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I'm concerned about payback.
Payback for an education, on so many levels.
Football is a simple sport. Very simple. It's about simple leverage. The simplest of all human tools is a wedge.
Football is only as complex as you want to make it, because there are lots of people that make up football teams.
There are only two things. Blocking and tackling. That's it. The fight over possession of the ball, and scoring points? Secondary.
Blocking and tackling.
We suck at both.
It's not because the players don't want to - you look at the false starts tonight? It's because the players want to make the blocks. They just don't know how, when, where.....
Look at a guy like Junior.....had the opportunity to plant a player into that soggy turf - but knocked himself out. We have very few natural tacklers on this roster. It's a talent, that needs to be developed, very few have it naturally. Ashiru does. You come in head up, chest contact, low enough to have leverage, and wrap and drive your legs. You need to practice it.
Blocking? Do I need to write anything?
Coaching. Here's where I want payback. Coaching is getting an education, right now. I hope that when he's schooled, he stays and pays it back.
Tonight was a winnable game. Because through the first quarter of this season, and the approach we have taken, we are undisciplined in the basic fundamentals of football, blocking and tackling, we lost.
Going on the road, on a short week is tough on the most disciplined of teams, in fundamentals. Tonight was an exposition.
Where credit is due? This team, the players, did not fold. THey will compete, they want to win, they need to drill the fundamentals.
Payback for an education, on so many levels.
Football is a simple sport. Very simple. It's about simple leverage. The simplest of all human tools is a wedge.
Football is only as complex as you want to make it, because there are lots of people that make up football teams.
There are only two things. Blocking and tackling. That's it. The fight over possession of the ball, and scoring points? Secondary.
Blocking and tackling.
We suck at both.
It's not because the players don't want to - you look at the false starts tonight? It's because the players want to make the blocks. They just don't know how, when, where.....
Look at a guy like Junior.....had the opportunity to plant a player into that soggy turf - but knocked himself out. We have very few natural tacklers on this roster. It's a talent, that needs to be developed, very few have it naturally. Ashiru does. You come in head up, chest contact, low enough to have leverage, and wrap and drive your legs. You need to practice it.
Blocking? Do I need to write anything?
Coaching. Here's where I want payback. Coaching is getting an education, right now. I hope that when he's schooled, he stays and pays it back.
Tonight was a winnable game. Because through the first quarter of this season, and the approach we have taken, we are undisciplined in the basic fundamentals of football, blocking and tackling, we lost.
Going on the road, on a short week is tough on the most disciplined of teams, in fundamentals. Tonight was an exposition.
Where credit is due? This team, the players, did not fold. THey will compete, they want to win, they need to drill the fundamentals.