I don't think that idea is cuckoo at all. It's probably correct. But as good as GDL was at teaching positional skills, he had no freaking clue how to incorporate Griffin's skills into the offense.
I don't know about that. This is all completely heresay and my opinion, but watching, it looked like many times that Deleone was full aware that Griffin was one of our best players on offense. And this is where I say the guy is too smart for his own good. He knows that defenses are going to plan to take away the strenght of our offense, as little as we had. There were many times where Griffin was split wide, and IMO, pretty muchlooked like the game plan, and incorporating those plays, was meant to try to set up to be a 'decoy' for the defense, while we tried something else and the D focused on #94 split wide. Over thinking though, play to your strengths, I think. Use the decoy's and gimmicks in situations where you've got leads on the scoreboard, and have some wiggle room.
THe problem is, overthinking. The McCummings throw at the goal line against Rutgers still drives me nuts when I think about it. What a freaking disaster. To this day, I think that they worked those play calls during the week, and were most likely preparing under the impression that the Rutgers D would respond differently to the play than what happened. That DB on the edge crashed down on the play, that I think should have never happened (and beat not 1, but TWO blockers to rush McCummings and force the bad throw to wide open player.). The play should have worked for so many reasons - except that it was a crunch time situation, we needed points, and we went to every one of our weaknesses on offense, instead of strengths. (i.e. backfield help blocking, and McCummings throwing)
Earlier in the season, we ran th same goal line situations, with McCummings, on the road, against Maryland, and we punched it in on the ground.
Simple principles on offense for me play calling. Have your play calling arsenal stocked and well practiced with options within a game plan, but don't fugging stop using what's working on your own - make the defense stop you before you change it up, and play to your strengths in crunch time situations, not trick and gimmick plays to incorporate into the film for future opponents
Deleone, in his play calling, seem to go the complete opposite, and there are two reasons why that wwould happen, is if you're way too far ahead in your thinking, or too far behind.
Many think the game has passed Deleone by, or was clueless, when it came to play calling, but to me, that's not the case at all, to me, he was thinking too far ahead, and that hurt us, as much as being completely clueless would have.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to football season, and seeing an offense, hopefully that can score TD's regularly. It's been a damn long time since we've had an offense that was a threat to score.
