Niners Want CPJ?

thwuga

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Pathetic attempt by the writer to garner page views.

1. "Would be difficult" to pry him away for a coordinator job? Try impossible.
2. He "doubts" we'd take him back? Yeah, pretty sure we wouldn't hold open the head coaching spot while he tries.
3. "Chip Kelly took the risk"? Yeah, as a head coach. Not an OC.

Besides, the NFL is too fickle a league with rules. With all the crap CPJ hears about chop (sic) blocks at this level, the NFL would sooner ban cut blocks altogether before they let him coach in the League.
 
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CPJ's O would work in the NFL but only IF they would commit and have RBs (ABs/BBs) and WRs who could block. And an OL that could not only pass block but get to the second level and block.

Chances of high prices prima donna NFL WRs and RBs blocking?

CPJ is staying at GT.

I've only watched about 10 NFL games this year. The constant is that the blocking by the RBs and WRs sucks. Really bad. Teams like the Carolina Panthers, Baltimore Colts and Green Bay who should be better just whiff.

When they realize in the NFL that the point of the game is to score more points IN 60 MINUTES than the other team, then we'll be in trouble. Till then it is just follow the leader and do whatever the winning teams are doing. (Green Bay had that game so won, all they had to do was eat some clock.)
 
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This guy wasted his time writing this article. Johnson would be crazy to leave tech for California. He would be canned in 3 years if they didn't win it all. They ran Harbough out after taking them to NFC championship 3-4 years.
 
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I always find it funny when a discussion of CPJ in the NFL pops up and people say, "Well no pro athlete would want to run it!"

Really? Because there are so many NFL jobs out there that lots of guys would turn down millions of $$$ because they don't want to play in a certain offense? Maybe the top end WRs or QBs may not want to, but this offense isn't predicated on top end drop back QBs and prima donna WRs.

Look at Larry Fitzgerald. Widely regarded as one of the top WRs in the NFL...he had to deal with a line of mediocre QBs for a while and getting double teamed. He never said anything about it. You think he'd like to play in offense that dictates he gets single coverage but has a chance to average 25+ yards per catch? You think a guy like Darren Sproles who's towards the end of his career could hang on for a few more years playing AB?

It's called supply and demand. There's a finite supply of NFL jobs out there. There's a supply of players that multiply every year. There will be PLENTY of players that will want to play in CPJ's offense.

That said, the article is crap.
 
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CPJ would have success in the NFL, players would play in the system and they would win. However I don't know if CPJ wants to leave. I think he wants to win here. I might be completely wrong, but all the people saying that it won't work in the NFL sound an awful lot like the people who said it wouldn't work at a power school.

Those people sure are quite these days...
 
Js-showman

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vamosjackets said:
No, it wouldn't. Y'all are looking at this wrong. If you're paying $10M, you will find players who will block or run the option very well for that kind of money.
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You don't want the type of players that they have. You wouldn't run the TO with their receivers, and probably not their lineman. However, if you drafted players who would be willing to run the option, it would work. They'd probably be cheaper too. If NFL teams wanted to run the option, Tebow would be back in high demand. It worked fairly well with Tebow and Thomas at Denver, as they got 2 deep into the playoffs with him under center - more success than we had with Mike Smith.

Funny though. If you would have predicted, two years ago, that this article would even be written today, I'd have reported you to the authorities as clinically insane.
 
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Funny article. Compares triple option to communism. Lol.

In case the youngsters on here don't know it, these kinds of articles get written every decade or so. Triple option offenses have risen and fallen in favor throughout the history of college football. Every ten to fifteen years some one writes an article saying, "Hey, has anyone thought of running this in the pros? Just so crazy it might work!"

We all know why the pros don't run it. And it is not because it wouldn't work. But the only way to overcome the orthodoxy of the football establishment would be to start a new franchise and have an owner and management committed to building their system around this offense. A new city with new fans might be patient enough to let this thing get built. Of course the other teams would hate it and would do everything legal and otherwise to stop it.
 
TechnicalPossum

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Northeast Stinger said:
Funny article. Compares triple option to communism. Lol.

In case the youngsters on here don't know it, these kinds of articles get written every decade or so. Triple option offenses have risen and fallen in favor throughout the history of college football. Every ten to fifteen years some one writes an article saying, "Hey, has anyone thought of running this in the pros? Just so crazy it might work!"

We all know why the pros don't run it. And it is not because it wouldn't work. But the only way to overcome the orthodoxy of the football establishment would be to start a new franchise and have an owner and management committed to building their system around this offense. A new city with new fans might be patient enough to let this thing get built. Of course the other teams would hate it and would do everything legal and otherwise to stop it.
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I bet Jacksonville would accept it tomorrow. It has to be an improvement.
 

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Frank Gore would look really nice at AB... Speaking of which, can you imagine if CPJ coached Gore's college team, the 2001 U? (where's the mind blown emoji?)...this has to be the greatest team of all time (that would have been greater under CPJ)

QB: Ed Reed
AB: Portis & McGahee; Roscoe Parish
BB: Gore; Najeh Davenport
WRs: Andre Johnson, Kellen Winslow / Shockey (maybe these guys would be A backs?)
OLine (7 future NFL players)

& on Defense... I don't even know where to begin.
 
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