Rees & Golden Presser

FWIrish4

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So is that a QB preparedness issue, then?
Jamie and Greg think it is not. They highlighted a specific example where on a true RPO Buchner would have pulled and hit the quick screen up top. They say the way Buchner reacted was it was probably a straight give.

They are pretty perplexed why we weren’t running RPOs since 1) Buchner is actually good at them and ran them effectively last year. 2) the defense is giving it to us. 3) we ran a ton of RPOs starting in the USC game last year and it was very effective for us. So it’s weird they were scrapped from the playbook to start the year.
 

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Very sobering and embarrassing analysis from those guys. After the game I thought there was no way you move on from Tommy mid-season, still seems unlikely but I also think it's unlikely that those staff meetings are functional going forward. I would imagine there has been incredible amount of trust lost in Gug with regards to Tommy's autonomy with the offense.
 

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Very sobering and embarrassing analysis from those guys. After the game I thought there was no way you move on from Tommy mid-season, still seems unlikely but I also think it's unlikely that those staff meetings are functional going forward. I would imagine there has been incredible amount of trust lost in Gug with regards to Tommy's autonomy with the offense.
Link to the vid?
 

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‘tommy, do you game plan or create your qb development plan while peeing sitting down??…. Or both??’
 

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Jamie and Greg think it is not. They highlighted a specific example where on a true RPO Buchner would have pulled and hit the quick screen up top. They say the way Buchner reacted was it was probably a straight give.

They are pretty perplexed why we weren’t running RPOs since 1) Buchner is actually good at them and ran them effectively last year. 2) the defense is giving it to us. 3) we ran a ton of RPOs starting in the USC game last year and it was very effective for us. So it’s weird they were scrapped from the playbook to start the year.
Rees did this in 2020, and he did it to start 2021 too. He wants a ball control, NFL style spread offense. And it simply doesn't work.
 

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Respect—Came in this thread to post this lol
It should be noted, I'm a patient man, but it's been a decade since I posed this and you mother f*ckers are still aren't in the mood to divulge the details....

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It should be noted, I'm a patient man, but it's been a decade since I posed this and you mother f*ckers are still aren't in the mood to divulge the details....

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People have answered this 3 or 4 times and it was so uninteresting I literally forgot
 

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SIAP, I was able to find some short clips including Dale's short vid above but any chance they'll be releasing Tommy's whole presser?
 

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SIAP, I was able to find some short clips including Dale's short vid above but any chance they'll be releasing Tommy's whole presser?

Most of the pay sites have it. It’d guess it’ll be free somewhere eventually
 

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Pretty much Tommy doesn’t like freshman and says he takes blame and that’s it. And the study’s thing about all this is people will accept that answer
 

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This is a really good listen/watch if you have time. Greg and Jamie did a great job adding context to some items. The short and obvious answer is to stop running into overloaded boxes where we literally don’t have enough guys to block theirs.


Football Offense 101 - Attack the defenses weakest spot.
 

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the merriweather's got a minor injury excuse has been replaced by merriweather's a freshman so we're not sure he'll run the right play excuse.
 

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Pretty much Tommy doesn’t like freshman and says he takes blame and that’s it. And the study’s thing about all this is people will accept that answer
I hate freshman today, but yesterday I sent out subliminal messages to convince a junior in high school to reclassify and be my quarterback.
 

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I hate freshman today, but yesterday I sent out subliminal messages to convince a junior in high school to reclassify and be my quarterback.

Doesn’t matter if we like it or not but he was coached and mentored by Kelly. So you are going to see a lot of the same traits. Kelly for the longest time was reluctant to play freshman. Kelly’s offenses have struggled at ND. We had some good and we have had some ok and we have had some bad. I don’t think he can break what he has been taught and his mindset.
 

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the merriweather's got a minor injury excuse has been replaced by merriweather's a freshman so we're not sure he'll run the right play excuse.
This is fucking maddening. I was positive we'd see Merriweather get 15+ snaps. Not 1 after 2 games and we have 5 or 6 scholarship WRs.
 

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the merriweather's got a minor injury excuse has been replaced by merriweather's a freshman so we're not sure he'll run the right play excuse.
Which is absolute bullshit because 1) you have what, four scholarship receivers total?! and 2) it's not like you can't put the kid in the game to run some over-simplified route tree against Marshall. Thomas and Lenzy have both looked uninspiring, but because they aren't freshmen, they get to keep playing?
 
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