Michael Fredrick Denbrock Hired as Offensive Coordinator (2023)

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Thought Denbrock was fine. He didn't get help from three areas pretty much not in his sphere of influence: 1). Indiana's damm tough vs the run; 2). Riley wasn't real sharp with the quick decision game; 3). RBs needed, almost every time, to just trust the called hole and blast in there. the horizontal cut (after Love's Bomb) didn't work.
 
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Is the lack of tight end use a Denbrock thing? I don’t remember how big a role they played in Denbrocks offenses from his last time at ND. Evans, aside from last night is arguably our best pass catcher. I know they’ve been targeted here and there a few times, but it almost feels like it’s no longer a team strength.
 
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WilliamWallace said:
Is the lack of tight end use a Denbrock thing? I don’t remember how big a role they played in Denbrocks offenses from his last time at ND. Evans, aside from last night is arguably our best pass catcher. I know they’ve been targeted here and there a few times, but it almost feels like it’s no longer a team strength.
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Evans struggled last night too. He was off his game.
 
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I think Denbrock played smart. It was obvious that Indiana couldn't do anything against our D. We threw just one pass more than 10 yards last night, and it was at the very end when the game was basically already decided. Everything else was underneath checkdowns and short passes because that's all that was required. Didn't give Georgia any extra film, won convincingly while mostly taking care of the football, no problems. The one INT came off a tip if I remember.
 
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ulukinatme said:
I think Denbrock played smart. It was obvious that Indiana couldn't do anything against our D. We threw just one pass more than 10 yards last night, and it was at the very end when the game was basically already decided. Everything else was underneath checkdowns and short passes because that's all that was required. Didn't give Georgia any extra film, won convincingly while mostly taking care of the football, no problems. The one INT came off a tip if I remember.
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The long pass was just going for the jugular to put that game away for good. IU’s linebackers came hard downhill to stop the run all night. A center screen or playaction slant in behind the crashing LBs was there all night. Denbrock had to see this and intentionally just didnt even try to attack it. Hopefully just saving it for next week if we have a couple decent runs early and UGA starts crashing down.
 
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One of the shows mentioned Denbrock laughing, saying his O v Georgia sent offensive football back 15 years. I enjoy the self-deprecating humor.

The Irish haven't had to really push anything on offense yet. This may change this week and hopefully, the team will be ready.
 
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Fbolt said:
One of the shows mentioned Denbrock laughing, saying his O v Georgia sent offensive football back 15 years. I enjoy the self-deprecating humor.

The Irish haven't had to really push anything on offense yet. This may change this week and hopefully, the team will be ready.
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That honestly tells me the know they can do more and simply haven't given the game situations.
 
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He better turn it up. Amazing how well that play action worked on the Collins td.
 
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BilboBaggins said:
Banged up OL. Banged up RB. Mediocre WR corp.

And you blame the playcalling?
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Yes. Because it’s not working. At. All. Have to do something different or concede because of the things you mentioned, which btw are all true.
 
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BilboBaggins said:
Banged up OL. Banged up RB. Mediocre WR corp.

And you blame the playcalling?
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Yes to start the game we couldn’t run the ball and he was getting cute. We all knew if Riley had to sling the ball our chances of winning with him were done.
 
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I like Denbrock but if I, who has never coached, know that Leonard is going to run it when Love splits out than why would we still do it. Penn State's OC is mixing up what he usually does, we're just a bit predictable.
 
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Redbar said:
Yes. Because it’s not working. At. All. Have to do something different or concede because of the things you mentioned, which btw are all true.
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there's no amount of playcalling that overcomes a truly elite D
 
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Mass MoCA said:
I like Denbrock but if I, who has never coached, know that Leonard is going to run it when Love splits out than why would we still do it. Penn State's OC is mixing up what he usually does, we're just a bit predictable.
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because they WILL pass to Love at some point...its a rope-a-dope
 
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I think he calls a brilliant game. He knows the defense is tough so he calls games that are safe but still explosive. This isn't last year's LSU team who needed a touchdown on every possession. Besides the second Leonard pick, this team has played exactly how it should all playoffs. When it gets tough, the playcalling is perfection. It's next level stuff imo.
 
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