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Dcr361. Yards after catch. When I did that thread a few weeks ago comparing Riley and Jake in the USU game, one of the things I noticed most about Jake's offense is that very few plays resulted in significant YAC. Often, that's by design with out routes, corner routes and comebacks, but even a lot of his throws over the middle and some screen throws resulted in little movement after the catch. To my eye, it was a problem created by inaccurate or nearly-uncatchable throws - the receivers would have to extend themselves out to catch the ball, and would have to re-establish momentum (or even equilibrium) after the catch. By that time, they had either already tripped themselves up or were swarmed by defenders.
Against Idaho, it seemed like a lot more of our passes resulted in decent YAC. That pass to Hoffman on the first drive of the night was great - Hoffman caught it in stride, eyed a route and was able to get a lot of extra yards. A few less noteworthy, but improved, passes were thrown, especially over the middle and to our TEs. I really only noticed the problem return at the beginning of the last drive of the first half - there was no YAC at all on our first two completions, on the first pass it seemed pretty obvious it wasn't be design because it left the clock running and only picked up 3 or 4 yards. The second pass was probably by design - it occurred on the sidelines, presumably TO stop the stop.
You can attribute this to improved effort/performance by our receivers, better playcalling, etc. But my take after the USU game was that Heaps' throws basically locked the receivers down.
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Heaps laughing with his teammates in the huddle. It doesn't discredit the rumors surrounding Heaps, the locker room atmosphere, etc. But I'll take it as a good sign.
Against Idaho, it seemed like a lot more of our passes resulted in decent YAC. That pass to Hoffman on the first drive of the night was great - Hoffman caught it in stride, eyed a route and was able to get a lot of extra yards. A few less noteworthy, but improved, passes were thrown, especially over the middle and to our TEs. I really only noticed the problem return at the beginning of the last drive of the first half - there was no YAC at all on our first two completions, on the first pass it seemed pretty obvious it wasn't be design because it left the clock running and only picked up 3 or 4 yards. The second pass was probably by design - it occurred on the sidelines, presumably TO stop the stop.
You can attribute this to improved effort/performance by our receivers, better playcalling, etc. But my take after the USU game was that Heaps' throws basically locked the receivers down.
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Heaps laughing with his teammates in the huddle. It doesn't discredit the rumors surrounding Heaps, the locker room atmosphere, etc. But I'll take it as a good sign.