The reason I disagree about scheme is because besides tackling we don't get off blocks very well on the D line. If we would play more into shooting gaps that would help a lot imo. Our D line occupies lanes so our LB's can fill in the running lanes which is ok, if your D line can get off blocks to help out or cause team to double team guys on your D line to get free up LB's from gettin blocked easier, and I just don't see that happening very often. That's why I have said it take a big strong D line to do what we are trying to do and we are not there yet, we need more dominant players for our scheme imo. And my main reason on the fire roof is simply because I have not seen him build and be successful anywhere and he's coached for a long time. I would love for him to turn things around but with his history I just don't see it.
yes I have played the game, and then some
I agree. When you put players in position to make plays and they can't make them that's not scheme. Football eventually comes down to beating your man and making a play. We are getting better at it but we've rarely had those war daddy's who could consistently do that. If you "shoot gaps" as some on here want you further expose those deficiencies.
Although "scrutiny" of assistants might not have been so volatile back then, but Carson as DC in Dodd's last year was extremely well liked and respected; his defense, a precursor of his NFL Steel Curtain, was awesome. Unfortunately, he was not HC material, although he did learn in the process and probably should not have been fired when he was. Everybody credited Lindsey for the defense we had under Curry; that was the famed Black Watch defense, and it was his design.
It is possible to play to your players strengths though, and I don't feel we don't that. We don't have the players to play the scheme we play it's a pretty simple concept if the D line is asked to take on blocks instead of shooting gaps and they are not strong enough to get off blocks then they will not make the play and that's a huge issue for us, getting off the blocks. How is that helping the kids out or not scheme? There are a ton of defenses that shoot gaps with the same type of player we recruit that have better defenses than us. Please explain how you expose deficiencies by shooting gaps? I would like your take on how that works?
I think you are cherry picking too bud. Point is CTR deserves more credit than what you are giving him. Don't give up on him.
Where did I cherry pick lol I was pointing out you can't just use one game, we were outside of the top 75 in D for the Season as a WHOLE what is cherry picking about that bud? It's an actually fact. I gave games as an example to why we were not a good D, and backed it up showing what our D was ranked, if that's cherry picking my definition of it must be off.
I'm not saying great but imo he is a good recruiter, from what I have heard he connects well with the kids. Warner is a prime example, he has said roof has been the best recruiter for him.
You used a few games as examples to prove your opinion. I can use examples of why he's done a decent job. Cherry picking....
I wouldn't call him a great recruiter. I do believe he's done decent though. And I have to believe he helped CBC with the Swillings. Our defense has not been great but it has been decent. And look at the 2nd half defense of all our games as a whole. It's pretty darn good. CTR makes good adjustments at halftime for the most part.
No, it's not just my opinion why do you keep ignoring the fact that we were outside the top 75 in D? I used those games as an EXAMPLE That's my case for saying we weren't good, if that's good to you then ok. But that's not cherry picking when I back it up with FACTS as to where we were ranked. Roof hasn't had a good D while at GT and it shows by our stats in ypp and the efficiency of other offenses, I'm going by stats not just my opinion so I have facts to back it up.