WR Bubble Screens

Dghustla

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I actually like these plays. A healthy diet of these plays keeps 1 less guy in the box and opens up the run game. If you watch our opening drive, after the flea flicker. We ran 3 bubbles in a row (flash forward 4:30-4:40 mark). Coley then immediately followed it up with a fake bubble inside zone run by Duke that gained 8 yards. If you look at the sucess Oregon's offense has had a huge part of that is making teams cover the bubble and clearing out the box.

I don't mind incorporating these plays in our offense. But we have to get out of them when they aren't there. I don't think these plays will be there a lot vs the Gators because they are going play a ton of man press. The only thing I don't like about how we are running the bubbles is we have Dorsett blocking. His is so undersized & being coached up to go for the cut block 100% of time. If he is going to be exclusively cut blocking on bubbles he's got to be flawless in his technique. When he puts his head down if he misses that block it becomes difficult for Hurns to get good yardage.
 
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Ban bubble screens to Hurns! Put Coley and Waters on the outside and Hurns and Dorsett inside, throw screens.
 
Remember back when, when we couldn't cover a bubble screen to save our lives! I loathed that play back then. Im all for it now if we use it more! You have to have a smart LB,CB that can cover alot of ground quickly! Great mismatch often is the case.
 
Remember back when, when we couldn't cover a bubble screen to save our lives! I loathed that play back then. Im all for it now if we use it more! You have to have a smart LB,CB that can cover alot of ground quickly! Great mismatch often is the case.

Dreadful. We probably still can't, it was only last year. Have to see what the Gatas give us.
 
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I smell two TE sets on saturday for Miami...UF's lb's can't cover athletic TE's and we have about 3 of them
 
No it was so much worse I think it was 2009 or 2010 where a couple teams basically ran it the entire game and we STILL couldn't cover it. I'll have to go back to the archives to check. Truth is we probably still couldn't cover it this year effectively, but we **** well better handle it alot more than we did then.
 
No it was so much worse I think it was 2009 or 2010 where a couple teams basically ran it the entire game and we STILL couldn't cover it. I'll have to go back to the archives to check. Truth is we probably still couldn't cover it this year effectively, but we **** well better handle it alot more than we did then.

I know what you're talking about now.
 
Remember back when, when we couldn't cover a bubble screen to save our lives! I loathed that play back then. Im all for it now if we use it more! You have to have a smart LB,CB that can cover alot of ground quickly! Great mismatch often is the case.

When we opened the season at Maryland with all of our guys suspended. You know when mike williams was starting for us. We looked like a bunch of retards on unicycles.
 
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FSU stopped every bubble screen thrown at them this past weekend. There were at least a few.
 
Ban bubble screens to Hurns! Put Coley and Waters on the outside and Hurns and Dorsett inside, throw screens.

The thing with running them to hurns is that he has more strength than those guys so he can break an arm tackle and get a lot more yards. We did this pretty frequently last year and Hurns picked up a lot of first downs for us. I do think we need to mix up who we throw them to so we keep the DBs off balance.
 
They scare the **** outa me, all I can see is a DB jumping it and taking one back untouched. My hope is that was a play easy to put in to throw uf off.
 
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No it was so much worse I think it was 2009 or 2010 where a couple teams basically ran it the entire game and we STILL couldn't cover it. I'll have to go back to the archives to check. Truth is we probably still couldn't cover it this year effectively, but we **** well better handle it alot more than we did then.

Maryland
 
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Coley (and Fisher) love the bubble screens. I'm a fan myself. FSU has actually had a lot of success with them since Jimbo took over because their WRs seem to do a solid job blocking DBs.
 
Yeah....Thx. urrgh...makes my stomach hurt just thinking about it. I have a feeling we threw so many for the FAU game in hopes to set up UF. Their corners like to be aggressive, maybe we can catch them slippin.
No it was so much worse I think it was 2009 or 2010 where a couple teams basically ran it the entire game and we STILL couldn't cover it. I'll have to go back to the archives to check. Truth is we probably still couldn't cover it this year effectively, but we **** well better handle it alot more than we did then.

Maryland
 
It's just a long run basically. Get it in our play makers hand and get the CBs to get close so we can burn them deep.
 
I'm under the impression these aren't called plays but are audibles by Morris. Every time we throw the bubble screen the DB has been in zone about 10 yards off the receiver. I don't think they are called.
 
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