Jordan Davis

I mean, running, running it opens up play action and, and opens up passes downfield, right? They're gonna have to run the ball.

And that's what Jordan Davis's offense was at, at North Texas, right? "Hey, we're gonna run the ball, but then we're gonna throw it over your head when, when you try to stop the run."

Mm-hmm.

That's what ECU needs to be and force defenses to load the box a- and then beat them with your speed outside.

Uh, maybe.

Hopefully Jordan Davis, who, uh, opened it up a little bit.

So, uh, the Pirates have used some trickeration already quite a bit this year.

What do you think about Jordan Davis through four games, Jarrett?

Um, I don't really know.

Incomplete.

... against Central, and then if the tight ends keep coming on strong and It could be a position where, you know, there are injuries, but now maybe there'll be more depth when guys get healthy and things will start to come along and open things up.

So I know there were some struggles just with the whole offense early on, but I do think things are gonna continue to look different and improve because of injuries.

I don't know why that even happened, how that even possible.

It's obvious Jordan Davis was trying to see how things work in the second half and open some things up.

Well, it didn't work.

So it's a little bit terrible on our part that we didn't score a single point in the second half.

And, you know, the time that Mitch was in there for that last little bit, I mean, didn't give us much of a show, but it was just enough overthrow where I'm like, it's been nice seeing completion.

Boys, we can pass the ball.

I don't care what side of, you know, you know, size of teams we're playing against, the fact that we were able to actually connect on passes and watch Jordan Davis actually call some plays that, you know, a little shufflery here and there, a couple of reverses around, like Engelman's looking nasty out there.

Like, it was a good breath of fresh air to show that we can actually function as an offensive unit to some extent.

The reason for going with Mitch, the reason for bringing in Mitch last year, he was in Texas techs offense.

He should know the offense, Jordan Davis.

like it's the same offense maybe some different like names here and there but it's the same thing so he should know the offense he should know how to play in the offense Jordan Davis's offense was said to be an air raid and it's I'm getting more west coast offense vibes like short passes But we're not throwing it over the middle, right? We did see a couple more thrown over the middle on Saturday.

Artie, I'll say the more I watch, the more I think ECU just needs a dog in the slot, and they don't have that.

Which we are accustomed to having in the program, honestly.

Now, yes, we had a different – Offensive coordinator in John David Baker.

But then we go out and get Jordan Davis, who is an air-raid offensive guy.

He didn't call plays at North Texas.

But we're not being aggressive on offense.

Obviously, Michael Allen.

So we have the running backs and the talent if we want to be a running first offense.

But it was advertised with Jordan Davis that this was going to be a spread it out, throw it around, and put up some passing yards.

And that has not happened.

You know, it was cool seeing Emory in there for a little bit, but, you know, he fumbled the ball and he got pulled out real quick.

But I don't know if Jordan Davis has forgot that we got running backs.

I know they got stuff a couple times, but they had some big runs in there during the game.

And I'm like, I've been seeing Engelman – and you know alan and ashton doing their thing like you know i mean we have more rushing than we had passing this game so i've gone all the time of us being the air raid until i see us actually i don't know it doesn't always need to be a long ball i could you know do a little five and out and just dink and doink across the field.

Then you got a guy who wasn't playing quarterback for six years as only started like one year at Wake Forest, quit football for two years, came back.

How much NIL money have we spent on Williams and Mitch Griffiths? Clearly we've missed there.

Uh, Jordan Davis finally calls a good play tonight, and an easy touchdown is available for Ray Ray Joseph, and Mitch Griffiths throws one of the worst passes I've ever seen in my entire freaking life.

I think Alex just mentioned a few minutes ago when Emery Williams was in, why aren't we throwing the ball down the field to at least, I mean, what are we doing? The offense is a mess, and I don't know if we can fix it.

But on a more macro program level, I just don't think our offense has an identity right now.

I think Jordan Davis hasn't found his groove as a play caller.

Obviously, we're missing our top two wide receivers, and that has led to way too much uncertainty.

Obviously, losing Brax Balding and Landon Sides is going to be an issue.

But I just think we're playing with way too much uncertainty.

I can't tell if this is supposed to be an air raid offense or if it's a vertical choice offense or veer and shoot offense.

I have no idea, and I don't know if Jordan Davis knows right now.

And I think that's a huge problem and it's causing our offense to have no flow.

There was some indigestion in Greenville when Harrell lost a whopping nine starters to the transfer portal and both coordinators to other FBS programs after his impressive 9-4 campaign a year ago.

Although that indigestion was minimized when Harold hired Jordan Davis away from an offensive powerhouse, North Texas, to take over the Pirates offense.

And then he got Jordan Hankins away from a strong Memphis program to direct the Pirates defense.

While those two very important hires may still work out well in the long run, it's more difficult to feel optimistic about how ECU handled the all-important quarterback position during the offseason.

You've turned the ball over twice, and you're two for – 13 on third down that'll cut down on your time of possession right

it will The OC's Jordan Davis comes over from North Texas.

He was the OC for North Texas a year ago.

However, he was not the play caller.