Tommy Rees - Offensive Coordinator

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TorontoGold said:
What is this?
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Yeah what is it?! Damn spell check plus fat fingers plus lazy posting equals nonsensical post!
I thought as the Browns OC Tommy was already calling the plays. So apparently the genius HC has been calling them so far? If so he sucks and has set the table for Tommy to go almost nowhere but up!
 
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Free Manera said:
Is English your first language?
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That got me laughing good. It is well deserved and surprised it has taken this long to get dinged for typos etc. I tried to reread it and even I couldn’t make sense of it so I reposted with proofreading to make my point. Insane to come across so illiterate with the decent educational background and work life I’ve had. Just lazy now and fat fingered. Might be better off without autocorrect.
 
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I have a different intuition about Tommy being "stuck" with the Browns. EVERYBODY knows that the Browns suck, personnel wise and administration wise ... SO --> Tommy can't really lose. If the offense fails, well, not his fault; but if sometimes it really wins, then he's a genius. Right on, Tommy! I'll bet that he manages some games where he really shines, and overall the crummy team looks better (and people will say that it's partly due to Tommy -- which it will be.) ... it's a little like Coach Golden at the Bengals --> very little to work with and the professionals know that.
 
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The professional football teams in Ohio might be run worse than any organizations in professional sports. Bengals struck gold with Burrow and even he hasn't been good enough to save that dumpster fire since he can't stay on the field. Good for him at least getting paid.
 
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rtrn2glory said:
The professional football teams in Ohio might be run worse than any organizations in professional sports. Bengals struck gold with Burrow and even he hasn't been good enough to save that dumpster fire since he can't stay on the field. Good for him at least getting paid.
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He and maybe three other guys deserve to get paid. Flacco showing he still has plenty of gas in the tank.
 
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Wouldn't have been popular to Joe, but they needed to franchise Tee and trade him. that deal has left them handcuffed. way too much money invested in only 3 dudes.

They obviously haven't seen the recipe to win lately. The best teams in the NFL have the best dudes in the trenches and on defense. all they had to do was copy and paste what the Chiefs did. They have a guy good enough to make anybody around him good. didn't need Higgins.
 
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It's goofy thinking by me, but if Burrow or the two receivers want to bitch about how lousy their team is, then peel off many thousands of those contract dollars and buy a defense. Greed, sucks. So then does your team, and I'm not weeping for such money grabbers ... (after a certain level of "compensation".) By the way, demanding a certain outrageous amount of dollars just so you can be called "highest paid" is WAY beyond outrageous. I will root against that level of "me-only" ego-mania. Assholes can't have it both ways --- classic "Cake and Eat it too."
 
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Old Man Mike said:
It's goofy thinking by me, but if Burrow or the two receivers want to bitch about how lousy their team is, then peel off many thousands of those contract dollars and buy a defense. Greed, sucks. So then does your team, and I'm not weeping for such money grabbers ... (after a certain level of "compensation".) By the way, demanding a certain outrageous amount of dollars just so you can be called "highest paid" is WAY beyond outrageous. I will root against that level of "me-only" ego-mania. Assholes can't have it both ways --- classic "Cake and Eat it too."
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Tom Brady is the GOAT at least partially because he realized this. He rarely if ever maxed his salary cap impact, and as a result had other players on his team. 7 Super Bowl championships later, money is very easy for him to come by.
 
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The offense outplayed the Jets but lost due to two kick returns. Still not impressed with the offense but slightly better than previous weeks. How long until Shady gets his shot?
 
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Seeing he's under consideration for UCLA HC job.
Can't be real, right?
 
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Dale said:
Why can’t it be? He’s a former ND and Saban assistant working in the NFL with UCLA ties.
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While I get all of that... if you take a step back it is a bit surprising at the same time.

He didnt really deserve the ND OC job, but got it because of BK. He was OK in the role... but not great.
He didnt really deserve the Bama OC job, but got it because of timing. He was OK in the role... but not great.
Somehow he goes from Browns TE coach to OC and again, he is OK in the role... but not great.
He is an OK recruiter... but not great. Never been an HC.
To me he is a poor man's Lincoln Riley, which is the last thing UCLA should be looking for right now.
 
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Dale said:
Hilariously biased statement. Nick Saban could have literally hired 99.9% of football coaches and picked Tommy Rees.
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I'm willing to concede that I am biased, but it doesnt change the fact that he wasnt really all that great in the role.
 
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I'm willing to concede that I am biased, but it doesnt change the fact that he wasnt really all that great in the role.
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Alabama made the CFP under Rees, only losing to the champion, and Milroe looked significantly better under Rees than Kalen DeBoer. DeBoer considered one of the better offensive/QB minds in the sport.
 
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BoredIrish said:
I'm willing to concede that I am biased, but it doesnt change the fact that he wasnt really all that great in the role.
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Not a shot at you as I don't recognize your posts or anything, but I don't really trust most of IE's evaluation of an OC's capabilities or performance considering Denbrock is a Broyles finalist, as well as a finalist two years ago, and coaching his 2nd Heisman contender in 3 years, and much of the board thinks he sucks.

I'm not saying Rees is a Bill Walsh tier offensive genius, but I think he did an overall good job here. My biggest knock on him was his recruiting more than his playcalling abilities.
 
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I can tell you firsthand that most of the Bama fan base was very, very unhappy with Rees’ play calling the first half of the season. I remember a booster asked me if we could please take him back. This was with a decade of top recruiting and an incredible stable of 5star players. Bama won because of the obscene player talent, not Reese’s play calling.

I know many of you remember him with such fondness that borderlines idol worship but it truly wasn’t reality.

Him becoming UCLA‘s coach just guarantees many years of UCLA’s mediocrity. Which I guess, is not a bad thing.
 
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Dale said:
Hilariously biased statement. Nick Saban could have literally hired 99.9% of football coaches and picked Tommy Rees.
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Rees was his fifth choice, though.
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99.9% is probably an overstatement.

Don’t know if Rees was the fifth choice, but he certainly wasn’t the first choice.

The open position at Bama was complicated a little bit by the timing, but more importantly candidates likely had huge concerns about taking over an offense that was likely to see a significant drop in performance and a ton of uncertainty about the QB position.

Somehow Rees developed Milroe into a Heisman contender and I think Rees engineered an offense that exceeded expectations.
 
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