@Ketchum I think this was mentioned in your instant analysis after the game, but having gone to the game Saturday for the first time this year and getting see the offense from a birds eye view vs. what you get on TV, the biggest shock/concern coming out of it was the overall offensive game plan. I have no clue what they were trying to accomplish.
Putting aside Bijan getting 12 touches which is crazy, the running game made no sense. Hutson was getting used up, and it seemed like we kept hammering the run to his side. Quinn for sure struggled in his own right, but even the passing game independent of him seemed so poorly designed. The deep balls get a lot of grief and rightfully so, but even w/o that there seems to be so many difficult intermediate throws to receivers outside of the numbers. There were numerous plays with multiple receivers in the same area, so much so at times it seemed like TCU knew what play was coming b/c they didn’t have to cover very much space. Limited throws over the middle, granted a few of those were dropped, but still it feels like that isn’t a part of the offense enough. No real urgency to get Quinn going and more comfortable with easy throws until the 4th quarter until it was too late. The lack of tempo was really confusing, considering that seemed to be the only time the offense got any rhythm.
I don’t know, it just seemed like everything about the offense Saturday was so difficult when it didn’t need to be. When you’ve got a freshman QB with limited experience, you would think the game plan would look opposite of that which is the most concerning thing I took from Saturday. For a guy who’s calling card (allegedly) is genius offensive play-calling and enhancing the overall play of QB’s, I just don’t know how you can look at Saturday as anything other than a minor red flag from an overall perspective. I’m not as concerned about Quinn as most are, he just looks like a freshman QB that hasn’t played very much football in the past 2 years and is still a work in progress on the mental side of the game. Defenses were always going to adjust to him with more film, and the processing for him to counter that just doesn’t seem to be quite there yet. No reason for everyone to panic yet, which is asking a lot I know lol.
On a positive note, big shoutout to the defense and the staff! They were ballin out and there seems to be legitimate improvement on that side of the ball!
