Not trying to take anything away from Dana if he is still calling plays, but last night the broadcast showed Shannon Dawson multiple times with a play sheet next to and talking with Dana. I’m wondering if he might be calling plays now? The offense had so much more creativity to it, and I loved the play action draw when we almost scored after putting that on film so much against navy and their 3 man front. Either way I just hope it continues, but just thought there might have been a reason the Offense looked so different yesterday. Also loved to see trahan line up on the outside would like to see more of that
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It’s a strong possibility
He always had the play sheet. Dana calls the plays. Dawson assists.
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Cougardue is correct.
Only difference I noticed was on some plays It looked like the offense was looking to sideline for play call adjustment when already lined up. Kinda looked like we were getting sideline help on base reads but not every play.
There were some different run schemes that we didn’t see as much before. Saw more zone blocking than before. The screen play with Singleton looked great. OL play stepped up big time.
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The shuttle pass was a great idea. There will be something different next week probably.
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Dana is calling the plays, but he was in his bag this game. Even the run game, a lot more motion and pulling, getting RBs on the outside. Not just running straight. There was a lot of plays I haven’t even seen him run here. Hope he keeps it up against Tulane
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Dawson? The guy that carries the Red Bull? I’d like to see more sets with Green and Strahan outside together with Dell behind a stack.
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Definitely a more sophisticated playbook.
It does help when the run game is a legitimate threat.
Things on offense definitely looked different. I hope it continues.
I (and others in the room) didn’t say “Why did we run that kind of play?” very much last night.
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Agreed. Even when tune missed or the play was covered well I felt like the call made sense… except that goal line fade🙈
Running game has been better since he took out the read option with Tune hurt. I think the biggest difference is Tune has been putting the ball in the right spots and the blocking (O-line and receivers) has gotten much better. First couple games any creative play call was just a mess with guys not executing. Plus any of the WR screens were a complete bust and Car was not stepping up like Henry/McCaskill have.
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Tune didn’t miss many. He was 17 of 24 with one pick (on what looked to me like obvious holding/pass interference) and his receivers had 4 drops by my count.
I thought the whole game looked really good.
Edit: I went back and watched replay and there were 3 passes that were dropped. On first series Carter dropped what Ware called a perfect pass. Second drive pass went right thru Trahan’s hands and Ware said, “You have to catch that.” In 3rd quarter, Dell dropped a “perfect pass” per Ware, on the goal line. On the pick, the defender was pushing Trahan from the 6 yard line and pushed off to catch the pick.
I stopped watching after the TD in the 4th quarter, so I didn’t see a 4th. There was a pass in the first quarter that was close, hit fingers of WR, but it would have been a tough catch.
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Tune was way more decisive and accurate last night. Hopefully a sign of things to come. Cdh is going to call what he perceives Tune can handle.
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Since the TT game, I believe it is safe to say that everything is improved.
Tune is much improved.
Our O is much improved.
Our D is much improved.
CDH is much improved.
Belk is much improved.
Every aspect of our team is much improved.
Fortunately we have benefitted from a soft schedule. It just happened that way. It wasn’t planned, it just happened. So far, we’ve taken advantage, and hopefully, it will generate dividends later in the season. At this point, if we continue to improve, I see no reason (outside of catastrophic injuries to key players) that we can’t finish the season 9-3, 10-2 or even 11-1.
Of course that means winning games against SMU and Memphis, and taking care of business against Tulane, ECU, Temple, etc., but it can be done.
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Reminded me of Chuck Weatherspoon!
Edit to correct spelling, thanks to GooseCreekCoog
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Weatherspoon
Thanks, I knew better but my fingers are to blame