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Mark Richt goes in-depth on calling plays, coaching Brad Kaaya | Canes Watch
Richt, on how much trust Kaaya will have to run the offense:
“He’ll change a lot of plays. He’ll come to the line of scrimmage with a lot of two-play, three-play combos — this protection or that protection, declare this guy or that guy the Mike linebacker, run this way or that way – but it’s all predetermined according to what he sees. So he’s not just making up a bunch of stuff. He’ll change a play, but he’ll do it because of what we studied and what we planned.”
Richt then rose from his chair to explain what Kaaya won’t do. He assumed a quarterback’s pose, pre-snap, holding his hands out for the ball.
“You’ll see a lot of guys get into the cadence nowadays, they’ll start the cadence and try to get ‘em to jump offsides,” Richt said, mimicking a hard count. “Then he’ll look to the sideline and the coach will tell them what to do. He’s going to know what to do. He may get into his cadence and get them to show their hand, but then he’s going to call the play.
“I like to teach them what to do and where to go with the ball and who to check to, all of that.”
Kaaya looked to the sidelines a lot — as a freshman, especially — under offensive coordinator James Coley.
“It’s a style of a lot of coaches,” Richt said. “A lot of these coordinators, it’s like they’re playing a video game. They’ll get them to do whatever, and they’ll see it – and they do a great job, a lot of them can see it and make the call. But what happens is when you do a lot of that, when you check, then the defense checks. So if I check, I see a look, and now I go here [to the sideline] and I change for the look, now they change it after we change it … now you’re in a guessing game.”
Richt, on how much trust Kaaya will have to run the offense:
“He’ll change a lot of plays. He’ll come to the line of scrimmage with a lot of two-play, three-play combos — this protection or that protection, declare this guy or that guy the Mike linebacker, run this way or that way – but it’s all predetermined according to what he sees. So he’s not just making up a bunch of stuff. He’ll change a play, but he’ll do it because of what we studied and what we planned.”
Richt then rose from his chair to explain what Kaaya won’t do. He assumed a quarterback’s pose, pre-snap, holding his hands out for the ball.
“You’ll see a lot of guys get into the cadence nowadays, they’ll start the cadence and try to get ‘em to jump offsides,” Richt said, mimicking a hard count. “Then he’ll look to the sideline and the coach will tell them what to do. He’s going to know what to do. He may get into his cadence and get them to show their hand, but then he’s going to call the play.
“I like to teach them what to do and where to go with the ball and who to check to, all of that.”
Kaaya looked to the sidelines a lot — as a freshman, especially — under offensive coordinator James Coley.
“It’s a style of a lot of coaches,” Richt said. “A lot of these coordinators, it’s like they’re playing a video game. They’ll get them to do whatever, and they’ll see it – and they do a great job, a lot of them can see it and make the call. But what happens is when you do a lot of that, when you check, then the defense checks. So if I check, I see a look, and now I go here [to the sideline] and I change for the look, now they change it after we change it … now you’re in a guessing game.”
