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Message: [QUOTE="upperdeck, post: 1118855, member: 474"] Play calling is an art. I dont think our guy has it down yet, nor do we have the athletes that the Baylor, Texas AM, Oregon schools do that we want to be like. high octane offenses.. But people think these offenses just attack down field all game long. I made a comment that A&M threw 75% bubble screens.. an exaggeration for sure but no different than the comments that all SU did was throw bubble screens every play. So I went back and watched the first half against South Carolina, they scored 31 pts. I didn't bother with stats on when the plays were thrown but you can assume that bubble screens will be thrown less in bad down situations. Also A&m ran 2 types of plays I call bubble screen, the run the normal one we used but also run one where the 2 rcvrs drive and the 3rd runs a late curl underneath about 3-4 yds down field. still a screen in my book. I used 5 yds but in reality they either threw under 2-3 yds or over 10.. 1st drive. 4 of 6 under 5 yd bubble screen bubble screen fake bubble post route completed behind line to rb for loss underneath screen 2 yd pass to rb pass down middle for TD drive 2. 3 of 6 under 5 yd 1 yd pass scramble pass scramble pass fake bubble slant pass 3 yd pass short inc pass drive 3. 1 of 2 under 5 yd fake bubble backside slant bubble screen drive 4. 5 of 7 under 5 yd bubble screen bubble screen fake bubble slant shallow curl shallow slant scramble shallow slant drive 5. 3 of 6 under 5 yd bubble screen deep curl 2 yd pass to RB bubble screen scramble throw away post drive 6. 6 of 10 under 5 yd screen scramble 2 yd pass bubble screen bubble screen bubble screen curl corner route scramble 3 yd pass corner route 22 of 31 thrown under 5 yds down field over 66% of the time not attacking down field. And thats if you assume the 5 scramble throws were meant to go deep and they could also have been short routes that were covered. 14 bubble screen patterns. Almost 50%.. So no not 75% but way more than people realize. Success means you can run your offense as you want. failure make it look like ours did. If you dont run well teams dont move the safety and the same for bad bubble screens. Its not the play calling its the execution. If you can run bubble screens that work then you can run the fake bubble, stop and goes and the other deep routes as well. Better plays make it look better. Baylor lost the QB and the top 2 rcvrs last night and looked dead running the same plays against an Avg Team. same plays , bad results. when you remove half the game plan things dont work, you dont set plays up you dont move the chains you dont wear the other D out and you tire your own.. [/QUOTE]

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