Terrible Offensive Play Calling... Again

[Falcons]

For the 2nd straight week, our offensive play calling was awful.  This time the 2nd half was pretty poorly called.  We had a chance to take control of this game, our ball down 26-28.  Howard rushes for 9 and we get 0 yards on the next two plays and punt.  We get the ball back at the 40 move it a bit, its 2nd and 4 and we were getting great push in the run game.  Two incompletions and missed FG.  You could without a doubt see our offensive line had their defensive line tired and playing on their heels.  Instead of doing the smart thing and continuing to run it, we threw the ball and it costed us a chance from really taking over the game.

 

Also, I am tired of seeing that trips play on 3rd and short, every time we run that, it gets blown up or does nothing.  Back to back weeks those trips plays are awful.  Spread them out so they cant stack the box and allow our offensive line to be even in numbers with defenders in the box and make a hole for our RBs.  It is not rocket science.

[Naturalhoosier]

Sometimes you gotta blame execution instead of play calling. There weren't too many play calls that left me scratching my head.

[HoosierReb01]

To the casual fan, any play that doesn't work is often a terrible call.

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

To the casual fan, any play that doesn't work is often a terrible call.

And a perfect illustration is the play that didn't work for the Colts last week against the Pats  -- oh wait, that was a terrible call.

[Brass Cannon]

Other than the 2 passes on 2nd and 1 and then third and 1. I really didn't have a problem with the play calling. I guess kicking the xp and FG were dumb but I don't think our problem is play calling it's our game philosophy.

[JSHoosier]

And a perfect illustration is the play that didn't work for the Colts last week against the Pats  -- oh wait, that was a terrible call.

That was an awful call.  Carrell immediately picked up the phone to thank them for making his call look slightly less idiotic.

 

I guess since it worked in The Longest Yard...

[Dalton26]

That was an awful call. Carrell immediately picked up the phone to thank them for making his call look slightly less idiotic.

I guess since it worked in The Longest Yard...

Carrolls call cost them the superbowl so comparing the 2 no matter how dumb the Colts looked is a major stretch.

[JSHoosier]

Carrolls call cost them the superbowl so comparing the 2 no matter how dumb the Colts looked is a major stretch.

It's hard to say Lynch punches it in though.  I saw something that said he had something like 5 carries on the year from the 1 yard line and only punched it in once.  I still would've gave him the ball though.

[HoosierReb01]

And a perfect illustration is the play that didn't work for the Colts last week against the Pats  -- oh wait, that was a terrible call.

Well, there are calls that are dumb cause they didn't work, and there are calls that are dumb because there is no reason to believe they would ever work. IU runs a few of the latter, but  the staff is getting too much grief about the first. There is no doubt even on the first that we need to be a little less vanilla at times. Point, some of the between the tackles running when its not Howard doing it.