He is right...also no physical on his team, either.
Just like Whip said...there's no "Physical" on the scoreboard....
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why are his 2nd and 3rd qb's not ready to play?
It's weird that, given that neither of them can execute a forward pass, you wouldn't play the one that's a threat with his legs.
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I dunno.. we weren't going to run the ball well today anyway, so the only chance we had was to be able to throw it.. and our #2 & 3 guys can't throw it..
I just didn't like seeing the offense quit like it did. Get whip outta here.
Frost and Harry Potter were lazy QB recruiters. Luke McCafferey is a wide receiver at Rice. Logan Smothers has a noodle arm. Casey Thompson is undersized, has a weak arm, and isnt very athletic. He hit on one QB recruit in Milton. The rest have been abysmal.
You are right Mr. Whipple. That is why your talented play calling and typical shitty offensive game plan led to a total of 9 points.
And about Mccafferey- my son goes to Rice and has been to every home game (and at Houston)- said he plays but is a “non factor”
#firewhip
He has done nothing to improve the offense only hinder the team. He does nothing to try to fool the defense only run between the tackles and has his QB stay in the pocket and wait for the 15 yard pass plays to develope and get knocked around.
MJ needs to find a solution to this, maybe a GA or a consultant can come in and take over, can't be worse than what he has done in the last 3 games.
He has done nothing to improve the offense only hinder the team. He does nothing to try to fool the defense only run between the tackles and has his QB stay in the pocket and wait for the 15 yard pass plays to develope and get knocked around.
MJ needs to find a solution to this, maybe a GA or a consultant can come in and take over, can't be worse than what he has done in the last 3 games.
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Don't forget the only thing the Offensive Line is good at.. Picking up the Quarterback.
This is one reason you don't run a lot of long developing plays. MAYBE a screen pass every now and then. Maybe an outside run every now and then. The man is worthless
LM is averaging nearly 6 catches, 79 yards per game. That's pretty good & hardly a non-factor for any offense.
There is no fix for a bad offensive line. Doesn’t exist. Whip takes shots down field because he knows we’re not capable of a long sustained drive. We self destruct too often. Big plays are our best chance. It’s frustrating but true
I heard MJ say a couple of weeks ago that he would not interfere with the O play calling. That may not be the best decision.
Because they are taking mental reps in practice instead of real reps. Mental reps and 2 hand touch in the spring are our downfall.
Yes- it seems like no coincidence that we’ve had a couple of successful big gain screen plays the past couple weeks. Needs to continue on the regular.
I was hoping Casey would have more elite vision seeing the field. I think he’s only average and struggles consistently throwing spirals. We’ve had a lot of open WR’s missed.
While a QB may not see every open WR, he needs to improve there (assuming he makes it back from injury). Obviously, OL is not helping anything.
I don't like touch football either.
I think player evaluation and accountability was a big problem with the prior head coach as well as their scheme and system.
Mickey has been addressing accountability from a players and staff point of view, and addressed scheme on the defensive side of the ball.
But really, I think he needs to define what the offensive identity is going to be. Then recruit coaches and players who fit that identity.
With where things are right now, the rest of the season is kind of a loss because you only have the guys who are there. You do the best you can with that, but the focus needs to be on next year and the future.
Spending the time now to do the work on defining what you want to be, will go a long ways towards being able to acheive that.
Frost showed what ready, fire, aim looks like, and that is not successful, so there is no time like the present to define what you want to be, then start taking actions to move you in that direction.
If that means we come out running basic option football next week with Smothers, so be it. Even if it's not good or well executed, the fans will appreciate the long term plan (whatever that is) and the attempts to work towards it with what you got.
Purdy was injured and was the emergency Qb then Smothers got hurt. Personally I would have turned to Masker before an injured Purdy but I don’t think QBs 4 through 7 get any snaps
Since NU is now in the physical portion of the schedule, and CT is likely out, Purdy and Smothers are injured, by default Masker and Haarberg may be required to play regardless.
The last option will be Grant in the Wildcat and that would be fun to watch against Michigan in the Big Asswhoopin' House.
this is what I personally feel like they should do.. load up on option football, get the backs in a rotation, and get into a groove doing some run blocking..
there will absolutely be a time to drop back and float big passes down field, 10 times a game like we used to do.
You have to take the offense away from Whip though, and I think MJ is afraid to do that because he has seen up close how Whip turns into a big controlling class 1, a-hole.
Perhaps it's because MJ doesn't know that much about calling plays so he defers to Whipple because Whipple is the "expert" in that area of the game.
he may not know much about calling plays, that I don't know, he did coach wideouts, so he has to know the plays.. but if you read the tea leaves, you can see there was friction between whip and frost, and anytime MJ is asked about something on the playcalling or whatever, he puts it all on whip.. we all know whip can be a prick too.. so it's not hard to see this scenario where MJ just doesn't question him to avoid a big confrontation. We heard from his last boss that whip wouldn't run the ball when needed either.. you start putting together a few data points, and that's what I see.
Physicality and winning the trenches doesn't matter in the Big 10. Otherwise Ohio State and Michigan would win the conference almost every year. Oh wait.
TBH, can't understand, beyond maybe our oline is so ****ing horrible, that running would somehow be worse.
While I do think that is the case that our oline is that bad, Smothers running would have had to have been better than this. Or ****, do some wildcat shit with Grant. WTF did we really have to loose.
Just draw it up in the dirt in the huddle right? What we’re seeing now is the absence of Frost in the game plan.
Smothers did play
he netted zero yards in his two plays
he sucks, too
frost should be impaled on a flag pole in front of the capitol for every crow in the land to peck at
he netted zero yards in his two plays
he sucks, too
frost should be impaled on a flag pole in front of the capitol for every crow in the land to peck at
Both he and Purdy were banged up coming in to the game. Our biggest problem isn’t QB. It’s clearly our O line. Frost wasn’t wrong when he said Whipple needed to be more creative in the run game. I was befuddled as to why Whip didn’t try to keep running Grant in the first half. I think he ended up at 5 ypc
when CT went out, we did try to run it. a lot.
whip uses the 1st half to set up plays in the 2nd. it works every week.
what we saw on Saturday was the product of our asshole former coach, who should be locked in a dark windowless dungeon somewhere, having not recruited a quarterback since 2017.
QB, O line, backers, D line. I’m not sure he and Chin recruited many P5 level recruits. Smothers would have probably been pretty good in Tom’s offense. Not so much in Whip’s
IF Whip had been a little more committed to the run before Casey got hurt we might have been able to keep him upright. Illinois was just pinning their ears back and going after him with no concerns.
if rahmir brickhands johnson catches the ball CT never gets hurt
we were winning and we had 200 yards of offense in the 1st half against the "nation's #1 defense"
stop with the revisionist history. the gameplan was working despite CT playing like crap.
