Andy Mitts and Adam Eaton discuss the approach the UCF Knights will try to use to beat the Kansas Jayhawks.
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00:00 with UCF is there's so many guys on offense that have talent that I don't
00:04 think they've really figured out how to spread the ball around. I mentioned
00:08 Johnny Richardson six carries 101 plus yards. The average 17.5 yards carry,
00:12 but only six carries RJ Harvey at 21 carries, right? So I think UCF has
00:16 got to find a way to spread the ball a little bit, but they want to run
00:19 the ball first. That's accentuated with Plumlee because then he
00:23 becomes a threat if he's healthy. So UCF is going to want to run the
00:27 ball, but they're going to want to run on the edges. They're not going
00:29 to want to run in between tackles and down the center of the field.
00:33 They will do some wildcat times and sure they'll run up to uphill at
00:36 that point, but they want to be on the edges throwing the football.
00:38 Yeah, which is very similar to what the Jayhawks try to do, which means
00:41 that the Kansas defense is going to have seen that in, you know, in
00:44 practice, but that seems to be where they have the most problems, right?
00:48 It's actually guarding out on the edges because well, especially running
00:53 better quarterbacks that are able to run like that doesn't sound like
00:56 that's necessarily Jimmy McLean strength. And if Plumlee's back in,
01:00 I'm guessing he probably would want to kind of do that. So I'm just
01:03 a question whether he can do that too.
01:04 Yeah, I would say the difference between the two. So Plumlee's the
01:07 kind of guy that if he's healthy again, big F, he can take the ball
01:10 and go 65 yards on one carry. He's fast. He's electric. Tim McLean's
01:14 not that guy. Doesn't have that speed, but he can go seven yards.
01:17 He can go 10 yards. He can go 12 yards. So he can be your death by
01:21 a thousand paper cuts style quarterback runner, where Plumlee's
01:23 going to be like your dynamite runner where he goes 70 yards all
01:26 of a sudden in a blink of an eye and you go, oh my goodness, what
01:29 just happened there and you're not going to get that out of Timmy
01:32 McLean. So that's the difference between the two. They both run a
01:34 little bit, but McLean does not have anywhere near the speed of
01:37 Plumlee. And again, he'll pick you up 10 yards on third and seven.
01:40 He'll get you five yards on second and six, but Plumlee will get
01:44 you 70 and again, good and bad on both of those. But that's the
01:47 difference between both of those from a running quarterback