I’ve had an issue with our receivers sitting down in zone all year. I’m not sure what they are being coached but I feel like they run a route vs adapting to coverage more often than not. Sometimes those routes are long developing too and had they sat in a soft part of the zone we could get easy completions.
additionally I think the script is out on attacking our offense… double LB blitz in the A gap. It’s what ASU tried on 4 and 13 and we fortunately saw it before it fired off. But we struggled with it against UGA too. Some of our plays are too slow and it allows for blitzing defenses to blitz without abandon. Clemson almost achieved this in that lucky screen pass from Ewers to Helm.
sark thinks the slow developing will hold defenses and confuse them, however defenses have decided to fore go reacting and instead just come blasting in to disrupt everything. The defenses are starting to win if they can time it up with snap cadence and not allow us to check protections.