Did anyone read the letter submitted at the end of Dandydon's site today, November 10th? To me, it narrates perfectly the problems with Coach Crowton's playcalling in this game, which is a microcosm of the year re: the playcalling. If I had the time, I would go back and watch each game to describe what I have been frustrated with all year - our lack of committing to the run at pivotal times. Certainly, we have run the ball well this year, and the stats at the end of the games look good, but my objection has been on certain plays when we need to run the ball straightforward with CS, we get too cute. Our strength is the run and O-line, and we should be pounding it more than we do, IMO. I am not trying to be negative, just legitimately trying to critique what I see as a chronic shortfall. I see many describe CGC as a "wizard" and a "genius" and I have never agreed with this. I do think he is a "good" OC, just not as great as others think. I thought we should have been better offensively last year, but we were good enough to overcome, so we still won the NC. Thoughts?
on the list of things you should be worried about with the program, crowton should fall towards the bottom. i think we rushed for 200 yards against bama. execution is the problem and crowton would be calling better games if execution wasn't absolutely crippling what he could be calling. if you want to put execution especially at the qb position on crowton then i'd be more likely to agree with you.
Very thought provoking. And from such a credible source: an anonymous intenet poster. Why do we spend all of this money on coaches when we have such a valuable resource as the intenet right at our finger tips. I'll never understand it.
I agree, even though Bama was stacking the box we still rushed for 200. Just imagine how many rushing yards we would have had if there was any threat of a passing game at all. You can't just line up and run the ball every down and win in the SEC. Crowtons play calling has been hamstrung by pitiful QB play. He showed last season that all he needs is an adequate QB and his offense will move the ball and score points. Like I've posted before, QB is the engine that makes the machine run. Without it your going no where and right now we are definitely without a QB that can execute even a simplified game plan.
Okay. Those are all very valid points. I do agree execution is obviously key, and that passing sets up the run and vice versa. Perhaps, I am expecting too much or just being too critical, I don't know. I acknowledge that it is extremely tough to call the game on the spot, and easy to second guess later. If we would have won some of these games against the more quality opponents, or JLee wasn't performing as poorly, we probably would not be having this conversation. I still don't think CGC is a "wizard", however.
