Question About Offense

[BULLfreak]

after rewatching the game i can safely assume that USF's offensive game plan was:

To take pressure off of BJD with short to intermediate crossing routes while sending a receiver or two deep.

I'm sure going into the game they also wanted to run the ball...

-They were running short crossing routes into the middle of the field the entire game.

-If you run predominantly short routes it COULD open up the deep ball because the safeties need to cheat up to respect the short play.

-Unfortunately BJD wasn't able to even complete easy passes that we fed to him by Rutgers defense.

I am convinced if BJD could have just sat in the pocket an dumped the ball off all night we could have dinked and dunked it all the way down.

The problem was that BJD was looking at his first read and if it wasn't open he automatically tucked the ball and looked for non-existent running lanes. In high school, BJD could EASILY be successful like this because he can simply out-athlete the players on the field. When you have a talented BCS caliber defensive player spying you... It is much more difficult to be superman.

Let me know if you others saw the same thing.

You can run all the short routes you want the simple fact is BJ is still looking for the HR ball every play and over looks the short stuff