In reply to: Lou S with the Kelly Notebook (link) posted by SEE
Passing game. Same as every yeear
"In our tempo, we were flipping the ball out to the side judge instead of the umpire, which is a savings of maybe two to three seconds. And so little things like that, where I can be on top of them and make those corrections immediately, so when a player gets up, he's not flipping it out to a side judge, so then he's got to take the ball back inside. You know, give it to the umpire, give it to the center judge. Just little things like that. Just trying to help them with nuances from play-to-play."
By year 10 we should be ready for Pop Warner...
need.
that's good.
We win 10, otherwise I told ya so.
Our inability to execute on the passing game last year helped kill the running game. There’s a decent argument to focus on it more. But it also plays into Kelly’s passing proclivity. I actually think ND will have hard receivers to defend. Boykin, Claypool, KMet and Mack are big kids who are playing well. Young is our best speed threat. But it’s also likely that Kelly will see the passing game as the answer to everything.
“The reason that the safety doesn’t care about the screen is because Notre Dame never gave him a reason to. Wimbush struggled to get the ball to the perimeter accurately and quickly pretty much all season outside of the Michigan State game. That allowed the safety to sell out for the run.”
https://irishsportsdaily.com/s/6030/running-game-regression
As jt might say, Air Kelly and all.
6 yards.
who consistently throw short of the first-down marker. See their site for details. ALEX is an acronym that stands for something but it was intentionally named after Alex Smith, legendary for throwing short of the marker.
For those new to this metric, it is called Air Less EXpected, or ALEX for short. ALEX measures the average difference between how far a quarterback threw a pass (air yards) and how many yards he needed for a first down. If a quarterback throws a pass to a receiver 4 yards behind the line of scrimmage on third-and-13, then that would be -17 ALEX. The most meaningful ALEX numbers come on third and fourth down, when it's really crucial to get 100 percent of the need yards to extend the drive.
he would say that it would go 5 yards over the rb's head
Rees might be coaching him the deadly art of the thrown fumble.
Special credit for including wins vacated, under the bus wheel player tossings, etc.
Wimbush and the wide receivers reps that they really need. That’s good. I also like the shift on the OL and Jafar to RB. You can’t have a passing game as putrid as ours was and win all year. The bad is that Kelly will see the passing game as a panacea and likely overload Wimbush.
No question he needs a lot of reps this spring.
practice sets? Hardly. There is no good here -- just more of the same old same old bad.
Wimbush needs drills, lots and lots of them, to correct his flaws. Past BK QBs lack of fundamentals after 3-4 years with BK support that. How's TR job training coming along?
Pass happy practices continue the BK's 9th year of producing soft teams.
Makes one pine for Davies.
Seems to have three problems: seeing the field, consistent footwork and not pulling his short throws.
Seems logical to practice those.
Reinforcing failure is a stupid strategy. Our Qb has problems "seeing the field, consistent footwork, and not pulling his short throws."
Then nullify those weaknesses - make them irrelevant. Don't try and shore them up, a losing proposition at this level.
Fooked. If they don’t work on it now, than the ghost of football future is the tail end of last year or worse (without Adams, Nelson and McGlinchy.) We could work on the run game 100% and we’d be fooked if the passing game doesn’t improve.
the only way to open up the running game is by passing more.
It's elementary. Secret sauce. If you want to read more on it, just join one of the "+1 in the box" sites.
are basically just due to being -1 in the box.
wasted re footwork and pulling his throws -- especially so after this many years in Mr's 28 years of experience's system. That Wimbush is getting so many reps says that BK has made his choice this spring as to who his starter is.
WRT seeing the field, that is a system and coaching issue. Let's see, hmmm, has this ever been good for Kelly or Rees coached QBs?
Oh well . . .
My #1 starting pitcher can't throw a curveball for a strike. He throws his 4-seam and sinker just fine, but the curve (and slider just aren't working.
I spend all of my time with the pitchers, pitching being what I'm known for, and 80% of my practices going over strikeouts via the curve. I can't understand why my ace can't figure out how to throw a damn curveball. Sometimes I get a little upset about it, I admit.
than that he has been #34 or worse with some real stinkers. Interestingly, the 2 most successful teams of his tenure '12 and '17 also had the worst passing stats of his ND career #72 and #103. He is a bona fide passing idiot. Vertical seams....what a joke...
helped kill the running game."
OF COURSE! We focused TOO MUCH on the running game last year, so now we're focusing too much on the passing game this year to even it out.
It's pearls of wisdom like that which keep me returning to this site. The fact that you throw that out there with no evidence or reasoning to back it up is GENIUS. The only thing you're missing in your complete ripoff of the fanboy article is some GIF's to illustrate your point.