The House of Blue

Our offense did not lose this game. Mobley is a true freshman, he needs to grow up and get over it.

Best summary of the game I've read anywhere. Just nailed it.

That may be the case but its still not the best way to use a big bruising back and this ain't High School.

Mobley is big and very strong, but I wouldn't say he is a bruising running back. He has a unique running style for his size. Mobley has excellent vision and he will put his head down if he has too, but he would rather just give one cut and make you miss. The thing I noticed about Dyshawn is he constantly moves up field even when making a move he almost never moves laterally.

Putting Mobley at LB...This would be the worst mistake UK could possibly make. If they moved Mobley to LB the whole staff along with everyone supporting the coaches decision should be fired for their ignorance. (ok ok a little far, but seriously Mobley NEEDS to stay a RB) Got something special with Mobley at RB, and its just a matter of time before he will get to prove himself.

He has played out of the shotgun/spread offense his entire career in football, so picking up on the blitzes should not be that much of a learning curve for him. Dyshawn is an overall good RB. He does very well out of the shotgun in running situations.

Given it is high school and you can't see too much from that, you can still see his running style. Many of you all should look at some of his highlight clips on youtube, just so you can see what kind of runner he is because many of you have a perspective that he going to be a full back type of Tailback, but that is not his running style.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgEB-n73Dzs

Also, make sure if you don't watch the entire video take a look at the 2:00 mark. He used to do moves like that all the time.

The first series alone they ran three screens in 8 plays. One of those screens went for a 12 yard gain, but nonetheless still a screen play.

Second series... pass completed to T. Robinson for 4 yards, pass completed to D. Robinson for 3 yards, pass complete to Co'Shik Williams for 13 yards, pass complete to R. Sanders for 4 yards. The first 4 plays of the second series were either screens or little bubble routes. Then after 2 plays later R. Sanders caught another screen pass for 13 yards.

Must I continue on throughout the whole game. Idk what you call a few screens, but 8/13 first plays were screen passes/ bubble routes. Into starting the second quarter 10/19 UK's first plays were screens or bubble routes. UK did not establish the run game. In the first quarter Uk only called a designed run play 3/17 plays. In the first half UK only ran the ball a grand total of (drum roll please) 7 times. For the game UK only ran a designed run play for a total of............... 13 times and 3 of those rushes came late in the 4th quarter when the game was already over. That is not establishing the run. You are right the run game was effective for the most part, but running the ball a total of 7 times in the first half is not acceptable. Late in the game UK was forced to pass the ball to try to overcome a large depict, but they may not have had such a large hole to come out of had they utilized the run game more in the first half and beginning of the second half. Now onto the screen plays again. You can tell Randy Sanders is UK's offensive coordinator lol. No wonder the Vols ran him out of Knoxville.

21/35 of Smith's completions were bubble routes or screens. That is being generous. In the third quarter Smith did have a very good drive where he accumulated a good amount of yards passing. He threw to collins for 12 yards, Boyd for 15 yards, and Collins for 22 yards in three consecutive plays. Also, the drive beginning the fourth quarter was pretty good too, as he found King and Boyd for around 20 yard gains. Saying that though, 21/35 pass completions being little screen or bubble routes is horrible.

UK must have a balance between the run and the pass game. Nobody wins throwing the ball 50 times a game unless you are Texas Tech when they had Leach as HC. Nobody wins in the SEC throwing the ball 50 times a game. Unless Brady, A. Rodgers, or Bree's decide to come back and strap on a jersey for a team in the SEC. END OF STORY.

The best way to keep a defense honest is to run the football. Screens are a good weapon to be utilized, but they should not be the main weapon of attack if you get my drift. Screen plays are like using frag grenades, you would want to use them sparingly, and precisely at the right time.

We have a communication problem. You believe every checkdown throw is a "screen" or "bubble route." I do not. Fundamental difference in nomenclature. There were bubble, tunnel, and RB screens called in this game. Other times, there were a number of routes run by various receivers and the throws were checked to TEs, RBs, and WRs running underneath two deep safeties. Not throwing the ball to a fly, post, or flag route does not mean the play call was a "screen" or "bubble route."

I thought the gameplan was pretty smart when we had unknown quantities at several OL positions, keeping Smith in the shotgun and giving him a check-down or safety valve on most plays to get the ball out. That, combined with the uptempo pace and no-huddle allowed us to move the football pretty efficiently. We were over 50% on third down, including converting at least 3 third-and-long situations. The pace obviously impacted UL's front, allowing us to rush efficiently, if sporadically. It also minimized the pressure on a young QB and relatively inexperienced OL.

We threw more than I would have liked, but I can understand why.

Would you have preferred more 7 step drops from under center with 4 fly routes called? How many more times would you have liked to see Max pressured into bad decisions with no safety valve, or for him to take more sacks? Line up the power running game with two backs with a history of injury problems or a true freshman in his first ever game behind an offensive line that had more question marks than known quantities?

I agree that, with the benefit of hindsight, our OL had success and we could have had more success with the run game. However, that is with the benefit of hindsight and something to consider going forward, not something that was obviously apparent to everyone before the game.

Lost in this conversation is the fact that our imbalanced offense had 10 drives on Sunday. Two of them ended in TDs. One in a missed FG (UL 24). Two on fumbles (UL 22, UL 2). And one on downs (UL 18). 6/10 drives got us in scoring position. Failure to capitalize on those opportunities is a valid complaint, but completely ignoring the fact that our offense was improved and (especially when contrasted with the defense) has several things to build on in coming weeks is just inane.

You must not know what a screen play is. We probably only tried 2 or 3 all day.

Thanks for pointing out that this isn't high school. That does not change my opinion whatsoever. If you would have read my comment you would have seen where I said, "Given it is high school and you cant see much from that." But....... all that video was posted for was to show his running style, which generally will stay the same from high school level to college level. He will add tidbits to his running style, but he will not change it entirely, but only add to his arsenal.

You are right about one thing, putting Dyshawn in would not have meant a W. There will be no W against a quality team until secondary realizes that they need to defend passes, and the linebacking core along with the D-Line minus Dupree needs to stop the run and help with defending the pass.

Yes several of those routes were not considered designed screen plays, but I also don't believe many of them were his check down receivers either. Many times those little 1-3 yard routes would be his primary look. I know at least 11 of the 21 were designed screen plays, and that is without going back and looking at it in detail as I only took a little bit of time to look into this. I would not have preferred Smith to drop back and throw fly routes, but I would just have liked to seen more play action (by first establishing the run making the LB commit to the play action), out routes, 7-10 yard slants... basically tested them in the middle of the field because they looked soft in the middle of the field despite the hype that surrounded the core of the UL defense. When UK tried to attack the middle they were successful more than not.

Overall I like your post though. Good post.

You are wrong. That's all I can say. You are wrong. By pre-snap reads (two safties deep) maxwell knew his deep routes wouldn't be open.

The fact that you bashing play calling on offense and don't understand what a screen pass is tells me one thing. USE THE IGNORE FEATURE. Which I'm doing right now. See ya...