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<blockquote data-quote="TromboneJacket" data-source="post: 852070" data-attributes="member: 2580"><p>Thank you! Finally someone is willing to get into the details. On offense, we could have gotten better than we have, but the OL transition has been the albatross around our neck. Not only did Collins start with a roster full of OL recruited with a completely different skill set, but he also didn’t have time to flip or recruit any guys with his preferred attributes in the 2019 class, so he had to wait a year to start developing his own recruits at the position group. In addition to that, we’ve had pretty high attrition at OL, mostly due to the age of the players already on the roster and the transfers brought in. Off the top of my head, here are the OL starters who we’ve lost or will have lost in these first three seasons while we’re trying to rebuild: Jared Southers, Jack Defoor, Zach Quinney, Kenny Cooper, Ryan Johnson, Devin Cochran. And that’s assuming Minihan comes back next year, which is far from guaranteed. That’s a lot of instability in a position that relies on rapport and familiarity between players. We could have done better recruiting, but Tech is a hard sell for a lot of the top players, and I think our failures in recruiting and/or development get magnified because we have no margin for error at this time.</p><p></p><p>As for defense, though, there’s really no excuse for the poor performances we’ve been seeing. The players we have now are no less talented than the players we had when Ted Roof was our DC, but we look so much worse (and being better than Ted Roof’s defenses really wasn’t that high of a bar to begin with). Collins is a defensive coach, and unlike on offense, there’s no huge personnel transition that needs to be made. I’m not super familiar with Collins’ scheme preferences (because I can’t seem to discern a schematic trend), but our corners should be capable of whatever coverages we call: there aren’t any glaring athletic deficiencies in our DBs. Oh lord! I just realized that I’ve been seeing similar coverage issues with the Seahawks this year! Please tell me Collins isn’t doing something stupid like trying to run a Pete Carroll purified Cover 3 defense with 3-man fronts!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TromboneJacket, post: 852070, member: 2580"] Thank you! Finally someone is willing to get into the details. On offense, we could have gotten better than we have, but the OL transition has been the albatross around our neck. Not only did Collins start with a roster full of OL recruited with a completely different skill set, but he also didn’t have time to flip or recruit any guys with his preferred attributes in the 2019 class, so he had to wait a year to start developing his own recruits at the position group. In addition to that, we’ve had pretty high attrition at OL, mostly due to the age of the players already on the roster and the transfers brought in. Off the top of my head, here are the OL starters who we’ve lost or will have lost in these first three seasons while we’re trying to rebuild: Jared Southers, Jack Defoor, Zach Quinney, Kenny Cooper, Ryan Johnson, Devin Cochran. And that’s assuming Minihan comes back next year, which is far from guaranteed. That’s a lot of instability in a position that relies on rapport and familiarity between players. We could have done better recruiting, but Tech is a hard sell for a lot of the top players, and I think our failures in recruiting and/or development get magnified because we have no margin for error at this time. As for defense, though, there’s really no excuse for the poor performances we’ve been seeing. The players we have now are no less talented than the players we had when Ted Roof was our DC, but we look so much worse (and being better than Ted Roof’s defenses really wasn’t that high of a bar to begin with). Collins is a defensive coach, and unlike on offense, there’s no huge personnel transition that needs to be made. I’m not super familiar with Collins’ scheme preferences (because I can’t seem to discern a schematic trend), but our corners should be capable of whatever coverages we call: there aren’t any glaring athletic deficiencies in our DBs. Oh lord! I just realized that I’ve been seeing similar coverage issues with the Seahawks this year! Please tell me Collins isn’t doing something stupid like trying to run a Pete Carroll purified Cover 3 defense with 3-man fronts! [/QUOTE]
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