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Hurry-Up Offense Will Gas Our O-Line

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Atlanta Griz1

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Can you imagine playing O-line for Stitt and having to run 90-100 plays each game? That is what our O-line will be expected to do this season, and all it will accomplish is wearing them out early in the second half. We need to rotate in 3-4 O-linemen to keep them fresh, but if we do, it will be a disaster. The quality depth just is not there this season.

Oh, and you can forget about having a 1000-yard rusher this season. This line would have trouble blocking a high school D-line in the running game. We will be relegated to passing the ball much more than even Stitt wants to do.

You can blame Delaney and Lurch for the pitiful recruiting of linemen the past 3 years.
 
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CDAGRIZ said:
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Agreed. It had never occurred to me that UM could have o-line issues, given they were already thin at o-line and then 3 starters got hurt. I'm surprised other posters haven't mentioned this. And the impact of running a hurry-up offense and so many plays. I wonder if Stitt and Germer have even thought of this. Great first post for someone who has had so much time to thing about things and just had a month-long timeout from the board. This is one of the benefits of having 30 days to think of one's next post.
 
Yet somehow, last season when this exact same offensive line was a year younger, smaller and less experienced they in fact DID block for a 1000 yard rusher.

But this ship be sinkin' !!!!!
 
AZGrizFan said:
Yet somehow, last season when this exact same offensive line was a year younger, smaller and less experienced they in fact DID block for a 1000 yard rusher.

But this ship be sinkin' !!!!!
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Come on AZFrizFan, even you couldn't be that ignorant to try to compare last year's single-wing 1950s offense to the Stitt aerial circus? Going for a new low in credibility quotient?
 
PlayerRep said:
CDAGRIZ said:
Awesome thread.
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Agreed. It had never occurred to me that UM could have o-line issues, given they were already thin at o-line and then 3 starters got hurt. I'm surprised other posters haven't mentioned this. And the impact of running a hurry-up offense and so many plays. I wonder if Stitt and Germer have even thought of this. Great first post for someone who has had so much time to thing about things and just had a month-long timeout from the board. This is one of the benefits of having 30 days to think of one's next post.
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Don't drop your K-Y Jelly. Stitt already knows all about you. Try to keep up with me this time, instead of being a pussy and demanding that I be banned.
 
Atlanta Griz1 said:
AZGrizFan said:
Yet somehow, last season when this exact same offensive line was a year younger, smaller and less experienced they in fact DID block for a 1000 yard rusher.

But this ship be sinkin' !!!!!
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Come on AZFrizFan, even you couldn't be that ignorant to try to compare last year's single-wing 1950s offense to the Stitt aerial circus? Going for a new low in credibility quotient?
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So now you're saying we won't have a 1,000 yard rusher due to a pass-happy offense, and not because of poor O-line play?
 
Htowngriz said:
Atlanta Griz1 said:
AZGrizFan said:
Yet somehow, last season when this exact same offensive line was a year younger, smaller and less experienced they in fact DID block for a 1000 yard rusher.

But this ship be sinkin' !!!!!
Click to expand...


Come on AZFrizFan, even you couldn't be that ignorant to try to compare last year's single-wing 1950s offense to the Stitt aerial circus? Going for a new low in credibility quotient?
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So now you're saying we won't have a 1,000 yard rusher due to a pass-happy offense, and not because of poor O-line play?
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No, i'm saying that Delaney ran a running offense, and if the O-line had been any good, we should have had 3000 yards rushing from our RBs (about 280/game). We were not even close to that figure, showing how poorly our O-line blocked in the running game. With no lead blocker this year, it will not be pretty. I guess you didn't watch the first two scrimmages.
 
Htowngriz said:
grizcountry420 said:
I don't think our offense will be anywhere close to running 90-100 plays a game this year. It's not gonna happen..
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Why?
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I just think there is too much of a learning curve to learn and execute an offense at that pace. It might happen a couple years from now but not this year..
 
Imagine the teeth grinding that must have occurred when we went from Donovan's offense to the Don Read "airial circus". Egriz would have been a lot of fun back then...
 
If we are running 90-100 plays, yes the O Line will be pretty tired, but guess what, so will the D-Line and absolutely more so. The O-Line doesn't have to try and chase down somebody every play and make a tackle.
 
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