Baylor's offense with 4th QB looks like UK's

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Now that Baylor is on its 4th QB of the season, the offense looks like UK's. They can't move the ball, the QB holds the ball too long, suddenly the OLine not pass blocking well and the only person that can do anything is the RB in the running game. Really similar to what UK looked like for most of the season. The Baylor offense looks like UK's without the WR drops.
On top of that Art Briles is having to adjust his play calling to compensate for all the ailments and guess what, the play calling is predictable.....
 
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Baylor opens the 2nd half running the wildcat similar to how UK did against South Carolina last year when nothing else was working.... They scored a TD running nothing but wildcat.
 

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Month ago the Baylor QB was a WR although he came to Baylor as a QB. Good athlete but not major college QB material.
 

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Give Baylor a break...the equivalent of Blake Bone is quarterbacking. We sucked because we had the two worst offensive tackles in Power 5 and a bad offensive scheme
 
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Not ragging on Baylor at all. Its really understandable. The point was to point out how big of a difference a QB could make. If Art Briles play calling is suddenly predictable because he's dealing with QB play that isn't good, then we should get a peak at what Shannon Dawson was dealing with as well. However I think UK's bad OLine had something to do with ruining the QB, that was before Shannon Dawson got to UK.

That was the point of it all.
 

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In the 2nd half suddenly Baylor has gotten back into the game by using its QB (who is really a WR) in some read option situations, they are allowing him to run the ball and handing the ball off as well. He's completing short passes to the outside, and they are running wildcat. This is keeping the Texas defense off balance.

What this shows is if the passing game isn't working, like UK's wasn't for most of the season, then you utilize the dual threat abilty of the QB and keep the defense off balance like that. Unfortunately UK didn't have a dual threat on the roster. But if you guys remember, this was the strategy that Neal Brown used in the first season with Jaylen Whitlow. The 2nd half of the Baylor game is showing me that for much of the year Jaylen Whitlow would have been a great option for UK to go back to. So maybe Mark Stoops biggest mistake as a head coach was asking Whitelow to switch to WR. Maybe he should have asked him to split time between WR and QB. That way we could run a similar gameplan as Baylor is right now in this 2nd half.
 

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In the 2nd half suddenly Baylor has gotten back into the game by using its QB (who is really a WR) in some read option situations, they are allowing him to run the ball and handing the ball off as well. He's completing short passes to the outside, and they are running wildcat. This is keeping the Texas defense off balance.

What this shows is if the passing game isn't working, like UK's wasn't for most of the season, then you utilize the dual threat abilty of the QB and keep the defense off balance like that. Unfortunately UK didn't have a dual threat on the roster. But if you guys remember, this was the strategy that Neal Brown used in the first season with Jaylen Whitlow. The 2nd half of the Baylor game is showing me that for much of the year Jaylen Whitlow would have been a great option for UK to go back to. So maybe Mark Stoops biggest mistake as a head coach was asking Whitelow to switch to WR. Maybe he should have asked him to split time between WR and QB. That way we could run a similar gameplan as Baylor is right now in this 2nd half.

Whitlow threw for 1900 yds with 11 TDs and 14 INTs in the OVC this year, doubt would've been much help to UK this year.

Why don't we try this novel approach....actually execute the plays as they're supposed to be executed? You know, block and make catches and hit the right hole, don't fumble all without penalities. Might just work, you never know.
 

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Well the bottom line is that its a talent issue as to why the execution isn't happening. Towles didn't come into UK being skiddish, that happened over time while at UK. When having to write notes on your arm to calm down, you know there are issues, but that stuff is developed when you are playing against a bad OLine.... My hope is that we don't ruin another QB with the same bad OLine play. As we see the QB is the most important position to the offense....

My thought with Whitlow wasn't the make him the starter, but keep him around to be a situational guy, a la Reggie Bonnifan, how he was used after the first few games of the season. Just a change of pace guy put him in at slotback or RB and make defenses prepare for trick plays with him involved, and to get the defense off balance a bit with some QB runs and hand offs out of the read option and make some short passes.

during some of the games doing stuff like this is how Bobby Petrino got his offense jump started, and they have a horrible OLine. Also we saw that in the second half Baylor used a similar game plan to get Texas' defense off balance. Either way it goes you have to execute though.... But you aren't going to execute a gameplan that isn't imaginative when you have inferior talent.
 

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In the 2nd half suddenly Baylor has gotten back into the game by using its QB (who is really a WR) in some read option situations, they are allowing him to run the ball and handing the ball off as well. He's completing short passes to the outside, and they are running wildcat. This is keeping the Texas defense off balance.

What this shows is if the passing game isn't working, like UK's wasn't for most of the season, then you utilize the dual threat abilty of the QB and keep the defense off balance like that. Unfortunately UK didn't have a dual threat on the roster. But if you guys remember, this was the strategy that Neal Brown used in the first season with Jaylen Whitlow. The 2nd half of the Baylor game is showing me that for much of the year Jaylen Whitlow would have been a great option for UK to go back to. So maybe Mark Stoops biggest mistake as a head coach was asking Whitelow to switch to WR. Maybe he should have asked him to split time between WR and QB. That way we could run a similar gameplan as Baylor is right now in this 2nd half.


Maybe the biggest mistake was Whitlow leaving? Didn't accomplish much did he? Should have stayed here and learned the receiver position and provided an excellent dual threat QB when the situation arrived.

Also I'd like to point out that our OC said that when he has different personnel on the field his play calling does not change.
So in essence he cannot see what he has to work with on the field and call plays to their strengths as that unit in particular against that particular opponent. That is piss poor and no defending that remark.