My armchair CEO move would be to demote Smith and for Petersen to take over play calling.
Why demote? You only get so many assistants by NCAA rules. So if you demote him someone else would have to be D.A.O. Or you demote him to like an Admin...which I doubt an OC would take. Peterson needs to just get him the fuck out.
You just take away play calling duties, no other moves would be necessary. He is already the QB coach, just have him do that.
Ah, in the offseason he'd be gone though with warning. Keeping dead weight around is dumb and inefficient.
That's essentially what Mora did Ulbrich when it was obvious hiring an inexperienced coordinator was fucktarded. Took over game planning the 2nd half the year and got Ulbrich a job in the NFL after the season.
That would be the way you do it ...
You don't need to publicly announce that you're changing titles or roles though ... that can all be kept internally.
For all we know, that could already be happening right now.
Any I will reiterate, the fix to the offensive problems is going to come from OUTSIDE the current program.
A new head coach
It wasn't Nick Holt and it isn't Justin Wilcocks
For fucks sake its the fucking head coach
I'd agree that a bad hire is on the head coach ...
What gives me some pause here is that more of his hires have proven to be good ones than not. Duds will get hired from time to time. Hell, Saban hired Kiffie for some reason.
If Petersen hires a retread of an OC that continues with his failed philosophy, then he's writing his fate. If he makes an inspired hire, there's hope for him.
It's too early to completely pull the plug and say that it isn't going to work on the whole.
But if the offense doesn't get fixed with the next hire, then it's 100% going to condemn Petersen's tenure and he'll be lucky to make it past 4 years.
Clearly, a huge issue our offense has been playcalling. Blame whoever you want, but it's seems entirely too complicated and cute. A second issue our offense has is youth. You inbred fucks have scorched me over this one, but maybe, just maybe, a bit of data can help you see the light. I'm not holding my breath, though.
The following numbers represent the number of years of experience each P12 team had at the 5 OL positions + QB coming into this season, based on who started their last games.
And there was a time around 2007 when UW on the top of this list. The # of combined starts by an OL is horseshit if the coaching sucks. Right now, UW's offensive coaching sucks.
I'd say more but HouHusky already nailed it.
Yeah, the coaching staff sucked - the lineman were horseshit too
That young OL was kicking the shit out of Cal in the running game last Saturday. They are young and bad, but Sark had some OL's that were as bad or worse. Greg Christine, Nick Wood, a freshman Shane Brostek, Atoe, Criste...
You can build an offensive identity behind running the ball down hill, quick slants and comeback routes, the occasional boot & playaction plays, and an occasional play action leading to a deep shot down the field.
Not only is the identity a problem, but trying to figure out what pieces are your most useful on offense and playing to those strengths is very lacking. Expecting a lot out of the WR is probably foolish because we have a lot of either JAGs or young players that lack consistency.
Sounds like a coaching issue to me.
Quite honestly, I don't get what you are arguing about. He has acknowledged that coaching is the problem with a lack of identity. This whole back and forth is absolutely stoopid.
The only difference between your two arguments is that one thinks it should be blown up right now and that Petersen isn't the guy, and the other wants to see what happens at the end of the season.
Christ.
Have you seriously read more than one person on here say Petersen should be fired now??
@ThomasFremont and I are saying the offense fucking sucks, it hasn't improved, we are losing games because of poor coaching on the offensive side of the ball not because UW is a young team, and nothing is being done to change that.
@HuskyInAZ would have you believe that the offense will magically improve next year because they will be a year older. THAT's is what is so fucking irritating
Something needs to be done about it, right fucking now, @Tequilla would have UW and Petersen wait until the season is over, but fails to realize the season is already fucking over anyways.
People with 81% of the eyesight of @GrandpaSankey can see that the offense is horrible across multiple facets of the game.
We have all fucking read this script before... Last year it was the QB's fault, this year its the fountain of youth's fault, next year (after Smith is sacrificed) it will be installing a new scheme's fault, and finally after 3 shitty fucking years we will get to have that awesome bumpercrop of wins where UW goes 9-4 and finishes 2nd in the Pac12 North.
Much like every game with Cyler at QB last year was a waste, every week with Pease and Smith coaching the players is a waste.
My armchair CEO move would be to demote Smith and for Petersen to take over play calling.
Why demote? You only get so many assistants by NCAA rules. So if you demote him someone else would have to be D.A.O. Or you demote him to like an Admin...which I doubt an OC would take. Peterson needs to just get him the fuck out.
You just take away play calling duties, no other moves would be necessary. He is already the QB coach, just have him do that.
Ah, in the offseason he'd be gone though with warning. Keeping dead weight around is dumb and inefficient.
That's essentially what Mora did Ulbrich when it was obvious hiring an inexperienced coordinator was fucktarded. Took over game planning the 2nd half the year and got Ulbrich a job in the NFL after the season.
I will reiterate, the fix to the offensive problems is going to come from OUTSIDE the current program.
It looks to me like you want to fire Peterman but just don't realize it yet.
My armchair CEO move would be to demote Smith and for Petersen to take over play calling.
Why demote? You only get so many assistants by NCAA rules. So if you demote him someone else would have to be D.A.O. Or you demote him to like an Admin...which I doubt an OC would take. Peterson needs to just get him the fuck out.
You just take away play calling duties, no other moves would be necessary. He is already the QB coach, just have him do that.
Ah, in the offseason he'd be gone though with warning. Keeping dead weight around is dumb and inefficient.
That's essentially what Mora did Ulbrich when it was obvious hiring an inexperienced coordinator was fucktarded. Took over game planning the 2nd half the year and got Ulbrich a job in the NFL after the season.
I will reiterate, the fix to the offensive problems is going to come from OUTSIDE the current program.
It looks to me like you want to fire Peterman but just don't realize it yet.
I think you are reading way too much into what you think I'm saying
My armchair CEO move would be to demote Smith and for Petersen to take over play calling.
Why demote? You only get so many assistants by NCAA rules. So if you demote him someone else would have to be D.A.O. Or you demote him to like an Admin...which I doubt an OC would take. Peterson needs to just get him the fuck out.
You just take away play calling duties, no other moves would be necessary. He is already the QB coach, just have him do that.
Ah, in the offseason he'd be gone though with warning. Keeping dead weight around is dumb and inefficient.
That's essentially what Mora did Ulbrich when it was obvious hiring an inexperienced coordinator was fucktarded. Took over game planning the 2nd half the year and got Ulbrich a job in the NFL after the season.
I will reiterate, the fix to the offensive problems is going to come from OUTSIDE the current program.
It looks to me like you want to fire Peterman but just don't realize it yet.
I think you are reading way too much into what you think I'm saying
Nope.
You're using the same passive aggressive logic the Doogs used to justify keeping Ty after he fired Baer and Sark after he fired Holt.
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What gives me some pause here is that more of his hires have proven to be good ones than not. Duds will get hired from time to time. Hell, Saban hired Kiffie for some reason.
If Petersen hires a retread of an OC that continues with his failed philosophy, then he's writing his fate. If he makes an inspired hire, there's hope for him.
It's too early to completely pull the plug and say that it isn't going to work on the whole.
But if the offense doesn't get fixed with the next hire, then it's 100% going to condemn Petersen's tenure and he'll be lucky to make it past 4 years.
You're using the same passive aggressive logic the Doogs used to justify keeping Ty after he fired Baer and Sark after he fired Holt.
Lather, rinse, repeat