Got rid of the wildcat. Cool.
3rd and short, 4th and short....I'm not sure what is going on anymore. They get a bye week to try and figure it out. Easy to say just run it but he's tried that too and for whatever reason Love and Price are not efficient in those moments.
Don't outsmart yourself. That's all you can really ask.
I see a bunch of things
1. QB sneak or TE sneak with push from behind under center needs to be part of the package. It's too simple and you're not going to lose yards like we do occasionally in short yardage.
2. He's running jumbo package plays with WRs instead of TEs or additional OL having to seal the edge. that's not working, and other teams have safeties/lbs free, pinching off the ends. Our RBs are forced to make someone miss to get a yard, that's not a good recipe. We've known about the poor TE depth situation for awhile, why not bring in 1-2 additional OL on short yardage and power run it? Seems like a huge miss in fall camp.
3. Wagner is really struggling to get any movement and tends to get blown up. Knapp isn't great, but he's far better than wagner this year.
4. Carr isn't a short yardage package runner, he can move but it's not a strength. I hate this, but they probably need to look at minchey short yardage packages.
5. when we call a pass play in short yardage, it can't be all or nothing on one read where there is no second or 3rd option if the first one is covered. That's happened 2-3 times now the last few games. They cover the out (we've ran a million times), and we have no other option. The out isn't difficult to defend if you expect it like every team does vs ND.
6. I'd like to see us spread teams out some in short yardage. get the numbers out of the box, show we're willing to take a shot occasionally so that teams need to pull a safety out as well. This isn't relevant at the goal line as much, but we can still spread the numbers out more.
7. They have a bye week to self-scout and modify the plan moving forward. This needs to be a priority.
