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No not P and D.
Priniciple #1. A football game, when you break it down, is never as bad as it seemed live, and it's never as good as it seemed live.
Rutgers game is in the books. Was it as bad as it seemed? No. Because the plays were there to be made, by everybody in all three phases.
The problem, is that this is a recurrent theme, in why we are 3-3, and why we could just as easily be 1-5, as we could be 5-1. The plays are there, but the players fail.
That's on the coaching to fix.
Principle #2. WHen things aren't working, when you aren't consistent, you need to simplify.
YOu need to find what's working, and build upon it. We've got a lot of stuff working on defense, there's a lot ot build on, a lot to improve, but nothign really to change. Same for the kicking games.
Offense? What works? Consistently? Nothing so far through 6 games. In that case, you go to basics. Blocking.
Who are our best blockers? Most consistent blockers? You identify that, and you build simple plays into a game plan, to use it.
This is what baffles me most right now about coach P. Is he really that loyal to Deleone that he won't get in his face and make him change?
When Sparano was head coach in Miami, and this whole wildcat thing was developed back in 2008 I think maybe 2009, the problem in Miami was that they didn't have enough players skilled on offense, and they were weak on the line of scrimmage except for a few players.
Donald Thomas - from UConn - was there. 6th round rookie, couldn't pass block, but could put any NFL DL or LB on the ground in the running game. THey had a #1 draft pick at left tackle from Michigan - Warde are reading? That was about it, the rest of the OL was a bunch of journeymen that played like Conrad Dobler with pencils in hidden in their pads to stab DL's.
THose were their two strongest blockers in the run game, they had a decent tailback as well. They came up with an unbalanced offensive line and the direct snap to the tailback, and they managed to be competitive on offense.
Why? Because they had an OC, that realized you had to simplify and play to your strength on offense when you're forced to. An OC that once ran the ball 52 times and passed I think two times (incomplete) while in Atlanta, and actually won the game against a division opponent.
Pasqualoni was part of that Miami coaching staff with that OC, that built plays, that were specifically designed for the handful of blockers on offense.
I tell you, that if we come out the rest of this season, and keep trying what we're trying on offense, spreading out,a nd going all over the field and putting the entire offense in position to fail, because a single player screws up - different ones, time and again, rather than simplifying to find a couple of plays and formations that go to our strength on offense, and build confidence, then I am off the train with this staff.
Priniciple #1. A football game, when you break it down, is never as bad as it seemed live, and it's never as good as it seemed live.
Rutgers game is in the books. Was it as bad as it seemed? No. Because the plays were there to be made, by everybody in all three phases.
The problem, is that this is a recurrent theme, in why we are 3-3, and why we could just as easily be 1-5, as we could be 5-1. The plays are there, but the players fail.
That's on the coaching to fix.
Principle #2. WHen things aren't working, when you aren't consistent, you need to simplify.
YOu need to find what's working, and build upon it. We've got a lot of stuff working on defense, there's a lot ot build on, a lot to improve, but nothign really to change. Same for the kicking games.
Offense? What works? Consistently? Nothing so far through 6 games. In that case, you go to basics. Blocking.
Who are our best blockers? Most consistent blockers? You identify that, and you build simple plays into a game plan, to use it.
This is what baffles me most right now about coach P. Is he really that loyal to Deleone that he won't get in his face and make him change?
When Sparano was head coach in Miami, and this whole wildcat thing was developed back in 2008 I think maybe 2009, the problem in Miami was that they didn't have enough players skilled on offense, and they were weak on the line of scrimmage except for a few players.
Donald Thomas - from UConn - was there. 6th round rookie, couldn't pass block, but could put any NFL DL or LB on the ground in the running game. THey had a #1 draft pick at left tackle from Michigan - Warde are reading? That was about it, the rest of the OL was a bunch of journeymen that played like Conrad Dobler with pencils in hidden in their pads to stab DL's.
THose were their two strongest blockers in the run game, they had a decent tailback as well. They came up with an unbalanced offensive line and the direct snap to the tailback, and they managed to be competitive on offense.
Why? Because they had an OC, that realized you had to simplify and play to your strength on offense when you're forced to. An OC that once ran the ball 52 times and passed I think two times (incomplete) while in Atlanta, and actually won the game against a division opponent.
Pasqualoni was part of that Miami coaching staff with that OC, that built plays, that were specifically designed for the handful of blockers on offense.
I tell you, that if we come out the rest of this season, and keep trying what we're trying on offense, spreading out,a nd going all over the field and putting the entire offense in position to fail, because a single player screws up - different ones, time and again, rather than simplifying to find a couple of plays and formations that go to our strength on offense, and build confidence, then I am off the train with this staff.