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hurricaneman said:
Except you can also point to teams UGA played that were good where they played well.

This is his 3 years as OC with any ranked team they played, any legit OOC game, and any conference opponent finishing in the top 4.

2020
#16 BYU - 26 points
#6 Cincinnati (#1 in conference) - 10 points
UCF (#4 conference) - 21 points
Memphis (#3 in conference) - 27 points
Hawaii - 14 points

2021
Texas Tech - 21 points
#19 SMU - 44 points
#4 Cincinatti - 20 points
East Carolina (# 4 in conference) - 31 points OT
Auburn - 17 points

2022
Texas Tech - 30 points 2OT
Tulane (#1 in conference) - 24 points OT
SMU (#4 in conference) - 63 points
Louisiana - 23 points

Do you need me to break this down schematically for you? I'm sorry that this doesn't excite me.
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I mean Houston’s QB was some world beater he was a guy elevated by the offense. Also check who the top WR was for Houston this year 👀
 
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armandose23 said:
Juan Luis Guerra is the music version of what we in sports call "a student of the game". He can do pretty much any latin genre (salsa, merengue, bachata, son,etc) and not butcher the techniques of each style. Fun fact, Guerra's oldest brother is one of the first and foremost plastic surgeons in DR. That's why Juan Luis Guerra talks alot about the struggles in the healthcare sector in DR. His wife's brother is an Emergency Doc here in Miami and his niece and nephew are both docs and were professors of mine.

"La Bilirrubina" was supposed to be "La Adrenalina" but he didnt show the lyrics to his brother and just released the song. Got the wrong hormone.
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agreed entirely. love all of this music genres except the religious stuff.

funny story re Bilirubina v Adrenalina. hilarious
 
canadianhurricane said:


Check this game out. If you just watch USMs offensive series, it's about 30mins of your time.

This is from Dawson's time at University of Southern Mississippi. That year, Dawson was the OC/QB coach.

This UTSA defense was led by Pete Golding (DC) and Marcus Davenport (DE, first round draft pick). Golding, statistically, had one of the best defenses in the nation at UTSA. That 2017 year was his last at UTSA, as Nick Saban scooped him up to lead Alabama's Defense the next season.

When I saw that Dawson-led offense matched up against, at the time, the hottest young DC in the nation, I figured it would be a fair way to evaluate Dawson. Both teams recruit around the same but UTSA had a first round DL that Dawson had to gameplan around. UTSA also had a CB that ended up getting drafted. So, Dawson had to account for Davenport, and trust me, he HAD to. Davenport, himself, causes 2 FF and kills 2 drives.

I obviously have no insight to Dawson's gameplan but, from what I saw, he kept UTSA on its toes by testing their edges, before throwing up the seem for a TD, on the opening drive. USM gained good yards making UTSA run sideline to sideline. Then, they p/a and hit the TE up the seem for a TD.

On the second series, they start with a slot reverse for a big gain, before the slot fumbles. I counted three times where USM started an offensive series with either a big gain (20 yards +) or a touchdown (twice). USM also had two drives where a USM player lost a fumble.

On one drive, USM came out on first down in a diamond formation (3 RBs and a QB in the backfield), ran a flea flicker, and hit the WR on a crossing route for a TD. It definitely caught UTSA by surprise.

In the first half, Davenport made himself know by blowing up read option and forcing a fumble. USM started either running away from Davenport, or making him the read on a read option, in an attempt to take him out of the play. USM ran bubble screens, slip screens and read options at Davenport all night. They wanted him thinking! To his credit, he showed up all game.

USM committed to the run in the first half. In the second half, they opened up and passed more. And, they caught UTSA by surprise passing on 1st downs in the second half.

In the second half, there were 2 drives in which USM scored on the first play, one more where they scored 3 plays into the drive.

Overall, I came away impressed with how USM dealt with a tough defense. They dictated how they wanted to play. USMs QB didn't force many throws either. He threw a beautiful fade for a TD, in the second half. I felt like USM wanted UTSA to 'crowd the box' before they decided to open it up and pass, which worked.

One thing I forgot to mention, on the first drive, there was something that stood out to me. USM runs an up-tempo and gets UTSA on its heels. Their RB (#25) has speed and is able to beat UTSA to the edges for back to back first downs. At this time, USM sneaks their pass catching TE/HB (#1) on the field, and gets him free, up the seem, for a TD. Unless UTSA had done some serious studying of personel, they would have caught on to the subtle difference. I have a hard time believing this wasn't schemed up by USM, to have their more athletic TE/HB heading up-field for the pass, after their blocking TE sucessfully drew the defense in. It was executed perfectly.
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Good observations.
BTW, terrible call against USM at 27th minute of this video.
Refs must have confused USM with UM.
 
