Online Genius Figures Out 3 Things Experts "On the Inside" Could Not: #2 Will Bring You to Tears!

Dennis_DeYoung

1. Our problem is the offense. Pete is in charge of it. I believe that when Jake was healthy, we had Ross and Pettis and (most importantly) Tedford - we were good. At all other times it's sucked. It sucked at the end of Pete's tenure at Boise and it's sucked here constantly outside of that 6 game window to start '16.

2. Pete is a great CEO. He is amazing at holding people to high standards and getting excellent performance from others around him. He is a good hearted, generous leader who is loyal and both commands and deserves respect. However, everything he's directly involved in he's proven himself to be a stubborn, incompetent control freak. Why are we playing Jake? Why don't we have a spring game? Why can't we stop this faggy madness on offense? Why can't we stop this faggy madness with the injury reporting? Why do we hire sycophantic offensive personnel and old white guys who can't recruit? Why run this horrible offense? WHY THE FUCK DO WE PLAY JAKE BROWNING?

Pete so intensely curates this program, B4L, OKG, all the details every day, everything measured, improved and optimized... and then he takes this fine wine he's crafted over years and dumps a Carnation Instant Breakfast in it before he serves it to prove a point.

3. Run the fucking ball.

Gladstone

6 game window to start '16:

Rutgers
Idaho
Portland State
Arizona
Stanford with both of its starting CBs injured and out
Oregon with its worst statistical defense since 1974

PurpleJ

We could have lined up in power sets all day yesterday and that team wouldn't have stopped us.

Dennis_DeYoung

Gladstone said:

6 game window to start '16:

Rutgers
Idaho
Portland State
Arizona
Stanford with both of its starting CBs injured and out
Oregon with its worst statistical defense since 1974

The gameplan for Stanford was amazing. Best gameplan we've had in years.

PurpleJ

AND LEARN HOW TO RUN A FUCKING SCREEN PLAY FUCK

RoadDawg55

PurpleJ said:

We could have lined up in power sets all day yesterday and that team wouldn't have stopped us.

I actually don't agree with this. When we had Dissly, Shelton, and Eldenkamp in 2016 we could. And t also helped having Ross and Pettis.

Now we have young TE's who aren't great blockers and a ravaged OL that isn't very good.

Tequilla

It's almost as if playing young players means you have to put up with the ups and downs of their development in real time … shocking.

Go back to 2014 and the DBs that we were throwing out there were all young guys with Sidney and Budda true freshman … we played Nate Dogg Jr out there … it was a mess at times (go back and watch the UCLA game and a long TD that they had where the WR was open by 30 yards because of assignment errors). Many of those DBs turned out to be part of the best DB grouping that we've ever had at this school.

I suspect that our OL will get better throughout the year.

For better or worse, many of our more difficult games are at the start of the season this year … baptism by fire.

PurpleJ

RoadDawg55 said:

PurpleJ said:

We could have lined up in power sets all day yesterday and that team wouldn't have stopped us.

I actually don't agree with this. When we had Dissly, Shelton, and Eldenkamp in 2016 we could. And t also helped having Ross and Pettis.

Now we have young TE's who aren't great blockers and a ravaged OL that isn't very good.

They are good at run blocking. Pass blocking not so much. If we ever call a pass play, it should be a 3 step drop.

Regardless, Utah wouldn't have stopped us if we kept running it down their throat. You crazy.

Tequilla

PurpleJ said:

RoadDawg55 said:

PurpleJ said:

We could have lined up in power sets all day yesterday and that team wouldn't have stopped us.

I actually don't agree with this. When we had Dissly, Shelton, and Eldenkamp in 2016 we could. And t also helped having Ross and Pettis.

Now we have young TE's who aren't great blockers and a ravaged OL that isn't very good.

They are good at run blocking. Pass blocking not so much. If we ever call a pass play, it should be a 3 step drop.

Regardless, Utah wouldn't have stopped us if we kept running it down their throat. You crazy.

Ok ... so we run 3 step drops and the initial read isn't there ... then what happens? Have you caught onto the fact that we have a QB that doesn't like to take hits and panics at a moment's notice? He also has a noodle arm and doesn't have the confidence to fit throws into tight windows (which are often required for 3 step drops)?

That's a recipe for disaster IMO.

PurpleJ

@Tequilla down vote means I'm right

Tequilla

PurpleJ said:

@Tequilla down vote means I'm right

No … it means that you're an idiot

Dennis_DeYoung

RoadDawg55 said:

PurpleJ said:

We could have lined up in power sets all day yesterday and that team wouldn't have stopped us.

I actually don't agree with this. When we had Dissly, Shelton, and Eldenkamp in 2016 we could. And t also helped having Ross and Pettis.

Now we have young TE's who aren't great blockers and a ravaged OL that isn't very good.

The weird thing is our RS junior and senior classes are largely JAGgy or bad outside of DBs.

QB: Brownsocks

WR: Fuller is a gamer, but not a gamebreaker; Pounds is like Fuller but not quite as good; Bacchus is a midget.

TE: Sample is fine, but light in the ass compared to Dissly. Mike Neal? Jesus.

OL: Ready? We have McGary! Who else? Hilbers (ok), Harris (ok) and then... Sosebee, James, Burleson and Henry Roberts.

DL: Gaines and Johnson (great), Scrempy (hmm), Bowman (hmm) and that's it (and we rotate like 8 guys).

OLB: Benning is solid in the run and good at containing, but can't sack QBs... who else is there in the upper classes?

