Not really sure if you guys wanted my thoughts or not, but we had a good convo after Cincy so figured I'd post...
Kind've did defense first for this game and also had to chart it for work and there were a crap ton of events so a little behind on my own stuff, but I thought the 1h was extremely promising.
Basically, were not going to get more pre snap motion, not going to get any 20 or 21 personnel ... Heupel's system is what it is and it's not changing.. so for the most part I'm going to stop asking for it haha. It's just not happening.
However this is what I took away from the 1h:
In the 1h vs. ECU, UCF had 22 1st and 10's. 16 passes thrown by a QB:
-> 0.7772 EPA/Dropback
-> 73.33% success rate
-> 1, 15 yard pen drawn.
-> 15.2 YPA
And after 4 of the inc, they went back to the pass on 2nd n 10, 3 times. 3 Com, ~10 YPA.
Establishing the pass to set up the run.
On their 5 1st and 10 runs:
-> 0.123 EPA/Rush
-> 80% succ rate
-> 7.4 YPC
Insanely better than 1st and 10 runs previously. (I know it's ECU but still)
ECU's defensive game plan played a factor in this imo.
It looked like they tried to copy Pitt's defense against UCF to a degree.
ECU went base personnel every single play of the 1h. UCF countered by lining up in 4 WR looks or Empty on 26 out of 41 snaps outside the RZ.
On 20 of those 26, UCF didn't have Hescock on the field.
This left a LB matched up on either Marlon, Harris, or Otis... which is just not fair.
On top of that, ECU went with a single high safety (playing a million yards off the LOS) or zero safeties on 44 of 46 plays.
This essentially forced ECU to play man on every snap and you don't exactly want to be doing that against UCF's WR's.
Despite a weaker opp, it was a promising sign from UCF's offense. Aggressive on 1st down and going against normal "11" personnel tendency to counter ECU's def.
Kind've did defense first for this game and also had to chart it for work and there were a crap ton of events so a little behind on my own stuff, but I thought the 1h was extremely promising.
Basically, were not going to get more pre snap motion, not going to get any 20 or 21 personnel ... Heupel's system is what it is and it's not changing.. so for the most part I'm going to stop asking for it haha. It's just not happening.
However this is what I took away from the 1h:
In the 1h vs. ECU, UCF had 22 1st and 10's. 16 passes thrown by a QB:
-> 0.7772 EPA/Dropback
-> 73.33% success rate
-> 1, 15 yard pen drawn.
-> 15.2 YPA
And after 4 of the inc, they went back to the pass on 2nd n 10, 3 times. 3 Com, ~10 YPA.
Establishing the pass to set up the run.
On their 5 1st and 10 runs:
-> 0.123 EPA/Rush
-> 80% succ rate
-> 7.4 YPC
Insanely better than 1st and 10 runs previously. (I know it's ECU but still)
ECU's defensive game plan played a factor in this imo.
It looked like they tried to copy Pitt's defense against UCF to a degree.
ECU went base personnel every single play of the 1h. UCF countered by lining up in 4 WR looks or Empty on 26 out of 41 snaps outside the RZ.
On 20 of those 26, UCF didn't have Hescock on the field.
This left a LB matched up on either Marlon, Harris, or Otis... which is just not fair.
On top of that, ECU went with a single high safety (playing a million yards off the LOS) or zero safeties on 44 of 46 plays.
This essentially forced ECU to play man on every snap and you don't exactly want to be doing that against UCF's WR's.
Despite a weaker opp, it was a promising sign from UCF's offense. Aggressive on 1st down and going against normal "11" personnel tendency to counter ECU's def.