Recent content by gtgilbert

well, I for one hope that no-one is really being named/announced yet. I'd rather them keep competing all the way through spring.

He got that vibe from his Dad. Maybe not a vibe. Maybe exactly what you describe...

I think the confusion happens because there are actually two separate paths or sets of circumstances that can result in a targeting call and folks get the criteria for each confused. The first is using the crown of the helmet. The 'targeted' player does not have to be defenseless. If a...

completely agree. For all the positive vibes Brailsford got through the season and about how great his technique is/was, his NFL.com draft grade and eval level sets where he really is and that is he's just not long enough or big enough. he gets credit for agility if he's in a zone scheme, but...

completely agree - if the kid is this good, why was he not an option even at RT last year with the struggles we had. The coaches clearly were not that thrilled with Formby, and while Carroll showed upside, he had just as many, or more, misses as Formby.

I think RTR2u was more implying that he didn't want to hear about how great the OL was going to be *before* the season, because we've heard that song before, and the OL couldn't deliver. I kinda agree with that. It's like the pancake posse debacle when it turned out the only pancakes we...

It doesnt even have to be a power run scheme. It just has to be a functional blocking scheme instead of what we have seen so far.

well, now you are talking about how it SHOULD be done (which I agree with), but then we all saw it happen so many times last year where we intentionally left a player unblocked who wasn't a read/react guy we were triggering off of. mind-boggling...

This is an excellent point. Because we so often left guys unblocked (on purpose, mostly) there was very little time for patience because the RB knows there's a free guy who will start to close the gap soon. No patience, hard to use vision to try to find where the hole is going to open up.

this is where I have an issue with the overall approach and design. I think this type of blocking *might* be able to work at lower levels, but I simply don't think design will work against better competition we face. The DL are just quicker/faster and better coached and will almost always...

Jimmies and Joes over Xs and Os. Don't get me wrong, I love the Xs and Os, but without the right raw material and building the players the right way, the scheme will only go so far.

I don't buy that. Other teams, like IU, have instilled a "make their *butt* quit" culture by getting the right transfers. Heck, Landon Dickenson was a transfer and he was probably THE culture builder and tone setter for the offense.

ok, but consider this. Some donors may *only* donate with certain conditions on the funding, and if the AD doesn't agree to the conditions, there's no donation. i.e. A huge fan of golf decides he wants to help build a facility. He can say this $ can only be used for this purpose and...

I also think that Pierre had likely passed Russaw and they were talking with Russaw about possibly moving to an ILB spot instead of the edge and he decided to go.

Agreed. I'm not a fan of Grubb yet, but I also don't think it's fair to pin all the blame on Seattle on him when they also moved from Smith to Darnold.