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In past games whenever we've had a short yardage situation like 3rd and 1 or 3rd and 2, Mularkey would inexplicably go to a shotgun formation to run the ball. More often than not we'd fail as Ronnie would be hit 4 yards behind the line of scrimmage. It would drive me NUTS!!!!!! IT'S NOT WORKING MULARKEY!!! ARE YOU WATCHING THE GAME??!!!!
But I nioticed this week that on short yardage situations, we actually had Joey under center and hand do a quick handoff.......omg, and even sometimes we had a lead blocker in there!!!!! I was glad to see that. I just hope we don't go back to shotgun formations on 3rd and 1. It's not tricky and it just does NOT WORK!
 
dw10 said:
In past games whenever we've had a short yardage situation like 3rd and 1 or 3rd and 2, Mularkey would inexplicably go to a shotgun formation to run the ball. More often than not we'd fail as Ronnie would be hit 4 yards behind the line of scrimmage. It would drive me NUTS!!!!!! IT'S NOT WORKING MULARKEY!!! ARE YOU WATCHING THE GAME??!!!!
But I nioticed this week that on short yardage situations, we actually had Joey under center and hand do a quick handoff.......omg, and even sometimes we had a lead blocker in there!!!!! I was glad to see that. I just hope we don't go back to shotgun formations on 3rd and 1. It's not tricky and it just does NOT WORK!
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Ya know what else doesn't work??? Trying to run behind a line of players that miss their blocks, over and over and over. I hate it when MM misses his blocks, oh wait, MM isn't a player and responsible for blocking anyone. But somehow some people on this site can't figure that out.
 
Got to a shotgun formation? How bout we are almost always in a shotgun formation. We have to get away from that especially now that the Oline is doing much better.
 
In the first quarter of the bear game i noticed we attempted the shotgun/handoff play a couple of times and lost yardage on it almost everytime. I was steaming mad, yelling at the TV. Thank god we shyed away from it as the game progressed.
 
feelthepain said:
Ya know what else doesn't work??? Trying to run behind a line of players that miss their blocks, over and over and over. I hate it when MM misses his blocks, oh wait, MM isn't a player and responsible for blocking anyone. But somehow some people on this site can't figure that out.
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You can't tell me that the shotgun on 3rd and one is effective when we're handing off. Stuffing it quickly with a lead blocker worked out pretty well for us on Sunday. We had success with it. I've been wondering why we haven't done that consistently on 3rd and one when the shotgun has failed time after time. That's all. Apparently you're quite the defender of MM. I can certainly understand that, with the tremendous job he's done for us all season prior to Sunday. His play calling HAS been the most amazing I've ever seen.
I simply made an observation and you decided to get your panties in a knot. You can take it easy now, cowboy.
 
IluvSundays said:
In the first quarter of the bear game i noticed we attempted the shotgun/handoff play a couple of times and lost yardage on it almost everytime. I was steaming mad, yelling at the TV. Thank god we shyed away from it as the game progressed.
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Well thats why you do those things early, to find out what works and what doesnt.
 
dw10 said:
You can't tell me that the shotgun on 3rd and one is effective when we're handing off. Stuffing it quickly with a lead blocker worked out pretty well for us on Sunday. We had success with it. I've been wondering why we haven't done that consistently on 3rd and one when the shotgun has failed time after time. That's all. Apparently you're quite the defender of MM. I can certainly understand that, with the tremendous job he's done for us all season prior to Sunday. His play calling HAS been the most amazing I've ever seen.
I simply made an observation and you decided to get your panties in a knot. You can take it easy now, cowboy.
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How many games this year have we been behind?? How many games this year were the player mistakes for us more then they were for the competition?? The thing people don't understand is it isn't the plays being called it's the execution. Sunday our execution out weighed our mistakes. You can call any play you like but if you continually make mistakes and shoot yourself in the foot, the play called is irrelevant. Cut down on the mistakes and you have a chance to win , it's that simple. The play calling isn't nearly as important as the execution.
 
feelthepain said:
How many games this year have we been behind?? How many games this year were the player mistakes for us more then they were for the competition?? The thing people don't understand is it isn't the plays being called it's the execution. Sunday our execution out weighed our mistakes. You can call any play you like but if you continually make mistakes and shoot yourself in the foot, the play called is irrelavent. Cut down on the mistakes and you have a chance to win , it's that simple. The playcalling isn't nearly as important as the execution.
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:yeahthat:

I played WR and we threw a lot of short passes even on long downs and it got me frustrated but then my grandfather told me something: 'Every play is designed to score a TD if you do your job right' and that really changed my attitude of it

If its 3rd and 6 and you run a draw....well if everyone actually blocks you SHOULD pick it up.
 
Yea I'm glad to say I had good endzone seats for those Bears fumbles and ourfirst scores. The Run play calling seemed much better. Running off center or guard straight ahead with no delayed action help a lot and seemed to help when we would go more to outside as well. Ronnie was also getting some real nice aggresive blocking. I love Ronnie we just need to use him right. Like to see some shorter passes to him up the middle or even someone else in the middle. Seems we are always throwing to the outside or deep. Those quick side line passes always seem too ripe for interceptions esp with as much as we throw them. I have to say it was a real silent staduim in the second half:lol:
The Bears fans did love a sign i was wearing though " A recovering Dave Wandsted victim!"



dw10 said:
In past games whenever we've had a short yardage situation like 3rd and 1 or 3rd and 2, Mularkey would inexplicably go to a shotgun formation to run the ball. More often than not we'd fail as Ronnie would be hit 4 yards behind the line of scrimmage. It would drive me NUTS!!!!!! IT'S NOT WORKING MULARKEY!!! ARE YOU WATCHING THE GAME??!!!!
But I nioticed this week that on short yardage situations, we actually had Joey under center and hand do a quick handoff.......omg, and even sometimes we had a lead blocker in there!!!!! I was glad to see that. I just hope we don't go back to shotgun formations on 3rd and 1. It's not tricky and it just does NOT WORK!
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feelthepain said:
Really?? How'd the players look.
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Execution is the most important part of football, but a good coordinator designs plays that have the most chance of being succesful. If our line is constantly letting guys through at the start, then handing off shotgun style with no lead is a bad call. The best idea would be to start the handoff quicker or get a blocker in front of the runner to take out at least one defender coming through.

The post was started to critique, maybe debate the playcalling this week.

If you want to knock the players, there are many other threads to do that in.
 
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