OldVol
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Phil knows he screwed the pooch Saturday night. You can see it in his eyes.
Listen up sports fans: We've all made mistakes. Phil has probably looked at that film at least half a dozen times and said to himself, "We were crushing them with Riggs, I could just kick myself."
Hey, no use doing that coach, we've all done an admirable job of doing it for you, so if you're rear is sore, that would pretty much explain it.
Now, what to do?
Things I pointed out after the FL game were.
Settle on a QB, establish the run first, use play-action and misdirection to open up the field after the run has been established.
Item # 1 has been done. Erik is our QB. Clausen fans, (OldVol, he's talking to you) get over it. Erik's our QB of the future and the future begins Saturday in Baton Rouge. (Rick, we love ya, but this is the decision. Be ready in case you're needed.)
Item # 2 - Book it: Phil will establish the run Saturday Night if it's there to be established. We're going to be facing a better defensive front than Florida's, but we have the line to move the ball if we stick with it. I don't think Phil will make the same mistake twice in a row. If we don't get it done on the ground it will be because LSU takes the run away, not because we take it away ourselves. I have to tell ya, I felt sorry for the big guy, he didn't look like he's slept a lot. He'll fix the game plan.
Item # 3 - The play calling. Who knows? To be quite honest, I'm ready for Randy to go back upstairs and let Phil have more hands on with the offense. He was good at it when he coached for Majors and I'd rather have Randy off the field.
My thoughts for the LSU game are: We will lose in a close one if we can't complete more than 50% of our passes. If we continue to overthrow, underthrow, miss the open receiver, throw into traffic, and drop balls we'll lose. If we can correct these mistakes we will win.
I believe we have a good chance to correct them with Ainge not looking over his shoulder. There has to be a huge mental obstacle when you're playing like he and Rick have been.
If we stay with the run they will have to give us something downfield. I believe we can run on anyone. Here's the killer though. Even when teams have given us good looks downfield, we have failed to take advantage of it.
If this continues we're 1/2 this time Sunday.
Listen up sports fans: We've all made mistakes. Phil has probably looked at that film at least half a dozen times and said to himself, "We were crushing them with Riggs, I could just kick myself."
Hey, no use doing that coach, we've all done an admirable job of doing it for you, so if you're rear is sore, that would pretty much explain it.
Now, what to do?
Things I pointed out after the FL game were.
Settle on a QB, establish the run first, use play-action and misdirection to open up the field after the run has been established.
Item # 1 has been done. Erik is our QB. Clausen fans, (OldVol, he's talking to you) get over it. Erik's our QB of the future and the future begins Saturday in Baton Rouge. (Rick, we love ya, but this is the decision. Be ready in case you're needed.)
Item # 2 - Book it: Phil will establish the run Saturday Night if it's there to be established. We're going to be facing a better defensive front than Florida's, but we have the line to move the ball if we stick with it. I don't think Phil will make the same mistake twice in a row. If we don't get it done on the ground it will be because LSU takes the run away, not because we take it away ourselves. I have to tell ya, I felt sorry for the big guy, he didn't look like he's slept a lot. He'll fix the game plan.
Item # 3 - The play calling. Who knows? To be quite honest, I'm ready for Randy to go back upstairs and let Phil have more hands on with the offense. He was good at it when he coached for Majors and I'd rather have Randy off the field.
My thoughts for the LSU game are: We will lose in a close one if we can't complete more than 50% of our passes. If we continue to overthrow, underthrow, miss the open receiver, throw into traffic, and drop balls we'll lose. If we can correct these mistakes we will win.
I believe we have a good chance to correct them with Ainge not looking over his shoulder. There has to be a huge mental obstacle when you're playing like he and Rick have been.
If we stay with the run they will have to give us something downfield. I believe we can run on anyone. Here's the killer though. Even when teams have given us good looks downfield, we have failed to take advantage of it.
If this continues we're 1/2 this time Sunday.
