This. Leaders can't throw their guys under the bus, or flail their arms in the air and yell "the sky is falling". They have to project confidence and control. Even if inside their head they want to shred someone. You do that in private.
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This. Leaders can't throw their guys under the bus, or flail their arms in the air and yell "the sky is falling". They have to project confidence and control. Even if inside their head they want to shred someone. You do that in private.
The mantra is "You praise in public, and discipline in private."
The players aren’t as good as previous years…there’s no doubt about that. To say otherwise is not only untrue but a slap in the face to Purdy, Kolar, Hall, and Allen. However…the defense also lost key contributors, and they haven’t skipped a bit. Either the drop off is so significant that most of our offense shouldn’t be seeing major playing time in the Big 12 or our offensive coaching staff isn’t creative/nimble enough to coach and call plays to match the strengths of our players.
Consider that if our offense was producing half as many points per game as last year, we are probably 5-1.
Correct. I just don't think we need to rewrite history to say our offense hasn't been good. It's been quite good, at least more than good enough to be very competitive. This year is a massive outlier. This isn't a Brian Ferentz situation where he's never been good and it's getting worse.
I think two things can be true. The offense has been good with this staff and we should be patient. The offense this year is quite bad and things can't continue this way. Whether that's somebody on staff being removed or not I can't say, and we're still only 50% of the way through the season.
Ultimately I think this is a lost year and I just hope we get to 6 wins so they can get that extra practice time and a bowl. I don't think we have the talent to just flip a switch and start being even a good offense. Some changes can be made but those aren't the changes that are typically made midseason.
Where has anyone said that they expect CMC to throw anyone under the bus or say things are all doom in a press conference? I think most would just like a see a different set of actions on the field.
Everyone understands why you must be a politician and engage in coach speak in press conferences. However, when what you do is 100 percent the opposite of what you say you are doing or wanting to do it makes it a little difficult to assign any seriousness to the actions or the words. I believe the term for it is "credibility gap".
I don't think it's re-writing history to say that our offense in the past wasn't as good as it could have been. A bad scheme, executed well with all-time great players will probably get results in spite of itself. That's where I and several others are at.
I think that message is getting misinterpreted.
The point is, this is why you dont put a lot into coach press conferences. It is just coach speak, even if its well disguised coach speak.
The initial post on the topic was saying how much info and great the Tuesday conference was, and not "Coach speak". Point is, it is always coach speak.
So it’s Mannings fault that Dekkers stares down X and can’t be accurate? Interesting.
Lol the video literally says 58% of Hutchinson's targets are at 9 yards or less. Any idea how far the other 42% are?
The video has a lot of good information and tells us the results of bad play, but what is the source? That's the tough part, and I'm definitely not qualified to assess with much accuracy. The one piece of insight that I agree with is that we are not using Noel correctly. He should be putting more pressure on defenses downfield with his speed.
But if you think that video says that we're not running any routes past 10 yards, I have to question your comprehension skills. A better argument would be that we're not targeting receivers 15+ yards downfield.
Whether that's scheme, lack of talent, gameplan, coaching, bad QB play, poor route running, bad OL play, I don't know. I suspect it's all of the above. Not a satisfying answer, but pouting that we don't run any routes past 10 yards is silly.
But if you think that video says that we're not running any routes past 10 yards, I have to question your comprehension skills. A better argument would be that we're not targeting receivers 15+ yards downfield.
Whether that's scheme, lack of talent, gameplan, coaching, bad QB play, poor route running, bad OL play, I don't know. I suspect it's all of the above. Not a satisfying answer, but pouting that we don't run any routes past 10 yards is silly.
I was talking over the last couple games. 58% of his targets takes the first 3-4 games into account as it is a number from the entire season, when we were throwing much more vertical, the last 2 games have been the real issue.
I am still waiting for you to tell me what you think is the issue in your expert knowledge. You come in and criticize what someone says is part of the issue, even though it was obvious hyperbole. But you have no real answer to what in your opinion to what the problems are.
Are we running guys at or around 10 yards, sure. Are we targeting them much, no. Are we running many deeper than 15 yards, not much. Are we targeting them, also very rarely. Why. Is it because we don't have the plays, is it because Dekkers cant hit them, is it because our line cant give him enough time? What? This was my point. But you obviously cant understand hyperbole, and you criticize my comprehension.
Our 4 games we were doing a better job, and I would say even against Baylor we did. The horrible stack of penalties and how they changed our gameplan and play calling in the end is what did that game in.
You said it yourself you dont know....but you sure like to tell others you know more than they do.
It is the person that keeps deciding to call the same five plays in very precise order.
Possibly…sort of. It’s possible on the plays being called, X is running a route the play is designed to get open (at least as a #1 option). I’m at least tempted to believe that may be true.
It’s not hard to get into a rhythm as a play caller when you have multiple (very dangerous) weapons. If the defense has to respect Kolar running a seam route, X running a deep cross, and Allen coming across the middle…with Hall in the flat as a safety valve. You’re good to go. Then whatever the outcome of that is, you mix it up to one of the others, start mixing routes and finding their soft spots and weak players…and pretty soon it’s the equivalent of a boxer going right, left, cross, body, upper.
We don’t have those weapons, so it is admittedly a harder job for Manning, but he needs to start getting creative to develop threats. Maybe you’ve got a guy who doesn’t run great routes, but he’s fast. Send him deep…and throw it to him occasionally. That will expand the field. Maybe you’ve got a guy who is slower but has good hands. Use him like a Wes Welker or Julian Edelman…a 5-7 yard out guy or just past the sticks.
You can even run some option sweeps (and possibly get the tight end involved that way with it being RPO.
They just need to stretch beyond their comfort zone and make better use of what little they have.
There's a way to do this gracefully without saying you're more talented than you've ever been.
I hope you're right. It doesn't look that way to me.
They look more than a tick off, and have for the last 3 games. I guess we'll see.
I do hope to see some improvement.
I hope to see improvement too. I was hoping to see improvement against K-State but it looked like a sidestep and a step backwards. I'll take any improvement now whether its win, loss or close loss
