Bob Diaco: The Thread

[Cackalacky]

God he has beautiful hair.

 

[eNDzone]

My wife is 5ft. 6in. She is in jogging shoes. He is one of the only guys to take a picture with her that didn't have to bend down.

A pox upon me, she is actually 5ft. 5in. tall.

 

[eNDzone]

I think you have factor in that Bob's coefficient of lean towards my wife ( which I am fine with) if we are going to get a good measurement here.

 

[GoIrish41]

Is Diaco wearing chef's pants in that picture? Does he have a part-time gig in the off season?

 

[Black Irish]

Is Diaco wearing chef's pants in that picture? Does he have a part-time gig in the off season?

Yes, and he already has ALL the Michelin stars.

 

[In Lou I Trust]

I think you have factor in that Bob's coefficient of lean towards my wife ( which I am fine with) if we are going to get a good measurement here.

I'm no Will Hunting but, as you can see, I worked this equation out and have determined that Diaco is 6'11". We were all way off.

 

[NDBoiler]

I'm gonna go with 5'-11", but his quaff makes it difficult to estimate where exactly his scalp would be to get a truly accurate measurement.

 

[NDBoiler]

Who is that hanging with Superman? That is my wife at Football 101. Diaco is holding his autograph that my wife got for me.
She said that all the players and coaches were very friendly gentlemen. She said none of them were ego tripping.

Was there a little boozin' at this event? Is that a Mike's in your wife's hand? If so, even awesomer!

 

[NDBoiler]

Is Diaco wearing chef's pants in that picture? Does he have a part-time gig in the off season?

Those do look like awesome shorts.

 

[eNDzone]

Was there a little boozin' at this event? Is that a Mike's in your wife's hand? If so, even awesomer!

Yes it is. They had food from local resturants and a booze tent on the field.

 

[NDBoiler]

Yes it is. They had food from local resturants and a booze tent on the field.

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[tko]

Eastern Michigan is open.

 

[MJ12666]

Eastern Michigan is open.

Could we be that lucky?

 

[Buster Bluth]

Can I get some elaborated criticisms of the defense last night? Or are we just going to take cowardly and uninformed jabs?

 

[Bogtrotter07]

Defense doesn't know how to play to the whistle.

Trying to keep everything in front of them with a complex set of rules, leads to bad tackling.

Jaylon Smith who has all the mojo that Manti did will end up doing the same thing that Manti did senior year, ignore the complex rules and make the play. Hopefully, if Diaco is still here, he will start doing it by next year.

Having a passive aggressive defense makes one feel like a woosie, and feeling like a woosie makes a player "forget" about recovering fumbles and "not need" to make hard tackles.

One year after being a top ten defense in nearly every category, this years defense has had a bit different level of success. Granted personnel makes all the difference. So does coaching adaptability.

The Truth about the Passive/Aggressive Defense:
10 turnovers on defense all year (Tied No. 111)
160 yards rushing per game (No 60)
13 sacks (No. 110)
3rd down defense (No. 64)
1st down defense (No. 106)
Team pass efficiency defense (No. 69)
Temple: 23-46 228 yards passing zero INT. 77 yards rushing. 1 sack.
Michigan: 21-33 294 yards 4 TDs, 1 INT, 1 sack, 96 yards rushing 1 TD
Purdue: 25-40 256 yards, 3TDs, 1 sack
MSU: 16-36 135 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT 1 sack
Oklahoma: 23-31 238 yards, 2 TDs, 0 INT, 0 sacks
Navy: 331 yards rushing for the whole team, 6-9 88 yards 1 TD, zero INT, 1 sack
Pitt: 22-35, 2 TDs, 1 sacks. 0 turnovers*

Every team except MSU and OU registered it's best stats against us. Two teams have fired their starting quarterback that played against us, PSU, and Temple.


* Pitts offensive line had given up 30 sacks in 8 games, an average of almost four a game, last night, zero!

 

[returnofthemack]

Can I get some elaborated criticisms of the defense last night? Or are we just going to take cowardly and uninformed jabs?

Ridiculous amounts of cushion on the receivers allowing easy drop off passes for Savage and his receivers. Fox missing an ungodly number of tackles, and who knows where the hell Carlo was. They blitzed a lot, but I can understand that due to our complete lack of D-line depth, we had to get some pressure, but when you're giving the receiver 10 yards of cushion and blitz, that's a pretty easy read for any QB to make. I hate the bend but don't break defense. Tackling has been awful this year - seriously, how many tackles does Farley whiff on per game?

