Had that been a play that mattered it would have been almost legendary. Single handedly breaks three tackles in the end zone and turns a safety into a 20 yard run with zero blocking.
Hicks play in end zone
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Yup. And it was our idiot coaching staff who put him in that position to fail.
Yes, the coach-by-number playbook calls for a power run in that situation, but it was pretty damn obvious that PSU was living in our backfield.
Again, stupid predictable by-the-book coaching that can't adjust to the actual game.
Yes, the coach-by-number playbook calls for a power run in that situation, but it was pretty damn obvious that PSU was living in our backfield.
Again, stupid predictable by-the-book coaching that can't adjust to the actual game.
Amazing play, he looked a little gassed.
was like the Jamison run at Arkansas, when we weere pinned at the two and he had to straight arm a guy to avois the safety and gain 25. Thse are the best single effort plays in the Flood Era.
That was a great effort, but the larger issue is that he was hit as soon as he took the handoff. This has been a consistent reality for the last few years.
Play both QBs.. spread the field. James does not look like himself.. he must be injured. Stop handing him the ball whenever he is in there. That killed us... not James' effort.. the predictability of it just killed us.
Ya, becoming obvious that Hick's should be straight up #1 tb. Martin looks to be #2. I'll say James #3 but even that might be generous.
Power run is one thing but play nose on nose toes on toes football. Not some pansie pulling guard delayed handoff. Took way too long to develop
Thank you for this.
This has Flood's stink all over it. When he was co-OC in charge of the running game, we saw all kinds of crap like this and an undermanned Syracuse squad beat the crap out of us in 2009 because Doug Marone saw that all you had to do was tee off to a spot 5 yards behind center and, run or pass, you were going to blow up the play. The following year, in 2010, year 2 of the vaunted co-OC in charge of the run game, everyone we played had seen through this probably by viewing the 2009 Syracuse game tape, and we got beat up all season long. Oddly, we ran a more aggressive blocking style O vs Syracuse that year and won.
