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Message: [QUOTE="rmtsu, post: 3124749, member: 785"] I'm befuddled by the whole offensive scheme and adjustments. Yes the offensive line can't block it appears, but its not like the coaches can't see it, so what happens when Tommy has to scramble, the WR's take off further down field and are still covered and then Tommy has to throw the ball away, usually. There was one play where DeVito is flushed right has time while running towards the sideline, you can see he is looking for someone to come open but Jackson, just takes off down the sideline at half speed, steps out of bounds but is blanketed by a DB and DeVito finally has to launch the ball down to the area where Jackson is but 10 yards out of bounds, it's now 4th down, DeVito comes off the field towards Dino pointed down field as if to say no one came back, Dino looks at Jackson coming towards him and jestures back towards where DeVito threw the ball as if to say come back to the ball. Now if that is the case and the coaches want the receivers to come back when DeVito scrambles then the WR's aren't understanding or executing it and this should be a large part of the practices since nearly every time we drop back DeVito has to scramble it seems. If the coaches aren't teaching this then... I don't know what they expect to get out of the passing game this year against decent teams. Make's we wonder if we even practice what to do if the protection breaks down. Seems like the OLineman come here and forget how to block, WR's come here and struggle to get open or in scramble situations how to come back and help the QB, RB forget how to run, we run into the back of lineman and unless there is a Mack Truck size hole there's little shiftiness to avoid the one guy that trips them up for little gain. The play calling doesn't help, its as if we find something that might work, passes to backs and TE's but don't utilize them enough to force defenses to change. Getting very frustrating, so far this year Dino has been very under whelming as an offensive coach. Not giving up but there isn't a team on the schedule left that should be characterized as loss but as we saw against Maryland it may not take a great team to beat us just a team with some individual talent. [/QUOTE]

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