Malachi Coleman

[Pipe Line]

I don’t believe the play calling is inherently all bad. Something like 55-60% of Raiolas completions were 5 yards or less from the Los. I’m fine with that too even. Mike leach ran that shit to death at Texas tech.
The issue is Raiola doesn’t really fire a pass and lead a receiver in stride. Other WRs don’t know how to block to get more yards. WRs are almost always adjusting to catch short passes killing their forward momentum. The yac has to be terrible for this team.

Raiola only threw a couple completions that were caught past 10 yards downfield vs Indianus.

Yeah I don't 100% share the same opinion as others with Satt's play calling has been bad all year. I just don't think he's overly creative. I will say that I do believe that DR is finding out that college football isn't all 7 on 7 drills and Elite 11 Camps and cool twitter edits and poems about committing and what not. It's actually football and defenses are good and the Big 10 is good and you actually have to have intent with all of your throws instead of trying to be Mahomes Jr. There's a lot of instances where I feel like he's trying to be cool with a play instead of actually executing a play.

 

[Pipe Line]

Yeah, especially with a recruiting focus that goes after track guys & burners. Clearly from that aspect we have the desire to be able to to pressure the the back end of the defense and keep the safeties back, we have the QB who can easily get the ball way downfield, we have a line that can protect reasonably well so that unlike the 2022 Casey Thompson-Trey Palmer scenario, it's actually likely that the QB will have time to take a normal dropback & launch one... yet we're not really even attempting the deep routes that the coaches themselves ostensibly want to feature. Probably the most baffling thing to me about this offense.

That and the fact that a good majority of DR's passes have been somewhat under thrown.....I understand our stud receivers are having trouble with separation.....but his deep balls are basically just trying to draw DPI's this season, instead of trying to get TDs

 

[Carm]

Redshirting Van Poppel is, in my opinion, the dumbest choice made in terms of personnel.

It seems so dumb given the rationale presented that frankly I have a hard time believing he just wasn't beaten out.

 

[tman87]

That and the fact that a good majority of DR's passes have been somewhat under thrown.....I understand our stud receivers are having trouble with separation.....but his deep balls are basically just trying to draw DPI's this season, instead of trying to get TDs

He's thrown some deep to the right spots. Rarely do our WR's keep running and/or make the catch.

Often, our WR's are not getting separation, but have the sideline and their body as a safe space to throw behind and outside. However, DR and the offense is rarely even trying these throws at this point. You have to try to stretch the field some (and hit on at least a few) to keep defenses honest.

 

[turek420845]

I was with you until the end.

Lmao. What? He had like two deep balls that were good last year. He complete 49% of his passes.

Fuck, on Saturday in his limited action he could have easily had 2 picks on the last drive.

Good fucking lord the obsession with HH is retarded. Dylan is a 5 star with immense talent that is struggling in the middle part of the season due to a variety of different factors, some of which are his own.

but Jesus Christ stop with the HH stuff

 

[Pipe Line]

He's thrown some deep to the right spots. Rarely do our WR's keep running and/or make the catch.

Often, our WR's are not getting separation, but have the sideline and their body as a safe space to throw behind and outside. However, DR and the offense is rarely even trying these throws at this point. You have to try to stretch the field some (and hit on at least a few) to keep defenses honest.

Right, makes more sense than what I said

 

[Husker_in_OK]

It will be very telling just how the staff feels about Coleman, if he doesn't get on the field in November when redshirt status isn't an issue anymore.

If Coleman figured it out, he would really boost the offense, but I'm not feeling too optimistic.

 

[...TrueColors...]

It seems so dumb given the rationale presented that frankly I have a hard time believing he just wasn't beaten out.

Yeah I don’t know. There has to be more behind it than “We just wanna preserve a year for him.”

With transfers now, there are never any guarantees.

 

[panther07]

It will be very telling just how the staff feels about Coleman, if he doesn't get on the field in November when redshirt status isn't an issue anymore.

If Coleman figured it out, he would really boost the offense, but I'm not feeling too optimistic.

"Figuring it out" for Coleman also likely involves figuring out that in order to play on Saturdays you have to actually practice during the week

 

[tman87]

"Figuring it out" for Coleman also likely involves figuring out that in order to play on Saturdays you have to actually practice during the week

Is he just loafing at practices or is he often using weak excuses to not practice?

Either way, it is not a good thing. Or maybe it is some of both.

Low work-ethic players never really work out. If it is a work-ethic thing.

 

[Tell_Sackett]

Maybe that’s how Doogie teaches it along with WR picks that always get called.

Being at the game, the swing passes we run to the RB or TE that depend on the outside WR block are way too slow to develop. Both times we ran that play to the RB, the WR had the block engaged for 2 to 3 seconds and the play still hadn't gone by them. The DB came off the block and made the play.

That's just one example, but we have a massive scheme issue on offense. We do not stress defenses at all, there is no creativity, and it is why we are regressing both in-game and in-season. They adjust, and we don't.