Losing Kennard isn't the biggest loss, I mean, we don't throw the ball anyways. No, our problem comes from our offensive scheme. High schools and even junior highs don't just run the ball like they did 10, 20 years ago. The whole football world has become much more 'pro' offense scheme, or spread. If we want to continue to run the offense we are in, we'll have to expect ELITE LEVEL running backs, because no reciever worth a major D1 scholarship will come here. No, this offense, other than in certain game situations, is no longer a threat to win big games.
We don't throw the ball because we didn't have a single D-1 quarterback on the roster this year. This isn't by design. This is a compensatory measure for have a coaching staff that can't recruit a QB worth a cac.
QFT. Snyder loves throwing the deep ball. Loves it. He loves huge YPC and stretching the defense because it forces the defense to stay honest and off of the LOS so his QB's can have room to run. Give him 50% completion percentage if YPC is high, and he's as happy as a pig in cac.
Spread with three wide, and that's most likely both corners, a safety manned up on the slot, and a safety in cover 1. That leaves, at most, seven in the box. Send a TE in the formation, and all of a sudden, poof goes a linebacker. Six in the box. Now, you have five linemen, one QB that can run, and a running back. You have a +1 advantage to run the football.
Or, even if you only go two wide and add a fullback, having the threat to toss the deep ball still commits a safety in cover one. If you still send the TE on a pattern, the linebacker goes, and now you have a fullback on a safety, and there's a still +1 advantage running the ball.
The problem this year is that Coffman had a weak arm, so there was no deep ball threat. He was also not a +1 threat to run the ball, so you could basically man up corners, use both safeties for run support, and you're still, as a defense, employing a numbers advantage between the tackles. It also didn't help that these receivers are not burners; they're possession guys with YAC skills.
Tuggle, while probably not Cam Newton, has a decent arm that can throw a deep ball, and he can run. We can run the traditional Snyder offense that he had when Beasley and Roberson were here. Kennard would have given us the deep ball threat because that's his specialty. Not having him takes away a really subtle, but important, component in making this a "true" Snyder offense.
