I listened to a podcast featuring Manny Navarro and they were breaking down the Louisville vs Miami game. They expect Miami to win by 10 to 14 points mainly because we don’t have a productive offense. They pointed out that we have several good playmakers on offense Shough, Brooks and Brown but not much else about the offense is productive. Unfortunately I have to agree with them up to this point not much else is impressive about our offense.
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Regrettably, I must concur with both Koz and Navarro; this offense has failed to produce anywhere close to where most expected Jeff to have us at this time in the season.
Jeff Brohm has forgotten more about football than I will ever know, so I try and limit my criticism of the play calling. However, my one observation that I cannot move past this season, is seeing Jeff’s propensity for running the football when our passing game is producing more success, particularly in the 3rd and short yardage situations. I understand that opponents reading the signals in advance of the play is increasingly evident in both college and NFL …….. but it sure looks like both SMU and UVA knew exactly where our RB was going before the ball was snapped on those 3rd and 4th down plays.
The one UVA LB was moving as soon as the ball was snapped directly on a path between our LT and TE for the tackle behind our LOS. The LB ran directly to that spot before our RB received the handoff.
Jeff Brohm has forgotten more about football than I will ever know, so I try and limit my criticism of the play calling. However, my one observation that I cannot move past this season, is seeing Jeff’s propensity for running the football when our passing game is producing more success, particularly in the 3rd and short yardage situations. I understand that opponents reading the signals in advance of the play is increasingly evident in both college and NFL …….. but it sure looks like both SMU and UVA knew exactly where our RB was going before the ball was snapped on those 3rd and 4th down plays.
The one UVA LB was moving as soon as the ball was snapped directly on a path between our LT and TE for the tackle behind our LOS. The LB ran directly to that spot before our RB received the handoff.
This has been the most frustrating thing about this season. The bad refs is old news and I expected it, but I am totally perplexed by the play calling coming from the Brohms.
I watched quite a bit of Purdue games under Brohm and I have maybe seen just a handful of those offensive sets here at Louisville. I was surprised last season but figured it was a lack of confidence in Plummer, but it's been even worse this season with Shough.
Misdirection was a big staple of Purdue's offense and defenses had to prepare and deal with that instead of just waiting for play action or running off tackle. I'm not suggesting a bunch of tricks plays like RB's passing the ball. I'm talking more WR reverses, jet sweeps, more in motion receivers using misdirection to get the studs the ball in space.
I think another poster suggested maybe Brohm feels now he can run a more traditional offense now that he's at his destination job? I can see how he may want that, but he has to see how even programs like Alabama and Texas are no longer just traditional offenses. Georgia is and just look at their struggles offensively.
As for the inability to get one frigging yard that's just plain stubbornness by Brohm and he has seemingly failed to realize the opponents are right there waiting for the obvious play call. The one time Brohm decided to run outside on 4th and 1, he used his slowest RB which absolutely drove me nuts.
I do realize Brohm knows more about football than I could ever have, but there is a distinctive change in his offensive philosophy since coming to Louisville. Maybe it starts to work against Miami and I would say great job, but something tells me if we don't get creative against the Hurricanes, we won't score enough points.
I watched quite a bit of Purdue games under Brohm and I have maybe seen just a handful of those offensive sets here at Louisville. I was surprised last season but figured it was a lack of confidence in Plummer, but it's been even worse this season with Shough.
Misdirection was a big staple of Purdue's offense and defenses had to prepare and deal with that instead of just waiting for play action or running off tackle. I'm not suggesting a bunch of tricks plays like RB's passing the ball. I'm talking more WR reverses, jet sweeps, more in motion receivers using misdirection to get the studs the ball in space.
I think another poster suggested maybe Brohm feels now he can run a more traditional offense now that he's at his destination job? I can see how he may want that, but he has to see how even programs like Alabama and Texas are no longer just traditional offenses. Georgia is and just look at their struggles offensively.
As for the inability to get one frigging yard that's just plain stubbornness by Brohm and he has seemingly failed to realize the opponents are right there waiting for the obvious play call. The one time Brohm decided to run outside on 4th and 1, he used his slowest RB which absolutely drove me nuts.
I do realize Brohm knows more about football than I could ever have, but there is a distinctive change in his offensive philosophy since coming to Louisville. Maybe it starts to work against Miami and I would say great job, but something tells me if we don't get creative against the Hurricanes, we won't score enough points.
They barely beat their last two unranked opponents. We all know Miami isn’t a legit top 10 team.
I don't disagree, but I think several teams in the top 10 are suspect. Wins are wins!
After witnessing Vandy beat Alabama, UK beating Ole Miss, and coming so close to beating UGA; one could make the case that most of these rankings are invalid. Miami is just as deserving of its position in the polls as any others at this point in time.
So what you’re saying is the playoffs should contain 64 teams in order to represent the true top 10? Seems like there only a couple of teams worthy of the 12 team playoffs imo. Texas and Oregon.
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