What’s wrong with the offense?

[madguy30]

To start:

OL.

OL.

OL.

And Brahmer being out.

But not getting the ball to your playmakers in simple situations should be looked at.

 

[acoustimac]

Between terrible playcalling in critical situations and horrendous line play those are two things that make it difficult to win in any situation

 

[NetflixAndClone]

The problem is we were running on first and second down vs the FBS worst pass defense in the nation.

 

[Koala]

And while we're talking O-Line, there's Hufford with two of the exact same penalty to take away positive plays that he otherwise would have had no impact on.

 

[CascadeClone]

3 tight ends, shrinking the field. Not attacking the whole field.

Theyve gone back to the "we are afraid, we cant block anyone" style and pulled everyone into a phone booth.

Youre letting a bad Tech defense play in a hallway. Even they can do that.

Best example was that goal line play throw to Higgins that was incomplete. 2 TE right, one left, roll Rocco right, Higgins drags right. The 2 TE draw guys antake up space so Rocco cant run it in, and its so tight there its easy to bracket Higgins. Tech basically needed 5 guys to defend that and they had about 7. There was zero threat anywhere else. They compressed the field so much for Tech, it was easy to defend.

 

[spitfyr36]

Our problem of offense is we only move the ball in 30-50 yard chunks.
The 3-4 yard grind out plays are non existent from our offense

 

[ClonesFTW]

Play calling was embarrassing, timid and scared.

 

[Old87]

Campbell has a vision of what he wants for an offense. A midwestern college power running team with some passing. He is stubborn enough to keep pressing the issue instead of playing to the strengths of the existing players. That is why the results are the same from all of the different OC’s. Did our last OC leave the program because Campbell didn’t give him full control of the offense?

 

[Drew0311]

Campbell has a vision of what he wants for an offense. A midwestern college power running team with some passing. He is stubborn enough to keep pressing the issue instead of playing to the strengths of the existing players. That is why the results are the same from all of the different OC’s. Did our last OC leave the program because Campbell didn’t give him full control of the offense?

Ferentz and Campbell are almost the same coaching guy to be honest. It’s there way even if it’s not working

 

[CycloneErik]

To start:

OL.

OL.

OL.

And Brahmer being out.

But not getting the ball to your playmakers in simple situations should be looked at.

Even with bad OL play, we should have had an easy time getting Noel and Higgins in good situations against that defense.

 

[madguy30]

Even with bad OL play, we should have had an easy time getting Noel and Higgins in good situations against that defense.

Yep, to my last point. Play catch short and let them get down field.

 

[ClonesFTW]

Tech gave up 51 to freaking Abilene Christian, 41 to Cincinnati, 59 to Baylor, and we squeaked out 22 at home after a bye week to prepare. The offense is not good right now.

 

[CyGuy5]

Tech gives up 30 a game, and we made them look all world today. Their secondary can’t cover anyone, but I don’t think we even tried to attack them downfield once today. Instead we lined up Klotz and Moore and tried to run right at the 7 guys they put in the box. Not to mention it’s game 8 and we’re still rotating running backs as if Hansen clearly isn’t the best guy on the field. Today was a complete and utter failure by the entire coaching staff.

 

[IlliniCy]

Ferentz and Campbell are almost the same coaching guy to be honest. It’s there way even if it’s not working

The difference is Campbell has integrity.

 

[cayin]

The threads over the next week are going to be hilarious because if you showed someone them out of context they'd assume we were 1-7 instead of 7-1.

that is not it, it is what could have been that really hurts and people have a right to feel upset about it. The game was lost by completely preventable mistakes on offense. We are having a great season, but our schedule is not that great. I think the 2020 team was better than this one.

 

[mbbclone]

Every team from here on out is going to bring the house against us, knowing we can’t block them.

 

[CycloneErik]

Tech gave up 51 to freaking Abilene Christian, 41 to Cincinnati, 59 to Baylor, and we squeaked out 22 at home after a bye week to prepare. The offense is not good right now.

You mean that the offensive coaching is not good right now.

 

[cayin]

I've generally actually been happy with the offense this year but today we had more bad drops than usual and bad penalties, a lot more than we've seen this year. It's felt like the offense has been executing and keeping their noses clean enough to run it the way Campbell wants to and still win, but the last two games felt like a regression. Today was reminiscent of '22 in some ways.

Rocco has also been off just enough, like today he just straight up didn't see some receivers and his accuracy comes and goes. He'll do that running throw 30 yards downfield and nail Noel on the sideline, then he'll completely whiff the 5 yard flat. I think he should have had the 2 pt throw but I haven't seen a great replay to see if I'm wrong.

For some reason he was putting a lot of heat on shorter routes, needed to put a little touch on those. And that 2 point conversation, WTF? It was right there, just get the ball to the receiver.

 

[AllInForISU]

Play calling was bad today. Running a qb power on 3 and 11 with 5 minutes left, the 3rd down play after Sama’s big run, and running too much on an absolute trash secondary were the 3 major gripes for me this game.

 

[BenEClone]

Recruiting - more talent can make up for substandard play.