Just a quick note about the role the scheme and the play design has on the QB and, secondarily, the OL.
I am watching the replay of K-Suck and LaTech. Notably for us, Jeff Driskel is starting for LaTech. You'll recall Driskel looked to be the most inept college FB QB in his years starting at Florida. Like Maty, Driskel was a very highly rated high school QB and then when he got to Florida it appeared he was incapable of handing the ball off much less leading an offense. Through 3 games, Driskel has about 1000 yards passing and has over 300 yards in back-to-back games against Western Kentucky (who beat Vandy) and K-Suck. He's also completing over 60% of his passes.
I don't know enough about what we run to say whether it's vanilla, easily defended etc but I do find it incredibly interesting that a guy who looked like throwing a forward pass was a huge deal is now passing for over 300 yards a game and completing over 60% of his passes in a very wide-open, spread offense where receivers look open (by play design) and look to be moving quickly to open spaces....something I think we seldom look to be doing.
Secondarily, there were some comments in the Boehm thread about Evan struggling with blocking assignments/techniques given his gimpy ankle. The thread also mentioned our blocking scheme seemed to be suffering from one guy (different each play) blowing the play up with a missed assignment. Led me to believe the scheme or what we're asking the OL to do might not be in a manner that is consistent with their strengths. Again, I'm no OL expert but it would seem, especially against the weaker comp we've played, that we should be able to simply line up and push guys off the ball and move the LOS....I'd be interested in the thoughts of those who might know more about line play.
I am watching the replay of K-Suck and LaTech. Notably for us, Jeff Driskel is starting for LaTech. You'll recall Driskel looked to be the most inept college FB QB in his years starting at Florida. Like Maty, Driskel was a very highly rated high school QB and then when he got to Florida it appeared he was incapable of handing the ball off much less leading an offense. Through 3 games, Driskel has about 1000 yards passing and has over 300 yards in back-to-back games against Western Kentucky (who beat Vandy) and K-Suck. He's also completing over 60% of his passes.
I don't know enough about what we run to say whether it's vanilla, easily defended etc but I do find it incredibly interesting that a guy who looked like throwing a forward pass was a huge deal is now passing for over 300 yards a game and completing over 60% of his passes in a very wide-open, spread offense where receivers look open (by play design) and look to be moving quickly to open spaces....something I think we seldom look to be doing.
Secondarily, there were some comments in the Boehm thread about Evan struggling with blocking assignments/techniques given his gimpy ankle. The thread also mentioned our blocking scheme seemed to be suffering from one guy (different each play) blowing the play up with a missed assignment. Led me to believe the scheme or what we're asking the OL to do might not be in a manner that is consistent with their strengths. Again, I'm no OL expert but it would seem, especially against the weaker comp we've played, that we should be able to simply line up and push guys off the ball and move the LOS....I'd be interested in the thoughts of those who might know more about line play.
