The over-reliance on throwing the deep ball is the major problem, imo. Someone said QE can throw a deep out better than just about anybody.
If that is true, then the coaching staff has rocks for brains. I didn't see any deep outs yesterday.
I saw at least a half a dozen throw it deep and hope X catches it, and none of them were completed. I like the highlight shown where QE did check down and threw to a player on a shallow crossing pattern.
I would like to see mostly crossing patterns, deep outs, button hooks, square-ins,and old-fashioned screens to RBs.
If someone is in love with the deep ball, let him throw one per half, to keep the D honest. In fact X can run himself silly all game with that because on one occasion it seemed as if there were three Kstate defenders back there with him.
The really good news is that the final three opponents would expect half a dozen long balls, so they should be playing deep. It's already on film, so the rest of the field is open.
I'm not a fan of the stop and go, if we haven't completed a short pattern, which we mostly haven't.
With our quality running game, there is so much out there that is probably wide open, it is a shame QE/coaching staff has reduced us to throw it long and hope Way, way, way too often.