The offensive staff is unspeakably horrific. I made the decision in the first half that I was done getting angry at Jake. The coaches do such a poor job putting the QBs and the entire offense in a position where they can be successful. I watched as we were struggling to do anything with the ball as WVU ran a creative offense for their garbage qb. How great would Daniel Sams be on that bootleg they kept running for Trickett? Waters shouldn't have fumbled because he shouldn't have been in that position. We have no creativity with play calling at all, and I'm not referring to trick plays I'd be happier if we went beyond page 3 of the playbook.
Both of quarterbacks are much better than they played and it is 95% the fault of the coaches. The offense played well the last 20 minutes despite the play callers.
This all is a product of having a 2 QB system.
There isn't enough time to truly implement completely different packages for each quarterback, there are only subtle tweaks to the package to fit each QBs strength. Frankly, it would be tough for the other 10 guys to have to deal with two different packages as well because it would be too much to learn. So there is one game plan and because you have two guys who have different skill sets you have to limit it with a few wrinkles for each quarterback.
For example, its clear they don't completely trust Sams on zone read plays and the majority of zone reads (since the Texas game) come when Waters is on the field. They have opened up speed option lately to Sams, but its clear the major running game they trust Sams with is power/lead and that's what he's going to run the majority of the time.
In the passing game, Sams is being used in the short to intermediate range, but very few deeper passes. He's just shown an inability to make those reads correctly. But Waters is getting better at those throws and if anything he's shown the short passing game (see the number of high throws he has) is what he struggles with most.
Then a feature play this year, especially yesterday and against OSU, is the quarterback read/seam pass option play. Most of Sextons middle routes were option passes of quarterback lead and several times those turned into runs. I like that we've found a way to run this seam/option to someone other than the TE or Gronk, but its still limited.
Truly the only way the playbook can be expanded is to pick one quarterback and completely build the offense around him, but I don't think that's going to happen. Snyder is going to insist that both have "earned the right to play" and he's going to play both. Hopefully they can find a way to make it (eventually) work like they did yesterday, but with 2 QBs there are going to be stretches where the offense can't get any rhythm. However, I've resigned myself that this is going to be the way it is this year, I'm just going to vent about it on twitter once and a while and move on I guess.
