I’m not really upset at Trickett/the offense.
They rolled up 547 yards of total offense. BGSU had 377.
Marshall converted 7/15 3rd downs (47%).
Marshall scored 28 points in regulation. Had their RB held onto the footbal inside the 5 yard line, twice, you’re looking at 34 points at least, but likely 42.
That’s a damn fine offensive performance if you ask me.
The problem were those last 2 offensive drives.
Marshall got inside the 50 yard line. They did so mainly on WR screens and inside zone runs. On 1st and 10, they try a shot play off a fake WR screen (like the one to Gammage vs ND that was called back) and doesn’t work. Lose 3 yards on a sack.
They tried this shot play off the same look 2-3 other times in the game. Every time Colombi was heavily oressure forcing a sack or scramble.
If I have one gripe with Trickett is that he did his OL no favors by calling plays to combat the aggressiveness of the BGSU DL, which is/was very good.
How do you combat that? QB Draws, Rollouts/waggle passes, RB screens…the things Fancher did the previous drive that worked.
That decision to bring Fancher in and run those plays were fantastically timed and good one Trickett. The QBs draws were big chunk gains. The rollout pass was too. Drive resulted in a TD.
But they come back the next drive, a drive to win the game and try again to go tendency breakers, but against the strength of the QB. Rather than have Fancher run that same action, they use him in a more traditional setting.
2nd and 13 - WR screen for 6 yards
3rd and 7 - traditional stop back on a corner smash concept that had a high low bracket coverage which was incomplete.
To me, if you’ve got Fancher in the game then run what he does best. If you want to do the things that help slow that pass rush down, then run tendency breakers with Colombi. Call the QB draw with him. Call the rollout with Colombi. Call a RB screen.
Loved the call to bring Fancher in and run stuff that attacked BGSU’s aggressiveness. Hated calling stuff that didn’t put a kid in the best position to be successful.
As far as the series in OT, I felt it was another example of trying to be cute and throw tendency breakers out there. Those are all well and good. It worked on the game tying drive, but that’s the hard part of coaching. Not giving the ball to Laborn at all when that’s the strength of your team makes you look dumb in the end.
They rolled up 547 yards of total offense. BGSU had 377.
Marshall converted 7/15 3rd downs (47%).
Marshall scored 28 points in regulation. Had their RB held onto the footbal inside the 5 yard line, twice, you’re looking at 34 points at least, but likely 42.
That’s a damn fine offensive performance if you ask me.
The problem were those last 2 offensive drives.
Marshall got inside the 50 yard line. They did so mainly on WR screens and inside zone runs. On 1st and 10, they try a shot play off a fake WR screen (like the one to Gammage vs ND that was called back) and doesn’t work. Lose 3 yards on a sack.
They tried this shot play off the same look 2-3 other times in the game. Every time Colombi was heavily oressure forcing a sack or scramble.
If I have one gripe with Trickett is that he did his OL no favors by calling plays to combat the aggressiveness of the BGSU DL, which is/was very good.
How do you combat that? QB Draws, Rollouts/waggle passes, RB screens…the things Fancher did the previous drive that worked.
That decision to bring Fancher in and run those plays were fantastically timed and good one Trickett. The QBs draws were big chunk gains. The rollout pass was too. Drive resulted in a TD.
But they come back the next drive, a drive to win the game and try again to go tendency breakers, but against the strength of the QB. Rather than have Fancher run that same action, they use him in a more traditional setting.
2nd and 13 - WR screen for 6 yards
3rd and 7 - traditional stop back on a corner smash concept that had a high low bracket coverage which was incomplete.
To me, if you’ve got Fancher in the game then run what he does best. If you want to do the things that help slow that pass rush down, then run tendency breakers with Colombi. Call the QB draw with him. Call the rollout with Colombi. Call a RB screen.
Loved the call to bring Fancher in and run stuff that attacked BGSU’s aggressiveness. Hated calling stuff that didn’t put a kid in the best position to be successful.
As far as the series in OT, I felt it was another example of trying to be cute and throw tendency breakers out there. Those are all well and good. It worked on the game tying drive, but that’s the hard part of coaching. Not giving the ball to Laborn at all when that’s the strength of your team makes you look dumb in the end.
