re: After watching Carterthepower's analysis

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our issues are situational

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this is where the truth is. There's not any one thing, like Chester last year. It's a different thing/player on every play. One play it's a wr drop. The next, the o line misses a stunt. The next, nuss is off. Rb misses the blocking. The task is to get it all synced up. No team is dominating. Ark offense stats are gaudy but they came against inferior competition and they have 2 losses.

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he goes to at least one LSU home game per year and he visits baton rouge and LSU in the summers

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Sure he does..I've never seen him once on the sideline or in the pressbox.

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Todd Grantham

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There goes that name again. How he keeps getting employed is jist astounding. I know a fraction of what these football coaches know, but U honestly wonder sometimes if I could outcoach Grantham.

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picture says we are averaging 3.7 ypc. If we improve that by 6 ft to 5.7 ypc we are in really good company

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It’s just 6 feet

False

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Our OL has been trash since Kelly has been here. Jayden masked A LOT of issues, just like he did with the Skins dog shite Oline last year outside of Cosmi. One of the worst olines in the NFL turned into a top 10-15 oline because of Jayden. They added some good pieces this year on the Skins though with Conerly and Tunsil. And two of the other starters from last season were benched this season already that’s how much lift Jayden gave that mediocre oline. They turned into a top 10 oline in pass and run block win rate.

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They gave up 3 sacks when they were starters last season. You’re full of shite.
Kelly has had great OL so I think it is the kids who don’t know how to run block and technique. That is on Davis.

OK. Let’s fire him now and blow our whole season.

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I don't know a single thing about offensive line blocking technique or offensive line coaching.

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I know what I was taught in little league at Metry (Pontiff) Playground back in the late 60’s, and it was to make fists and hold them tight to your chest, then use your elbows to contain the defender.

Technique appears to have changed since then, though.

I suggest you look at Kelly's coaching career. He has never coached an offensive side of the ball.
He has been a linebackers coach, a db coach and a defensive coordinator. He also played defense. Like I said... you can look this shite up.



1983–1986Assumption (DC/LB)
1987–1988Grand Valley State (GA/DB)
1989–1990Grand Valley State(DC/RC)
1991-2003Grand Valley State
2004–2006Central Michigan
2006–2009Cincinnati
2010–2021Notre Dame


Like i said... he comes from the defensive side of the ball.

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However, big picture says we are averaging 3.7 ypc. If we improve that by 6 ft to 5.7 ypc we are in really good company. So my point is our issues are situational which to me is likely a systemic issue like running a DT offense with a Pro style QB. Square peg, round hole. That to me gets up to BK and JS responsibility rather than BDavis.

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When I watch our OL back in these film breakdowns, I’m reminded of the defense in 2023 in one respect- we saw guys we KNEW had talent and could play (Perkins, for example) look and play slow and tentative. The worst thing you can do to a college football player is make them think too much. House was a fricking master at that, unfortunately.

That’s not any kind of knock on the intelligence of football players, but there are realities in college ball. Practice time with the staff strictly limited, before, during and after the season. And everything they learn has to become instinctual for them to play fast and aggressive. You can make a fast and talented player look a step slow and stupidly by giving him too much to think about every time the ball is snapped.

What I see from everyone but Moore and Adams is guys playing slow and tentative. You can see them thinking about what they are supposed to be doing instead of doing it. They are working gap scheme part of the time, zone the rest and we are rotating at least one position (LG) throughout the game.

Them there are the flashes. The QB sneaks where you see Moore and Thompson pushing the DL back. The I play vs UF where everyone fired off the snap and did their jobs. When they are turned loose on a play where they can fire off the snap and just go, they actually look good. And then we have them go back to trying to run more complicated things they obviously aren’t comfortable with and aren’t very good at.

It looks like this OL needs some simplification. Whether it’s zone or gap, pick one as your primary run scheme and use the other more sparingly with a few looks that are highly polished and prepared until the OL is more confident running them.

And run outside more. That’s where we’ve had the most success so far this year. We just don’t do it enough. Our TEs are pretty good run blockers (especially Donovan Green) and we’ve got a ton of speed. USE IT. Lead with it. Make the LBs and Safeties prove they can track Johnson, Anderson and Thomas down and get them on the ground.

Don’t be proud and stop banging your head into the wall, Sloan and Kelly. Simplify the run game. Figure out the things we are best at, even if they don’t look like a traditional run game, and milk the shite out of them.