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Post by atownbeaver on Jan 11, 2018 9:47:54 GMT -8
I'd say if you put them side by side on paper, Burns' resume rivals or even exceeds Keith Heyward's and we were ready to hand him the keys to the entire defense. KH is probably the more dynamic recruiter, but you look at who each worked for over the years and it's not even close. Burns: John L. Smith, a year under Gruden, Bill Snyder, Pete Carroll, Erickson, Dykes. KH: Riley, Taggart, Petrino, Sark. Great post. I'll be the first to raise my hand and say this staff that CJS put together is significantly deeper and significantly more diverse than anything I possibly could of imagined. Some of the biggest fears about CJS was his network and his ability to get coaches. Who does he know? then we were all wringing our hands over hiring a bunch of ex OSU players and that was our universe. I think he has hit it out of the park. |
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Post by orangeattack on Jan 11, 2018 9:55:22 GMT -8
I'll be the first to raise my hand and say this staff that CJS put together is significantly deeper and significantly more diverse than anything I possibly could of imagined. Some of the biggest fears about CJS was his network and his ability to get coaches. Who does he know? then we were all wringing our hands over hiring a bunch of ex OSU players and that was our universe. I think he has hit it out of the park. Agree wholeheartedly. Smitty has assembled an impressively experienced staff around him in most positions and has a couple of very promising up and comers like TT. Hard to really imagine a better staff overall than this. |
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Post by beaverdude on Jan 11, 2018 10:06:01 GMT -8
This staff appears to use HCJS approach to the game. They teach the physical and mental skills needed to play the game with a more cerebral and less emotional approach.
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Post by atownbeaver on Jan 11, 2018 10:46:44 GMT -8
This staff appears to use HCJS approach to the game. They teach the physical and mental skills needed to play the game with a more cerebral and less emotional approach. I am just so damn excited to see a team of players that know how to play football again. I watched the Wisconsin bowl game, and was like "Damn, I can't wait to tackle like that". I do not have illusions we are suddenly going to be an 8 game winner and in a bowl game next year (who knows!)... we are dangerously undermanned in a few places, but I am excited to watch a team where we are not losing because our defender dropped his head, left his feet, went flying off one direction, and all the ball carrier had to do was the most rudimentary of jukes to completely avoid contact and get 5 more yards. plays were literally every one of our defenders just... did the wrong damn thing at every possible turn. That will not be our team any longer. period. It is incredibly refreshing and exciting to know that. |
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Post by seastape on Jan 11, 2018 11:21:07 GMT -8
This staff appears to use HCJS approach to the game. They teach the physical and mental skills needed to play the game with a more cerebral and less emotional approach. I am just so damn excited to see a team of players that know how to play football again. I watched the Wisconsin bowl game, and was like "Damn, I can't wait to tackle like that". I do not have illusions we are suddenly going to be an 8 game winner and in a bowl game next year (who knows!)... we are dangerously undermanned in a few places, but I am excited to watch a team where we are not losing because our defender dropped his head, left his feet, went flying off one direction, and all the ball carrier had to do was the most rudimentary of jukes to completely avoid contact and get 5 more yards. plays were literally every one of our defenders just... did the wrong damn thing at every possible turn. That will not be our team any longer. period. It is incredibly refreshing and exciting to know that. Absolutely agree with this post. I am shocked, in a good way, at the level of assistant coaches that Smith hired and I think we are really going to see a leap in the fundamental soundness of the football team with this new regime. I can't wait to see a more professional look to the team, a team full of guys that, no matter the talent level, look like they have been taught how to play football. |
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Post by obf on Jan 11, 2018 11:30:43 GMT -8
I, too, am excited about this coaching staff, but there is a lot of bad habits to untrain, so next year might be a transition year to fundamentally sounds... That said I am sure a missed tackle in the first game will lead to cries of, "What about fundamentals?!?!?"
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Post by orangeattack on Jan 11, 2018 11:33:47 GMT -8
I, too, am excited about this coaching staff, but there is a lot of bad habits to untrain, so next year might be a transition year to fundamentally sounds... That said I am sure a missed tackle in the first game will lead to cries of, "What about fundamentals?!?!?" missed tackles happen to even the best coached teams. It's when there are 4,286 of them per game that everyone is yelling about fundamentals. |
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Post by four2itus on Jan 11, 2018 12:46:43 GMT -8
I, too, am excited about this coaching staff, but there is a lot of bad habits to untrain, so next year might be a transition year to fundamentally sounds... That said I am sure a missed tackle in the first game will lead to cries of, "What about fundamentals?!?!?" missed tackles happen to even the best coached teams. It's when there are 4,286 of them per game that everyone is yelling about fundamentals. What chafes me, is when a guy launches instead of wrapping up, and it's him or an open field for the skill player. Arghhh |
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Post by orangeattack on Jan 11, 2018 13:30:28 GMT -8
missed tackles happen to even the best coached teams. It's when there are 4,286 of them per game that everyone is yelling about fundamentals. What chafes me, is when a guy launches instead of wrapping up, and it's him or an open field for the skill player. Arghhh Ah yes. The "I wanna get on SportsCenter for this big hit" phenomena. |
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Post by atownbeaver on Jan 11, 2018 13:40:01 GMT -8
What chafes me, is when a guy launches instead of wrapping up, and it's him or an open field for the skill player. Arghhh Ah yes. The "I wanna get on SportsCenter for this big hit" phenomena. and when that happens 4,286 times a game, you know it is a coaching problem. At best, they are ignoring and not addressing the issue. At worse, they are coaching kids to "go for the big hit". It would not surprise me if I found out the Andersen regime coached "go for the big hit". It falls in line with the squat 500 pounds and wear big pants mentality he cultivated. |
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Post by beavadelic on Jan 11, 2018 14:26:06 GMT -8
missed tackles happen to even the best coached teams. It's when there are 4,286 of them per game that everyone is yelling about fundamentals. What chafes me, is when a guy launches instead of wrapping up, and it's him or an open field for the skill player. Arghhh . No kidding. I have been a Rams fan since I was a kid, and the number that the Falcons’ D did on Saturday was not what I had in mind, but the tackling was impressive. Gurley is a stud - an SJ combo of size, strength and speed, but time and again the Falcon DBs broke down, refused to bite on his fakes, took away the outside option, and wrapped up. I hated it as a Rams fan, but as a football fan in general it was beautiful to watch. I know that we’re talking the highest level of football on the planet, but I’d love to have a buck for every quality defender that Gurley made look foolish in the open field. I could care less about the big hit - it’s sexy and can get people pumped - but IMO the new “sexy” (after years of woeful tackling and pursuit angles), is watching a ball-carrier catch a 3 yard pass that results in a 3 yard gain. I just about tore the last of my receding hair out the past couple of years watching our kids put the opponent in 2nd or 3rd and long situations only to miss 4 tackles and allow first downs and touchdowns. Being less talented and ultimately losing a hard-fought game doesn’t kill me, but sloppy, undisciplined football makes me nuts. |
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Post by orangeattack on Jan 12, 2018 10:23:47 GMT -8
What chafes me, is when a guy launches instead of wrapping up, and it's him or an open field for the skill player. Arghhh Being less talented and ultimately losing a hard-fought game doesn’t kill me, but sloppy, undisciplined football makes me nuts. AMEN, brother... AMEN. |
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