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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takethepoints" data-source="post: 70490" data-attributes="member: 265">Three comments:1. As I said in another thread, it looks like JT is becoming Keenan Reynolds for us. Like Reynolds, he can throw on the run or off play action. We'll see if he can do this under game conditions early on soon, but I do think he'll be doing it consistently by the 4th or 5th game.2. There is nobody in modern coaching who knows how to wait as well as Coach. I remember reading a story about him when he OC was at Hawaii. The O was working great and the D was leaving passing lanes open that could easily be exploited. The head coach came over and asked him why he wasn't throwing the ball. Coach replied that it wasn't time to do it yet. In late in the 4th quarter with Hawaii up 3, he sent in the pass play that had been open half the game. The D by then was totally asleep on the route. TD. Hawaii wins by 10. He knows what he's doing when he doesn't throw the ball early and often.3. The O is as deceptive and as hard to prepare for as the Fridge's was. Indeed, when it is run correctly (please, Jesus, this year), it is more difficult to prepare for. The reason is that there is an OC on the sideline who can read Ds like a book and who adjusts to what the O is doing on the fly during the entire game. True, we don't have that many plays and we only run about 10 of them regularly. We also commonly change the blocking schemes on those plays a couple of times a game or more, depending on what the D is throwing at us. If you don't think that is a living Hell for opposing DCs, you haven't been listening to them. They know what we are going to do; they also know that they can't predict from series to series how we are going to do it.</blockquote>

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