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http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/12127185/josh-heupel-oklahoma-sooners-offensive-coordinator
Another bad QB costing coordinators their jobs - and in some ways, relevant to the discussion that many are having on Jonathan Smith.
Having seen Knight play in person this year, he was bad ... although a MASSIVE improvement over Cyler Miles. He struggled with progressions as well accuracy. At times, it made the Oklahoma offense very easy to defend because you would almost dare Knight to throw the ball. Against TCU, he managed to hit 2-3 deep throws (at least 1 was a ridiculous catch by the WR) that accounted for almost all of Oklahoma's offense.
I know that we talk about different things that OC's can do to make things a little better offensively in bad situations. But the reality is that the QB is the most important position on the football field. If you are getting poor play at that position, it's almost impossible to have anything more than an average offense.
Another bad QB costing coordinators their jobs - and in some ways, relevant to the discussion that many are having on Jonathan Smith.
Having seen Knight play in person this year, he was bad ... although a MASSIVE improvement over Cyler Miles. He struggled with progressions as well accuracy. At times, it made the Oklahoma offense very easy to defend because you would almost dare Knight to throw the ball. Against TCU, he managed to hit 2-3 deep throws (at least 1 was a ridiculous catch by the WR) that accounted for almost all of Oklahoma's offense.
I know that we talk about different things that OC's can do to make things a little better offensively in bad situations. But the reality is that the QB is the most important position on the football field. If you are getting poor play at that position, it's almost impossible to have anything more than an average offense.
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On a serious note, I wonder if Petersen will give Smith one more year to turn things around. I'm sure Petersen will be with Smith this off-season redesigning the offense, and coaching him up on how to be a better play-caller and how to coach up the QBs. The one thing I like about Petersen is that he's there to coach up the coaches. Petersen has been with Smith for 3 seasons now with this being his first as an OC. If Petersen thought Smith would be a good OC after 2 years as a QB coach in Boise, then this is his season to prove it, and he will work his ass off to prove that he was right about hiring Smith last year.
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It's easy to be a coordinator when everything is working easy and you can push button your calls.
It's not so easy when you have to learn how to make things work with a giant magnifying glass on you when you don't have the right pieces to make things work.
Not saying that Smith couldn't have been better this year ... not saying that Petersen made a good/bad hire ... just saying that clearly there were examples this year where Smith probably lacked some seasoning and it showed.
And before the doogman-ish "Montana is not the Pac-12", Chip Kelly at Southern New Hampshire University says STFU
11-3 in second year, scored a lot more but died somewhere in the playoffs and was sanctioned for something
Yes, out of Ajamu, Daniels, Hartvigson, Perkins and Sample, only Daniels is worth noting and he should be moved back to WR and play him like we did with Stringfellow.
Have Pease coach TE's too and either demote SmithFS to QB coach and hire an OC or hire a new QB coach.
While Kwiatkowski is DC, he also coaches DL but we also have Choate coaching that group.
Smiff is over his fucking head being OC and coaching QB's.
Paopao, I don't even fucking know what he's doing with our TE's but I like to say out his name because it's pretty cool.
Thanks again, Captain O
Good news is that there's no way anybody is going to plagiarize that shit from you ... fucktard.
Just saying...