How Offensive Has Joe's Offense Been?

I think what we see here clearly is that elite talent can make lots of coaches look good, and being able to consistently bring in enough future NFL talent to make you look good is what differentiates shitty from successful college coaches. Certain coaches consistently put out top notch offenses, sure they are smart guys, but they are also regularly bringing in guys with an NFL future. I'm not saying crootin' stars are everything, but crootin' stars definitely correlate with a higher hit rate on NFL talent and takes away some uncertainty instead of trying to decide which 3* guys are diamonds in the rough waiting to be polished and which ones are still gonna be a turd regardless of how much polishing you put into it.

How about Croom and Willie Westcoast 2.0 bad?

Lots of good points in this thread.

From what I’ve seen there have been times against the good defenses where we’ve actually run some good plays and either somebody totally whiffs a block, or more often, our guy can’t make the one defender in the area miss.

There were two plays I can remember specifically against Bama that if we break one tackle we go for 30-40 yards. Clyde broke those tackles against Bama. Plumlee made those guys miss against LSU. We simply don’t have guys to make those plays. Some system changes might help but I don’t think we have the players to be a top 40 offense.

Same way our defense is really bad but we have hardly anybody that would start for any of the top half of sec defenses

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Originally Posted by Irondawg

Lots of good points in this thread.

From what I’ve seen there have been times against the good defenses where we’ve actually run some good plays and either somebody totally whiffs a block, or more often, our guy can’t make the one defender in the area miss.

There were two plays I can remember specifically against Bama that if we break one tackle we go for 30-40 yards. Clyde broke those tackles against Bama. Plumlee made those guys miss against LSU. We simply don’t have guys to make those plays. Some system changes might help but I don’t think we have the players to be a top 40 offense.

Same way our defense is really bad but we have hardly anybody that would start for any of the top half of sec defenses

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I am convinced that there has never been an offensive play run this year that all 11 players knew what we were trying to do at the same time.

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Originally Posted by Goldendawg

I am convinced that there has never been an offensive play run this year that all 11 players knew what we were trying to do at the same time.

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Ahh ... maybe 2 or 3 against ULL & USM.

Moorhead?s offense is not rhythmic in the way it?s called. It?s a rambling pile of crap. He doesn?t believe in long sustained drives and calling plays in rhythm based off of each other this makes for a lot of low percentage high reward type plays which makes for a lot of whiffs that kill drives. If he would focus on high percentage rhythmic play calling he might have a little more success. There isn?t much room for error in the sec and focusing on low percentage plays or the big plays gets your offense off the field in a hurry unless you are absolutely loaded with talent

All of Tommy's checkdowns Sat when he threw for 82 yards reminded me of Croom's West Coast "offense" when receivers ran a two or three and out when we needed about eight for a 1st down. Of course, Croom's play was drawn up to get the other needed yards after breaking a tackle or two. Just like Jo can draw up all his "explosive" plays in his mind.