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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.
 
CIS treats the Dawson like he’s Andy Reid when an all actuality he was mid at Houston and he’s been mid here at Miami
 
P-Tizzle said:
Unless “hot take” is a synonym for “are you ******* stupid”. Hetherman is the best coordinator we had since ever.
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Saying this as if dawson didn’t lead us to our best offense ever is crazy, and we still produced this past year after there was drop offs everywhere on offense besides slot. He hasn’t dealt with roster attrition yet to make those claims
 
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E1k said:
Saying this as if dawson didn’t lead us to our best offense ever is crazy, and we still produced this past year after there was drop offs everywhere on offense besides slot. He hasn’t dealt with roster attrition yet to make those claims
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Brother, yes overall we did produce after attrition but the A&M game and the fist half vs Indiana were atrocious.
 
P-Tizzle said:
Brother, yes overall we did produce after attrition but the A&M game and the fist half vs Indiana were atrocious.
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I think it’s easier for most to recognize flaws in a coordinator for offense because if we nit pick our defense like yall do offense it would be some uncomfortable conversations

A&m drove down to the one yard line in bad weather conditions, ole miss scored 27 and had a chance to win at the end while only having the ball for 18 minutes the entire game. It was dawson offense that led the team to take the lead vs A&M, vs ole miss and shut the door vs osu, and gave us a chance to win vs indiana after the blocked punt and indiana offense marching down the field keeping the ball for 36 minutes that game
 
E1k said:
I think it’s easier for most to recognize flaws in a coordinator for offense because if we nit pick our defense like yall do offense it would be some uncomfortable conversations

A&m drove down to the one yard line in bad weather conditions, ole miss scored 27 and had a chance to win at the end while only having the ball for 18 minutes the entire game. It was dawson offense that led the team to take the lead vs A&M, vs ole miss and shut the door vs osu, and gave us a chance to win vs indiana after the blocked punt and indiana offense marching down the field keeping the ball for 36 minutes that game
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I disagree. Hetherman’s defense did things to Ole Miss offense that no one else did last season. They scored two offensive TDs the whole game. Chambliss finally looked mortal since week 9 vs USCe. Besides Lacy’s 70 strike, their rushing attacked netted 45 yards on 20 carries. 9 of their points came from 50+ yard FGs.

How about OSU? Defense scored a TD, shut down everyone except for Smith. Had a shutout in the first half. OSU scored 14 points their second lowest of the season (vs Indiana).

How about A&M? Forced 3 turnovers and 7 sacks. Gave up 3 points (0 points until 4th). Not to mention, Miami’s offense turned the ball over in a tied game, late in the 4th, at midfield. Remind me, how many points did our defense give up on that subsequent drive? Zero. They gave the ball back to our offense for the GW score.

Finally, how great was our offense vs UL and SMU?
 
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