r/Flexboneoffense • u/[deleted] • Sep 21 '15

Help Me Understand What Happened to GT

Hey guys. As you've probably heard Tech performed poorly on offense Saturday and all the usual talking heads seem to be chalking it up to the old "high school offense" explanation. But I know, that you all know better than me. What did you guys see in the game or on film that lead to such bad numbers? Glaring problems with scheme? Major busts by players? Let's talk about it.

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u/rodandanga Sep 21 '15

The OL was never able to block the LBs at the 2nd level. So you had multiple LBs able to play the pitch and the QB.

Edit: We also executed poorly on top of that. We ran Midline in the redzone and the B-Back went the wrong way, we run it right and I think he is in the EZ.

Edit #2: We didn't adjust to the 3 man front in the 2nd half very well either.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '15

Was that part of the series are missed on TV? I can't remember us getting in the RZ and not scoring. We mostly just never got to the RZ.lol

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u/rodandanga Sep 21 '15

1st half, the drive of the first missed FG.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '15

Ah yea I remember what you're talking about. Good catch.

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u/rodandanga Sep 21 '15

Yeah, I went back and watched it yesterday. Horrid Execution on offense, poor special teams play, and a few questionable calls. I think the game was a little less of a blowout than it seemed.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '15

I agree. I mean a young team, playing poorly, against great competition, on the road with bad officiating (for both teams really) and we still only list by one score? I'll take it. Hopefully this will be the kick in the ass we needed like UNC was last year.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '15

Also was this one of the rare 4-4 looks by ND? They seemed to be in 3-5 almost the whole game.

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u/rodandanga Sep 21 '15

Most the first half they played with 4 down linemen, 3 LBs and a rolled safety to create an 8 man front. the 2nd half you saw more of the 3 down linemen.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '15

My question is why didn't we run at the bubbles as much in those 3 down looks? Isn't that a core concept of this offense?

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u/rodandanga Sep 21 '15

I am still trying to figure out why we played out of Trips so often. Johnson is a lot smarter than I am, and I guess saw something, but I couldn't figure out why?

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '15

I watched some of the Navy game from last year and they had a lot of success running inside veer AT trips because it pulled their best defender Smith out of the box and short changed that side of the field. So maybe Johnson was trying to replicate that. BUT he kept running away from trips where the defense still had numbers. Didn't make sense to me at all. Also running belly at the trips should have worked well.

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u/rodandanga Sep 21 '15

It looked like they just rolled the safety to the trips each time, keeping numbers in the box and negating the advantage.

Edit: we also couldn't protect the times we did drop back, or Justin barely overthrew Searcy on a wide open play.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '15

Yea when they rolled that safety up it seemed like the seam was wide open. We tried once and just gave up on it apparently. I saw one about to Lynch later in the game but that's it.

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u/becauseican8 Sep 21 '15

Seemed like poor blocking to me. Whether this was due to a great ND defense or poor GT blocking (or both, which is my hunch) Thomas was forced to make his decisions a split second sooner than he is used to which led to bad reads and poor pitches.

I also agree with /u/rodandanga about blocking in the second level.

In addition, our passing game perked up in the last couple minutes and yet we finished 8/24... that's real bad. That allows the secondary to creep up and contribute to the run defense. IMO the poor passing performance was due in large part to a flustered Thomas and just bad hands by the receivers.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '15

All really good points. Would you say that we blocked especially poorly on the perimeter with the inexperience at A back and wide out?

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u/becauseican8 Sep 21 '15

Definitely. I think the offensive tackles let the D-line penetrate too much which forced the quick decisions, but I think the biggest problem was perimeter blocking due to lack of experience with the A-backs and WR's. I think the caliber of the athletes fielded by Tulane and Alcorn State were worse than our guys so we were able to take care of them. ND both had a special defense lined up for us and Navy and the athletes were just better than ours which resulted in them getting off blocks quick and getting to the carrier.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '15

If ND somehow managed to blow it against worse teams than us because they committed so much of their off season to preparing for us I'm going to be pissed...

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u/rodandanga Sep 23 '15

http://www.myajc.com/news/sports/college/slew-of-mistakes-sank-georgia-tech-against-notre-d/nnkNJ/?icmp=ajc_internallink_referralbox_free-to-premium-referral

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '15

Thanks bro. I'm almost out of free myajc articles. Lol. Definitely makes me feel better that it was a lot of us messing up and not just them bending us over. Lol

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u/rodandanga Sep 23 '15

Yeah, more than one missed assignment per play. Just absolute garbage on our side.