Mgoczar

October 13th, 2017 at 2:27 PM ^

Lets import Oklahoma offensive scheme and go Baker Mayfield with O'korn in the B1G. His best throw is on scramble. Just craft RPO plays for him. 

 

Great job as always. 

FauxMo

October 13th, 2017 at 2:19 PM ^

It's been 6 days. Any chance we can forget the fucking MSU game yet? I feel like we're all in intensive in-patient PTSD therapy after a divorce when we should be out dating again... 

LSAClassOf2000

October 13th, 2017 at 2:55 PM ^

If there is anything I have learned from decades of being a fan, then as a student and alumnus AND fan of this university, it is that - when we so choose - we can have long memories, at least when it comes to what happens over the course of a football season. Actually, we can expand that - some of us can talk about specific losses from years ago and relive how upset we still are about them too, and I am as guilty of that as anyone else. 

I will say, however, that today is not nearly what Monday and Tuesday were in terms of emo overflow. 

 

George Pickett

October 13th, 2017 at 2:21 PM ^

The very first play here makes me want to drink bleach with Brian.  THROW IT TO POGGI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Harbaugh's Lef…

October 13th, 2017 at 3:00 PM ^

To run this offense, yes. The infuriating thing about Speight is that he understands the offense, usually makes the right reads, will move in the pocket well or know when to bail but he makes the easy passes look hard and the hard passes easy. JOK doesn’t trust his protection, gets happy feet and when you run an offense like this, where routes take some time to develop in a lot of cases, he needs to make reads and go through progressions, which is where he is ultimately lacking.

Fezzik

October 13th, 2017 at 5:01 PM ^

Your check down is not a pre-snap read unless you read blitz that won't get picked up. Then you dump off quick. Here, there is no such pressure so I'm not sure what you are talking about. After going through his reads and finding nothing he then should of dumped off to Poggi which he failed to do. Also, Speight rarely threw to his check down. Through our first 3 games our RB/FBs had a combined 2 total catches. People should stop thinking Speight is a NFL QB pre-snap. It's just not accurate.

LJ

October 13th, 2017 at 2:33 PM ^

Dude, these are so awesome. Thank you. If you had your own analysis blog, I would absolutely read regularly. I love the use of color to make it easy to follow.

desertwolvie1

October 13th, 2017 at 2:43 PM ^

These are great! Is there any chance these can be done for the running game too? (if you've done this already and I missed it please except my most humble "My Bad, bro")

Double-D

October 13th, 2017 at 2:47 PM ^

It seems like most of these plays have good potential. RT is a cluster we know that. Maybe we just need to plan on helping there. The various other missed assignments seem scattered around. We are not hitting the quick pass on the short open routes that can gain 4-6 plus yards and move the chains. It sounds simple but if you see an open guy throw it to him now.

JMac

October 13th, 2017 at 3:10 PM ^

With opposing defenses running their linebackers into the line of scrimage as often as MSU did why not a liitle slip out by the backs or fullback and short three yard pass?  The safety would be forced to come up make the tackle which opens up a post route later in the game. Or on the very first play in video look at how open Poggi was.

Yo_Blue

October 13th, 2017 at 3:18 PM ^

In nearly every instance, there was a RB or FB waving his arms while not having a defender in the same zip code.  If (and it's a big if apparently) O'Korn can slow things down and get to his check downs faster, we can get the offense untracked.

ewrestling4c

October 13th, 2017 at 3:23 PM ^

Watching this only confirms my thoughts earlier.  I think we do too much.  We run way too many plays where our QB needs to find windows 12-15 yards down the field and make multiple reads.  Watch a lot of successful passing offenses at the Colllege level and they run a ton of double slants, and shorter routes and allow the defenses made up of college kids to make mistakes and miss tackles. 

I mean on 3rd and 6 it is ok to run a slant or something like that and give our WR the opportunity to run for the extra yard or 2.  It just seems like with a less than stellar offensive line and watching the defensive alignments this type of passing game would be more beneficial for both our QB and OL success.

UMich2016

October 13th, 2017 at 4:09 PM ^

Thank you for doing these.  Two thoughts

1) as others have noticed, we need to scheme this offense for faster route development and quick reads for OKorn.  1st and 10 we do not need to send everybody deep.  Hit a dump off to a RB or FB and get 5 yards, then we can run on 2nd and 3rd down. 

2) I can't help but think about the dirty things Bosa will do to us, given our RT situation.

MGoStrength

October 13th, 2017 at 5:51 PM ^

Based on what I've seen O'Korn is probably a lot like what I'd be like if I was a QB.  I don't mean that to say I could be a UM QB in any way.  I was a college baseball player and played short stop.  Here's what I mean. 

 

I did a really good job making bang-bang plays.  I did a really good job making difficult plays that I had to cover a lot of ground to get to, dive, go barehand, etc.  All of my errors came on routine plays where for some reason I had trouble with my accuracy throwing to first base.  I never had accuracy problems when I didn't have time to prepare, think, whatever.  I made the hard plays look easy and the easy plays look hard at times.  I had a strong arm and didn't always know how to use touch, even though mentally I understood I didn't always need to throw it hard.  I just didn't know how to throw accurately without throwing it hard.  I don't know why.  This is O'Korn form what I'm seeing. 

 

If he has to react quickly and go off instinct, he often makes plays and finds guys.  If he has to be patient, take his time, scan the field, and find a secondary WR, he's in trouble.  His footwork breaks down, he doesn't wait long enough, and he often forces it into coverage.  Personally, I found this to be a mental block and not a physical one.  This was just my personality.  Call it stress responsive, impatient, whatever.  But, I was never able to change this about myself as a player and my hunch is he can't either.  So, to be successful we have to either take away the number of reads to 2-3 at most and/or get his feet moving so he's not trying to be patient in the pocket, which I don't believe he's capable of.

Fezzik

October 14th, 2017 at 2:03 AM ^

At 20:06 sparty is in a 3 deep safety with 3 sinking backers prevent. It would of taken one hell of a pass to complete where you're showing weak spots.

I hope you keep doing these every week! Good stuff.