9/7 Grambling

[techman05]

How does one who does not drink, and isn’t going to start, wipe away the memory of such a bad effort?

[DallasDog]

Repeated blunt force trauma to the head.... akin to beating your head against a wall. Which is exactly what it’s like, watching skip and his rockstars offense.

[qng001]

Not impressed with Diaco. The guy needs to stop being stubborn and let go of the 3-4 scheme.

[brtransplant]

Not impressed with Diaco. The guy needs to stop being stubborn and let go of the 3-4 scheme.

The 3-4 scheme is a bend, don't break sceme. It is dependent on the opposition making a mistake and stopping themselves. Grambling's offense made Diaco's defense look like hell. Imagine what Marshall, UAB, UNT, and USM are going to make it look like.

[The Historian]

The 3-4 scheme is a bend, don't break sceme. It is dependent on the opposition making a mistake and stopping themselves. Grambling's offense made Diaco's defense look like hell. Imagine what Marshall, UAB, UNT, and USM are going to make it look like.

Tech has run an attacking 3-4 scheme in the past (99-01 and 04-05). You are making the assumption that our sitting back and playing a read and react 3-4 the past two weeks was Diaco's choice.

[johnnylightnin]

Tech has run an attacking 3-4 scheme in the past (99-01 and 04-05). You are making the assumption that our sitting back and playing a read and react 3-4 the past two weeks was Diaco's choice.

Yep. In theory, a 3-4 makes a lot of sense for a school like Tech, but you have to have the LB and a good NT. NT is very hard for us to recruit, but we've done it before. That said, I think our D would be about where it is right now regardless of what scheme we were running. Diaz is the only one who came in and we saw an immediate improvement...and clearly, he's a good coach. There were calls for Baker's firing every season up until Miami hired him.

Baker learning LB is probably what's best for his NFL prospects, but it's going to be a struggle for a while.

[SIC_EM_DAWGS!]

Not impressed with Diaco. The guy needs to stop being stubborn and let go of the 3-4 scheme.

Our base D has been very vanilla which fits Holtz to a State "T". Very little blitzing and very much vanilla in coverage. There has been some communication issues in the secondary (less this week than last) which may lend itself to this. We can't go exotic until after players understand roles and responsibilities in vanilla. Having watched Diaco in previous stints I fully expect to see the playbook open up slowly but surely, I am much less concerned with Diaco atm than I am with Fitch. Against both UT and Grambling there were plays to be had but there has been zero evidence that our Offensive staff is willing to depart from the script. We play to film tendencies instead of live tendencies, and refuse to deviate from our gameplan. I'm holding out hope that we are hiding plays and creating looks to throw off our opponents but haven't seen anything in the Fitch/Holtz stay that gives me any assurance that this is what is going on.

I understand frustration with the rockstar and the o-line but a lot of that has been the positions they have been put in. We've ran far too many plays directly into the teeth of the defense with similar motions and sets. We have a handful of sets where we have only run one play when there should be one or two variants. UT made sideline adjustments and Grambling made halftime adjustments to key on the sets. After one or two attempts both defenses were charging hard when they saw the cues. Maybe it's just asking too much to have a true RPO action or a fake jet sweep when the other team has Safeties and LBers charging towards the line at the snap.

[Rama Jama]

Our base D has been very vanilla which fits Holtz to a State "T". Very little blitzing and very much vanilla in coverage. There has been some communication issues in the secondary (less this week than last) which may lend itself to this. We can't go exotic until after players understand roles and responsibilities in vanilla. Having watched Diaco in previous stints I fully expect to see the playbook open up slowly but surely, I am much less concerned with Diaco atm than I am with Fitch. Against both UT and Grambling there were plays to be had but there has been zero evidence that our Offensive staff is willing to depart from the script. We play to film tendencies instead of live tendencies, and refuse to deviate from our gameplan. I'm holding out hope that we are hiding plays and creating looks to throw off our opponents but haven't seen anything in the Fitch/Holtz stay that gives me any assurance that this is what is going on.

