_Fan is your analysis sponsored by Rev Honey? f'ing sellout. I agree with Man vs. Zone blocking schemes don't really make a difference when the line gets destroyed from the snap. Possibly more misdirection could have been called, but even then there was so much penetration it might not have done much.
1. Don't knock rev honey. Please.
2. This is where the "vanilla" comments are fair; there are multiple things we could've done to attack what EKU did defensively that we chose not to. EKU did a great job of having the defensive front shoot the gap whenever we pulled a lineman and they often caught our power running game from behind. However, much of that was because we didn't get a good push on the LOS on the playside.
We did start doing more in the second half the longer they stayed in the game; we started utilizing more QB run game. What they were doing with stunts/slants did allow for QB run game b/c at times they couldn't/didn't account for the QB, which is strange considering Klein's strengths last year.
However one thing we didn't do that would've killed them is utilize some boot passes or misdirection. EKU deserves credit for having a pretty quick front 7, especially for a FCS school, but they were so agressive attacking the ball that we could have given them fits, but for whatever reason we chose not to. I am really surprised we didn't see some boot passes or even a reverse to try to slow them down a bit.
