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[QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 2400442, member: 27"]
I agree with this.  Once Dungey went down, defenses reacted by overplaying the short sideline routes and bubble screens that are the bread and butter of this offense, making it difficult to get a completion, much less a gain of more than a couple of yards.

When defenses overplay on short routes like they did for that extended period, you can't just continue to call the same plays and not react.  The reason that screen was a horrible call there is because the defense was in tight man coverage, with safety support, expecting the ball to be thrown where it was.

It wasn't a great play by the DB.  He did as he was expected to.  Our OC made a horrible call and our QB should have audibled out of it and switched to a long throw instead.  But our coaches became very conservative with suspect QBs running the offense and our relatively inexperienced QBs either lacked the knowledge or the courage to audible into the right play.

Coach Babers talks about seeing what the defense is giving you and reacting to it accordingly.  Except in rare instances, we didn't do that once Dungey went out and our failure to do so destroyed any chance for the offense to be successful.

This was almost as bad a coaching failure as the decision to play BC using a soft zone defense, which allowed an inexperienced crappy QB who threw for 55 yards against UConn the game before to have his career day, completing passes to WRs with no one close by all game long.  With our hobbled LBs and no D1 DEs or safeties available to play, we weren't going to beat the Eagles anyway, but still, you should try and put your team in the best position possible.  Awful game plans on both sides of the ball did not help things.
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