In my opinion, he’s doubling down on his “tough guy” philosophy.
He envisions us being the Tennessee Titans, a team that can ball control you to death, and punch you in the mouth on defense.
It’s almost as if he’s allergic to good QB play. Everyone last season was really hyped about our QB room, and TVD lit defenses up last season. Most on here thought Jake was next in line, and that Jacurri was going to be a future star.
Enter Mario. Now our QB’s all look like they’ve never thrown a forward pass before or played organized football against an opposing defense. Some of you are failing to connect the dots.
We have had tons of injuries, but he’s the one that brought his guy over from Oregon, where major injuries were prevalent the last 2 years that he was there.
He said they couldn’t “stop the counter.” It’s tough to stop the counter when a simple adjustment is not made. Coach Hayes on his show broke down film of the game and showed what should have been done to adjust. It’s telling that Coach Hayes knows this, but our HC and 12 million dollar staph doesn’t.
I agree that there’s mental errors everywhere on the team, but that’s what happens when you try to fit a square into a circle. Funny how lots of other first year and first time HC at big time programs aren’t having these issues.
In my opinion he should have said that the entire program is being assessed (players, coaches, analysts, schemes, etc.), and that the necessary steps will be taken to ensure that this doesn’t happen again. That way he’s keepin’ it real and not throwing anyone under the bus.
The reality is that he asked for full autonomy over the program before he agreed to coach here, and he’s responsible for all of the hires and style of play. He needs to own up to that.