 

[Bogtrotter07]

Ridiculous amounts of cushion on the receivers allowing easy drop off passes for Savage and his receivers. Fox missing an ungodly number of tackles, and who knows where the hell Carlo was. They blitzed a lot, but I can understand that due to our complete lack of D-line depth, we had to get some pressure, but when you're giving the receiver 10 yards of cushion and blitz, that's a pretty easy read for any QB to make. I hate the bend but don't break defense. Tackling has been awful this year - seriously, how many tackles does Farley whiff on per game?

Now that you mention it, the criticism of Kendall Moore was that he was never in the right place at the right time; Exactly what Carlo is doing. Could it be an overly complex set of rules?

 

[OlympiaIrishFan]

How far we drop in coverage is getting a little crazy.

OUr tackling is horrible.

Our Pass Rush is almost non-existant, and sacks have become very scarce.

Farley is consistantly taking bad angles.

How deep do our safeties and corners actually have to play back?

Lack of passion!

Lack of attention to details.

Play to the whistle.

10 games in, how many mistakes we continue to make??

Very disappointing.

 

[MJ12666]

Can I get some elaborated criticisms of the defense last night? Or are we just going to take cowardly and uninformed jabs?

Would you like a few examples from last night?

1. How about committing a safety to stop the run rather then having them 20 yards off the line of scrimmage? The D-line and linebackers were not getting the job done but no adjustments were made.

2. How about a little penetration from the outside LB's instead of putting Smith in "no man's land"?

3. Watch the long Pitt TD pass again. It appears that no ND player has responsibly for coverage. Now coverage mistakes can occur, but more then once Pitt would line up with two wide-outs stacked and only one ND DB. This is simply poor defensive scheming.

Look, I watched the Pitt games against Navy and GT. GT held Pitt to 10 points and Navy held them to 21. Both defenses were able to stop Pitts running game and make Savage look pretty inept. Now unless you are going to tell me that GT and Navy have better personnel then ND, how do you explain Pitt scoring 28 points last night?

 

[Old Man Mike]

Tuitt: continuous nicked holdover injury

Nix: new continuous knee injury

Day: continuous knee injury

Springmann: simply out for season

Schwenke: new knee injury

Hounshell: simply out for season

Rochell: rookie, not quite ready

Jones: sleeping bear

Stockton: never made it so far

Matuska: too raw to play

Spond: simply out for season

Grace: out for season

Fox: continuous nicked injury

Williams: new injury

............uhhhhhh. The ENTIRE DLine, and three of the four starting linebackers..........


CONTEXT, at least, for any remarks, please.

 

[OlympiaIrishFan]

We are really injured--Yes. But, I just see little passion. Little attention to detail--something BK talks about all the time. The latter is on the coaches. WE look like we are going through the motions.

Shembo isn't making an impact at all (ok, Days bonehead play of not picking up the fumble). We aren't playing to the whistle. Looks like the guys can't wait for the season to get over. Little to no passion on offense or defense.

Very stale. The defense looks stale.

 

[OlympiaIrishFan]

Old Man, were we at full health outside Tuitt for Michigan?

And even hurt, we look to be the same inept defense against Pitt hurt. And Navy ran all over us too.

too many injuries, but so many other problems as well.

 

[Buster Bluth]

Would you like a few examples from last night?

1. How about committing a safety to stop the run rather then having them 20 yards off the line of scrimmage? The D-line and linebackers were not getting the job done but no adjustments were made.

Yet the men in the box gave up how many long touchdown drives? I'm counting one, in the immediate aftermath of Tuitt's departure. I question how you'd react if the safeties moved up all night (there were up occasionally), and their two WRs blew passed the CBs.

2. How about a little penetration from the outside LB's instead of putting Smith in "no man's land"?

OLBs = Shembo and Smith. Shembo was in the backfield all night long, Smith, the drop LB, was in hooks to flats. You know what that did? Stop any of those quick swing passes to the slot from doing much of anything. I don't have complaints here.

3. Watch the long Pitt TD pass again. It appears that no ND player has responsibly for coverage. Now coverage mistakes can occur, but more then once Pitt would line up with two wide-outs stacked and only one ND DB. This is simply poor defensive scheming.

Watch it again, and look at Jaylon Smith. There is your answer.

Look, I watched the Pitt games against Navy and GT. GT held Pitt to 10 points and Navy held them to 21. Both defenses were able to stop Pitts running game and make Savage look pretty inept. Now unless you are going to tell me that GT and Navy have better personnel then ND, how do you explain Pitt scoring 28 points last night?

