Houstons Offense

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Watching this Houston vs Temple game I would love to see our offense evolve to the style Houston plays.
 
My family has had a giant boner for Herman and Houston and blamed Ohio Dtates poor season on his being gone.
 
GTCrew4b said:
My family has had a giant boner for Herman and Houston and blamed Ohio Dtates poor season on his being gone.
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Herman looks like a good one. I've watched Houston a few times this year and that offense is really impressive.
 
bsakoff said:
Watching this Houston vs Temple game I would love to see our offense evolve to the style Houston plays.
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And Auburn's offense was awesome before that, but now they're horrible. Sometimes it's just about the players you've got. I do like Houston'so offense, btw, but I also loved ours last year when it was running roughshod over top 10 teams.
 
I still cant figure out what went wrong with our offense this year. I thought this offense was all about the QB running it and everything else was plug and play. How wrong I was! JT looked awful by the end of the year. His passing in 2014 was a pleasant surprise. His passing in 2015 was worse than Reggie Ball's worst day.

Its easy to criticize the offensive design after this year but there's no denying it was unstoppable last year. CPJ didnt forget how to coach in a year. So why did we suck so badly this year?
 
TampaBayJacket said:
I still cant figure out what went wrong with our offense this year. I thought this offense was all about the QB running it and everything else was plug and play. How wrong I was! JT looked awful by the end of the year. His passing in 2014 was a pleasant surprise. His passing in 2015 was worse than Reggie Ball's worst day.

Its easy to criticize the offensive design after this year but there's no denying it was unstoppable last year. CPJ didnt forget how to coach in a year. So why did we suck so badly this year?
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Injuries - and a lot of them. No, that doesn't explain the OLine play, but our skill positions took a HUGE hit during the offseason and even on into the season.
 
TampaBayJacket said:
I still cant figure out what went wrong with our offense this year. I thought this offense was all about the QB running it and everything else was plug and play. How wrong I was! JT looked awful by the end of the year. His passing in 2014 was a pleasant surprise. His passing in 2015 was worse than Reggie Ball's worst day.
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Playing hurt and getting pounded every other play, often by multiple unblocked players. He certainly could have played better, but I think the explanation for why his play regressed from last year is easy.
GTWannaBee said:
Injuries - and a lot of them. No, that doesn't explain the OLine play, but our skill positions took a HUGE hit during the offseason and even on into the season.
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Not just injuries -- first we lost all of the skill position starters to graduation, and then their replacements got injured. And then sometimes *their* replacements got injured!

Just a brutal year all around.

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andrew said:
Playing hurt and getting pounded every other play, often by multiple unblocked players. He certainly could have played better, but I think the explanation for why his play regressed from last year is easy.

Not just injuries -- first we lost all of the skill position starters to graduation, and then their replacements got injured. And then sometimes *their* replacements got injured!

Just a brutal year all around.

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The key to stopping the TO is stopping the BB first (according to every commentator for everyone of our games ever). Miami faced our 4th string freshman linebacker at BB. They had to deal with a true freshman wr backed up by a true freshman. The abacks were a walkon and a freshman. The OT were freshmen.

Except for that year Maryland had eleventy million qbs killed in action, I haven't seen an injury year worse than the one we just had.
 
I get it about the injuries, but we were pretty healthy going into the ND game and they just stoned us like no D had ever done. They had a junk defense too, something like 5 LBs if I remember correctly, that I was worried other teams would copy. CPJ didnt seem to have an answer. I wonder how much was related to the ND defense and the, ahem, blue print?
 
TampaBayJacket said:
I get it about the injuries, but we were pretty healthy going into the ND game and they just stoned us like no D had ever done. They had a junk defense too, something like 5 LBs if I remember correctly, that I was worried other teams would copy. CPJ didnt seem to have an answer. I wonder how much was related to the ND defense and the, ahem, blue print?
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GT just wasn't that good. It wasn't a three win bad team, despite the record (it's never as good or bad as it seems), but it wasn't a top 25 team either, which it needed to be to beat Notre Dame. I know GT was then ranked in the top 25, but it's never as good or bad as it seems.

