09-19-2022, 02:20 PM
(09-19-2022, 01:32 PM)Au165 Wrote: You script the first 20-25 plays of your offense with some variations for down and distance and such. The film work is to give you an idea of what you will see. What has been happening is teams are differing SOOO much from what they normally do to stop us (Like KC got last year) we now have to assume everyone will which means we will probably script in an offense build around Cover 2 going forward until teams get out of it.
The reason the 2nd halves have gone better is we make some adjustments after half, but the idea scripting of scripting to film is to have a well established and practiced plan of attack. This is exactly what KC had to go through last year.
The strange part is that both Taylor and Burrow talked during camp about the fact they'll see a lot more cover 2 this year, but it doesn't appear they prepared very well for what they knew was coming. That's a coaching failure on Zac and Brian's part and Burrow has made some pretty bad reads / decisions on his part. Everyone just looks confused and out of whack in the 1st halves of the 1st 2 games, and at times in the 2nd halves too.
Then, there's the stubbornness that keeps wanting to employ the wide zone too much in the run game when they really don't have the players for it and it's constantly failing due to quick penetration and lack of athleticism on this line.
The overall offense scheme is just a muddled mess right now. The coaches seem to be trying to figure it out on the fly, and it's led to heavy doses of passive, predictable play calling.
