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Do the needful and follow Georgia's and Alabama's example from last year.
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However, I was referencing Georgia's 68% and Alabama's 63% from last year because that is an abnormally high percentage of run to pass. While I admit I haven't done the legit analysis in regards to how those runs were used in various game situations, those two outliers lend themselves to the thought that the teams were favoring the run throughout the game.
Georgia had an unproven Freshman QB and leaned heavily on two senior RB to a tune of 44.9 runs to just 20.3 passes per game (per Sports Reference).
Alabama had an experience Sophomore QB who was well noted for his lack of passing ability and leaned heavily on the best stable of RB in the country to a tune of 43.7 runs to just 23.8 passes per game (per Sports Reference).
To me, that signals a focused strategy towards the team's strength of running it down opposing team's throats while limiting the passing game to ball control and lack of mistakes.
Being a fan of a team that has a lack of proven perimeter threats, a top target that just had ACL surgery, the most productive active RB in college, a bottle of lighting as a backup RB, and a QB who plays well when just managing a game but completely shits himself when asked to do anything more.....
Well I just figured these two teams would serve as a nice example that I'd like our? new offensive coordinator to follow since I'm sure he reads these boreds.
Butt, entering @Tequilla territory, pal.
Butt still......
I was way more concise in comparison.
In the CFB Championship Game, Alabama brought in a true freshman specifically to try getting the passing game working, as Georgia was stoning the run. Hurts only threw eight passes, Tagovailoa came in and made 24 attempts. The QBs also combined for 18 rushing attempts, so how many of those were called passes? Georgia also collected four sacks. Since the final stat line was 39 runs to 32 passes, that's really 35:36 run:pass when accounting for sacks, never mind scrambles out of pass plays. Meaning Alabama, when facing a defense they couldn't just push over, went so far as to change quarterbacks and then throw a LOT. I'm not going to look up the run:pass ratio just after Tagovailoa came in, but it had to be at least 40:60.
Georgia stuck to the script a little better, but theirs was at least moderately working. The final stat line was 32:45, which is quite a big jump over their season average passingwise, but still pretty heavily slanted toward the run.
The strength of the Husky offense in 2019 will--on paper at this time--be the run. The offense should definitely operate with this in mind. Going "all in" on the run, though, is how even a team like Alabama loses a title, because that's what was happening before the drastic shift in philosophy in that game. Eventually a team will stop what you do best. What separates good from great is the answer to "Then what?"
That being said, of course, we? do have a 4th year elite starter who will be the BEST QB in UW HISTORY!!!!!!>!>!!
You run the ball, you control the clock. You control the clock, you control the game. You control the game, you force mistakes.
Jesus H Christ