Quote:Pretty much this. Olson's nuts tighten into raisins at the goal line. He thinks has to get SOME POINTS. He plays ultra conservative. Apparently he doesn't trust his QB to not throw an int. Also, I am not sure if a fade pattern is even in the Jag's playbook, or else Blake cannot throw one, so we never do it. Olson regresses and does the safest run possible that cannot lose yardage. It must be something in the water here, all our OC's nut up in the red zone.
There is a reason we were called "team field goal" for years.
At half time when Bradley was interviewed he mentioned the Red zone and how we must get TD's. So it was not lost on him this Futility of running from the 2 yard line time after time after time with this weak line.
After half we did indeed Suddenly discover the TE we bought just for this situation.
The sad thing is we will probably forget this lesson within a week. Which is why a lot of people think Gus must go, he doesn't seem to learn from the mistakes, he reverts back to them and his coaches revert as well. But we can hope for the best, hope they put more faith in Blake, and hope the OC calms down a bit inside the 20.
They play what they have. Their playbook doesn't work well in the red zone because its mostly crossing and deep routes, Bortles isn't good at the fade yet and they can't power run. What they are left with looks conservative because its simple.
Quote:They play what they have. Their playbook doesn't work well in the red zone because its mostly crossing and deep routes, Bortles isn't good at the fade yet and they can't power run. What they are left with looks conservative because its simple.
I don't know, I'm pretty sure there's more plays that can be run than the patented "up the middle with any back but the starter"
Why not roll Blake out (which he excels at, btw) and see what happens?
Tight end fakes a block, falls down, gets up, 99 out 100 times he is standing alone. It's one of the best and easiest plays in the book. Marcedes blocks all game, he would be perfect for this,it's just some creativity, if the ball is thrown low the risk is low. For god's sake at least it would stop the opposing team from selling out completely to stop a 1 yard run.. It would keep the safeties a little honest. Marcedes can act and sell it. He acted like a Tight end and got a fat contract, he can fake falling down on a low block to get completely uncovered and wide open.
Do we evern practice this stuff, or do we just practice bull rushes up the middle? Why is blake having a hard time with Fade routes? He doesn't have the touch or he doesn't know his recievers? Isn't that why the QB coach and receivers coach gets a million bucks a year to train young blake in overcoming his deficiencies?. There are college teams with more creativity than our offense is showing. Will it ever end?
We went throught JDR, 3 yards and dust. He would run it 12 straight times no problem. We were promised Mularkey was "wide open", and it was again 3 yards and a cloud of dust. We were promised new coordinators that were passing gurus, I haven't seen a fade pass or a creative red zone pass play this year.
C'mon Coaches, DO YOUR JOB.
Denard has shown he can make magic (something out of nothing) when he has just a crease of daylight.
The problem wasn't calling on Denard.
The problem was expecting a crease of daylight generated from an Oline that was struggling against goal line D.