I'd put 'widen gaps' first to see if a run game can be established to do anything else since it's basically a requirement.
Matt Campbell postgame quote
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I'd put 'widen gaps' first to see if a run game can be established to do anything else since it's basically a requirement.
We were suppose to lose by 1 point and we did according to the experts.
Man I hate to tell you, but theres this thing called coach speak....
Seriously, what don't you understand about what I've been asking for all this time? Yes, misdirection would be nice to see. Jet sweeps to Noel or even try Adams maybe? Basically we need to make opposing defenses cover the entire field.
Right now they can bring everyone up, crowd the LOS because we're not a threat to throw deep at all. They can also concentrate primarily on the inside running game and not defend the edges because we never threaten the edges. And they can also have all 11 guys go to the flow of the play because we are no threat to run any misdirection against the flow of the play.
When defenses have blitzed their LBs on us.... have you ever seen us just do a simple hot read to the TE on a quick slant into the area vacated by the LBs coming on a blitz.... I haven't. Or a screen to beat a blitz? I haven't.
KSU threw a deep ball into triple coverage last night and guess what..... they got a PI call against us. But we never even attempt that because there's a chance it could get intercepted and be the equivalent of a punt basically... we wouldn't want that!
We don't force defenses to defend much of the field at all. We are very predictable and very vanilla.
And you feel like we don't have the players to try any of this.... and I think we need to at least try.... and I think we do have the players to do this. We'll just have to agree to disagree. I'm not guaranteeing any success.... but why not try?
If Campbell is a evidenced based guy, 5-15 in games where the spread is +/- 3 points is pretty hard evidence your strategy isn't working. Needs to figure it out if he wants to get over the hump. Part of it I was thinking that last year would have been more like this year had the extra Covid year not happened. The next wave had to cut their teeth sometime.
We’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas.
That's exactly where we're at.
Nothing is working, but we're too scared to open it up and try something else because we might make a mistake. Guess what.... we're making tons of mistakes right now not trying anything.
Looks like the Criner offense of 84, the Walden offense of 94, the McCarney offense of 06, the Rhoads offense of 13-15. Why do we keep seeing this movie over and over again?
I don't believe ISU has the line/run game or the speed to do much or any of this consistently. Correct.
Maybe an occasional jet sweep/hand off to Noel on his motion since the motion never seems to have any other purpose but it's not going to be reliable if there's not a run game established.
We get it... you don't think anything will work. You could very well be correct about that. But I'd like to try everything at least before throwing in the towel and just assuming it won't work.
Campbell can most certainly afford to lose Iowa State.
I’d rather watch us take risks and lose by 30 than watch us grind and consistently lose by 1-3.
I think wi
how much he’s getting paid and considering that KU just got a good coach. We can go get a coach that will win at ISU. CMC has proven that you can win at ISU. We love CMC but he just can’t make adjustments at OC and it has been a weak link for ISU in a long time.
you know what never works? Plays you never run.
now will you shut up with all the “ISU players aren’t good enough to run plays that high schoolers can run” shtick?
I think a jet sweep might work onceish and maybe something in the seams for passing or like Noel coming out of the backfield last night to the flats but I don't see them as something you just go back to and lean on automatically.
I actually think even ISU's straight ahead runs are still too long developing and making it a quicker hand off may help.
Right now the line makes last year's look really good.
Not sure where you’re going with this. If you want to make the case that our talent on offense can only average single digit scoring in Year 7 even with solid coaching, how is that better?
Oh is that what I said?
I'm watching the Bears right now. Can you tell me why David Montgomery doesn't just get 10 yards a pop like I want to see happen?
