Right. It's the same mistakes again and again, on both sides of the ball; the coaches are testing the definition of insanity. Also, Ash's halftime adjustments only happened after BYU had already scored 21 points. He should have known before the game -or right away, after they marched down the field with ease- that his "plan" wasn't working.
Yup.
I mean Moore was clearly not ready to play yet.
Goolsby’s a meathead who doesn’t know squat. I’d trust Driscoll over him.
This was a regular season game. That's why coaches like to move onto the next opponent after a game. If teams get too high or too down after a win/loss it typically leads to problems.
Nothing to base it upon, but I would guess that MF isn't going to allow Ash to play the same defense against Miami again.
do people actually not understand that "effort" is literally on the coach but more importantly that when guys are playing "tentative" on film it can have a lot to do with what they are being asked to do vs how hard they are trying to play
Agree on what BYU did, and how well they played and were prepared.
There was complete confusion from our players on what the call was, what their responsibility was, where they line up, and what they were doing post snap. The confusion typically came when in zone, that's my issue with the zone, they were much better in man.
This is EXACTLY the problem. Zone defense is fine, we have seen lots of zone defense played lots of different ways here and get great results. Diaco '12 was a zone defense king. Clark Lea had some elite defenses playing lots of zone. If your guys look lost and slow out there... it does not really matter if it's man or zone or some combo... it's just bad teaching / bad coaching. You can't constantly have alignment issues, confusion, etc. and say it isn't on the coach.
Yes, the question of "these guys look clearly hurt" is a different question. Reminds me of Matthias Farley gutting it out for a whole season on one shoulder and people questioning effort / toughness that he "can't tackle anymore".... and then being shocked when he got healthy and was instantly a pretty darn good NFL player. I think questioning effort is pretty lazy analysis from Goolsby when it's not actually effort... it's slow / soft play manifesting for many different reasons.
Rumors of bum shoulder have to be true and ... if this is something that will get better with rest ... they gotta shut him down for Navy. His entire game is tackling, if he can't tackle you have to play other guys. If Tae Johnson comes back then it's probably safest just to go Johnson / Talich as your two dudes.
Both Moore and Shuler seem to be playing at less than 100% so calling out those two in particular doesn’t necessarily invalidate my question. At least now how I’m reading it in my head.
Not 100% sure on how they ran it but one of shuler/sneed should have the curl/flat. When you have SS, corner, and LB to one side, we always preferred having the LB on the curl/flat and then the SS in the middle so you don't have your LB chasing as much. But watching again, sneed does seem a lot more confident in what he's doing compared to shuler.