Coach Macho
aka Beardy Ryan
- Joined
- Oct 11, 2012
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It’s because you’re a high school coach constantly implying that every slip up by our team is a direct result of our coaches not knowing what the fvck they’re doing.
Nobody denies that you know your way around a chalk board, but you’re coming off like a computer nerd spitting acronyms and technical jargon trying to sound intellectually superior rather than actually making a point.
Of course you can run Quarters out of an odd front, but that wasn’t the point. There is an incorrect notion on this board, kept alive mainly by people who ought to know better, that Pitt did something special to Hold our tailbacks to 16 yards and force Rosier to attempt 45 passes. They didn’t. They didn’t stuff 8 or 9 guys into the box. They ran their base defense, or a very slight variation, on every play—Cover 4/Quarters.
This wasn’t some new scheme they drew up special to exploit Malik’s accuracy issues or Richt’s play calling. It was the same defense they ran on just about every play the entire season. It’s the same defense that got them a 4-7 record, and the 60th ranked run defense.
We just plain suck running the football. We had the 79th best rush offense—115th if you remove Rosier’s 480 yards. Aranda and LSU aren’t about to adopt a new defensive philosophy to slow down the Nation’s 115th best rushing attack.
We were down right awful run blocking last season, and not being able to run the football severely limits what you can do on offense. You have to figure out some way to get 3 or 4 yards on 1st down to stay ahead of the sticks, and when you can’t run the ball, that means a **** ton of short passes.
Pitt didn’t gameplan to take away our run game. They took away the quick, short passes knowing full well how bad we sucked running the football.
But you’re a coach. I’m sure you know all this.
You didn’t use to be this way. You used to actually post decent, insightful material. Maybe it’s just the off-season. Maybe being a film junkie causes you to nitpick. Whatever it is, more often than not you look right past the obvious trying to find a flaw in the coaching.
If everyone else has 85 players, but you only get 70, your depth isn’t going to be as good as everyone else’s. You rarely notice depth until you don’t have it. Until you have to run your base 4-3 against 4 wide because you don’t have enough bodies at DB who know what to do and can tackle to run nickel or dime.
Depth issues aren’t always backups getting lost in coverage. A lot of times it’s just the starters not performing up to their ability due to fatigue. It’s your o-line getting pushed around by an inferior d-line. It’s having to have a DE play TE.
Let me have 15 of your rotational players, 3 of your best starters, and make you play 10 games without a break, and let’s see if you go 9-1.
I'm not reading all the **** bro. Love the effort though.