[Mick]

Just watched Coach's pre-Notre Dame game presser, and once again kinda discouraged.
As once again an inordinate amount of time spent praising up and down the other team's roster and coaching staff.
I understand why Coach does this, he can hardly say: They're a bunch of pansies and we're gonna kick their tushy around.
But this has become a monotonous big part of every presser, droning on ad infinitum what a great team with great players and great coaches they are, with detailed comments on many of their best players, how hard to stop, how hard to prepare for, blah blah blah.
I watch to try and glean the more interesting comments which usually have to do with our players status, which Coach also very demure to comment upon in much detail, so you have to try and read between the lines, which other posters are better at than I.
One specific bone to pick, a question came up about how to utilize our Tight Ends better. Which caught my attention as I think this has been a much overlooked part of our game. A missed opportunity perhaps for more quick short yardage gains that might be more successful than the often long throws down the field that land in the neighborhood of our (usually covered) wide outs, if by adjacent zip codes you mean neighborhood.
Anyway, Coach's reply was along the lines of being happy with our TE production, and he mentioned they have contributed in blocking and in running as well.
I already documented on another thread the underused (IMO) completions made to our TE's this season.
Which is a small (IMO) percentage of the total completions.
And I didn't recall much running plays to our TE's? as Coach's reply seemed to indicate we had done.
So I looked up box scores and couldn't find any, as in NONE, running plays to our TE's this season.
So in spite of suggestions to the contrary, it still remains to my perception that our TE's are primarily blockers and not used often for much else.
Which again seems a missed opportunity considering how many of our long passes down the field don't connect.

As I posted earlier, watching/listening to TT's pressers is, unfortunately, a waste of time. He obfuscates and distracts more than illuminates. (I hasten to add again that I like TT as a person and a representative of Stanford.)

If memory serves, Bill Walsh used to make the other side sound so good, that he left the impression that the 49ers had no chance. Right before he annihilated the competition.

[Mick]

Just watched Coach's pre-Notre Dame game presser, and once again kinda discouraged.
As once again an inordinate amount of time spent praising up and down the other team's roster and coaching staff.
I understand why Coach does this, he can hardly say: They're a bunch of pansies and we're gonna kick their tushy around.
But this has become a monotonous big part of every presser, droning on ad infinitum what a great team with great players and great coaches they are, with detailed comments on many of their best players, how hard to stop, how hard to prepare for, blah blah blah.
I watch to try and glean the more interesting comments which usually have to do with our players status, which Coach also very demure to comment upon in much detail, so you have to try and read between the lines, which other posters are better at than I.
One specific bone to pick, a question came up about how to utilize our Tight Ends better. Which caught my attention as I think this has been a much overlooked part of our game. A missed opportunity perhaps for more quick short yardage gains that might be more successful than the often long throws down the field that land in the neighborhood of our (usually covered) wide outs, if by adjacent zip codes you mean neighborhood.
Anyway, Coach's reply was along the lines of being happy with our TE production, and he mentioned they have contributed in blocking and in running as well.
I already documented on another thread the underused (IMO) completions made to our TE's this season.
Which is a small (IMO) percentage of the total completions.
And I didn't recall much running plays to our TE's? as Coach's reply seemed to indicate we had done.
So I looked up box scores and couldn't find any, as in NONE, running plays to our TE's this season.
So in spite of suggestions to the contrary, it still remains to my perception that our TE's are primarily blockers and not used often for much else.
Which again seems a missed opportunity considering how many of our long passes down the field don't connect.

As I posted earlier, watching/listening to TT's pressers is, unfortunately, a waste of time. He obfuscates and distracts more than illuminates. (I hasten to add again that I like TT as a person and a representative of Stanford.)

If memory serves, Bill Walsh used to make the other side sound so good, that he left the impression that the 49ers had no chance. Right before he annihilated the competition.