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Sheesh Teejers.  On four out of the five Colorado touchdowns, there was a blown assignment.  I mean, delays of game and timeouts are highly visible, and easy to counterfactualize, but at best you can consider them indicators rather than causative of a problem, and in the end we scored 32 points.  But when our coaches can't even get our players to be in the right position to make a play, when they are messing up the most fundamental concepts of football such as keeping outside contain (not once, but twice on virtually identical plays, the second time without even having a pulling guard) to me that is a more serious indictment of the coaches.

The indictment I have of the coaches is that there isn't a better alternative to guys with multiple years under their belt in the program who still make these fundamental mistakes over and over again. They haven't recruited and developed better players. Among our current two-deep at DB, other than Kyu Blu-Kelly and maybe McGill there might only be one other guy who would have even seen the field five years ago.

Agreed. Moreover even the guys who have been with the program three plus years aren’t better than they were when they started. I mean, was Adebo last year any better than he was a redshirt freshman?  Is Robinson any better today than he was his redshirt freshman year (even allowing for a position change).  Has Antoine, now a fifth year senior, made any progress?  If it were one or two guys, maybe you think these are players who decided to coast, but when the entire lineup makes the same basic mistakes it has made year after year, that’s on the coaches.

To the extent that anyone focuses on playcalling and things like delays of game is to see the tip of the iceberg without appreciating the problems underneath, which have a greater impact and are probably harder to solve.

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Sheesh Teejers.  On four out of the five Colorado touchdowns, there was a blown assignment.  I mean, delays of game and timeouts are highly visible, and easy to counterfactualize, but at best you can consider them indicators rather than causative of a problem, and in the end we scored 32 points.  But when our coaches can't even get our players to be in the right position to make a play, when they are messing up the most fundamental concepts of football such as keeping outside contain (not once, but twice on virtually identical plays, the second time without even having a pulling guard) to me that is a more serious indictment of the coaches.

The indictment I have of the coaches is that there isn't a better alternative to guys with multiple years under their belt in the program who still make these fundamental mistakes over and over again. They haven't recruited and developed better players. Among our current two-deep at DB, other than Kyu Blu-Kelly and maybe McGill there might only be one other guy who would have even seen the field five years ago.

Agreed. Moreover even the guys who have been with the program three plus years aren’t better than they were when they started. I mean, was Adebo last year any better than he was a redshirt freshman?  Is Robinson any better today than he was his redshirt freshman year (even allowing for a position change).  Has Antoine, now a fifth year senior, made any progress?  If it were one or two guys, maybe you think these are players who decided to coast, but when the entire lineup makes the same basic mistakes it has made year after year, that’s on the coaches.

To the extent that anyone focuses on playcalling and things like delays of game is to see the tip of the iceberg without appreciating the problems underneath, which have a greater impact and are probably harder to solve.

BC