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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins
The spread shotgun is a problem, because the running game is getting devoured. I enjoy the fact that we spread the field out, but we need to be using an ace package at least 30 percent of the time. Otherwise, our running plays take too long to develop, and the more athletically talented back 7 can blow up the bubble screens too easily.
You can't succeed when you run Jet Sweeps and Bubble Screens on 70 percent of your plays.
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The play calling was vastly improved today with a couple of glaring exceptions. If you take away that 4th down call, there isn't too much to bitch about. I said very early on that I was glad that we weren't throwing to Moe on every play. When we stretched the field, it opened up the underneath passes.
I'm really starting to think (instead of just hope) that Yost has been holding back a lot in anticipation of this stretch of games. There were holes for our backs. These guys are pretty inexperienced. There is a lot of room to improve. It sounds simple to put in a goal line package or two, but it takes a lot of practice time for plays that might get used less than 5 times per game. Numbers wise, we're not bad in short-yardage. It just looks ugly.