Postmortem Offense

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After flying up from FL to witness this game it was an extremely painful experience.
We look disorganized on offense,our play calling was repetitive and unimaginative.
We appeared slow to execute plays from sidelines signaling ,almost indifferent at times.We look like we don’t practice effectively nor scout the opponent defense properly given the special teams repeated fiascos.We look badly coached.

Not to be a Debbie Downer but my traveling to see another game in the future is way on the back burner.When the product is that bad,I’m not a buyer.

 

[carolinaspider]

The Patriot League coaches are not stupid. They have scouted us and they know what we are going to do. The Spiders tried Jet sweeps several times, the plays resulted in lost yardage. We shut down the offense with about 10 minutes left in the game. After that, we kept going 3 and out on short run plays. It was a mistake.

Per stats, Dawson ran once for 9 yards and that was it. Even Jasmon Coleman said where are the jet sweeps.
Every time we were in a passing situation and they showed blitz, we threw a bubble screen. In second half not one
resulted in a first down. No quick slants or pass in vacated areas. So next week we will get blitzed till the cows come
home. KW tends to hold on to the ball too long or try to make play himself. Maybe the whole problem with offense is the OL . Remember Vince Lombardi ran the same play till it was stopped, then he would switch to another scheme to keep the defense off balance.

 

[SpiderFanatic]

Per stats, Dawson ran once for 9 yards and that was it. Even Jasmon Coleman said where are the jet sweeps.
Every time we were in a passing situation and they showed blitz, we threw a bubble screen. In second half not one
resulted in a first down. No quick slants or pass in vacated areas. So next week we will get blitzed till the cows come
home. KW tends to hold on to the ball too long or try to make play himself. Maybe the whole problem with offense is the OL . Remember Vince Lombardi ran the same play till it was stopped, then he would switch to another scheme to keep the defense off balance.

I’ll give KW some credit, when the coaches allow him to get enough downfield passes to get in a rhythm he does alright. He looked pretty good throwing the ball in the first half. Missed a few guys but it was servicable. Also, the OL may be problematic but the play calling hasn’t been adjusted to compensate. Our passing game opens up our running game, not the other way around. The running game has done nothing all year, except for VMI and the few drives when we are mixing the passing and running game. Huesmans refuse to accept this. Can’t put it on wickersham when we have two running plays for no gain and then have a third and long every time.

 

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That was Chris Anderson providing the commentary- not Coleman.

 

[SpiderRick]

For a second game with enough time left on the clock to run a play or two before half, we opted to wind it down for a FG attempt. Baffling. Sends a bad message to the team too.

Been a long time since have watched a game as ugly as today's. All hail the defense though!

Pass completion to the 10 yard line with 15 seconds left in the half. Two time outs left. Every other head football coach from high school and higher would have taken at least one shot at the end zone before settling for a field goal. Huesman is laughable when it comes to offensive play calling. It's like the only purpose of that drive was to score a field goal, and the 27 yarder got blocked. Can ANYBODY give me one good reason why he does this every time we have the ball with the first half winding down? You're right KE, Huesman shows no confidence in the offense and it's got to affect them. No wonder every good offensive player we get transfers out.

And running out the clock with 11 minutes left and a 10 point lead? That just reeks of weakness...

We lost to an 0-6 team at home, have a bye week, and almost lose to a 1-7 team at home. Hard to celebrate this caliber of football; and it looks like we have yet another Coach-For-Life.

 

[ncspiderfan]

Pass completion to the 10 yard line with 15 seconds left in the half. Two time outs left. Every other head football coach from high school and higher would have taken at least one shot at the end zone before settling for a field goal. Huesman is laughable when it comes to offensive play calling. It's like the only purpose of that drive was to score a field goal, and the 27 yarder got blocked. Can ANYBODY give me one good reason why he does this every time we have the ball with the first half winding down? You're right KE, Huesman shows no confidence in the offense and it's got to affect them. No wonder every good offensive player we get transfers out.

And running out the clock with 11 minutes left and a 10 point lead? That just reeks of weakness...

We lost to an 0-6 team at home, have a bye week, and almost lose to a 1-7 team at home. Hard to celebrate this caliber of football; and it looks like we have yet another Coach-For-Life

Out of town yesterday and did not see game then.
Maybe I missed it when watching the replay today, but I thought it was 4th and 5 yards to go when they let the clock run down to end the half. I would have to watch it again, but one drive had a holding call that made it 1st and 20 or something like that. I might have the plays mixed up, but pretty sure that is the one and the receiver got tackled in bounds after the 10-yard catch.
You take the points early in the game on 4th and 5 in my opinion when you have a kicker who has been perfect to that point in the season, but I do not get paid to make those type decisions so what do I know. Of course, no points resulted but no one expected a miss. On the second blocked FG the Fordham player made a nice play or someone missed a block, that one was not on the kicker.

If I remember it right (and I might not, did not go back and check) that is as close as I can give you to a good reason to what he might have been thinking yesterday and again it is only my opinion as I am not a FB coach or expert.

 

[SFspidur]

You are correct...1st-and-10 at the 14 and we had a holding call against us. Two incomplete passes and we were facing 3rd-and-20 with 30 seconds to play. Got 15 yards on 3rd down, but it was still 4th-and-5 at the 9 when we had to decide between trying for FG or TD in the final seconds.

 

[Gallipoli]

Looking at the sequence in the 4Q, we had 3 series that resulted in 3 punts.

The first started at about 13 minutes left in the half. There were 3 runs, netting 1 yard in 2 minutes.

