Rez
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As far as the offense, my concern isn’t so much a discussion between the “run” vs “pass” binary debate. Of course, our strength is running and our team is built to run, and we should be mixing in more kinds of run plays (to the outside, for example) before jumping to “throw more passes.” My problem is our pass plays don’t seem to relate at all to or come out of the run game. We’re missing a coherent system. When we pass, we broadcast it for all the world to see, and the routes are simply “run down the field and hope you make an extremely low probability catch in double coverage.” The pass plays don’t follow logically from the formations and system we’re running. It makes us far more predictable than last year. And, the OC emphasized at the beginning of the year that we were going to “use the run to set up the pass.” We still haven’t seen that materialize. We simply run for a while, then throw some passes. I agree with anyone saying we’ve still got room to improve and we’re still a good team, and I think the Oc is doing his best (everyone has to start somewhere) - But as far as this season goes I’m down to mostly the cope of hoping we get lucky. The Jv has some killers in the defensive secondary that might be able to help this season, and we’ve got a lot of talent on the sideline. We’ll see.