🏈 Why did McElwain abandon the running game?

[TideAlum05]

I'm talking about the 2nd half of the 1st quarter and early into the 2nd quarter. What the hell was he thinking? It reminded me of the UGA bulldogs doing the same against Okie Lite.

 

[mongo4bama]

Well I think we may be more off a throwing team this year.
We will see glad to get a win and move on RTR

 

[Argo]

I'm talking about the 2nd half of the 1st quarter and early into the 2nd quarter. What the hell was he thinking? It reminded me of the UGA bulldogs doing the same against Okie Lite.

The Hokies had 8 and 9 guys in the box most of the first half. We weren't able to effectively run the ball until McElroy started hitting passes and backing them out.

Last year, our offensive line was good enough that we could still run the ball when everyone knew we were going to. This year is different. We are going to have to prove that we can throw the ball to give our running game a chance. Otherwise, teams are going to stack the box, like VT did last night, and either force us to throw it.

 

[BAMA JAMMA]

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[TerryP]

I'm talking about the 2nd half of the 1st quarter and early into the 2nd quarter. What the hell was he thinking? It reminded me of the UGA bulldogs doing the same against Okie Lite.

I think there is a misconception here personally.

If you look at the last three series of the 1st quarter, and the first three series of the 2nd quarter, we were balanced.

Greg was rushed out of the pocket three times during passing plays. If you include those as passing attempts instead of how they are recorded it gave us 18 passing attempts in those 6 series. (7 if you include Selmon's punt recovery giving 4 series in the 1st.)

We had planned running plays 15 times in those same series.

15 running vs 18 passing. That's a pretty balanced attack.

I think what sticks out is the point Greg had nine incompletions (one INT in that) in that same time frame. That looked bad which might lead to the suspicion we were passing a lot more than running.

Play by play doesn't reflect that.

 

[jocephus8179]

I think there is a misconception here personally.

If you look at the last three series of the 1st quarter, and the first three series of the 2nd quarter, we were balanced.

Greg was rushed out of the pocket three times during passing plays. If you include those as passing attempts instead of how they are recorded it gave us 18 passing attempts in those 6 series. (7 if you include Selmon's punt recovery giving 4 series in the 1st.)

We had planned running plays 15 times in those same series.

15 running vs 18 passing. That's a pretty balanced attack.

I think what sticks out is the point Greg had nine incompletions (one INT in that) in that same time frame. That looked bad which might lead to the suspicion we were passing a lot more than running.

Play by play doesn't reflect that.

Speaking of Selmon. It's funny how your long snapper snaps the ball, stands there to block for a second, and then, he's the one that recovers the fumble. Then he downs another punt inside the 5. I just thought that was pretty cool.