Were we mostly benefitting from Johnny?
I think about this a lot. It seems to me like the playcalling is more restrictive now and often almost like the game is being called more to avoid predictability than to use strengths.
Like the goal line last night with Kyler... Everyone - including announcers - was thinking "they'll probably roll Kyler out with pass-run option". And why not? It has about 95% chance of working once in 3 plays.
But every play was the exact opposite of what our strengths were. We went with our weak OL and avoided what had been working on that drive (run, Kyler, run).
So it seems to me like Spavital might have paralysis by analysis or at the very least he values unpredictability over maximizing strengths. He is certainly not a small menu "let's do 3 things really well" type of coordinator.
I think Kingsbury probably loves anything that can't be stopped and would have just stuck with that until ASU made them stop.
I think about this a lot. It seems to me like the playcalling is more restrictive now and often almost like the game is being called more to avoid predictability than to use strengths.
Like the goal line last night with Kyler... Everyone - including announcers - was thinking "they'll probably roll Kyler out with pass-run option". And why not? It has about 95% chance of working once in 3 plays.
But every play was the exact opposite of what our strengths were. We went with our weak OL and avoided what had been working on that drive (run, Kyler, run).
So it seems to me like Spavital might have paralysis by analysis or at the very least he values unpredictability over maximizing strengths. He is certainly not a small menu "let's do 3 things really well" type of coordinator.
I think Kingsbury probably loves anything that can't be stopped and would have just stuck with that until ASU made them stop.
