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Dawson’s creativity

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Applecane said:
in judging offensive coordinators, I focus heavily on their play calls inside the red zone.
Three of Dawson’s calls come to mind:
— The Toney end-around that put us ahead of A&M late in the 4th quarter.
— Beck’s stutter step and dump off to Fletcher for the first score against OSU.
— Beck’s handoff to Fletcher,after indicating an end-around to Toneyto keep close vs Indiana. He walked in with no trouble.
There were some great red zone calls vs. Mississippi, too.
Smart play-calling in crucial situations,
Not sure this guy gets enough credit.
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The td run by Toney vs Indiana to keep us in the game late was a great call. The outside zone call vs Indiana that Fletcher took to the house from 57 yards was a great call because it broke tendency and secondly we had a dummy call on and it fooled everyone on that D outside of Aiden Fischer but nobody would listen to him lol. Actually late in the 3rd and the whole 4th quarter Dawson had figured out Bryant Haines and was taking him to school. After the blocked punt, we threw cation to the wind and played loose and aggressive and Dawson was in the zone as was Beck.
 
I have had a very favorable opinion of the man since he arrived. You can see when what seems like he is running the same stupid play over and over again how he is really letting the defense come to him. He's always thinking and plotting...I feel that when he overthinks things that's when some things just don't work.
 
Tei Tenga said:
I have had a very favorable opinion of the man since he arrived. You can see when what seems like he is running the same stupid play over and over again how he is really letting the defense come to him. He's always thinking and plotting...I feel that when he overthinks things that's when some things just don't work.
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A&M game was a great example

Running game was dominant but he seemed to just be wanting to prove something. Hard to explain it any other way. Trying to open up the playbook and attack in ways when they literally couldn’t stop the straight run game
 
GirthQuake said:
I like him better than lashlee. I’m still holding my breath on our former players being super stars at smu.
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Dawson is certainly creative. That's a common attribute of play callers who come from his coaching lineage (back to Mike Leach's coaching tree).

The issue with all of those play callers is that they all suffer from the 'Smartest Guy in the Room' syndrome. We've seen it with Dawson many a time. He consistently "plays with his food" in the first half of games, trying (sometimes desperately) to force his gimmicky square pegs into the round holes of what the defense is giving him. To his credit, he seems to make very good halftime adjustments.

All in all, with exception of Rhett Lashley, Dawson is the best play caller we've had at UM in many a year; Perhaps decades.
 
It's hard to judge him because I don't know what his marching orders are. I do know that when he stopped being so ******* predictable we seemed to do a lot better. SMU game, I was ready for Dawson to go away. Season ended up great but I'm not forgetting the offense was hobbled and cost us against a couple mediocre acc teams. Not sure he deserves a crown yet, I need to see a long term change in mindset.
 
SFbayCane said:
Dawson is certainly creative. That's a common attribute of play callers who come from his coaching lineage (back to Mike Leach's coaching tree).

The issue with all of those play callers is that they all suffer from the 'Smartest Guy in the Room' syndrome. We've seen it with Dawson many a time. He consistently "plays with his food" in the first half of games, trying (sometimes desperately) to force his gimmicky square pegs into the round holes of what the defense is giving him. To his credit, he seems to make very good halftime adjustments.

All in all, with exception of Rhett Lashley, Dawson is the best play caller we've had at UM in many a year; Perhaps decades.
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I found that to be predictable, annoying and frustrating.
 
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SFbayCane said:
Dawson is certainly creative. That's a common attribute of play callers who come from his coaching lineage (back to Mike Leach's coaching tree).

The issue with all of those play callers is that they all suffer from the 'Smartest Guy in the Room' syndrome. We've seen it with Dawson many a time. He consistently "plays with his food" in the first half of games, trying (sometimes desperately) to force his gimmicky square pegs into the round holes of what the defense is giving him. To his credit, he seems to make very good halftime adjustments.

All in all, with exception of Rhett Lashley, Dawson is the best play caller we've had at UM in many a year; Perhaps decades.
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I cant Hype up lashlee over Dawson honestly. Lashlee consistently had no run game. Dawson has a good blend of both passing and running
 
I feel like it takes him a bit to actually get a feel for how the game is going. But once he figures it out its off to the races.
 
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