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Basically teams are playing a lot of Cover 2 to take big plays away. Forcing us to drive which is mainly offensive scheme and we struggle at it. Then they often overload 1 side of the line and blitz us.
We struggle to run and protect Burrow. And a good amount of time, receivers aren't open.
It's up to coaches to scheme to fix this.
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So much truth there. Can’t argue when the boys are averaging like 3ypc.
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We lived off the big explosive plays last season (mostly to Chase). Without those this offense is really struggling. It’s up to Taylor and Callahan to come up with a better game plan. The OL is certainly making things more difficult (especially today), but there’s just no excuse for the offense to be this bad.
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They need to be more aggressive on first and second downs. How many times did we run it on those downs vs Pass.
At one point the average third down was 7.9. No wonder why we are struggling on that down so much. This offense should be breaking records (other than sack record) this season. Not averaging under 20 points per game.
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This is somewhat scary and twkling:
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Like to see more to the TE. Boyd, Higgins and Chase can pull the defenses away.
Like a teenage girl driving a Ferrari.
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Beating Cover 2 , you can use smash concepts
Post patterns , deep drag routes
Which Callahan and ZT have neglected to draw up
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Aside from the playbook seeming not to have any plays designed to beat Cover 2 (which exist in abundance, are time tested and successful) it would also help it we stopped telegraphing the play by the formation. When Burrow lined up under center we passed it exactly one time - every other time was a run. The selection out of shotgun was also unbalanced but in favor of the pass. It makes it a LOT easier on a defense when they know before the snap if it is a run or pass.