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Warrior808 said:
This is what I am most interested in as well, marrying the Oline play to the scheme. You know Mario and Mirabal aing going full zone blocking so it will be really fun to watch them try to incorporate gap schemes and varied run plays into an Air Raid offense. I feel like thats what will make this system very good and potentially innovative or a disappointment if it doesnt blend.
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I don’t understand the thinking that gap scheme doesn’t blend with air raid concepts.
Air raid disciples use power/counter. They use pin and pull, dart, bash and range of other concepts and plays.
Air raid isn’t married to zone scheme only.
And there is no way that Mario wouldn’t have some gap schemes in.

The Hal Mumme air raid of running only inside zone, zone read and maybe one more is gone.
It has evolved.
 
Southern Oz said:
I don’t understand the thinking that gap scheme doesn’t blend with air raid concepts.
Air raid disciples use power/counter. They use pin and pull, dart, bash and range of other concepts and plays.
Air raid isn’t married to zone scheme only.
And there is no way that Mario wouldn’t have some gap schemes in.

The Hal Mumme air raid of running only inside zone, zone read and maybe one more is gone.
It has evolved.
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This. I think folks are still hungover from Lashlee's inside zone - we ran so much of that due to the tempo he ran here. Easy just to line up and go go go, but a lot of wasted downs without a dominant OL.
 
Cribby said:
What does that prove other than you went and copied and pasted some crap off the internet? Go show me whats bad about his offenses and scheme. I can find a trained monkey to copy and paste ****. Some of y’all just run to stats.com and that’s your case lol. Go watch some Houston games like others have and then tell me why his offense / philosophy sucks? If not this is silly and a waste of time.
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Facts.
 
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ghost2 said:
This. I think folks are still hungover from Lashlee's inside zone - we ran so much of that due to the tempo he ran here. Easy just to line up and go go go, but a lot of wasted downs without a dominant OL.
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We’ve upgraded significantly from the Corey Gaynor days as well. Yeah Lashlee gets a lot of ****, deserved in many ways, but we couldn’t just get a push for one friggin yard most of the time. Not all of that falls on him and his playcalling.

But I digress, I’m really looking forward to seeing the OL become a strength again. It can mask so much.
 
JHallCanes said:
We’ve upgraded significantly from the Corey Gaynor days as well. Yeah Lashlee gets a lot of ****, deserved in many ways, but we couldn’t just get a push for one friggin yard most of the time. Not all of that falls on him and his playcalling.

But I digress, I’m really looking forward to seeing the OL become a strength again. It can mask so much.
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What Rhett did his first year was amazing, especially if you look at that Ol. Some of those guys were playing this year but were Fr or secomd year guys
 
canecrazy23 said:
This is what @Cribby was saying. If you can't talk X's & O's about the guy don't just talk sh#t.

Great write-up.
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Exactly. Most don’t know enough about Xs and Os to actually know what the fucc is going on, so they cherry pick some stats or find a game where they didn’t play as well and here they come…. Bruh lost me completely when he compared the new O to Gattis’ crap. I try to stay clear of dese debates, but every now and again, I get roped in. If you can’t see the differences between both offenses, you’re either not paying attention, or you don’t know what you’re looking at. I’m sorry.
 
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JHallCanes said:
We’ve upgraded significantly from the Corey Gaynor days as well. Yeah Lashlee gets a lot of ****, deserved in many ways, but we couldn’t just get a push for one friggin yard most of the time. Not all of that falls on him and his playcalling.

But I digress, I’m really looking forward to seeing the OL become a strength again. It can mask so much.
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No question.
 
Hurracanes said:
This offense gives you wiggle room to not need that #1WR because the scheme allows everyone to eat.

@Cribby and @Pentagon Cane one of my concerns in this scheme is the zone blocking they used in Houston. The elite programs don’t normally run zone blocking, especially in the running game. Mario didn’t recruit kids who want to run this scheme, as well. Does this concern you guys? Do you think Mario and Mirabal make adjustments?
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Things have evolved since the early “spread” days. Most air raid teams now will use different concepts in their running game. They will normally use 2 zone schemes (usually the major difference is where the H back goes, frontside/backside, and 1-2 gap scheme runs. So that’s basically 3 plays. They do it to simplify the run game so they can get good at it.
 
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