jikespingleton said:
ImABearToo said:
Requires O line to stand defense up and not push them forward like grimes offense does.
Grimes offense didn't require the OL to push the DL backwards, it was a lateral push they wanted, to create gaps. So they keyed in and recruited OL that could get side to side quickly.
Worked great with multiple super seniors and the couple excellent backs that we had. Then the rest of the Big 12 caught on to the scheme by 2022. Throw in the graduation of the RBs, Gerry and the OL, the offense was doomed.
Statistically, our offense was pretty similar in 2022 to what it was in 2021. We took a small step back in yards per play -- from 6.4 to 5.8 -- but we didn't really fall off a cliff until this past season. If we had had a good defense in 2022, we'd have won a lot of games.
It's hard to reconcile how bad things got this past season in all phases. But offensively, our struggles were pretty easy to explain. And the dye was cast in Week 1, when it was obvious to all who watched us get worked over by Texas State that we couldn't block at all.
You can't run Jeff Grimes' offense if you can't effectively run the ball. And it became clear very quickly this past season that we couldn't do that.
It's kind of funny, we went from a reliable violent offense in 2021 to a reliable offense in 2022, losing a lot of the violence or explosiveness we had during our championship run. And then in 2023, we lost the R and the V. We were just offensive.