You will never succeed running the ball over and over. You have to have a pass game as well to win. Our run game should have opened up our pass game. The problem was our o-line was way less effective in pass protection than run blocking.
You will never succeed running the ball over and over. You have to have a pass game as well to win. Our run game should have opened up our pass game. The problem was our o-line was way less effective in pass protection than run blocking.
I never said "run the ball over and over". But I believe we had seven (7) rushing attempts in the second and third quarter? You can always call some play action or RPO plays from the run game, bootlegs, designed QB runs, and also some downfield passes for sure. But we all but abandoned the running game....when that should be our strength? Yes....Nevada had more explosive plays....because we kept giving them the damn ball back too many times. As far as pass protection, I'm no expert, but I don't recall seeing more than a couple of QB hurries....?
True most of the time, but Nevada showed no ability to stop us, so why try to start passing with low percentage passes? It seems like we were 2nd and 10 or 2nd and 7 every time we threw, so that created a lot of 3rd and longs where the football bible says you need to pass, leading to more three and outs.
You will never succeed running the ball over and over. You have to have a pass game as well to win. Our run game should have opened up our pass game. The problem was our o-line was way less effective in pass protection than run blocking.
I never said "run the ball over and over". But I believe we had seven (7) rushing attempts in the second and third quarter? You can always call some play action or RPO plays from the run game, bootlegs, designed QB runs, and also some downfield passes for sure. But we all but abandoned the running game....when that should be our strength? Yes....Nevada had more explosive plays....because we kept giving them the damn ball back too many times. As far as pass protection, I'm no expert, but I don't recall seeing more than a couple of QB hurries....?
True most of the time, but Nevada showed no ability to stop us, so why try to start passing with low percentage passes? It seems like we were 2nd and 10 or 2nd and 7 every time we threw, so that created a lot of 3rd and longs where the football bible says you need to pass, leading to more three and outs.