Final: PN-G Indians 37, Montgomery Bears 31

[Rez]

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.

 

[19PNGndn68]

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.

A perfect summary of the stagnation of this very talented returning offense this season.

PNG offense is suffering from self paralysis. As posts on this site tell us Indian Nation is hoping, expecting, waiting for offensive change but it is not happening. This experiment is running its course.

The offensive star athletes are not the weak link.

Without change, Next year will produce even more offensive stagnation after all this once in a generation talent graduates.

The offensive play book of the previous two years has contracted so much this season. Why? Who?

Our talented QB has not progressed from last year under the constant stress the limited play calling has placed on the QB this season. QB has not been setup for success this season. QB is Under constant pressure on consistent 3rd down and long plays and asked to complete 30-40 yard passes. Look at the number of sacks, pressures, TDs, completion yardage, INTs under this constant defensive barrage when your defense knows what’s coming

Offense game planning, the film study of your opponents defense, the anticipation of your opponent’s game day defense adjustments these are all the changes Indian nation has been expecting all season. What has changed on the offense side in the last two years?