(09-03-2018 02:07 PM)Old Dominion Wrote: OK, so what would be reasonable adjustments to expect in one week? It seems we have some different offensive looks, we just don't use them very often.
What adjustments can the corners make? do you start Arnold?
Steve Williams was NOT the best looking QB in Spring, Drayton Arnold was.
Apparently DA was also the best looking in camp, with some observers relegating SW to 4th behind Fitzgerald. (not sure if that's fair as I don't know if Fitz played against first team defenders).
Although we present a number of looks, most of our running plays end up inside the tackles, as they have for years. We are not going to change that in a week. Without Lawry, it is going to be problematic against a stout rushing defense.
Additionally, I don't remember seeing any run/pass blitzes. I don't think LU even stacked the box It seems that LU didn't feel the need to play us anything but straight up. If true (and my feed was very intermittent) then we better do something going forward, because if they stuffed us like that with no extra compensation then they either have a top P5 equivalent defense or our offense is the worst we have ever fielded.
GotLabradors commented on Brickhouse playing the man instead of the ball. If I am not mistaken, GL played college defense? In any event If that cannot be fixed then he (Brickhouse) needs to sit.
As Giles stated, our defense looked good except for the first drive and then beyond the 3.5 quarter. I hope that we looked bad because we "quit", however the fact that an ODU unit quit is astounding, We didn't even quit vs UNC.
FIU is certainly going to answer a lot of questions as while they are not awful, they are likely in the bottom half of the East