The offense has zero identity

[madguy30]

I love football but I'm no X's and O's genius. What are some things you can do to "hide" a bad offensive line? Is going up-tempo an option that might give defenses less time to setup and react?

Maybe not totally up tempo, but at least being crisp in getting plays called and run at a pretty quick clip, along with quick/short passes to space to keep things moving.

It's a different level, and Aaron Rodgers can flick a football on a rope, but Green Bay's big comeback vs. Chicago was because they did this which took the Bears Dline out of the game.

Also so many QBs including Noland seem to operate better when they can quickly react to something rather than standing back and waiting for something to open up and make a decision.

 

[madguy30]

I could've sworn we had a pulling center #57 (Colin Newell) as lead blocker around the left, and he whiffed on a linebacker, who proceed to blow up David M for a loss

ISU moved the ball pretty well vs. OU when they just went head up instead of pulling.

Not an Oline guru, but last I knew pulling in a short yardage/goal line situation is bad unless it's play action.

 

[Cyclonepride]

Relevant:

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/s...-got-back-ups-needed-playing-time/1410314002/

"Outside of the offensive line, the Cyclones rotated heavily at nearly every position. Because of this, I wouldn’t read all that much into the details of the performance. They won and got experience for the young pups.

In a non-conference game against a MAC team, your main goal is to win. Your next goal is to test lineups and get snaps for particular players while evaluating others. There were clear indications of a formed lineup, who is in the rotation, and who have worked themselves out of position."

"ISU had 36 players record a statistic of some kind Saturday. That doesn’t include any linemen or those who played but didn’t show up in the ledger. You have over half of Iowa State’s active roster who played snaps in crucial portions of a one- or two-score game."

 

[Aclone]

I’ll take a moment to remember that this thread is about developing an offensive identity. I read with amusement people’s reaction to the thought of CMC molding his squad into a B1G/K-State style power football team.

The horror. Because, you know...boring! People will stop coming to games in droves!!!

All I can say is...ROTFL!!!

Seriously!

Have you guys seen Hakeem Butler?!

Have you noticed the arms on Zeb Noland, Brock Purdy and Easton Dean? Probably Re-al Mitchell and Devon Moore as well?

If you’re worried about “being like Iowa”, the one guy in Ferentz’s tenure with a cannon like these guys is, well, Nate Stanley.

And frankly, Brian Ferentz would...well, let’s just say, he’d get really excited if he could bring in the kind of talent at wideout that CMC has been raking in.

What, you didn’t notice all those guys that are going to be crowding the field to be the next Lazard or Butler?

I’m not going to make a list. It’d take too long!

I’m the meantime, all Ferentz can do is sign more and more tight ends. Good ones, sure, but still. And we won’t talk about that bad case of RB envy that he has to have.

Yeah, CMC may try to build a power running attack. But there’s going to be one heck of a lot of explosiveness off of it.

What? You haven’t noticed OU’s power running attack? That’s just because it gets lost in all the big plays.

Relax. Give the OL a little time, and CMC is going to have himself a powerhouse.

Oh yeah—and even the Vampire had explosive offenses...when he had the talent for it.

CMC building a “boring” offense? Not hardly!

 

[BWRhasnoAC]

I could've sworn we had a pulling center #57 (Colin Newell) as lead blocker around the left, and he whiffed on a linebacker, who proceed to blow up David M for a loss

When we scored a TD on the goal line we were under center with Seonbuchner lead blocking. Unless of course I'm going senile at 34.