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<blockquote data-quote="aaeismacgychel" data-source="post: 1946810" data-attributes="member: 748794"><p>Yeah, I get people being angry with Lunney as he really needs to move towards 1 step timing hot routes, screens, and runs, as there just isn't any time to develop anything longer. That said, this week made me fully understand the really awful hand Lunney is dealing with here. Even when we'd put out an 8 man line for short yardage, multiple Purdue players were running straight through it untouched. And that’s the problem- we won't be able to give bare minimum protection even if we took 2WR off the field and went max protect. There really isn't much of anything an OC can do when multiple linemen aren't even able to put a hand on the person they're assigned to block.</p><p></p><p>I know people want to blame the QB and OC when an offense looks this pitiful because that's what we're trained to do, but our linemen are getting consistently torched so badly, it's near impossible to properly evaluate our offense. If we were to compare this to basketball, it'd be like if every other play two of the players on the court would lie down on the court for several seconds while a 3rd goes to stand in line for a soda. And then we blame the coach for not calling good offensive sets.</p><p></p><p>While Lunney hasn't made things any easier with his playcalling, and he certainly needs to start catering his plays to try masking the flat out ineptitude of the O-line, he's not even close to the biggest problem right now and firing him won't do much to fix anything. It certainly won't make our linemen magically able to block. Plus, not to make excuses for him, but I'm guessing Lunney developed his offense this year under the presumption that his O-line could actually block people and not be 2yds in the backfield before the QB even gets possession of the ball off the snap. That really limits your possibilities.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="aaeismacgychel, post: 1946810, member: 748794"] Yeah, I get people being angry with Lunney as he really needs to move towards 1 step timing hot routes, screens, and runs, as there just isn't any time to develop anything longer. That said, this week made me fully understand the really awful hand Lunney is dealing with here. Even when we'd put out an 8 man line for short yardage, multiple Purdue players were running straight through it untouched. And that’s the problem- we won't be able to give bare minimum protection even if we took 2WR off the field and went max protect. There really isn't much of anything an OC can do when multiple linemen aren't even able to put a hand on the person they're assigned to block. I know people want to blame the QB and OC when an offense looks this pitiful because that's what we're trained to do, but our linemen are getting consistently torched so badly, it's near impossible to properly evaluate our offense. If we were to compare this to basketball, it'd be like if every other play two of the players on the court would lie down on the court for several seconds while a 3rd goes to stand in line for a soda. And then we blame the coach for not calling good offensive sets. While Lunney hasn't made things any easier with his playcalling, and he certainly needs to start catering his plays to try masking the flat out ineptitude of the O-line, he's not even close to the biggest problem right now and firing him won't do much to fix anything. It certainly won't make our linemen magically able to block. Plus, not to make excuses for him, but I'm guessing Lunney developed his offense this year under the presumption that his O-line could actually block people and not be 2yds in the backfield before the QB even gets possession of the ball off the snap. That really limits your possibilities. [/QUOTE]
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