Why Couldn't We Run?

[grizatwork]

We couldn't run because Cal Poly stacked the box and sold out on stopping the run. CP also over pursued on every run play, but we never ran a counter, or reverse, or hell JJ could've gotten 30+ yards if they called a naked boot leg. The reason we couldn't run was the Offensive Coordinator didn't take what Cal Poly was giving him. He did call a couple of long pass plays when our receivers were one on one, but that is not the only play you can call, plus those take a while and JJ was getting pressured.

Bottomline -Cal Poly decided to take away the run and they sold out to do it, the Grizzlies Offensive Coordinator never adjusted.

No way JJ runs a bootlet against CP. They had very disciplined defensive ends and all teams have scouted our play action bootleg. Every backside defensive end stays home now.

 

[PlayerRep]

Some people who "played the game" seem to believe that it is akin to understanding non-Newtonian physics. They are too full of themselves to realize it really isn't all that complicated. As a 12 year old I probably knew 90 percent of all I needed to know. That last 10 percent, well, you probably did need to have played to know it. And maybe that bit makes all the difference. However, I know enough people who did play that I am really not in awe of what they know that I don't. As much as they might want you to believe, they aren't rocket surgeons. There is no reason to kow-tow to the self-anointed football cognoscenti. F--- them!

You summed it up. At 12, you knew 90% of what you thought you needed to know. That's pretty funny. Again, why do people get so offended when someone tells them they never played the game or don't know the game? Is it because they know they don't know what they're talking about?

This is just weird. Why would someone need to TELL someone else that they never played the game? Would't that person that's being told by someone (you) already know that?

Several things come to mind. I find that alot of people who don't understand certain subject areas, like football, don't know enough to know they don't know much. Don't you ever notice dumb posts that show that the person must not have been close to a football field or locker room? I see them fairly often, but usually don't say anything, because I like the poster or have no negative view of them. Also, most of the time I say that now, I'm just trying to irriate the person or joking around. Notice that I don't usually use foul language and don't use emoticons. Thus, I don't have many arrows in my quiver. Lastly, most of the people who post on this board didn't play a huge amount of football or college football. I've only seriously have said the phrase to probably less than a dozen posters.

 

[grizatwork]

If you remember our running game in 2011. We had a lot of the same complaints about our O-line. The stretch and inside/outside zone runs typically get better as the year wears on as the O-line learns each other better and the backs get more comfortable as to when to plant the foot and go. By the MSU game in 2011, the line had gelled and we ran free in Bozeman. You don't get better at it if you don't run it. We also ran into an athletic front 7 from Cal Poly. Canada needs to learn when to plant the foot and take 2 to 4 instead of continuing to search for the 7 to 10 yard carry. Those come eventually. He kept bouncing and bouncing till pursuit caught up with him or the sideline hemmed him in.

 

[Zootown Rox]

We couldn't run because Cal Poly stacked the box and sold out on stopping the run. CP also over pursued on every run play, but we never ran a counter, or reverse, or hell JJ could've gotten 30+ yards if they called a naked boot leg. The reason we couldn't run was the Offensive Coordinator didn't take what Cal Poly was giving him. He did call a couple of long pass plays when our receivers were one on one, but that is not the only play you can call, plus those take a while and JJ was getting pressured.

Bottomline -Cal Poly decided to take away the run and they sold out to do it, the Grizzlies Offensive Coordinator never adjusted.

No way JJ runs a bootlet against CP. They had very disciplined defensive ends and all teams have scouted our play action bootleg. Every backside defensive end stays home now.

They didn't stay home in the 3rd and 4th quarter, they went hard to the running back everytime. Add a crossing route to give JJ the option to throw if the DE does stay on him and you got yourself a play. The point was that there was no adjustment to go to the backside, whatever play that might be. There was no wrinkle or anything that would force the defense to think at all, to hurt them for over pursuing.

 

[putter]

Here we go, problem solved

 

[PTGrizzly]

I guess this proves that people who never played the game know more than people who played the game (and at o-line no less) through college and a decade or so of the NFL, and then coached high school and college, including as o-line coach for multiple years in college. Let's see if we can arrange a meeting with Gragg and tell him. I'll post a signup sheet later.

Just because somebody has a lot of experience does not mean that they don't make mistakes. Take you for example...you are by all means an experienced and very good lawyer. I'm sure that you have made mistakes before. If you'd like to disagree with people, you could at least state good reasons rather than the whole, "herp derp he has lots of experience, knows more than you, therefore he can't be wrong" argument. Now maybe you did do that later in this thread (your post is as far as I've gotten so far), but I think that you, with all of your football knowledge, can come up with a better argument than this.

You also don't understand sarcasm. Okay, which posters on the board do you think know more about o-line play than Gragg? When I disagree with people, I almost always tell them why. As time has gone on, with some posters whom I think are idiots, I sometimes just say they never played or don't understand the game, because I've figured out over time that it unduly irriates them--and know that sometimes you could have a discussion with an idiot. Don't think I've ever said you never played the game. That's because I can tell that you have a decent level of knowledge of the game. You and I just don't agree on many things, plus you seem to like picking at other posters, myself included.

I just don't like you, Jack. You're pretentious and rather easy to goad into saying stupid things. That's all.

 

[PTGrizzly]

Oh and you have said that I never played the game. Not that I cared. You see, what some random person on the internet says about me doesn't validate how I feel about myself. You literally mean nothing to me, I just like to annoy you.

Carry on, Jack.

 

[goatcreekgriz]

I'll keep riding at the back of the site because watching all this is darned amusing.

 

[granitegriz]

grizatwork--great points. There was a hole on that play where it was 4th a yard to go, but JC kept bouncing to outside. Just need to get the first down in that situation.