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Post by EvilVodka on Sept 12, 2021 13:10:55 GMT
Just my opinion....
but I feel like I watched A LOT of bad football yesterday. And saw a lot of bad quarterback play...which has led me to theorize....
Maybe offensive coaching has jumped the shark. I wonder if offensive coaching has become over-saturated with this pass-happy no huddle crap and that coaching has really lost the plot on offense.
When it works, it looks stunning, and is really hard to stop. But, overall, I'm just not impressed with offensive gameplay across the board....I think if your QB struggles in a scheme like that, then the whole team is going to struggle. What happened to physically dominating opponents and wearing them out?
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Post by Hero on Sept 12, 2021 15:37:42 GMT
I'm not sure about bad but maybe parity.
I don't see many teams who are as dominate as LSU two years ago or BAMA last year.
Weakness is on full display. Game after game.
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Post by EvilVodka on Sept 12, 2021 17:39:47 GMT
I'm not sure about bad but maybe parity. I don't see many teams who are as dominate as LSU two years ago or BAMA last year. Weakness is on full display. Game after game. If you recall, about 10 years ago (approximating here), the craze for these no huddle fast paced offenses was all the rage. They were seen as equalizers for ultra-aggressive defenses, and for smaller schools to be able to compete against bigger schools.
You had a bunch of "gurus" start implementing them, such as Art Briles, Gus Malzahn, Justin Fuente, Willie Taggart, etc.
I'm just wondering what happened? Justin Fuente has been mediocre at VT. Scott Frost has done jack at Nebraska.
Have defenses caught up? I think team that run them well are the rarity, and its a question as to how successful they are. LSU and Alabama are outliers, and honestly still won with physical smashmouth ball, simply because they had the best athletes. Has Oklahoma won a National Championship with their system? No, they got outscored by Georgia in 2017
I could be wrong, who knows...but to me it seems like the offensive explosion is fizzling a bit.
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Post by Hero on Sept 13, 2021 10:52:44 GMT
I'm not sure about bad but maybe parity. I don't see many teams who are as dominate as LSU two years ago or BAMA last year. Weakness is on full display. Game after game. If you recall, about 10 years ago (approximating here), the craze for these no huddle fast paced offenses was all the rage. They were seen as equalizers for ultra-aggressive defenses, and for smaller schools to be able to compete against bigger schools.
You had a bunch of "gurus" start implementing them, such as Art Briles, Gus Malzahn, Justin Fuente, Willie Taggart, etc.
I'm just wondering what happened? Justin Fuente has been mediocre at VT. Scott Frost has done jack at Nebraska.
Have defenses caught up? I think team that run them well are the rarity, and its a question as to how successful they are. LSU and Alabama are outliers, and honestly still won with physical smashmouth ball, simply because they had the best athletes. Has Oklahoma won a National Championship with their system? No, they got outscored by Georgia in 2017
I could be wrong, who knows...but to me it seems like the offensive explosion is fizzling a bit.
Chip Kelly pushed the fast offense hard at Oregon but doesn't seem to be pushing it at UCLA. |
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Post by tigercpa on Sept 13, 2021 12:04:59 GMT
Oregon's scheme overcame a very talented OSU defense.
I wish Clemson wouldn't be so stale.
Clemson's defense is nasty, even with the 4th string in the game, they were relentless at getting to the ball. Last week against UGA wasn't a fluke - UGA scored 56 Saturday, without their QB1.
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Post by tigercpa on Sept 13, 2021 12:20:48 GMT
I'm not sure about bad but maybe parity. I don't see many teams who are as dominate as LSU two years ago or BAMA last year. Weakness is on full display. Game after game. If you recall, about 10 years ago (approximating here), the craze for these no huddle fast paced offenses was all the rage. They were seen as equalizers for ultra-aggressive defenses, and for smaller schools to be able to compete against bigger schools.
You had a bunch of "gurus" start implementing them, such as Art Briles, Gus Malzahn, Justin Fuente, Willie Taggart, etc.
I'm just wondering what happened? Justin Fuente has been mediocre at VT. Scott Frost has done jack at Nebraska.
Have defenses caught up? I think team that run them well are the rarity, and its a question as to how successful they are. LSU and Alabama are outliers, and honestly still won with physical smashmouth ball, simply because they had the best athletes. Has Oklahoma won a National Championship with their system? No, they got outscored by Georgia in 2017
I could be wrong, who knows...but to me it seems like the offensive explosion is fizzling a bit.
I took a look at the NCAA data for the number of teams scoring >40 PPG: 2005 -3 2006 - 1 2007 -2 2008 - 10 2009 - 2 2010 - 7 2011 - 9 2012 - 8 2013 - 10 2014 - 8 2015 - 12 2016 - 10 2017 - 8 2018 - 12 2019 - 8 2020 - 12 2021 - 27** only week 2 It certainly exploded on the scene and has been fairly consistent. I didn't have time to look at all of the scoring by year to see total points, but I'm guessing that significantly increased as well. I'll try to analyze and see what it is... At least at the top, it may have some variance, but not really a big drop off. |
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Post by tigercpa on Sept 17, 2021 15:06:01 GMT
Total points per year, FBS:
2020 - 32,163** COVID
2019 - 48,085
2018 - 48,600
2017 - 47,197
2016 - 49,049
2015 - 48,129
2014 - 46,617
2013 - 46,142
2005 - 35,501
From 2005 to last few years average = 30+% increase in scoring in FBS.
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