ILB: Tevis is good, BBK is a midget... there is no one else, fucking Manu?

I expect the 'AVERAGE' player to start to play really well as a RS-JR. Above average players play well as a RS-Soph. Only elite players are good before that. If we're not recruiting at an elite level... it's going to hurt you.

Biggest issues right now outside of the offense are:

We didn't recruit DLs for 2 years, whiffed on elite guys at OL and WR and we haven't been careful with numbers at ILB.

PurpleJ

Tequilla said:

PurpleJ said:

RoadDawg55 said:

PurpleJ said:

We could have lined up in power sets all day yesterday and that team wouldn't have stopped us.

I actually don't agree with this. When we had Dissly, Shelton, and Eldenkamp in 2016 we could. And t also helped having Ross and Pettis.

Now we have young TE's who aren't great blockers and a ravaged OL that isn't very good.

They are good at run blocking. Pass blocking not so much. If we ever call a pass play, it should be a 3 step drop.

Regardless, Utah wouldn't have stopped us if we kept running it down their throat. You crazy.

Ok ... so we run 3 step drops and the initial read isn't there ... then what happens? Have you caught onto the fact that we have a QB that doesn't like to take hits and panics at a moment's notice? He also has a noodle arm and doesn't have the confidence to fit throws into tight windows (which are often required for 3 step drops)?

That's a recipe for disaster IMO.

The read should be there if we are running the ball 2/3 of the time, and as always, you can dump it out to the half back. Have you ever watched a football game? What's the alternative here? Line up in 3 or 4 wide sets and let Jake rip it? How's that going?

PostGameOrangeSlices

Gladstone said:

6 game window to start '16:

Rutgers
Idaho
Portland State
Arizona
Stanford with both of its starting CBs injured and out
Oregon with its worst statistical defense since 1974

Plus Ross and Pettis

Gladstone

Tequilla said:

It's almost as if playing young players means you have to put up with the ups and downs of their development in real time … shocking.

Go back to 2014 and the DBs that we were throwing out there were all young guys with Sidney and Budda true freshman … we played Nate Dogg Jr out there … it was a mess at times (go back and watch the UCLA game and a long TD that they had where the WR was open by 30 yards because of assignment errors). Many of those DBs turned out to be part of the best DB grouping that we've ever had at this school.

I suspect that our OL will get better throughout the year.

For better or worse, many of our more difficult games are at the start of the season this year … baptism by fire.

Utah has always been the second toughest game on our schedule this year. This holds true even if they do their typical November collapse. It was a good win. I think people are placing undue emphasis on the typical Browning ineptitude with overall team performanceand confidence. We physically beat the shit out of them, in a hyped road night game, Gaskin carried us as usual, and we forced turnovers. As you mentioned, there's plenty of precedent for the team improving significantly throughout the course of the season.

Yes, the conference sucks but every other team would have lost that game save for maybe Stanford. Although Utah and those types of games on the road are when Shaw sometimes vomits all over himself.

PurpleJ

Tequilla said:

PurpleJ said:

@Tequilla down vote means I'm right

No … it means that you're an idiot

I'm a stable genius.

Tequilla

Gladstone said:

Tequilla said:

It's almost as if playing young players means you have to put up with the ups and downs of their development in real time … shocking.

Go back to 2014 and the DBs that we were throwing out there were all young guys with Sidney and Budda true freshman … we played Nate Dogg Jr out there … it was a mess at times (go back and watch the UCLA game and a long TD that they had where the WR was open by 30 yards because of assignment errors). Many of those DBs turned out to be part of the best DB grouping that we've ever had at this school.

I suspect that our OL will get better throughout the year.

For better or worse, many of our more difficult games are at the start of the season this year … baptism by fire.

Utah has always been the second toughest game on our schedule this year. This holds true even if they do their typical November collapse. It was a good win. I think people are placing undue emphasis on the typical Browning ineptitude with overall team performanceand confidence. We physically beat the shit out of them, in a hyped road night game, Gaskin carried us as usual, and we forced turnovers. As you mentioned, there's plenty of for the team improving significantly throughout the course of the season.

Yes, the conference sucks but every other team would have lost that game save for maybe Stanford. Although Utah and those types of games on the road are when Shaw sometimes vomits all over himself.

The only thing that I slightly disagree with is I really don't know what to make of Utah last night. We knew they had offensive issues going into the game. Those were clear after last night that they weren't understated. Utah's good enough to be their usual 8-4 or 9-3 this year and win the South because it's a dreckfest. But at this point, their offense has a legit chance at keeping them in the 6-6 range this year.

Colorado's probably the favorite right now in the South … ASU probably the 2nd favorite. SC is a dumpster fire that might only luck out because they miss both UW and Oregon.

dhdawg

RoadDawg55 said:

PurpleJ said:

We could have lined up in power sets all day yesterday and that team wouldn't have stopped us.

I actually don't agree with this. When we had Dissly, Shelton, and Eldenkamp in 2016 we could. And t also helped having Ross and Pettis.

Now we have young TE's who aren't great blockers and a ravaged OL that isn't very good.

Yeah I'm really disappointed with the TE blocking. I thought gaskin had a walk in td on the pitch play and Warren completely whiffed his man

DerekJohnson

Off the top of my head, this headline is the most clever headline in HH history

Swaye

DerekJohnson said:

Off the top of my head, this headline is the most clever headline in HH history

You didn't like my "Listen Up Fuckers!" gem from last year?

Bread

What I'm hearing: Pete should coach more like Herm.