I understand frustration with the rockstar and the o-line but a lot of that has been the positions they have been put in. We've ran far too many plays directly into the teeth of the defense with similar motions and sets. We have a handful of sets where we have only run one play when there should be one or two variants. UT made sideline adjustments and Grambling made halftime adjustments to key on the sets. After one or two attempts both defenses were charging hard when they saw the cues. Maybe it's just asking too much to have a true RPO action or a fake jet sweep when the other team has Safeties and LBers charging towards the line at the snap.

(Anyone) Who is really calling the plays? Fitch or Skip? Everytime I see Skip he's seems like he is calling the plays. Or maybe he's holding a Waffle House menu?

[Champ967]

(Anyone) Who is really calling the plays? Fitch or Skip? Everytime I see Skip he's seems like he is calling the plays. Or maybe he's holding a Waffle House menu?

A Waffle House menu has more looks and flavors than our playbook.

To be fair though, both feature only one type of runs.

[revf]

Our base D has been very vanilla which fits Holtz to a State "T". Very little blitzing and very much vanilla in coverage. There has been some communication issues in the secondary (less this week than last) which may lend itself to this. We can't go exotic until after players understand roles and responsibilities in vanilla. Having watched Diaco in previous stints I fully expect to see the playbook open up slowly but surely, I am much less concerned with Diaco atm than I am with Fitch. Against both UT and Grambling there were plays to be had but there has been zero evidence that our Offensive staff is willing to depart from the script. We play to film tendencies instead of live tendencies, and refuse to deviate from our gameplan. I'm holding out hope that we are hiding plays and creating looks to throw off our opponents but haven't seen anything in the Fitch/Holtz stay that gives me any assurance that this is what is going on.

I understand frustration with the rockstar and the o-line but a lot of that has been the positions they have been put in. We've ran far too many plays directly into the teeth of the defense with similar motions and sets. We have a handful of sets where we have only run one play when there should be one or two variants. UT made sideline adjustments and Grambling made halftime adjustments to key on the sets. After one or two attempts both defenses were charging hard when they saw the cues. Maybe it's just asking too much to have a true RPO action or a fake jet sweep when the other team has Safeties and LBers charging towards the line at the snap.

This.

I’m less concerned with our defense than our “simple” (Holtz’s term) offense. It’s been vanilla for a reason. Either Holtz doesn’t trust JMar to make decisions on his own or he doesn’t think JMar is capable. I’m not sure which scares me more.

[johnnylightnin]

This.

I’m less concerned with our defense than our “simple” (Holtz’s term) offense. It’s been vanilla for a reason. Either Holtz doesn’t trust JMar to make decisions on his own or he doesn’t think JMar is capable. I’m not sure which scares me more.

Our offense is just fine when we actually run it. Put up good yards against UT. We suck when we quit being aggressive and try to bleed the clock. It’s been the case the entire Holtz tenure...not just the past two years.

[techman05]

Our offense is just fine when we actually run it. Put up good yards against UT. We suck when we quit being aggressive and try to bleed the clock. It’s been the case the entire Holtz tenure...not just the past two years.

Except the delayed hand off. That is not just fine.

[PawDawg]

Our goof ball HC just pulled his D.C. from under the bus when he said "he HAD to put in a new defense"

[techman05]

Our goof ball HC just pulled his D.C. from under the bus when he said "he HAD to put in a new defense"

Cause our defense that has arguably the best set of DB’s in our history, a darn good sub for Jaylon, and a couple of other decent pieces wasn’t good enough as is.

[qng001]

"Both Coach Dooley and Dykes have spent six years recruiting to this offense, and they’ve done very well. I love the passing game. I love the enthusiasm and the up-beat tempo.” - Skip Holtz | Dec 14, 2012



Man, we are far from an up-tempo offense.