There is still more than one route being run and if you're feeling pressure you hit your safety valve. There's always a hot route/safety valve/whatever one may call it. If you aren't looking at number two because your number one is blanketed or looking at your rb or just tucking it and running, that's on you. It's a basic thing we see at even the worst of programs.
I don't know the gophers' playbook and I don't know that others know anything about either the playbook or the truth as to the plays taking too long to develop. Even if you keep in two tight ends for extra pass pro you have two wideouts and a running back. And they're not running those formations every play. Sometimes, sure, I'll buy that. But this has been all year against some poor defenses who get pressure with poor dline play. And if the coaches are unwilling to shoulder the qb with more than two route options per play, that's pretty condemning of the most important guy on the field because they don't trust he can recall three or four routes or be trusted to look their way. The quarterback is not ready for this level and likely never will be.
