is hitting the reset button on what we expect out of these kids. Some of what fans are calling poor effort seems to be by design almost.
I'd have the WR's in the position meeting watch film and completely change what we call acceptable. For some reason, some spread teams coach their WR's to give about half effort on routes when not the primary and to weakly stalk block. Baylor does this. It's by design, I guess to keep them fresh with the pace. I hate it. It's weak. I see a lot of complaining about Duke's effort, but he was making some blocks downfield (more than I remember others making). I think what we see as bad effort is often what the coaches are expecting or accepting from these guys. I don't think we push them to be physical or to run great routes when not the primary (this may be part of Gus's limiting reads for the QB/cutting the field in half). Not all spread teams do this. Ole Miss WR's block their tails off and run good routes with real focus and intensity. We need to put up film of our blocks and routes up against film of good routes and excellent WR blocking and set the standard right there. Do it the right way or be on the bench and become the tackling dummy on the scout team next week.
Same kind of thing needs to be done across the board, position by position. Reset the expectations. Show them that was acceptable (for some reason) is no longer. And someone wake up our quality control staff and tell them they don't just get to cash checks while going to play golf anymore. We're obviously tipping snap counts, when our guards are pulling and giving away plays with tendencies. Don't wait for Les Miles to call you and tell you how they knew those things. He won't need you to win games for him for another month.
I'd have the WR's in the position meeting watch film and completely change what we call acceptable. For some reason, some spread teams coach their WR's to give about half effort on routes when not the primary and to weakly stalk block. Baylor does this. It's by design, I guess to keep them fresh with the pace. I hate it. It's weak. I see a lot of complaining about Duke's effort, but he was making some blocks downfield (more than I remember others making). I think what we see as bad effort is often what the coaches are expecting or accepting from these guys. I don't think we push them to be physical or to run great routes when not the primary (this may be part of Gus's limiting reads for the QB/cutting the field in half). Not all spread teams do this. Ole Miss WR's block their tails off and run good routes with real focus and intensity. We need to put up film of our blocks and routes up against film of good routes and excellent WR blocking and set the standard right there. Do it the right way or be on the bench and become the tackling dummy on the scout team next week.
Same kind of thing needs to be done across the board, position by position. Reset the expectations. Show them that was acceptable (for some reason) is no longer. And someone wake up our quality control staff and tell them they don't just get to cash checks while going to play golf anymore. We're obviously tipping snap counts, when our guards are pulling and giving away plays with tendencies. Don't wait for Les Miles to call you and tell you how they knew those things. He won't need you to win games for him for another month.
