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Charting the game - Utah Edition
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every time we try to slowly unbutton the other teams' dress one button at a time in the first quarter, we wind up alone in the alley holding air ~ we need to cut that shit out ~ we simply do not have the overwhelming talent advantage.
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@Woof Great analysis, as usual. This is why I joined this bored.
How many of the runs were toward the short side of the field? It always feels odd to me to run a play in less space, particularly if you're not having much success running it up the middle already.
How much of our? lack of success on running was due to lack of execution? Is the Utah front 7 that much stronger? -
I wasn't tracking it, but went back and looked. I'll try to track this from now on. Again, I'm going to caveat that I tried to track where the ball was supposed to go, but there were at least 3 runs where it looked like it was supposed to go one way, but the back bounced it to the other side, which on at least 2 occasions was a bad decision.BCoveysLifeInsPolicy said:@Woof Great analysis, as usual. This is why I joined this bored.
How many of the runs were toward the short side of the field? It always feels odd to me to run a play in less space, particularly if you're not having much success running it up the middle already.
How much of our? lack of success on running was due to lack of execution? Is the Utah front 7 that much stronger?
Ran 15 times to the short side of the field at 2.3 YPC
Ran 8 times to the wide side of the field at 7.5 YPC
Two other notes:
I didn't go through all the plays again, but I noticed two different instances where Morris checked into a run on 2nd and long when we had 11 personnel on the field and Utah had 8 in the box. I'm not sure what the hell Morris was thinking, given we had man coverage on the outside. Play action would have been an absolute killer on both those plays. In general, we needed to stretch the field more.
Also, on the interception to Jones, Cade was running wide open underneath and Pleasant looked to have a 5 yard cushion with the LB, so there were three good options. Jones was the right read, but it was a great play design in general. -
There were 20 second-down plays, with an average of 7.75 yards to go so obviously first down was a problem, too. What shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone was that for the first time this season third down also was an issue, converting only 4 of 13 and facing an average of 7.9 yards to go.
I’d be curious to just how many plays on 1st and 2nd down Morris checked into a run. I remember hearing “kill kill kill” a lot and then a run into a stacked box right after.
On second downs, it was an even split of 10 passes and 10 rushes.
Morris completed 7 of 10 for 74 yards and an interception on second-down throws, and five of those seven completions netted a first down.
On the 10 second-down rushes, they gained 40 yards. McGrew ran for 26 on one run and Bynum had 11 on the jet sweep on the final drive. That means eight other second-down rushes netted a total of only 3 yards.
Jesus.
