First 8 plays were runs that resulted in a touchdown. Then it was a 3 and out running, then remarkably Les and Cam passed the ball. What's the problem here? You do something til they stop it, when they stop it try something else. Kind of seems like that's what happened. If anyone was handcuffed it was Iowa.
I was clamoring for them to let Jennings throw it--until he did. They had a very good reason for "handcuffing" him. I was a tad worried when Jarvis Landry was interviewed (during bowl prep) and said that he and OBJ were really having to learn how to catch Jennings' passes. That said, I don't think it is necessarily that Jennings can't throw. Landry and OBJ had the chemistry and timing down with Mett, not Jennings (pitchers and catchers must have the same chemistry, too.) On the game-winning Arkansas drive, Jennings threw to a lesser-used TE (aren't they all?) and Dural. He looked great throwing to him, and that might be because he was throwing to them more in practice, and they possibly had that chemistry already going. In the bowl game, Jennings was obviously going to throw to our two most prolific WRs; however, they were not on the same page at all.
Precisely. It took Mettenberger, OBJ, and Landry 2 whole offseasons and 1 whole season for them to get on the same page. I mean OBJ and Landry were basically an extension of Mettenberger this past season and that took alot of time, alot of work with 7 on 7 drills, and alot of effort to get that way. And some on here expect Jennings to just all of the sudden "get it" after a few weeks of taking starting reps. And what you said about practice and throwing the ball to Gordon, and Dural, was dead on. Those are probably the guys he had the most reps with. I'm not sure why some people think the guy can't throw the ball, he dropped that ball to Dural in a bucket. The gameplan against Iowa was to win the game without putting any pressure on the young guy. He had to win the game against Arkansas, and he did, all he had to do against Iowa was not lose.
Yep. Same here. Remember, we started opening it up a bit right before he threw that pick. Then, understandably, we stayed with the ground and pound, which is what we needed to do to win the game. So, I don't really understand all the disappointment. Is it better to fling it all around the field and lose than it is to ground n pound and win? Reading some of the comments in here, it seems like some believe that. This is a great point.
Yep, run the ball to set up the pass. That sure is a great way to handcuff the Qb. Let's see, coaches have only been doing that for about 50 years.
Right on Richdog!!!!!... It's not like we scored a touchdown on that first dive....... Oh!!! Wait!!! We did score a touchdown... Well, then, it's not like scoring a touchdown is the main objective of the opening series, or anything.....
So are you saying anything less than a touchdown every series is unacceptable? You do something until it doesn't work. Running worked the first series, didn't work the second series, so we tried something different the third series. Sounds kind of logical to me.
Jennings is far more mobile than Mett, however I tend to think that what Cam is trying to teach is pass 1st, run second. Hell, it looked to me that Jennings was making the pass his 1st, 2nd, and even 3rd options at times. WHICH IS GOOD. We dont need a "running" QB with RB's we have people. We need a QB with "good feet" and can seriously hurt you down field......
