Quote Originally Posted by ShotgunDawg View Post
One of the major pillars of our head coach's QB coaching is his insistence on QBs checking down.

The conundrum is that this is the correct way to develop QBs but it also heavily plays against you when you face teams that are more talented to you.

We can't beat elite teams without taking risks & we don't have the talent to "execute" consistently against them.

That's the one thing that Freeze did that allowed them to pull upsets. He took risks & chucked it.

Sure some times you lose to Memphis when you do that, but it gives you a chance to beat more talented teams.

Mullen is an outstanding coach & developer, but, as we saw tonight, when he is coaching against a sound, more talented defense, we can score because the offensive structure is asking us to execute against more talented players.
Which goes back to the spread.

What happens when you can't complete a deep pass? Defense will load the box, crushing the run. More players in the box than blockers for the run.

The spread reverses that concept. You over load the defense with too many people to account for. That leaves you with 1 on 1s. Did we do that tonight? No. Why? We did not use Our TEs. I can not believe we did not see any seam passes to them.