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Message: [QUOTE="orangeinohio, post: 3990072, member: 824"] OK, I agree that on the fourth possession (which started at 11:17 left in the 2nd quarter), the first play was not a run by Sean Tucker. The previous three possessions started with Sean Tucker gaining seven yards on the ground. (The fifth possession, btw, started with a 1 yard run by Tucker.) In all, the first three possessions featured seven Tucker runs for 18 yards and zero points. I think Tucker is an incredible runner; quick, great vision, and tough. I'd like to see him make it through this whole season so I don't want to see him running into a stacked DL (one of FSU's biggest strengths). Seeing him run into the wall rather than Gilbert getting creative was extremely disappointing to watch. I have very limited faith in Gilbert's game plan. I don't think he has shown enough to convince me otherwise. Wasn't there a preseason poll in which ACC coaches anonymously declared SU's offense to essentially be easy to read and defend? And I don't agree with Babers constantly talking about young players on offense as if they're children who still have so much to learn. I don't know if he's expecting perfection or if he's a bad teacher but he needs to put more faith in younger players. This is partly how Taj Harris maintained his unchallenged #1 WR status for so long. When I wrote the post that you're responding to, I was thinking of the sixth possession where everything opened up. 1st play - pass to Alford for 12. Next play, FSU is worried about passing plays and Tucker gains 10 rushing yards. Next play, pass to Alford for 17, followed up by two more rushes by Shrader for a total of 21 yards and a TD. That possession started with 4:11 left in the half. It was the first real signs of life from Gilbert. Yeah I know Shrader ran for 55 yards and a TD in the fifth possession but I don't think Gilbert's call was a QB run for 55 yards. It's great that it worked but it wasn't planned to result in 55 yards of rushing. We have possibly the top RB in the conference. He's not the only offensive weapon. Get a little creative and keep the defense on their heels. I know there are times that your RB needs to fight for yards and plow into big uglies. And I know that we can't expect every possession to look like the sixth. But it sure as hell took a long time to try something different. I think that in the remaining games, the offense will look more like the second part of the game than the first, which gives me hope. [/QUOTE]

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