Disagree. Its more like redesigning a car. Sometimes you tweak the old one year to year. Sometimes you redesign from the ground up.
Almost always a total redesign means performance (quality) issues in year one. But if you want to be the best on the market, you have to make occasional step changes. Tweaking can only get you so far.
Going from PJ to a spread is like going from a car to a pickup.
The reason I feel tweaking was a poor option is that recruits wanted to, needed to, know that we were moving on. If you look out and see us running a bunch of pj-like plays that fit the pj personnel then do you believe? Better to run your plays and demonstrate the failure points showing how recruits would make the difference. This is particularly important for recruiting OL and WR. They want to see a commitment.
Don’t disagree on the change, showing commitment, etc. Here’s what I don’t get:
a. We ran the ball with a high degree of effectiveness against medium and low caliber defenses for a decade. Elite defenses with talent gave us fits way more often than not.
b. Previous regime used a lot of cut blocking, new scheme does not. They still cut block and so does everyone else we play just way less than before.
c. New scheme was supposed to require guards, etc to pull but so did the old scheme. Open pull, skip pull, etc we still pull guards, tackles, tight ends, etc. Ebery offense lineman should know how to pull.
d. The still drive block, scoop, etc and there’s still hand work. We still run counters, we kick out, etc. Same things every lineman does.
e. We probably didn’t do too much zone blocking but that’s easier to master.
Some of you all are trying to convince me that none of these lineman know or have ever known how to block at all except for a cut block and it’s as if we had a bunch of wet behind the ears Freshmen trying to find their butts with both hands. Sorry, I ain’t buying it.
All I been saying is you build a base of plays. I don’t know 4-6, master them, then add a few more in and then we have 6-8, a month later add 2 more and we have 8-10. In the mean time we can run a half dozen base plays well and don’t look horrible doing it. You don’t have to run a single CPJ play to phase in like that. None. You can bury his playbook next to Sideways and turn the page without coming in #130 of 130 or whatever it was. Our talent wasn’t anywhere near that bad. If it was go get buckets of gold because we need to erect a huge statue for a man that did way more than anyone else ever with way less than anyone thought we had.
