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one of the coaching greats, I forget who now, used to say if a player screws up you fire the player, and if all the players screw up you fire the coach.NO!! While I don't like our defensive results, I don't know if it is coaching, players, or a combination. The DC only has so much to do with it the individual coaches have some effect.
one of the coaching greats, I forget who now, used to say if a player screws up you fire the player, and if all the players screw up you fire the coach.
I know many people don't understand even the basics of defense but what we do on defense is borderline insane, the equivalent of running double reverses every play, trying to fool everyone every play. corners and linebackers rotating to take deep halves or play center field / FS, defensive ends covering essentially the cornerback responsibilities. defensive backs blitzing. the thing is I guess this kind of sounds cool but we've seen so many times that a safety or a nickel blitz from too far away and they never get there and never do anything. we've also seen corner backs bailing to try to take the place of the safeties who are blitzing or playing robber underneath (at least I think that's what they're doing versus just falling asleep... something's drastically wrong with our ROBBER concepts if that's what they're doing as they've made almost no interceptions playing this). basically it sounds cool but it ends up just not working.
Now some of this works and it's cool on 3rd and long for an exotic blitz but we do it so often, like more often than not. quarterbacks can see it and just take advantage of our stupid mismatches, like an X receiver on a linebacker or safety. or Marco trying to play centerfield from his right cornerback position and the other hash/seam being wide open.
the fact that our defense improved so much when we went with our backups and played just base defenses says a lot.
MOST of the time we should just be playing some sound-based defenses.
Im sorry, Deuce, for letting you down!What happened to you? This is almost a Great post!
I don’t buy all the broken BS. I’ve turned around staffs of over 100 within 30 days with minimal turnover. Folks want to do a good job for the most part. They just need a leader to create an environment for them to be successful...and then they will be.Glad boom is gone but when he inherited all of that talent, the locker room was totally broken (thanks to Meyer). He had to fix that.
I think he gave us everything he had, unfortunately being a decent head coach wasn’t something he could be.
Definitely do not want him as DC, anywhere he goes is just a placeholder until he gets his next HC gig.
Still buying that old narrative, eh?Glad boom is gone but when he inherited all of that talent, the locker room was totally broken (thanks to Meyer). He had to fix that.
They’re buddies? Have they ever worked together?He's going to end up with his Buddy Sniffen Kiffin at Ol Miss.
Not that I know of they were in the news recently for having a text threesome going on with Kirby from Ga.,They’re buddies? Have they ever worked together?
A threesome with Kirby, eh? Now there’s a mental image I could have done without.Not that I know of they were in the news recently for having a text threesome going on with Kirby from Ga.,
Id rather have zook
I'll just leave this right here.