For the X & O's people, what should the O-line (Piper in particular) have done on this play? Adrian's 71 yard run could easily have been a 10 yard sack due to the free run up the middle the linebacker had. Facing 4 linemen and a LB standing to the right of Jurgens, there was a big gap in the D front between Jurgens and Piper. A linebacker (#2) was in this gap a couple yards back. At the snap Piper immediately looked outside to the D tackle, and #2 shot the gap untouched. The DE who the tackle (Corcoran I assume) was to engage dropped back in coverage, Piper tried to recover but was way too slow, Corcoran engaged the D tackle who immediately shed his block and was in the backfield as well. So our biggest run of the day resulted from horrible blocking by the o-line. I know that's why teams fear running qb's - they can turn busted plays into big gains. But that's not something we can rely on against better teams.
Even worse, after watching it again, #2 had made a couple steps forward trying to time the snap, and we still ignored the fact that he may be blitzing.