I'm sick of watching Kelly sticking a 6'6" goon of a TE in at FB and expecting him to do much damage. I'd rather see him put the DT (#41) in there at FB in a goal line formation.
Thoughts?
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Kelly's spread offense resembles more of the pro-style K-gun offenses that was seen with the Buffalo Bills during the 90's (Jim Kelly as the QB), with the two back formations stripped out, and a greater emphasis put on spreading the field horizontally, instead of stretching the field vertically.
The current version uses the pass to set up the run, since that caters to the strengths of the personnel that we have available.
For better or worse.
Third and short with the QB 7 yards back in shotgun makes no sense.
defense don't quick count. Get them thinking about not jumping off sides then snap the ball when they are not anticipating. The line will get a push and the back will score. If six inches QB sneak low and behind center.
It's not like our RBs aren't running hard or missing holes... There just aren't any holes. We need to do better in the trenches.
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ND under Kelly isn't a power football team. That's not the culture. So when they have to be, the results aren't good.
What is concerning, is the lack of creativity on short yardage situations. If you can't fire off the ball, and as a coach you know this, then you need to open the playbook up on 3rd down.
Spread them out.
Run jet sweeps
Take deep shots
QB draw
Speed Option
Shovel pass
I know that will make a lot of you sick hearing that, but it's the ultimate reality. You aren't going to change 10 years of culture over night.
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The NFL is a pass happy league anyways.
Besides, my old EA Sports NCAA football game said that TE's were often very good FB's. Probably where Kelly learned that.
Not much use when everyone in the house knows we're running it