The replay from yesterday kind of looked like he was fumbling the snap & I thought it was like that on 1 or 2 other punt blocks this year, but there also looked to be some blocking issues. Whatever the exact cause, it would be preferable not to set the NCAA record in punts blocked in the 1st third of the season. Surely someone was tasked with breaking down the game tape and should have been figuring it out.
Collins said he was personally coaching the blocking on punts so…
And the last straw caused the time of the meeting to be moved up to monday.
He’s been doing that for three years man. We keep trotting him out there knowing that’s what he does. That’s on the coaches.
My mistake: pre snap penalties.
Milton made the play against the Dawgs, White made the play against Pitt. I believe Milton's play put the ball out of bonds on the 2 and we then got a fumble recovery on our goal line stand to prevent the score. White's play was very much like McCollum's. All three plays were great individual efforts and all three prevented TDs. I got to see two of them in person. Wish we could clone that never give up play.
Some blame, but ultimately it all falls back on the coaches.
Not as much remembered, but I was impressed with a play Matt Uremovich made once where he went sideline to sideline to knock a Terp out of bounds at the 5-yard line. I honestly don't remember if they ended up scoring, but I was amazed by the hustle. That guy went all out every play.
I did not think either play was targeting.
The reason it's targeting is to protect not only the one being hit but also the one doing the hitting. I think the danger was to Thomas on the play. He really shouldn't be leading with his head.
I understand the logic, I just always thought the pre-requisite to targeting was helmet to helmet. It was news to me when I looked up the actual rule and saw that the "crown of the helmet" portion was irrespective of helmet to helmet. Once I saw the latter of the rule, it made sense.
I've noticed this as well; your term is what I was trying to think of. As for the question of coaching vs players, it seems that if it were just an occasional random event you could chalk that up to player attention, but it really seems to be a systemic issue on our team affecting most of our position groups. I would also posit that it's a coachable trait, just like when instructing a young driver to be alert and aware of their surroundings. Of course, maybe we have tried that and yet players' attention still wanders.
We're in our 4th season of not haiving fundamentals reinforced. We should not be surprised. We went from players being yanked from the game & choked out when they made a mistake, to left in & receiving a tender pat on the butt later on when they finally came out for change of possession or a breather.
We had some punts blocked last year as well. I don’t put all the blame on him but he is taking too many steps, that’s what no one is pointing out. So I did.
Dc at ou -Ted roof is on tv verses tcu. 27 point at end of first quarter.
