WTF… I can’t believe what I’m reading here

You seem very angry.

Maybe getting outside and going for a walk would help.

I didn’t read it the same way you did.

I do agree we have a problem with the line and it needs to be fixed.  At some point after years of ineptitude with a position group – you do need to look at the position coach IMO.  But, what the heck do I know?  Probably not much.  I also think that BYU had a creative defensive plan and we were not prepared.

It is very troubling to read that the line cannot make adjustments – that they just have to live with the original call, even if they know it is likely to fail. Not suprising to read that, because it is consistent with what we witnessed against TDS…but disappointing that the players/coaches are unable to respond and adjust better. Future opponents must be salivating over the idea of playing against a team that is unable to make adjustments.

Nick Ford’s comments dovetail with my comments yesterday.  I could see in Provo the offense, not just the OL, could not adjust when the Y came out of their base D.  I could see that we were asking for it when we did not adjust.  I could see communication issues and hear that voice communication has no possibility to work.  When he said they would just go with what was called because adjustment was not possible, it confirmed my sadness. 

Ron McBride once laid out fault like this:  If the HC and coordinators had not talked about the specific issue and given the position coaches a solution for when this comes up do this, it is his fault.  If told what to do, the position coaches had not drilled the specifid issue enough to count on the solution, it is their fault.  If the players have been drilled and had it working in practice but failed to execute in a game, it is their fault.  Using Ron’s review process, I suspect the problem lays much closer to the top than to the bottom, given what I saw.  I saw confussion and inability to adjust, not failure to execute a known assignment.

I also tried in my comments to revisit 2007 and 2008 where my old mine seemed to remember we moved from too predicitable with Ludwig to awesome and no one can stop us.  If I am wrong tell me, but I think Whitt and Ludwig gave Brian Johnson the keys to change plays.  We need to know who is best suited to do that, Brewer or Rising and get him going in practice ASAP with change the play to adjust to the D drills.  With the two games this year on tape, even teams that do not stunt and run blitz will now give us their best rendition of what they have seen from the Y.  Until we punish this defense out of position, we will be facing it a majority of the time.  If this is all they do this week, that would be best.

I guess the good news is that BYU was the only game this year where excessive crowd noise is likely to be an issue.  Our remaining away games:

–  SDSU

–  USC

–  Oregon St.

–  Stanford

–  Arizona

Not exactly a murders row of rowdy fanbases there.  Maybe USC, if they’re not already apathetic by then.

Nick Ford plays o-line, why are you mentioning defensive line?