Dawson

[jmiller]

Just start watching from the 16:50 mark and tell me this isn't what were seeing here. Not trying to take blame away from Mario because he hired Dawson. Nobody did their homework on Dawson, so many people were just hypnotized with the word "air raid"

 

[Meast21]

It was absolutely an RPO. Young threw his hands up as soon as he saw the entire defense playing the hand off. If Tyler executes, it's a great play call.

No asking TVD who is mentally broke to think there is not a good play call. Either call a run or call a PA pass. Goal line RPO is tougher to read and had he held it to throw not sure he would have even had time since two defenders blew right thru on both sides

 

[fincane]

I wish we had an all 22 because you’d be sick if you saw majority of the routes Vs the coverage. Tvd has been bad but Dawson has been awful too. Running 84 out there this much is hilarious , if he does get enough separation he still drops it lol.

84 is Mario's guy. He's on the field a ton because Cristobal and Mirabal want him out there. They leaned into more big bodies and just overall bodies closer to the ball this week. Struggling QB? Lets go cave man football. Why is 84 looking into another year of eligibility? Because the head man wants him back.

 

[Meast21]

I was wondering about that.

The early Dawson was very creative, and was fun to watch.

Then we had to veer off into the ditch - and I understand we need to be able to run - but tonight a five-year-old in my house yelled, "Run up the middle again, idiot" and I guess he'd just repeated what we'd been yelling about.

I therefore can't put this on Dawson - it's uncharacteristic.

It IS characteristic of Mario and his BS run, run, run, go slow as possible, and only throw on third and long. Mario has his mind made - and while he can certainly recruit - he can sell, he can build - he needs to stay home on game day and just have his coordinators do their thing.

He's killing us on game days!

Even Saban abandoned the run first BS that is old as dinosaur ****.

Yeah i dont buy it. I dont doubt that Mario wants Dawson to run more / protect TVD from TO's but Dawson still makes and calls the plays. I dont think Mario told him to abandon all creativity and only run up the middle or call a WR tunnel screen. Dawson is a deer in the headlights himself (like TVD) and doesnt know what to do so hes gone conservative

 

[Meast21]

I wish we had an all 22 because you’d be sick if you saw majority of the routes Vs the coverage. Tvd has been bad but Dawson has been awful too. Running 84 out there this much is hilarious , if he does get enough separation he still drops it lol.

Is Mario neutering Dawson, does Dawson just suck, or combo of both? Honest question

 

[kanecrazed]

You’re picking out a couple plays a game. Tvd missed a td when NC State blew coverage but that was a blown coverage. We have no shifts , barely any motion or nothing in pre snap to get matchups or cause confusion. They just lined up and blitzed us all night and we just dropped back or tan it. Zero creativity. None.

Tvd deserves blame, he’s been awful but Dawson hasn’t been good since GT. Everything has went to **** after the bye week.

Completely agree. Tvd's poor play really magnifies our woes on offense.

ACC coaches are not stupid. Once they got a few games worth of film, stopping Dawson's vanilla concepts hasn't been hard.

 

[WestGA'Cane]

I truthfully believe Dawson is dead and Mario is trotting him out Weekend at Bernie's style while he secretly runs the offense.

I've been saying it, but this isn't the offense we saw earlier in the year.

 

[TemplarCane]

It's all on Mario.
And we change coordinators again next year imo...

And the hires will be three days before Spring practice. After a two-month search.

 

[CanesFan20]

They should make him the head coach

 

[NC_Canes_11]

I literally started laughing when we went shotgun on 4th and 1.

I was talking to a couple guys in the stands when we called TO and I said shotgun IZ to Fletcher and he gets tackled short. EVERYBODY with a brain knew that was coming.

 

[bobbydigius]

Anyway you cut it whether it’s Mario or Dawson, we are backed into a corner now. TVD is done and you are forced to not only start a true freshman but he has to show life as well. Mario whether it’s his fault or not has once again ****ed up his team’s QB situation and the narrative that he is a QB killer is alive and well. Why would a top portal QB come here and play for Mario?

