New Wide Receiver Coach: Junior Adams
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Ironic since the best roles for guys Pease recruited (mostly) is riding the Pine.Passion said:
Pine for the days of Pease? Highly doubt it.Fear_Boner said:We’re going to pine for the days of Pease. Bring on Chin 2.0.
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When has he ever been at a program capable of getting high-profile recruits? I don't think he's ever even been at a Power-5 school before. He's an unproven recruiter but you can't call him a mediocre recruiter until he has a chance to recruit to a big school like UW.HillsboroDuck said:I don’t love this hire because he strikes me as a good coach but mediocre recruiter and we’re at the place we should be able to have abundance. That said, the Joey Thomas endorsement is really intriguing. I know he’s probably just talking up his boy, but if he really does have the appeal to the urban African American kid, that’s a major leg up in recruiting at this specific position (and one we have obviously lacked).
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I like the hire. I don’t really understand the concern about recruiting at a lower level versus a higher level. I think if you can connect with kids you can connect with kids. At a low level school it’s not like you’re convincing five star guys to go to Appalachian State. You are fishing from a pool of two and three star guys just like everyone else
And since I believe coaching is more important than recruiting, having a guy known as a good coach is OK with me.
I also don’t believe our own bullshit about Pete’s offense being complicated. What’s complicated? To me, the only thing that could be complicated about the wide receiver role is doing site adjustments based on coverages, and I haven’t heard anybody talking about us doing that to any great extent. As far as I remember, the routes have numbers and it doesn’t even get into fucking double digits. What so goddamn complicated about remembering up to nine?! -
The real issue, IMO, is that we don’t have great receivers and we run bullshit plays that require great receivers for success. But to me the obvious answer isn’t just to keep firing people until we get a great recruiter that can get great receivers, it’s to stop running bullshit plays where we make it easy on the defender to cover our decent receivers. I want both, but our receivers should be good enough now to get open if we help them with coaching.
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Maybe the cult of McVey will have some positives. He gets credit as a genius and his offense runs all the same plays over and over without even all the multiple formation shit. Run the ball then play action. Receivers are wide open
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Kyle Shannahan and Josh McDaniels run insanely complex offensive schemes with a high degree of success too. 2 sides to the coinRaceBannon said:Maybe the cult of McVey will have some positives. He gets credit as a genius and his offense runs all the same plays over and over without even all the multiple formation shit. Run the ball then play action. Receivers are wide open
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Naw, hate until you love... it’s the American Way.UW_Doog_Bot said:
I love him until I hate him!RDR said: -
I was originally in lipo but disappointed mode. But both Joey Thomas and tracy Ford praising the hiring tells me he has a lot more local respect than I thought originally.
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Either that or our receivers get open decently we just have spent four years with a qb who needs them to be wide open.RealRhino said:The real issue, IMO, is that we don’t have great receivers and we run bullshit plays that require great receivers for success. But to me the obvious answer isn’t just to keep firing people until we get a great recruiter that can get great receivers, it’s to stop running bullshit plays where we make it easy on the defender to cover our decent receivers. I want both, but our receivers should be good enough now to get open if we help them with coaching.
I’m pretty much LIPO on everything regarding the offense until we see it with another QB.
Seeing Dante Pettis go second round and have a strong rookie year after a decent but not great senior year gave me a lot of pause. I think our receivers are better than we know.