CPJ said the OL play wasn't so great in 2014 either and that Laskey and Days masked a lot of the OL poor play by breaking tackles. The new BB's weren't adept at breaking tackles.

Last year, CPJ could always run the BB behind Shaq when he needed a couple of yards. This year, no one on the OL stepped up to replace Shaq in short yardage situation.

With the OL underperforming and having nothing but freshmen and sophomores at every skill position but QB, the offense simply didn't have enough weapons.
 
TampaBayJacket said:
I get it about the injuries, but we were pretty healthy going into the ND game and they just stoned us like no D had ever done. They had a junk defense too, something like 5 LBs if I remember correctly, that I was worried other teams would copy. CPJ didnt seem to have an answer. I wonder how much was related to the ND defense and the, ahem, blue print?
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This is what has bothered me all year. For all the injury talk, we were healthy as hell at ND and had no O at all. And it seems like we lost all confidence after that one or every other DC figured something out.

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TampaBayJacket said:
I get it about the injuries, but we were pretty healthy going into the ND game and they just stoned us like no D had ever done. They had a junk defense too, something like 5 LBs if I remember correctly, that I was worried other teams would copy. CPJ didnt seem to have an answer. I wonder how much was related to the ND defense and the, ahem, blue print?
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Yes and no, we were already starting a FR at WR and aback I think. Skov was good to go, but didn't pan out to be a big play threat.

The OL was the biggest disappointment of the year. JHD was second. Just a down year.
 
TampaBayJacket said:
I still cant figure out what went wrong with our offense this year. I thought this offense was all about the QB running it and everything else was plug and play. How wrong I was! JT looked awful by the end of the year. His passing in 2014 was a pleasant surprise. His passing in 2015 was worse than Reggie Ball's worst day.

Its easy to criticize the offensive design after this year but there's no denying it was unstoppable last year. CPJ didnt forget how to coach in a year. So why did we suck so badly this year?
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Nothing is plug and play in football. You have to have talent to win this game. We had a tough talented team last year. The OL didn't play all that well last year and especially the first half according to PJ. We just had talented skill guys who made plays. This year = very little talent = 3-9 record.
 
Fredge said:
This is what has bothered me all year. For all the injury talk, we were healthy as hell at ND and had no O at all. And it seems like we lost all confidence after that one or every other DC figured something out.

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The only reason we beat VT last year is because we had a Deandre Smelter on the team.

This year was our worst crop of wide receivers I've seen at Tech in 19 years (coincidentally the last time we failed to make a bowl game).

Wide receivers who are big time playmakers are an absolute MUST if this offense is going to be Top Ten like it was last year. Have to keep recruiting the 6-3 to 6-5 receivers and pray to God they pan out as well as Smelter or Waller or Hill or BayBay.

We had ZERO jump ball guys or someone like Smelter or BayBay to run the "come back" routes to convert 3rd & 15's.
 
We replaced a guy who is now starting for the Patriots offensive line with a broken screen door. And then the screen door got injured.
 
Fredge said:
This is what has bothered me all year. For all the injury talk, we were healthy as hell at ND and had no O at all. And it seems like we lost all confidence after that one or every other DC figured something out.

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We were not healthy going into the ND game. Our likely top 2 BBacks (Leggett and Weimerskirch) were already out for the season, our top Aback was already kicked off the team, our top 2 freshman Abacks were already out for the season, and we lost our top 2 skill position players(save JT) during the game. Our starting tackle and likely best pass blocker was also out for the season. We deluded ourselves into thinking it was just plug and play, but it is clearly not.

I'm not making excuses either. Most teams of our caliber will struggle with injuries but have enough depth to not be completely decimated by them. Next year will be better, but if we want to avoid just folding up shop whenever we get hit hard by injuries, we can't have years where we just blow it in recruiting.
 
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