Joe Sloan is an elite recruiter and developer of QBs

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His play calling against Ole Miss was bad

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Our offense is good

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It wasn’t good for the first 3 drives vs Ole Miss, or early vs South Carolina

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And then what was it?

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My suspicion is that Brian Kelly stepped in and called plays, as he should have

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My suspicion is that Brian Kelly stepped in and called plays

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No he didn’t

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No he didn’t

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How do you know? Do you have access to the comms on the field?

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My suspicion is that Brian Kelly stepped in and called plays, as he should have

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That’s where the scripted plays end and where the staff starts adjusting to what the defense is doing. That’s pretty typical.

Vs Ole Miss, we didn’t have Daniels so some guys were shuffled. OM’s defense was sitting on everything outside, which is where we run a lot of our plays. Once they adjusted, we started moving the ball.

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Way too early to pass judgement.....

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I’m not shitting on Sloan, he just doesn’t have the experience in offensive play calling that BK has.

I get why he’s the OC, and it’s not because he has tons of play calling experience. It’s because he recruits and develops elite QBs.

And that’s a great guy to have on staff.

I think play calling is one of those things, you can learn, sure but you either have it in you to be elite or you don't. He can be good, maybe great, but i don't think he'll ever be elite. Good thing great will work just fine for us.

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There have definitely been some moments where he’s called some terrible plays, but our offense isn’t bad.

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There have been some moments where he’s had brilliant calls as well, though.

I don’t remember which game it was, but we had something like 4th & 6 and he called a draw that caught everyone by surprise. We saw a similar deal on the 4th down TD against Ole Miss.. nobody expects a shot at the end zone in that situation.

I think the reality is that people judge “play calling” based on results. If a play works it was a great call. If it doesn’t, it was terrible. But there’s a lot of shite that goes into results on offense.. the call, sure, but also the overall scheme/design and execution.

Our offense would be unstoppable right now if we had a consistently effective rushing attack IMHO. But is our lack of rushing success due to situational play calling? I don’t think so. It’s been mostly a ton of little execution mistakes, either by the OL/TEs or the RBs, that have kept 3 yard gains from turning into 6-8 yard gains. You can certainly argue that’s still on Sloan as OC, but it’s not necessarily because of an issue with in-game calls.

One last thing to point out is that this is the first year with helmet communications, allowing coordinators to give checks directly to the QB/LB at the line of scrimmage after seeing the other team’s alignment. Every coordinator is learning this aspect of the game on the fly right now because it didn’t exist in CFB last year.