A lot of questions on what the heck that offensive game plan was… here is my best shot at an explanation.
The coaches don’t trust tommy gun… period. Based on last weeks game plan they seemed to want to ride Tucker as the. main strategy. But here’s the thing, opponent coaches scout ahead just like we do and Rutgers completely sold out to stop Tucker.
Again, the coaches don’t trust tommy. When they pass the ball they are trying to give him one read that he can make before the ball is snapped. When the ball is snapped Tommy immediately looks for his one read and throws it. If Tommy needs to hold onto the ball past that one read, bad things happen. Again, Rutgers clearly scouted our offense and took away the quick hitters leaving the deep sideline throw as the only read that would consistently be available before the snap. That determined our offense… either that play was open and Tommy hit it or it wasn’t and Tommy held onto the ball and bad things happened.
The third strategy was to run RPO all game, but Rutgers smothered that strategy for the most part.
All of this is why Shrader is more “interesting” as a QB prospect. He is much more comfortable in the pocket and you can see him going through his progressions and the coaches gave him more to work with. Unfortunately he doesn’t seem to be all that accurate on the deep stuff, but hopefully those were first game jitters.
If Tommy is qb here on out, I’m not sure what to tell you.
The coaches don’t trust tommy gun… period. Based on last weeks game plan they seemed to want to ride Tucker as the. main strategy. But here’s the thing, opponent coaches scout ahead just like we do and Rutgers completely sold out to stop Tucker.
Again, the coaches don’t trust tommy. When they pass the ball they are trying to give him one read that he can make before the ball is snapped. When the ball is snapped Tommy immediately looks for his one read and throws it. If Tommy needs to hold onto the ball past that one read, bad things happen. Again, Rutgers clearly scouted our offense and took away the quick hitters leaving the deep sideline throw as the only read that would consistently be available before the snap. That determined our offense… either that play was open and Tommy hit it or it wasn’t and Tommy held onto the ball and bad things happened.
The third strategy was to run RPO all game, but Rutgers smothered that strategy for the most part.
All of this is why Shrader is more “interesting” as a QB prospect. He is much more comfortable in the pocket and you can see him going through his progressions and the coaches gave him more to work with. Unfortunately he doesn’t seem to be all that accurate on the deep stuff, but hopefully those were first game jitters.
If Tommy is qb here on out, I’m not sure what to tell you.
