way, then throw back to the WR 4 feet away, then try to navigate through the mess in the middle. You see teams run this play about once or twice per season. Spence ran it once or twice per set of downs.

It's a little terrifying to think how much practice time they spent just trying to get that play just right.