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(09-15-2019 03:59 PM)bearcat72 Wrote:  What bothers me is the lack of misdirection in the offense. Defensive schemes are easy to develop when not needing to worry about something come back against the original motion of the play. Ritter is too slow footed out of the gate to run bootlegs or options.

I ran high school options with much better spacing on the two I've seen from UC. Why not run an option play out of the wildcat with speedy Tucker as the pitchman?

Now that you mention it, it does seem to be missing from our arsenal.

Lap showed a great one SF used on the Bengals Sunday where a WR went in motion to the left and eventually caught a screen for a big gain. The entire OL also went to that side and set up a wall of blockers. Meanwhile the QB rolled out tight (in the opposite direction) before throwing back across the field to the WR to start the screen. Even if they sniff it out and follow the line to that side, an athletic QB like Ridder ought to be get a few yards either throwing to another receiver on his side of the field, e.g. a TE, or just running it (to the sideline if he doesn't want to get hit).