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Nothing from the Arkansas Razorbacks’ quarterbacks about offensive coordinator Bobby Petrino was particularly surprising to anyone who paid attention when he was around in his first run from 2008-11. Everybody likes what his offenses are noted for doing.
The current quarterbacks were too young to remember any of that, and only had information second-hand or from watching television.
It’s probably nothing like the crash course in offensive football they’ve been getting since Petrino arrived in December after a year at Texas A&M.
“I love how he wants us to be explosive in the run game, as well as in the pass game,” Malachi Singleton said Saturday. “He just wants us to be smart football players.
He gives us the keys to the offense, like Jacolby was saying earlier. It’s on us to get us in the right play, get us in the right run checks. Really just having the keys to the offense and being able to play my game and our game, just really been grateful for it.”
Let’s not be too quick to put everything on the quarterback, a decades-long habit for Razorback fans.
In Petrino’s offense, the wide receivers are just as important. It helps to have guys with the ability and football IQ to be able to execute. Petrino’s system doesn’t just require quarterbacks to know what they’re trying to do, the receivers play a role just as big.
Just knowing football and knowing the ins and outs and knowing the whys,” expected No. 1 quarterback Taylen Green said. “Why concepts work against what coverage. Just going through my reads, and the big thing is just being consistent with that and being consistent with my footwork and what (Petrino) harps on with me and us, is having an expectation of every single drive our goal is to score, and we’re going to score.