Some thoughts on the Maryland game.

[herbsinator]

Im watching the game again this morning. Raiola’s second interception really changed the game. We had just scored and were up 10, then got Maryland off the field right after that. We were moving the ball and a TD on that drive would have probably broken their back.

 

[Baron Winnebago]

I get people looking at the box score and being excited about the low # of sacks allowed, but I think that's more due to Dana doing a great job neutralizing their pass rush with his play calling. Lots of screens and short passes that didn't give Mathis & Co time to get home.

OL (and everyone else pass blocking) still crappy, but Dana did a good job masking it yesterday.

Sure, but I guess I don't necessarily care how they don't up sacks as long as they don't give up sacks.

 

[ChocaEgg]

Sure, but I guess I don't necessarily care how they don't up sacks as long as they don't give up sacks.

I get that, but we're going to need to be able to throw the ball down field against other teams. If we can't stretch the field we're going to have a bad time against quite a few of our remaining opponents

 

[Baron Winnebago]

I get that, but we're going to need to be able to throw the ball down field against other teams. If we can't stretch the field we're going to have a bad time against quite a few of our remaining opponents

Sure, but as you've noted there are lots of different ways to scheme up what you need to be able to do to win football games

 

[ChocaEgg]

Sure, but as you've noted there are lots of different ways to scheme up what you need to be able to do to win football games

Gonna run out of rabbits to pull out of the hat. If we had a decent OL (and DL), we'd have a chance to be special this year.

 

[BorWhiskey]

I was really surprised we didn’t blitz him or get in his head. Dude was calm the whole game, not rattled at all. Their OL was pretty good too.

I recognized in my limited watching that we were sitting back in coverage and not blitzing. I was assuming it was because we feared his scrambling and assumed he’d screw up a few times by forcing the ball into coverage at some point in a long drive. They did a good job of finding the space in our coverage.

Looking back at the possessions, UMD had 11 total. Three were sustained, over 50 yards of offense resulting in 17 points. Eight were under 40 yards of offense, but one of those still resulted in a TD because it was a short field off of a DR interception. So the approach was to get him to make a mistake but he didn’t. They still couldn’t consistently move the ball against us, though, only having successfully moved the ball on 36% of their possessions.


Conversely we blitzed Chiles 44% of the time, and Underwood 54%. Butler certainly gave a different look the opposing teams have to prepare for.

 

[Baron Winnebago]

I recognized in my limited watching that we were sitting back in coverage and not blitzing. I was assuming it was because we feared his scrambling and assumed he’d screw up a few times by forcing the ball into coverage at some point in a long drive. They did a good job of finding the space in our coverage.

Looking back at the possessions, UMD had 11 total. Three were sustained, over 50 yards of offense resulting in 17 points. Eight were under 40 yards of offense, but one of those still resulted in a TD because it was a short field off of a DR interception. So the approach was to get him to make a mistake but he didn’t. They still couldn’t consistently move the ball against us, though, only having successfully moved the ball on 36% of their possessions.

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Conversely we blitzed Chiles 44% of the time, and Underwood 54%. Butler certainly gave a different look the opposing teams have to prepare for.

This was the shit I was looking for. Thanks homie

 

[nscottie]

I recognized in my limited watching that we were sitting back in coverage and not blitzing. I was assuming it was because we feared his scrambling and assumed he’d screw up a few times by forcing the ball into coverage at some point in a long drive. They did a good job of finding the space in our coverage.

Looking back at the possessions, UMD had 11 total. Three were sustained, over 50 yards of offense resulting in 17 points. Eight were under 40 yards of offense, but one of those still resulted in a TD because it was a short field off of a DR interception. So the approach was to get him to make a mistake but he didn’t. They still couldn’t consistently move the ball against us, though, only having successfully moved the ball on 36% of their possessions.

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Conversely we blitzed Chiles 44% of the time, and Underwood 54%. Butler certainly gave a different look the opposing teams have to prepare for.

Nice analysis. Thanks

 

[stonesak]

Outside of the interceptions Dylan played a really good game. Get those cleaned up and we'll be in good shape.