bear2be2 said:
BEAR 45 said:
bear2be2 said:
BEAR 45 said:
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Adriacus Peratuun said:
bear2be2 said:
Adriacus Peratuun said:
BearlyBeloved said:
CDA's effort to be HC and DC flopped.
With CDA set to return next year, shouldn't we be focused on finding a premier candidate for defensive coordinator???
Who should be the candidates?
How often do premier employees willingly board a sinking ship?
Spavital did it in 2024. But we had the money to go out and hire him. This time around, it seems like a straight punt until the new AD arrives, so I'm guessing we're not going to be money-whipping any new staff additions.
Note the use of the word "premier".
Think it is safe to assume that most premier OCs don't treat the Red Zone like their routine implosion place.
For all of his issues this season, Spavital is a very well-thought-of offensive coordinator who has been very successful in that role throughout his career.
We would be lucky to attract a similar talent to coordinate the defense next season, which is my point. The odds of that happening are slim to none, given that we're likely not dealing with the same resources this time around.
How do you account for our lack of production in the red zone ? We put up big numbers all season except when we got inside the 20. Maybe his play design or play calls had something to do with that ??
We couldn't run the football reliably or consistently. Teams that can't run the football move the ball well between the 20s and bog down when the field condenses and makes passing the ball more difficult.
That's been the quintessential problem/concern of basically every Air Raid offense ever.
Baylor does not run an air raid offense. Spav's typical call, run twice for no gain and then throw a fade to the corner of the end zone to our shortest receiver. He cannot isolate a 6'5" tight end, that is more of a wide receiver than tight end, on a linebacker in the red zone ?
Spav comes from the Air Raid tree. When his run game is working, he leans on the power run game. When it doesn't, he falls back on his Air Raid roots, which is why we averaged 11 more pass attempts per game this season than last.
Our red zone offense sucked because our run game sucked. You can't score consistently in the red zone when you can't run the ball reliably. And this year's team couldn't. That was apparent in the Auburn game and never changed for 12 games.
It's not a unidirectional relationship between the run game and the passing game in hybrid schemes like Spav's Dirt Raid.
It's impossible to evaluate the Offense's failures this year without including Sawyer's inconsistency as a key ingredient to the **** sandwich.
You can reply once again criticisms of Sawyer are unfair. He 'had to be perfect' and that that pressure got to be too much. There's some truth to that...but he really didn't need to be literally perfect for us to win more games, he just needed fewer costly mistakes like overthrowing WRs who'd gotten behind the defense and underthrowing it when they found gaps.
Spav's share of the blame for Sawyer's regression is unclear: Sawyer's mechanics got worse this year, especially his angle of delivery. Have you ever seen a QB with Sawyer's size and arm talent have as many balls batted down? Some will blame our OL, but Robertson himself deserves most of the blame for that issue.
A fully healthy Knighten and Pendergrass, plus very athletic QBs in White & Griffin...Spav could definitely have major resurgence next season if our OL gets solidified this offseason as promised.
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