Fawk_U Haters
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Again LOL.No we don't necessarily need to out coach these inferior teams because our players are considerably more talented. What we do need though, is to not get absolutely destroyed by the other coaching staffs. If this current staff wasn't getting completely lapped by the opposing coaching staff every week, then our talent might actually show and we would beat all of these teams that we're supposed to beat.
It's the Jimmy's and the Joe's not the X's and the O's kid. And this isn't to say that we were less talented or we even need more talent to beat FIU, Duke, and GT. But how about being honest, should Duke CBs lock down our WRs in man all game? Should FIU, outside of the great call on the WR screen for a TD after a TO, really move the ball against our D? I mean did we get a sack in FIU? Should our QB have 3 picks before almost the end of the 1Q? You mean to tell me they 'schemed' up something so well and so out coached us that our vaunted DL couldn't make 1 play? We had the nations second leading Sack master and he couldn't shed 1 block and make a few plays? Don't even get me started on the kicking game! Should Duke WRs be running free in critical times? Should GT fake punts score when we have defense safe on the field? Should our OL not be able to get a finger on players who are waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay less talented?
Somewhere along the line what you put on tape has to matter. Doesn't matter what your record is, it should matter what you put on tape because that does matter to the people who will decide whether or not you can play in the NFL. Basically PRIDE doesn't let you dog it for multiple games, PRIDE doesn't let you get locked down by inferior athletes. The teams we lost too for the most part didn't out scheme us, didn't out play call us for the most part (VT how they used the TE picked on Shaq), didn't do anything except their kids wanted to beat us more and our kids didn't care if they were beat.
This isn't a ringing endorsement of the staff, this isn't defending the staff, this isn't saying there shouldn't be changes, but this is saying the problem is way more than just coaching. It doesn't matter when you scheme or what the play call is when you have a team like this. Plays are there to be made, not spectacular plays that make the Top 10, just regular plays are there to be made. When we were great we always made those plays, always. It wasn't coaching, it was players making plays that were there to be made.