re: T Bob says it’s scheme not players

Yup, got to spread it out and give several quick options. I’ve always wanted to see a 5 receiver set. I hate that max protect with slower developing routes and a lack of separation. I’m also not a fan of too much play action. I imagine there are ways to mask a bad offensive line a bit better.

a lot of you bitches cant stand T-Bob and think he is garbage..but then when he says stuff like he did, y'all get on your knees for the man..

make up your fuking mind you fence sitters

What do you expect. The coaches are Miles hold over...

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If you watch the game and see the left defensive end run by our right tackle repeatedly. Then run through out right tackle and a running back sent to help. I challenge you to explain that has anything to do with scheme.

You guys want spread and throw it around. You have to have an offensive line that can block. We have not had one for several years. This is not new.

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Either run it right at him or dump it over his head to a tight end or running back... maybe a screen pass?

Did anyone watch the 2nd Half of the Green Bay/Chicago game last night. Aaron Rodgers was hurt and the offensive line was struggling to protect. They changed to short/rhythm passing to neutralize the rush. Masterful, but not expecting our coaches to figure it out...

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Why does 100% of the blame have to be placed on one or the other? I'm not saying the coaching staff shoulders none of the blame, but are you not willing to at least entertain the thought that we have personnel issues, something all of us were well aware of coming into the season, and something that is worse currently than it was a month ago?

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I'm abundantly aware that we have personnel issues. My problem is there wasn't a demonstrable effort to adjust and account for those personnel issues when we were getting outmanned by an FCS opponent. If we can't adjust in light of our deficiencies and move the ball against SELU we are in for a very, very long afternoon on the Plains.

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For the sake of argument, let's say we did spread them out 5 wide and try to combat our inability to block and that didn't work either.

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I've never said i think this would be a good solution but it would have been nice to see an effort to change things up. Simply throwing more blockers in there didn't engender a ton of confidence in the coaching staff for me.

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My problem is there wasn't a demonstrable effort to adjust and account for those personnel issues when we were getting outmanned by an FCS opponent. If we can't adjust in light of our deficiencies and move the ball against SELU we are in for a very, very long afternoon on the Plains.

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I don't disagree with this. It is very concerning to me that the situation even presented itself where drastic adjustments became necessary against an FCS school. If our line is getting dominated by an FCS school, scheme change or not, we're going to be in a world of hurt when we start playing good SEC defenses like Alabama, Georgia, and Auburn. That's why my concern is greater for the personnel than the offense or offensive scheme we're running. It's not about blaming one person/group or the other. I just think the narrative about the staff making adjustments should be more focused on the fact that our OL was simply overpowered by an FCS school. That, IMO, should be far more concerning than whether or not Ensminger adjusted Saturday. Those spread offenses generally don't have success against good defenses even though they're designed for teams with inferior line talent. Good defenses (like ours) typically shut them down

But we’re all saying that you can scheme ways to alleviate the pressure on your online.

SELA was blitzing and our response was more blockers in to not pick up the blitz.

We need to be able to ID the blitzes and spread the field enough where they can’t bring extra guys without sacrificing men in coverage.

Throw the ball where the guy blitzing isn’t. Put guys out there so they cannot bring as many guys and still have good coverage.

If we’re just turtling up to protect Burrow why is he even in the game?

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Every bad tackle isn’t really a guard.

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But if you're to keep playing them...that's where you move them. He's slow off the ball and his footwork is terrible.

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Why does 100% of the blame have to be placed on one or the other? I'm not saying the coaching staff shoulders none of the blame, but are you not willing to at least entertain the thought that we have personnel issues, something all of us were well aware of coming into the season, and something that is worse currently than it was a month ago? For the sake of argument, let's say we did spread them out 5 wide and try to combat our inability to block and that didn't work either. What would the rant narrative have been at that point? I'm sure there would have been some manufactured narrative of how the coaching staff sucks. I can almost guarantee no one would have been saying, "well, we adjusted how we should have, so kudos to Ensminger for at least trying to what we could to move the ball."

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Most of us have said over the last two weeks that Burrow, OL, and WR all need work. And that we are weaker than usual at RB as well. They are college kids though and are not gonna be helped out with that alone, certainly not in a game situation.

Do you not see a trend and similarity? This is all too familiar to the last several of Miles seasons. I refuse to believe that for 10 years straight we haven't had the personnel after numerous top 10 classes and many of those skill players and even QBs being drafted and spending time in the NFL. Many of them have made huge impacts and been among the best at their position as well. Some still are today. Why is it suddenly different now? I'll admit RB is weaker than usual, we've been spoiled there. But we are not an FCS or even G5 school. We have P5 talent and we can run a scheme that takes advantages of their strengths and masks weaknesses IF we have the coaching staff to put it together.

To entertain your assumption, the playcalling still has to be creative even with 5 wide. We can't just run 5 go routes and expect it to work. If we truly tried something creative in that vain and it didn't work, I would say well at least we tried. Unlike say...the 2012 BCSCG where we tried nothing or the ND bowl game last season when we turtled up. Look how those turned out. I would be much more accepting if we at least TRIED and still got beat.