Re: Tyler Roehl's over
Oline play has been abysmal all year. Go watch the 1st qtr of the jacks game for reference. Very little to no push combined with LBs running down hill faster than our oline can get off their first level blocks creates a massive cluster fuck no matter where the ball is going. Not to mention there always seems to be disruption behind the line of scrimmage. Pullers getting of course bc the playside 3 cross faced and the guard is now rallying to put a body on him. Getting shed on our down blocks. Teams are cuing on our run game. As they should, because we're a power running team.
HOWEVER. Go back and watch right before the end of the 1st quarter against SDSU. Its second and long and Ty calls power pass. BEAUTIFUL call. Brozio arrows to the flat and is wide fucking open for big yards. SDSU was caught with their pants down and had 8 guys on the line of scrimmage bc they keyed the run. But for whatever reason Cam never even looks his way. He's looking at the backside TE on the seam for literally 3-4 seconds. By then SDSU could rally and now Brozio is covered. If that ball goes to Brozio the second he gets across the line of scrimmage, we're talking 15-20 yards and now all of a sudden SDSU has to think twice about what their doing defensively.
Ty cant make these guys make plays. He cant make the o-line block better. It doesnt matter if its zone, power, sweep whatever. Hell there was a play when you could hear the SDSU coaches yelling "watch stretch! Watch stretch!" and we ran the damn stretch play and we had numbers. But the backside doesnt cut off pursuit, our pullers do a piss poor job on the edge, and Luepke runs right up their ass. Now, we did gain 7 yards on the play bc Hunter is a beast and didnt get tackled on first contact, but everyone just failed to do their job and the play really should have only gained 3 yards at best.
These situations occur several times a game. Lack of execution has been our primary issue all year. Some of that is youth. Some of that is player quality. Some of that is coaching. Its just a perfect shit storm. But it starts with players doing their 1/11th. If we run play action on second and medium, we get decent protection, the wideout gets open but our QB cant throw an accurate ball thats on the QB. If its second and 3 and we run power that gets blown up because the center fucks up his down block and the nose beats him across his face requiring the puller to pick him up therefore leaving the backer to run free thats on the center. If Ty calls a FB dive on the first play of the game and we dont have enough blockers playside for all the defenders thats on Ty.
This is not 'Nam. This is Bisonville. There are rules here.