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“We all get antsy,” the TCU receiver said. “We want to be playing week in and week out. And this offense is so exciting, we just want to be out there every chance we get.”The next chance comes Saturday, when the Horned Frogs host unbeaten Minnesota of the Big Ten.
The week off gave the Horned Frogs a chance to step back and evaluate the performance of the new up-tempo offense in the season opener against Samford. There was plenty to like, but they want a tougher test.
“The key to it is, for me, just becoming a smarter football team,” coach Gary Patterson said Tuesday at his weekly press luncheon. “We have to keep becoming a smarter football team. When they give you big plays, then you take big plays. But you can’t force big plays.”
It is a tall order already for the Horned Frogs to have a new offense ready to go in time for the Big 12 opener against Oklahoma. They are trying to take it in stages — the Samford game provided an opportunity to execute in live action for the first time; Minnesota means a test against a team with comparable athletic skills at many positions.
“Even though they had eight starters back and were a playoff team, Samford is not a Minnesota,” Patterson said. “They hadn’t played that speed of the game.”
TCU did not have a pre-snap penalty on offense against Samford. In practice, they have tried to go even faster. It is getting closer to second nature, but it still remains strange work for veterans such as right tackle Hala Vaitai.
“It’s like going back to freshman year, learning new things,” Vaitai said. “The tempo, we weren’t used to it at first. We’re used to a huddle. But now we’re progressing each day when we practice. We try to go faster than we did before.”
It is one thing to go fast. It is another thing to go fast without making mistakes. That is what quarterback Trevone Boykin and co-offensive coordinators Doug Meacham and Sonny Cumbie spent the week working on.
“Running the offense, execution, running it when they don’t have numbers in the box, throwing it when they have too many, doing all the things that a quarterback has to do to manage the game and operate it,” Patterson said. “Doug does a great job on the sideline seeing all that. You’re going to get some different coverages, possibly more man coverage in this ballgame. So now you’ve got to beat 1-on-1s. There’s the first thing you’ve got to see that you got better at.”
http://www.star-telegram.com/2014/09/09/6107243/tcu-itching-for-next-chance-to.html
Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2014/09/09/6107243/tcu-itching-for-next-chance-to.html#storylink=cpy
The week off gave the Horned Frogs a chance to step back and evaluate the performance of the new up-tempo offense in the season opener against Samford. There was plenty to like, but they want a tougher test.
“The key to it is, for me, just becoming a smarter football team,” coach Gary Patterson said Tuesday at his weekly press luncheon. “We have to keep becoming a smarter football team. When they give you big plays, then you take big plays. But you can’t force big plays.”
It is a tall order already for the Horned Frogs to have a new offense ready to go in time for the Big 12 opener against Oklahoma. They are trying to take it in stages — the Samford game provided an opportunity to execute in live action for the first time; Minnesota means a test against a team with comparable athletic skills at many positions.
“Even though they had eight starters back and were a playoff team, Samford is not a Minnesota,” Patterson said. “They hadn’t played that speed of the game.”
TCU did not have a pre-snap penalty on offense against Samford. In practice, they have tried to go even faster. It is getting closer to second nature, but it still remains strange work for veterans such as right tackle Hala Vaitai.
“It’s like going back to freshman year, learning new things,” Vaitai said. “The tempo, we weren’t used to it at first. We’re used to a huddle. But now we’re progressing each day when we practice. We try to go faster than we did before.”
It is one thing to go fast. It is another thing to go fast without making mistakes. That is what quarterback Trevone Boykin and co-offensive coordinators Doug Meacham and Sonny Cumbie spent the week working on.
“Running the offense, execution, running it when they don’t have numbers in the box, throwing it when they have too many, doing all the things that a quarterback has to do to manage the game and operate it,” Patterson said. “Doug does a great job on the sideline seeing all that. You’re going to get some different coverages, possibly more man coverage in this ballgame. So now you’ve got to beat 1-on-1s. There’s the first thing you’ve got to see that you got better at.”
http://www.star-telegram.com/2014/09/09/6107243/tcu-itching-for-next-chance-to.html
Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2014/09/09/6107243/tcu-itching-for-next-chance-to.html#storylink=cpy