I agree with this. I think that the play calling was following a designed script. Mostly vanilla, except for the rare "ridiculous" play (like the reverse-throw to Griffin). It was as if to say, "We want NCState thinking about the following things..." If it works, then great. Perhaps NCState prepares for a heavy dose of running up the middle and wildcat, and maybe we use those things very sparingly when we play them. I guess we'll know in a week...
I guess I am a pretty ignorant football fan because I have never heard of this before: predicating an entire offensive scheme for a game on fooling a future opponent. Boy, UConn is really going to put one over on NC State.
Hope you guys are right because I do not think the Dandy Randy power running game, up-the-gut-for-two-yards, with the occasional throw is going to get it done. McCombs is small and can't carry the team on his back. This team needs a second running option which hasn't emerged yet (I know it's early). The one hopeful sign is that Davis and Smith look like real athletes, tall, rangy, fast.
I don't care how bad NW's secondary was, Nassib was dropping precision passes right into Sales hands. That's got less to do with cornerbacks and more to do with QB throwing and WR playing-making abilities. Precision throws like the ones Nassib threw can even burn the somewhat disgraced Honey Badger.