TD #1: One long drive, in the immediate aftermath of Tuitt's expulsion.
TD #2: Ridiculous PI gave Pitt the ball on the ~15 after ND forced 4th down. How is this Diaco's fault?
TD #3: 62-yard pass on a blown coverage and missed tackle. Not exactly Diaco's fault?
TD #4: Rees INT gave Pitt the ball on the ~10. How on Earth is that Diaco's fault?

 

[Buster Bluth]

We are really injured--Yes. But, I just see little passion. Little attention to detail--something BK talks about all the time. The latter is on the coaches. WE look like we are going through the motions.

I don't even know...

Shembo isn't making an impact at all (ok, Days bonehead play of not picking up the fumble).

He had two sacks and was constantly hitting the QB milliseconds after he released. I can make an argument he has four sacks with Tuitt in the game.

We aren't playing to the whistle. Looks like the guys can't wait for the season to get over. Little to no passion on offense or defense.

Very stale. The defense looks stale.

I really don't even know how to respond to this.

 

[DCirishfan]

3-4 defenses are made to utilize blitzes. It seems as if we are running a weird version of the 3-4. I think it's time to go back to 4-3 and stop run first and not have to rely on hard to find nose guards. Or.. use the 3-4 in ways to confuse blitz pickups. I mean I just don't get what we are doing at all.

 

[OlympiaIrishFan]

Buster, go look at the stats--Shembo had 1 sack. And you say miliseconds from getting to the qb---but still didn't get there consistantly with an inferior Oline.

And he would have had 4 sacks if Tuitt in there. Well didn't he have 3 sacks coming into this game? Where has been all those sacks while Tuitt has been here all season?


Stale, play to the whistle, passion. Well, we don't force turnovers. I believe we have 6 ints and 4 fumble recoveries. Heck, Tommy has more than that.


15ish sacks in 10 games. Sorry, that is stale. Very stale in my opinion.

Not playing to the whistle---did you watch Day at all on the bonehead play on the fumble (yes, created by Shembo).

How about Bennetts Ole' defense on the goal line?

Love our guys, but disappointed on how they are playing overall.

 

[MJ12666]

Watch it again, and look at Jaylon Smith. There is your answer.



So Jaylon Smith had responsibility for covering Street and you this this is a sound scheme?

Again, somehow GT can turn the ball over 3 times and only give up 10 point and Navy can hold them to 21. Now I know the last score was basically the result of the turnover but we did not even come close to holding them to a FG even after a penalty pushed them back to the 10. If that happened to us it is 50/50 we score a TD.

As far as bringing the safeties up, if you can't stop the run with your front seven then you need to bring up a safety. If you get burned you get burned and I would not complain. You can't just let the offense gain 5-7 yards per run. This also happened against Navy and there were again no adjustments.

Personally I think Diaco is a very good recruiter but he is not a very good DC or LB coach.

 

[BeauBenken]

Really didn't play bad on defense. Just lack some playmakers. Specifically in the inside linebacker and secondary groups.

We should be doing better though, but without playmakers in those areas, we are hurting.

 

[IrishFan4L]

Yet the men in the box gave up how many long touchdown drives? I'm counting one, in the immediate aftermath of Tuitt's departure. I question how you'd react if the safeties moved up all night (there were up occasionally), and their two WRs blew passed the CBs.

The cornerbacks are not good period there bad in zone and worse in man. So we're damned if we do & damned if we don't. On the other hand someone is coaching these players obviously ineffectively & someone recruited the trash in the defensive backfield now. It may not be on Diaco but correct player development in the defensive backfield or don't recruit trash that you cant turn into treasure & they will obviously be better.

OLBs = Shembo and Smith. Shembo was in the backfield all night long, Smith, the drop LB, was in hooks to flats. You know what that did? Stop any of those quick swing passes to the slot from doing much of anything. I don't have complaints here.

Agreed

Watch it again, and look at Jaylon Smith. There is your answer.

Wow

TD #1: One long drive, in the immediate aftermath of Tuitt's expulsion.
TD #2: Ridiculous PI gave Pitt the ball on the ~15 after ND forced 4th down. How is this Diaco's fault?
TD #3: 62-yard pass on a blown coverage and missed tackle. Not exactly Diaco's fault?
TD #4: Rees INT gave Pitt the ball on the ~10. How on Earth is that Diaco's fault?

TD #3 refer to the first comment TD #4 we'll leave that to the Tommy Rees thread. Yes we played a bad game but with the exception of maybe 2 games we've played bad all year. We can blame the players for lack of discipline but who's coaching then you can say there just not that good. Who the hell recruited them. Which one is it no discipline or no talent?

 

[IrishFan4L]

Sorry ****ed up that last post.