Oregon better grab Chip Kelly right now, or else be Damned to Helfrich

RoadDawg55 said:

I didn't watch the game, but fumbled snap must be the TCU's best player on defense.

CokeGreaterThanPepsi said:

CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:

Tequilla said:

1) Why warn Oregon about their impending "doom"

2) If it wasn't already obvious to Oregon fans, supporters, donors, AD, and Uncle Phil that Slingblade wasn't the right guy, they're entering Pat Haden territory

3) The idea that people have of handing the ball to the same RB 30-40x per game week in and week out isn't consistent with the way that football is played today and borders on dinosaur thinking



5) To say that Oregon should have just run the football isn't paying attention to what actually happened in the game. Comments that people make that are over generalizations about what a coach should do acting like he shouldn't do that is one of my pet peeves and really fucking bothers me. It's fine to play arm chair QB, but get your facts straight when you do so versus just popping off just because something didn't work out. Oregon's drives in the 2nd half are as follows:

Drive #1:

1st down: Run Freeman for 6 yards
2nd down: Fumbled snap for -20 yards
3rd down: Run Freeman for 3 yards

Drive #2:

Fumbled Kickoff

Drive #3:

1st Down: Freeman run for 6 yards
2nd Down: Freeman run for 4 yards, First Down
1st Down: Freeman run for 8 yards
2nd Down: Freeman run for 6 yards, First Down
1st Down: Freeman run for 4 yards
2nd Down: Benoit run for 2 yards
3rd Down: Fumbled snap for -5 yards

Drive #4:

1st Down: Lockie pass to Addison for -1 yards
2nd Down: Freeman for 4 yards
3rd Down: Lockie incomplete

Drive #5:

1st Down: Freeman for 1 yard
2nd Down: Lockie incomplete
3rd Down: Lockie incomplete

Drive #6:

Short drive to run out the clock

Drive #7, First Overtime:

1st Down: Freeman for 5 yards
2nd Down: Lockie for 1 yard
3rd Down: Lockie incomplete
4th Down: Lockie pass to Freeman for 17 yards
1st Down: Freeman for 1 yard
2nd Down: Freeman for 1 yard, TD

Drive #8, Second Overtime:

1st Down: Lockie incomplete
2nd Down: Nelson for no gain
3rd Down: Lockie to Addison for -2 yards

Drive #9, Third Overtime:

1st Down: Lockie incomplete
2nd Down: Freeman for 8 yards
3rd Down: Fumbled snap for -5 yards
4th Down: Lockie incomplete

By my count, Oregon ran 29 meaningful snaps in the 2nd half. Of those 29, Freeman got the ball either as a runner or receiver 14 of those 29 plays with 3 of the 29 plays fumbled snaps that may or may not have gone to Freeman. The reality is that Oregon's offense with Lockie all year sucked in so many ways largely driven by the fact that they didn't trust anything in the passing game and therefore turned to the RBs (because they didn't trust Lockie to run) ... and defenses knew it. I don't care how talented you are, when teams don't have to respect areas of other teams and can make them one dimensional, they tend to be fairly easy to contain. And anybody that has paid an ounce of attention to TCU's maligned defense this year, this has been the case at Oklahoma once Mayfield was injured, against Baylor as soon as the weather got as shitty as I've ever experienced at a game rendering the passing game useless, and then last night when they didn't have to respect Lockie's ability to beat them with his arm.

Drives 4, 5, & 8 are the killers because Freeman either got 1 or 0 touches on those drives. Even your fucking stupid OC went away from the run following Oregon's FG in OT. Dude went full Sark mode and you're lucky TCU's kicker is good or else we'd be talking about how TCU almost pulled out a great come from behind victory.

Drive 8 Freeman took himself out wasn't in the game.

Tequilla said:

LaZoris said:

Lockie was 7/15 for 36 yards. Threw the ball 15 times... He should have maybe attempted 6 passes that 2nd half.

Disagree. A few of those throws were in situations where they had no choice to do so. Another handful of those throws were WR screens that were more or less running plays. They didn't make too many throws with Lockie where he wasn't either throwing a screen or checking it down to Freeman.

The problem is that when a team realizes that they don't have to respect the downfield passing game, they aren't putting 8 in the box, they are putting 9 in the box and it not only allows them to run blitz all of the running lanes, but also allows them to run a fire blitz right up the middle to blow up the QB just in case he does decide to do play action.