TE utilization

[COUGinNCW]

I don’t recall any balls thrown to the TE Saturday though I’ll admit I’d been doing some drinking and don’t care/have enough time to watch the replay.

We’re we holding back for Oregon or is there more to the O? That diversity would really help the O.

 

[dgibbons]

I don’t recall any balls thrown to the TE Saturday though I’ll admit I’d been doing some drinking and don’t care/have enough time to watch the replay.

We’re we holding back for Oregon or is there more to the O? That diversity would really help the O.

There were passes thrown to the TE during the Wiscy game, so I think the answer to your question is yes there is more in the playbook for the TE.

 

[95coug]

I don’t recall any balls thrown to the TE Saturday though I’ll admit I’d been doing some drinking and don’t care/have enough time to watch the replay.

We’re we holding back for Oregon or is there more to the O? That diversity would really help the O.

There was at least one - a poorly executed screen pass that went for a loss.

The play design actually wasn't bad, it set up like a tunnel screen and there was a wall of OL moving toward the sideline to clean up the defenders. But the pass was to the receiver's feet, which blew the timing, and then the receiver just wasn't fast enough to get around the wall before the defense cut it off.

 

[ttowncoug]

I think they had Dollar in a bit. I don't know if they targeted him or not.

 

[LeachPack]

Official stats from Saturday show one completion to Riviere for -3. No other pass attempts to a TE

 

[BiggsCoug]

If you aren’t gonna throw him the ball you might as well roll out a 6th OL in a TEs jersey number and help in pass pro.

 

[Cougini5591]

If you aren’t gonna throw him the ball you might as well roll out a 6th OL in a TEs jersey number and help in pass pro.

Not 100% true. If he's there and does switch between staying home and heading out it SHOULD make the defense a little more confined.

What I have seen so far has left me undecided on us going TE vs. the Leach philosophy.

It does seem odd that many of our "GREAT" teams of the past seemed to have good TE's.

I, for one, don't believe Leach was the PERFECT coach who got things right 100% of the time. He got a D- on Apple Cup planning, and definitely an F vs. Big Sky.

 

[etowncoug]

Not 100% true. If he's there and does switch between staying home and heading out it SHOULD make the defense a little more confined.

What I have seen so far has left me undecided on us going TE vs. the Leach philosophy.

It does seem odd that many of our "GREAT" teams of the past seemed to have good TE's.

I, for one, don't believe Leach was the PERFECT coach who got things right 100% of the time. He got a D- on Apple Cup planning, and definitely an F vs. Big Sky.

It's going to take several years for the TE plan to really take root here. Maybe it works eventually, but Dickert's obsession with going multiple has come at the expense of offensive execution. All it takes to stop us is to not allow explosives and we'll eventually beat ourselves.

 

[BiggsCoug]

Not 100% true. If he's there and does switch between staying home and heading out it SHOULD make the defense a little more confined.

What I have seen so far has left me undecided on us going TE vs. the Leach philosophy.

It does seem odd that many of our "GREAT" teams of the past seemed to have good TE's.

I, for one, don't believe Leach was the PERFECT coach who got things right 100% of the time. He got a D- on Apple Cup planning, and definitely an F vs. Big Sky.

If you aren’t gonna throw it to your TE and you aren’t gonna throw it to your OL in a TE number, which gives more value in the run game?

6’5” 300 in a route… the defense is still gonna defend him. Cheers will be loud if he does catch a ball lol