 

[NVA CANE]

The offense that best suits the oline he’s recruited is the power spread. We would be scoring in bunches and would probably be undefeated right now.

Mario is dumb. He’s so hung up on some dumb **** offense that’s centered around some halfback dive nonsense that’s it’s completely handicapped the team.

 

[RightSaidFred]

Dawson didn’t throw 3 interceptions including one in the end zone. Dawson didn’t walk in to a strip sack and fumble the ball at our own 7 yard line.

 

[FrancisSawyer]

Out of the timeout, 4th and goal, must have TD and he just ran the same okay he’d been running all game long. Everyone knew it was going there. Unreal.

Yes but did you really expect anything else?

 

[FrancisSawyer]

Dawson didn’t throw 3 interceptions including one in the end zone. Dawson didn’t walk in to a strip sack and fumble the ball at our own 7 yard line.

You just don’t get it do you?

 

[CANEMC]

Him lining up McCormick in the slot instead of Brashard is beyond horrific. On passing downs.

 

[CANEMC]

Couple of kicks next weekend. Find something productive to do with your time.

FSU 65
UM 6

 

[FrancisSawyer]

Dawson might be a problem but I believe he is running what Mario wants so its hard to tell. I belive what we saw earlier in the year was Dawson and what we are seeing now is Mario meddleling.

Ok so if it was going so well in the first 4 games to the point that Mario is calling WR recruits and bragging about how exciting and dynamic the offense is and how he kept his promise that the offense would be exciting and fun for a WR to play in.

Then all of a sudden after those phone calls to recruits he then tells Dawson to pull the plug on the exciting and dynamic offense and replace it with a super slow boring unimaginative predictable run based offense that is based on running super tight bunched up and compressed formations seemingly for the sake of drawing 8-9 defenders into that small box but not so we use the speed we have on the bench to run outside and turn the corner. No we draw 9 defenders into a box the size of a uh I don’t know uh oh yeah a phone booth! So we draw practically the entire defense into a box the size of a phone booth in order to repeatedly run right at them right into an 8-9 man front. As much as I think Mario sucks I just don’t buy that.

What I do buy is that sometime right after the first 4 games, TVD Re aggravated the hand injury he had causing him to lose strength in his throwing arm and hand thus affecting his ability to throw deep and accurately. He then compounded that injury with another one during the UNC game after which his ability to play at a functional level was lost. Mario however knowing all of this just continued to trot him out there when he should have had Emory Williams take over. Mario was so hard up to keep TVD out there that he has put the entire season at jeopardy and dangerously close to losing this locker room. So instead of giving Emory all 1st team reps and coming up with a game plan that works for Emory based on his strengths as a QB, he forces TVD on the team knowing full well that the kid cannot perform and that the more he asks him to play the more mentally shaken the kid gets until we get what we saw today where TVD is completely dysfunctional. That’s what Mario thought the best course of action was and this is the offense that we get. This is a top 10 coach? That is the best he could come up with? That is absolutely terrifying! What a totally clueless and tone deaf dunce Mario is. A total clown!

 

[MIA2NJ]

Mario won 2 games grinding it out with runs up the middle, he was never letting Dawson go beyond the Tecmo Bowl page in the offense again.

Mario won 2 games grinding it out with runs up the middle, he was never letting Dawson go beyond the Tecmo Bowl page in the offense again.

I just referenced this exact play on Menmon’s thread. Except I mistakenly thought it was X that got the TD. How things have changed so quickly.

 

[MIA2NJ]

I wish we had an all 22 because you’d be sick if you saw majority of the routes Vs the coverage. Tvd has been bad but Dawson has been awful too. Running 84 out there this much is hilarious , if he does get enough separation he still drops it lol.

How is it that Dawson’s play calls, designs, formations have been this bad? What has changed since the ATM game? Serious question. And although I didn’t know Dawson before this year, many people on this board that know way more football than me said he’s offenses in previous stops were good and that Dawson was legit. Why has he regressed as an OC?