re: Why does denbrock ignore the quick passing game?

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Defenses are basically playing prevent defense because they don’t want to get beat deep, which literally means they’re giving us the shorter routes. But denbrock is like meh I’ll just keep doing these long developing routes.

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None of this is really true, but I’ll address the easiest part first: Going into the Auburn game, a whopping 74% of our passing attempts were targeted <10 yards past the line of scrimmage.

The only reason Auburn isn’t included is that I don’t have a passing chart available yet.

So the contention that we aren’t making short throws is.. pretty silly. I would agree that we generally aren’t getting the ball out fast enough. But that looks like more a function of execution than playcalling. It also has nothing to do with whether opponents are “basically playing prevent defense” (SPOILER: they aren’t).