Our offensive play calling has to get better. When you have a 1000 yard rusher you don't move away from that. You feed him the ball. In our blowout losses or bad wins(Utah St.) this year we left Dyer on the bench for large stretches of time. When he's averaging 4+ yards per carry you don't just hand him the ball 13 times during a game(that was his average amount of carries in most of our losses or embarrassing wins) . That just defies good common football logic. Look back at the Utah St., Clemson, Georgia, LSU and Alabama games. What's the common theme?,
a) we lost badly or almost got embarrassed and
b) Dyer was not given the ball enough in any of those games.
I thought after the Utah St. and Clemson games we would have realized what we needed to do. Guess not! Against Utah St. Dyer only carried the ball 14 times. In the Clemson game he was averaging 10 yards a carry and not once had been stopped and yet on at least two third and short plays we pass with him on the bench?
He only touched the ball 14 times in that Clemson game also. Seeing a trend?
LSU he had a paltry 12 touches and it was a blowout loss. Seeing that trend? Georgia he had 13 touches and it was a blowout loss. Alabama he had 13 touches and it was a blowout loss.
Instead of correcting this error at the start of the year when we should have, we repeated the same error over and over in our losses afterwards. Dyer low carries=loss.
Now for comparison's sake, look at our lone good win from this year over a ranked opponent. That would be South Carolina in case you forgot. What do you notice? In that game Dyer carried the ball 41 times and we won on the road against a ranked team for the ONLY time this past year.
Terrible play calling. Poor Dyer. I feel bad for him. I'm sure Steve Spurrier would know what to do with him.