(08-10-2019 04:17 PM)Rice Dad Wrote:  

(08-10-2019 10:23 AM)RiceOL83 Wrote:  

(08-10-2019 08:59 AM)Hank16 Wrote:  If the offense is so complex how does Stewart beat out Green? Doesn’t make sense.

That offense is not that complicated. It’s all on a wristband and the QB has a choice to make based on the front he gets. Not that “complex” to count and pick the play.

If the key to our offense is the QBs getting us in the right play, help me calculate this:

1. We are openly a run dominant offense scheme. That is what we call primarily as a play and that is what we want to do. "Pound the Rock."

2. We are an "NFL system" offense.

3. Three Owls won the CUSA Academic Medal this year. 2 of those (Green and Towns) are QBs. Stewart has a degree from Harvard and is in the Rice MBA program. Marshman was academic all conference.

4. Of all NFL QBs running a pro-style offense who can "get their team in the right play", I would bet Green, Stewart, Marshman and/or Towns would score higher on an IQ test than at least half of them (and probably much higher than that).

So, why do we have so little success running the ball? You don't need an NFL arm to hand off the ball, and all of our QBs seem to be able to take a snap. Is it really that none of our QBs are smart enough to count defenders and make the right call (if that is how it is done - I really don't know what they read off of pre-snap), or is it something else?

??? The running game depends very little on the QB and much more on the quality, experience and skill set of the OL. As was evident last year at Stanford, even a guy with the exceptional speed and vision of a Bryce Love cannot make plays if his OL can't open up even the slightest of holes or provide several yards of push.