Am I the only one who thinks he finally got a talking to by the upper and is lashing out a little bit?
Short and curt with the mediaI get the arguments made in this thread but have no idea what Belichick has to do with it.
Dan I think he is not owning up to the mess Saturday is he does not want to show any type of weakness to his players. they need to know he is strong and confident and setting them up for success. We dont know if his game plan was not executed correctly or not. Lets not forget he has beaten triple option teams before. He does give props to Chandler as well by stating it wasnt his fault and that he wishes he didnt say more. I know he could have said more but I think the loss came as a shock to him and the whole team. So now he is giving the attitude that we are going to shock Cincinnati which is excactly what he should be doing.I will break my self-imposed silence (which lasted all of 2 days) for this thread. I was waiting to see how Diaco would handle the press conferences following the Army game. The game already showed me the level of coach he is at this point in time (that is to say that he needs some obvious work from his first year, and maybe that was to be expected). But the post-game press conferences were going to show me what type of leader he was.
Well, if the quotes that Des has is all that he was willing to say, then I have my answer. The fact that he wasn't even able to own a single iota of the mess on Saturday is almost criminal. It really is. And look, I don't expect a first year coach to be perfect. But damn it, I expect him to be man enough to at least say, "I could have made some better pre-game preps and in-game adjustments." My goodness. Chandler was a leader. He owned a loss that wasn't his to own. It's time for Bob Diaco to step up and show the type of leader that HE is...
(I'll go back into my hole now)
Dan I think he is not owning up to the mess Saturday is he does not want to show any type of weakness to his players. they need to know he is strong and confident and setting them up for success. We dont know if his game plan was not executed correctly or not. Lets not forget he has beaten triple option teams before. He does give props to Chandler as well by stating it wasnt his fault and that he wishes he didnt say more. I know he could have said more but I think the loss came as a shock to him and the whole team. So now he is giving the attitude that we are going to shock Cincinnati which is excactly what he should be doing.
You focus too much on the negative for me to explain it to you. His statements can also be taken as the team is improving and needs to continue to improve.Well if you can turn yourself into a pretzel for Pasqualoni, this seems easy.
It seems amazing that anyone would thing showing weakness to players would be worse than what he said.
You focus too much on the negative for me to explain it to you. His statements can also be taken as the team is improving and needs to continue to improve.
Don't worry about his check cashing unless your the one writing them. There is no doubt he was shocked to lose to Army. Not sure if he said "wow did I screw up" is going to help his team. Also he has a defensive coordinator who is also new at his job so it is more than just Bob, and like I said he has beaten triple option teams before so I think he knows what needs to be done. I see him as angry and determined to fix the team. We will see if he can end the season on a winning streak. Sometimes you have to focus on the message and not just the mess.His statements are ridiculous. They are actually more ridiculous than yours.
He has no problems cashing the checks and no problem blaming everyone else for 2-7.
That's the biggest red flag in the world. That anyone gives him a pass is a joke.
Don't worry about his check cashing unless your the one writing them. There is no doubt he was shocked to lose to Army. Not sure if he said "wow did I screw up" is going to help his team. Also he has a defensive coordinator who is also new at his job so it is more than just Bob, and like I said he has beaten triple option teams before so I think he knows what needs to be done. I see him as angry and determined to fix the team. We will see if he can end the season on a winning streak. Sometimes you have to focus on the message and not just the mess.
whaler11 said:His statements are ridiculous. They are actually more ridiculous than yours.
He has no problems cashing the checks and no problem blaming everyone else for 2-7.
That's the biggest red flag in the world. That anyone gives him a pass is a joke.
Dan I think he is not owning up to the mess Saturday is he does not want to show any type of weakness to his players. they need to know he is strong and confident and setting them up for success.
Srqhusky said:If you guys listened to what he said, and there may be some coaching issues yes I agree his practices are based on getting fundamentals down before game planning. That is why he looks like he got caught with his pants down
You focus too much on the negative for me to explain it to you. His statements can also be taken as the team is improving and needs to continue to improve.
Except on Ryan Gomes....Jim Calhoun got a pass on his press conferences because he was a very successful coach. He threw his players under the bus many times ( when he felt there was a lack of effort) and rarely blamed himself.
The most important game film was 35 minutes south at Yale,did he not know they were gonna run and run and run? How many pass attempts? Less than 10? But his team is a mess!!?? Really?? I shook my head as I left the stadium.I will break my self-imposed silence (which lasted all of 2 days) for this thread. I was waiting to see how Diaco would handle the press conferences following the Army game. The game already showed me the level of coach he is at this point in time (that is to say that he needs some obvious work from his first year, and maybe that was to be expected). But the post-game press conferences were going to show me what type of leader he was.
Well, if the quotes that Des has is all that he was willing to say, then I have my answer. The fact that he wasn't even able to own a single iota of the mess on Saturday is almost criminal. It really is. And look, I don't expect a first year coach to be perfect. But damn it, I expect him to be man enough to at least say, "I could have made some better pre-game preps and in-game adjustments." My goodness. Chandler was a leader. He owned a loss that wasn't his to own. It's time for Bob Diaco to step up and show the type of leader that HE is...
(I'll go back into my hole now)
from Sunday's Courant, for better or worse...He didn't game plan correctly for the triple option. Simple as that. Big mistake. Arguing about it is ridiculous. The coaching staff blew the game. The fact that they almost came back is a testament to the effort the kids were putting in. The players know football, they've been playing it most of their lives. Even they know that their defense was wasting men and energy guarding deep passes that were never coming etc. Despite terrible defense, they didn't give up and they almost won anyway.
What we have here is a great coach at strengthening his players mentally and physically and a so so/poor coach in terms of game planning and game management. He will improve his Xs and Os in time. Managing a football game is chaos and it needs to be controlled chaos. I think he will get there, but he needs experience. You have to admire the fight he has put in the dog though. These kids don't give up.