- Identity
- Execution
- Scheme and/or Playcalling
Identity- While the first 3 games of the year were clearly against the best first 3 opponents in many years and we won them in a somewhat convincing fashion, did we emerge with any kind of identity? Florida's high scoring offense? The incredible Florida D? No, we played well enough in all areas to win, mistake free football, but ultimately we were a team playing without a ton of emotion and just trying to execute perfectly. What makes Tebow so great is his emotion, the arms pumping up the crowd and his team, we haven't seen a lot of that this year.
Execution - I am not talking about what we should do to Dan Mullen here :) We have played pretty flawless ball the first 3 games, Saturday we saw what happens when we don't. 3 fumbles lost, broken coverage on D cost us this game. No amount of playcalling will overcome players not making plays. Give Ol'Miss some credit, the 86 yard TD was a wonderfully designed play and Snead executed to perfection. Meyer has said that over 1/2 of the ol'Miss yards were on 4 plays, I believe it, just too many lapses. The PAT was a mistake, they almost blocked the previous attempt and we did nothing to change our protection scheme. Meyer can complain all he wants about the player hurdling our line (he did and that is against the rules), but if he is waiting for a ref to make a call, he will lose a lot of games in this league. We could have adjusted and kicked the extra point.
Scheme and/or Playcalling - I think when I look at the scheme, it works as we are able to make big plays and gain big chunks of yards in short periods. That brings us to playcalling and this is where we have the biggest debate. I won't criticize the 4th and 1 call, because we usually win that one, I would have liked to see something different, but it is hard to argue with a call that has worked 537 times in the past...
Overall our playcalling is phenomenal when we start the game and when we are behind. As soon as we get a lead, we go conservative, run sideline to sideline, short little dink passes and include only two players in the game. We need to play at all times like we are down by 7.
That's my take, this was a team loss and I could make a strong argument that playcalling, execution or emotion were the cause of this loss, but in reality it was a perfect storm brewing for a few weeks and we got caught by Ole Miss, thank God we weren't playing Bama this week or it would have been real ugly.
Ken K.
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