Second scrimmage stats

[rgw]

Pedestrian completion ratio + high TD/attempt ratio says to me that there's a high proportion of long passes being attempted. In the end, like twobyc says, if we're getting a lot of TDs (coupled with few INTs) from the passing attack then the results are acceptable.

The thing is that all the completions for touchdowns were from 20 yards and in with most of them being goal-to-go passes. I think the low completion ratio does indicate more throws deep. All of the receivers had 12+ yards per reception which would strengthen that assumption.

I think it's important to understand that these scrimmages probably don't play out with strict game-like action. They may have came into the scrimmage wanting to work the deep play action. Considering the amount of runs and bigger yards per completion in the passing game, I think that was the case. In goal-to-go and situational drills in goal-to-go, I think it was apparent that they wanted to work on passing the ball down there.

These are good things to be working on because I think the structure of this team needs to exploit the pure speed we have at receiver and effective passing in the redzone has always been a deficiency for us. We don't know right now if we have a guy like TR or MI who has a great nose for the end zone, so being able to pass for touchdowns down there is certainly something important.

 

[IH8Orange]

The thing is that all the completions for touchdowns were from 20 yards and in with most of them being goal-to-go passes.

To me that is really satisfying. One of our biggest problems last year and even in the past few years has been red-zone offense because it never seemed that our QBs were very effective down near the goal line. We've had a pretty good rushing attack, but many teams I don't think feared our passing threat when we got in where the coverage was tighter. Even with Julio, we never seemed to effectively throw fades to take advantage of the size mismatch with most DBs. This meant that most of our opponents just focused on primarily defending the run.

After seeing that tight pass into coverage that AJ threw against Penn State last year, I was hoping that we would improve in redzone TD passes due to more confidence in his ability to put it on the mark like that. I suppose that the philosophy is generally to play it safe and not try to force anything and that explains the lower statistical percentages in the redzone.

 

[RollTide1224]

To me that is really satisfying. One of our biggest problems last year and even in the past few years has been red-zone offense because it never seemed that our QBs were very effective down near the goal line. We've had a pretty good rushing attack, but many teams I don't think feared our passing threat when we got in where the coverage was tighter. Even with Julio, we never seemed to effectively throw fades to take advantage of the size mismatch with most DBs. This meant that most of our opponents just focused on primarily defending the run.

After seeing that tight pass into coverage that AJ threw against Penn State last year, I was hoping that we would improve in redzone TD passes due to more confidence in his ability to put it on the mark like that. I suppose that the philosophy is generally to play it safe and not try to force anything and that explains the lower statistical percentages in the redzone.

I'm still waiting for the day when we throw a fade. I watch the NFL and see them do it with ease and just hope one day we can execute that play.

 

[gamersfuel]

i'd also love to see some fade routes however you have to have a QB who can put it right there over the top. And you also have to have a WR who knows how to play the ball and the CB..Then he has to make a good catch. It is simple route to run but it's not exactly easy to execute. I remember Palmer was great on those fade routes.