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I have read a lot about how Shaw needs to "open up the playbook" or "add more variety" to the offense. ...
In fact, it seemed to me that in the Northwestern game, our most successful run plays were up the middle, which we seemed to move away from. ...

My hunch is that we tend to blend playcalling with decisions such as when to punt or go for a field goal.

My hunch is that we tend to blend play calling and the phrase "conservative offense" with simply not being good.

I agree with you about Northwestern. Our most successful plays in that game were middle-runs. That was less true vs UCF - they stopped our middle runs better, we tried to run Power less often, and we had more success throwing, mostly on short passes. Our best run plays vs UCF were probably the wildcat plays - perhaps indicating that we are one blocker short much of the time from normal sets.

I suspect that trimming the playbook to what we do well would indeed be a good idea - provided that there really is something that we do well.

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I have read a lot about how Shaw needs to "open up the playbook" or "add more variety" to the offense. ...
In fact, it seemed to me that in the Northwestern game, our most successful run plays were up the middle, which we seemed to move away from. ...

My hunch is that we tend to blend playcalling with decisions such as when to punt or go for a field goal.

My hunch is that we tend to blend play calling and the phrase "conservative offense" with simply not being good.

I agree with you about Northwestern. Our most successful plays in that game were middle-runs. That was less true vs UCF - they stopped our middle runs better, we tried to run Power less often, and we had more success throwing, mostly on short passes. Our best run plays vs UCF were probably the wildcat plays - perhaps indicating that we are one blocker short much of the time from normal sets.

I suspect that trimming the playbook to what we do well would indeed be a good idea - provided that there really is something that we do well.