There’s a 4th down calculator (NFL) that you can use. Our offense has been bad enough that you could see punting on 4th and 11 from the 36 according to the numbers. What makes it worse is that we had the ball on the 31 and we false-started on 4th and 6.
There's a lot of difference taking a high talent guy and teaching him how to gain an edge compared to what we've got. We're getting larger kids with less God given talent or smaller talented kids who need to physicslly grow. Both you got to hope they're dedicated enough to excel by either putting in time to learn enough to compensate for lack of raw talent or putting enough time in S&C where they're not at a huge disadvantage. Bama does not have those challenges. A kid doesn't develop, they run him off, put him on medical and get another to work with. It was a fool's play to think that's the game we were going to play. In fact it's so laughable, what you've got now with the ridicule is completely expected. All it's going to take is a back to basics approach, the undesirable hard work method & eradicate all this easy street BS dreams of NFL players in the dozens beating on our doors to get in here.
I hear you but I’m giving my observation from what I’ve seen. Look at these 65 jobs. If you remove the team logos you couldn’t tell the vast majority of the teams apart because they are all running lemming copy cat systems. And to your point once a coach gets one of those 65 spots he is going to do every thing to keep it because once hired the clock starts ticking on when you will be fired. The easiest way to not draw attention or criticism is to just blend in. We see it all the time where the guys who do their own thing get ridiculed the second they lose. Look at how the press treated Johnson. Compare that to how they treated the coaches at places like BC, NC State, Syracuse, Miami, FSU, Arkansas, etc who won less but because they ran the standard system they were left alone to go 6-6 or 7-5 every year. Well, GT is now part of the lemming club and it sure is glorious. What’s funny is a guy like Long will go down a level and probably tweak everything because no one will be watching and he’ll probably succeed. Then he’ll come back to P5 and go back to running the script once the spotlight is back.
I think a lot of our D woes against FS were mismatches in talent (we were often a step short in coverage and tackling and lost the 50/50s). Attempting to cover RBs downfield with our DEs is a strategy blunder. We sub well on the Dline but I am sure our LBs and DBs tire the way our O goes three and out so much.
I think you have some bias that is leaking through. I don't think Johnson received any worse press than Gailey did and their overall records were pretty similar at the end of the day. Johnson's reception in the press was more based on his reaction to that side of his job moreso than his offensive system imo.
And it would take a home run pick of a coach to see season ticket sales rise even take a small bump.
That's a huge problem. I thought we'd lost about 10-12k in ticket sales per game, but it's probably closer to 15-17k. That's about a 5-6 year recovery if all goes well damn near every year.
and they still gave up close to 300 yards in the second half, after a halftime and with the offense starting to play better, getting first downs and keeping them off the field.
I agree about Bruce and GT. Bruce couldn’t beat Michigan so his fate was sealed. But those two teams have been at different levels for decades. I agree GT coaches are treated tamely by the media but it’s only because we are an afterthought. When Johnson was winning and beating UGA you saw the Mark Bradley’s go after him hard. No one is going after GT because why would they?
i remember far more scathing criticism of paul the years we got beat by uga by a lot. the years we won were not as you are describing
Or create an 'interference play' that is designed to get a DPI with an effective flop
No need to just highlight White (DE) in coverage. Earlier we were badly beaten but a pass too high saved a TD when DE Kennard was in coverage. At another time I saw DE Collins in coverage. FSU got wise and took advantage. Our poor strategy has been uncovered.
Yeah, I probably should I worded that better than what I did. The greater point I was trying to make is exactly what you just stated: stop putting D-linemen in man coverage. It creates too many mismatch opportunities that good teams will exploit like crazy. As poorly as I worded it, I was in no way trying to call out Keion White or throw stones at him, just highlighting a poor strategic decision by the coaches which does not give Keion the best chance of success.
It's a zone blitz. CFB teams and NFL teams will both put a D Lineman in coverage because it beats putting no one in coverage. The DC doesn't expect the lineman to be in coverage for long--just long enough for the blitz to get to the QB. We didn't get to the QB fast enough. Sometimes it doesn't work, but we'd be fools never to zone blitz.
Seemed like good scouting and planning by norvell. They were trying to hit the fire zone with wheel routes and finally connected.
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