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(06-29-2020 10:45 AM)Gilesfan Wrote:  

(06-29-2020 10:27 AM)CalODUFan Wrote:  

(06-29-2020 10:01 AM)FTW ODU Wrote:  

(06-29-2020 08:44 AM)Gilesfan Wrote:  People do not understand the nuicances of calling 85 plays over the course of a football game. Not every play is designed to score a touchdown and some plays can be called to either set up other plays or keep defenses honest. I doubt there is a team in college football that does not call WR screens....and there is a reason for that.

While i've never called a play before, I'm very sure it is bad football to purposely call an offensive play that nearly always results in negative yardage. That is dumb play calling if you do that and Wilder did that consistently. At least get a nuanced play that goes forward not backwards.

The BW and Brian Scott offense was predictable, simple and unimaginative. Defenses knew exactly what was coming. They were completely out-coached by the Lane Kiffin's of C-USA. Giles seems to have a blind spot as an apologist for the old offensive scheme and coaches.

The offense was fine when we had talent. Actually it was quite good at times. It was great when it had a great QB in Heinicke. Really good with decent QB play by LaRussa/Washington. It was ok with Bentley. It was terrible with Hoy/Smart/deWeaver.

Overall, we had a very good offense for our level over the past decade. But, last year we lacked talent. And the talent that we did have was young. The good news this year is that we at least have some talent with a year under their belt.

Great talent overcame the mediocre offensive scheme. The offense did not assist players in getting better than they already were. The offense was only adequate when there was excellent talent. Even with DW and 3 NFL WRs (Pascal, Fulgham and Duhart) and 2 NFL RBs (Lawry and Cox) they barely beat a mediocre Eastern Michigan team in the Bahamas bowl.