Need to have Arias, Brown and Stanley really emerge in order for that to happen. Wouldn’t hurt to have some TE production and a decent running game, either.
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LAVISKA SHENAULT IS A BAD BAD BAD MAN
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The wildcat packages need to be mostly phased out.
Yep, and a lot of those plays were behind the line of scrimmage or at the line of scrimmage. When you give a guy that much production and ask him to basically have the whole field, anyone will break down eventually.
A good OC will put him in the right spots when needed.
How many times did the wildcat formation even involve a handoff?
Very rarely.
I see value in using it in limited instances, especially in no huddle situations, but using it as a staple in short yardage situations is asking for a player to get beat up.
Which is what happened
I’m all for having Viska line up in the backfield as a RB now and then and getting creative with him there, but I agree, it can’t be as a Wildcat 6-7 times a game.
If my memory serves, I believe it only happened one time on a jet sweep to K.D. and that was it. The rest were power left.
On the goal line it was money. Would still like to see it used inside the 5.
That’s tough to do when it’s been so successful, but yeah, if we want to keep him healthy all year.
If you cannot trust any of your five RBs in the same situation... what does that say?
That you trust one of the best football players in college more than your running Backs?
Do other teams purposely put their best WR in the same conditions? If not, why not?
Because they don’t have Laviska Shenault on their team.
I’m mostly teasing you, but I look at it this way: if you figure you have a 90% chance of scoring if you use Laviska in the wildcat, and a 65% chance if you don’t, he’s going to be used a lot. That doesn’t mean they don’t trust the other guys, just that Laviska is a special player.
For nine games, which is the whole point.
I don’t disagree, but coaches play to win, and win today. They usually aren’t thinking about tomorrow. That’s what we are for.
Coaches are not thinking about keeping their best player healthy by avoiding dumb touches? Sounds like a bunch of really dumb coaches.
I want it both ways, tbh. I would love for CU to run Viska into the ground this year and get him as many touches as possible and I also want Viska to be full go in all 13-15 games.
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It says you can’t trust your running backs.
Oh my. Ok, sure, that’s totally what I’m saying.
Honestly, sometimes I wonder if you just argue for the fun of it.
If a coach is so narrowly focused on one win to run their WIDE RECEIVER into the ground, it is malpractice. I can guarantee a lot of coaches focus on the season as a whole in addition to game by game.
In this case, the new coaches even have the added benefit of hindsight. So if they decide to make the exact same mistakes with similar, unfortunate consequences, they deserve to be ripped.
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No, there isn’t. Do we have anybody on the team who can run it as well as Viska?
I don’t want anybody to think I’m all for using him the same way he was used last year. I understand the temptation to overuse the best player on the team. It’s a tough balancing act. He needs to be more than a decoy. A lot more.
I am all for moving him around the field and getting him 10-12 touches a game.
I bet you do
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Put him at center and he can touch the ball close to 80 times a game.