Ive said this before and ill say it again. Position coaches are only as good as the coordinators they coach for.
I get sick and tired of fans calling for Kehoes head. Every coach has their flaws and he is not perfect by any means but the guy has 5 rings and he knows what it takes.
Furthermore, HE IS A ZONE BLOCKING COACH! He does not coach downhill/powerblocking well AT ALL. Power plays are ones you will see pulling lineman instead of a cohesive unit stepping in one direction to block a "zone".
The zone blocking scheme is almost perfectly designed for the florida style backs like DUke and yearby.
It doesnt call for so much pileup and it allows quicker backs with good vision to find lanes and use their cutback skills.
Despite this clear fact both jedd fisch and coley love to run power blocking run plays.
I was ****ed when Duke got hurt in the fsu game last year because it was all coleys fault. You dont run a power off tackle on 3rd and 2 with a guy like duke johnson. Hes too small.
The pulling guard got jammed in the hole and both him and the d-lineman got rolled on top of duke breaking his ankle with 1000 pounds of pressure.
Switch that play to zone blocking and i can almost guarantee a first down.
go look at our rbs most succesful run plays this season... i guarantee you 95% are on plays that are zone blocked.
Kehoe really excels at that and so does our personell.
So think twice before you call for kehoes head.
We should coach to the teams strengths. not against them.
Dukes 80 yard run was Power O.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-LTaWyOGyU
1 back power on his td...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm7g9e2Rhys
The first one is counter..... the second is toss.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VGs_szTbwo
Point is....Duke can do it all. Try again. Kehoe can coach, it's Al that made the linemen rotate. Al plays YMCA football, everyone plays....
I cant see these plays but im almost betting there all from the Cincy game where EVERYONE knows their defense is/was horrendous. I saw the power plays working in the cincy game. just paid them no mind because it was cincy.
now go back to a better coached team and a better defense in Duke and Nebraska and arky state and you will see the succes coming on mostly zone blocking plays.
The power plays are so slow developing that better defenses/defensive coaches know to have the lb key on that pulling guard and sneak in the hole after him?
Case in point of how Arthur brown, burgess and teo were able to make multiple plays in our backfield over the years... all mainly due to too much power running.
I understand als lineman rotation is stupid and detrimental but kehoes IS NOT GOOD AT POWER BLOCKING SCHEMES!
I hope you dont really think you challenged my post by posting a few runs against a team where just about anything works......-___-