The second started around 8:18 left. There were 3 plays that netted 4 yards in 1:30 minutes. The first was a run for 2 yards up the middle, the second was a short pass by Kyle for 2 yards. The 3rd was an incomplete pass.

The third was 8 plays for 30 yards, covering 3:21. There were 7 runs up the middle by Powell and Wickersham, with one incomplete pass.

They got the ball and threw an INT and it was game over.

We got 35 yards in the entire 4Q. We won't win many games like this. We were lucky.

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[spiderdot]

Looking at the sequence in the 4Q, we had 3 series that resulted in 3 punts.

The first started at about 13 minutes left in the half. There were 3 runs, netting 1 yard in 2 minutes.

The second started around 8:18 left. There were 3 plays that netted 4 yards in 1:30 minutes. The first was a run for 2 yards up the middle, the second was a short pass by Kyle for 2 yards. The 3rd was an incomplete pass.

The third was 8 plays for 30 yards, covering 3:21. There were 7 runs up the middle by Powell and Wickersham, with one incomplete pass.

They got the ball and threw an INT and it was game over.

We got 35 yards in the entire 4Q. We won't win many games like this. We were lucky.

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#5 got the first td on the first drive and didn't have a target after that all game.... also he wus punt returner last 2 games and he wus pass effective got the longest punt return this year in college football... if he a playmaker how we not get him the ball; him and 10 should be go too I'm not understanding this

 

[KE Spider]

Out of town yesterday and did not see game then.
Maybe I missed it when watching the replay today, but I thought it was 4th and 5 yards to go when they let the clock run down to end the half. I would have to watch it again, but one drive had a holding call that made it 1st and 20 or something like that. I might have the plays mixed up, but pretty sure that is the one and the receiver got tackled in bounds after the 10-yard catch.
You take the points early in the game on 4th and 5 in my opinion when you have a kicker who has been perfect to that point in the season, but I do not get paid to make those type decisions so what do I know. Of course, no points resulted but no one expected a miss. On the second blocked FG the Fordham player made a nice play or someone missed a block, that one was not on the kicker.

If I remember it right (and I might not, did not go back and check) that is as close as I can give you to a good reason to what he might have been thinking yesterday and again it is only my opinion as I am not a FB coach or expert.

I missed it was 4th down. My bad. FG attempt was right option under those circumstances.

 

[Mojo-Spider]

Out of town yesterday and did not see game then.
Maybe I missed it when watching the replay today, but I thought it was 4th and 5 yards to go when they let the clock run down to end the half. I would have to watch it again, but one drive had a holding call that made it 1st and 20 or something like that. I might have the plays mixed up, but pretty sure that is the one and the receiver got tackled in bounds after the 10-yard catch.
You take the points early in the game on 4th and 5 in my opinion when you have a kicker who has been perfect to that point in the season, but I do not get paid to make those type decisions so what do I know. Of course, no points resulted but no one expected a miss. On the second blocked FG the Fordham player made a nice play or someone missed a block, that one was not on the kicker.

If I remember it right (and I might not, did not go back and check) that is as close as I can give you to a good reason to what he might have been thinking yesterday and again it is only my opinion as I am not a FB coach or expert.

Coach Huesman spoke specifically to the reasons for the two blocked FGs in his postgame media session...if I recall correctly the first one was a player coming in clean inside and the second another blocking failure from the outside...ironically he's the special team coach...

he also says creating game pressure and practicing kicks against it in practice is very difficult

Go Spiders!

 

[SpiderFanatic]

#5 got the first td on the first drive and didn't have a target after that all game.... also he wus punt returner last 2 games and he wus pass effective got the longest punt return this year in college football... if he a playmaker how we not get him the ball; him and 10 should be go too I'm not understanding this

We didn’t throw the ball to anyone in the second half. Receiver is clearly our deepest position but we shut all of the receivers down in the second half trying to run out the clock. Very frustrating. I was also surprised to not see him returning punts.

 

[Long Time UR Fan]

We didn’t throw the ball to anyone in the second half. Receiver is clearly our deepest position but we shut all of the receivers down in the second half trying to run out the clock. Very frustrating. I was also surprised to not see him returning punts.

I doubt that receiver will be our deepest position next year. Who wants to be a receiver in an offense when you are rarely targeted? And why would any TE want to play at Richmond? Our TE's can go games and never see a pass attempt to them.

 

[SpiderFanatic]

I doubt that receiver will be our deepest position next year. Who wants to be a receiver in an offense when you are rarely targeted? And why would any TE want to play at Richmond? Our TE's can go games and never see a pass attempt to them.

for sure

 

[Gallipoli]

I doubt that receiver will be our deepest position next year. Who wants to be a receiver in an offense when you are rarely targeted? And why would any TE want to play at Richmond? Our TE's can go games and never see a pass attempt to them.

This is how you destroy a program. You dismantle it piece by piece.

 

[Gallipoli]

If Huesman could have gotten his act together, we would be in first place in the conference. He has made a dog's breakfast of this situation.

 

[KE Spider]

Shh! Don't let Winston hear you. He may be offended.

 

[Gallipoli]

This sums up the game for us...

Rewatching the game, it was funny to hear Bob Black and Chris Anderson confused at points, joking about the constant throws behind the line of scrimmage while also feeling like we tried to bleed the clock out way too early. I imagine many fans’ thoughts mirrored their commentary. I think they nailed it, as that’s a pretty good summary of where things went wrong – our predictability and our passing strategy kept us behind the sticks.

The Spiders got 1st down run-happy once again. 68% of 1st down calls were runs, as our balance didn’t last long. On those 1st down runs, half of them went for two yards or less.

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[Gallipoli]

Even if Huesman switches QBs, will he improve play calling?