of the tackling sled the new OL players engaged with?
I miss the old days - a Thursday press conference article. The game. A Sunday recap article.
This is the stuff that keeps polian awake at night.
That and comic books.
here like 20 years already.
an issue...
Without it McGlinchy and Taylor become high school seniors.
Was it very special, super special or incredibly special? I can't believe no one asked that question.
There was no defense covering his receivers. I have no faith in Wimbush at all. Hes just not a qb. Either book or Jurk should be the answer. I will wait and see but pretty sure I will be disappointed.
no way BK has ever yelled 'more power!!! ah ah ahhhhhh'
Maybe Nolan can get clarification on that from Sally on his upcoming show in May of 2020.
All for "short gain". I don't count a jet sweep and a QB keeper as a real designed run.
It should shock nobody that the ND run game this Fall will be soft and ineffectual against any defense with a pulse. Craptastic.
6-6 if we are lucky.
Cliffy
Thought RPO was going to fix everything
When that happens we will see RPO, tempo and fireworks galore. But BK is all in on Wimbush.
I believe Mike Frank asked.
Q: Talk about the run game. Where is that?
BK: We have focused on getting the right players in the right positions. Our primary focus has been on consistency in our throwing game. And then as a group, without our defense, we’ve focused on the run game. As it relates to our offense against our defense, we’ve thrown the ball much more than we’ve run it because of those things that we’ve wanted to grow in. The spring game, we’ll get a better sense because we’ll run the ball a whole lot more and we’ll be who we have been. But it’s hard for me to say we’ve been so much better running the football without (Quenton) Nelson and (Mike) McGlinchey. We’ve been focusing on other things, quite frankly. We’ll get a better picture of that in the spring game.
when there’s no defense on the field. It gives our running backs a more realistic sense of the wide open spaces they’ll be running through, especially when our opponents go with that zero-men-in-the-box look. Anyone with 67 years of head coaching experience will tell you that.
so it's not like our backs have to read the blocks, where the defense is moving, etc.
issues and puts up a bunch of GIF's showing "+1 in the box" and other bullshit, this quote needs to be brought back up and discussed.
It's bullshit--we don't run the ball well because the head coach really doesn't see it as that important (relative to the passing game, of course).
Fresh ideas, new approaches, understands centrality of power running game.
This might be as close as we can get to the Kelly offense in its natural state.
that the coach who has obstinately ignored what should be and is a huge historical program advantage - and who should have had a thunderbolt 'aha!' moment after what occurred the first 2/3 of last season - is back to winging it.
it'd be like mercedes benz saying - 'yeah sure we have some great cars - but look at all of this pizza! We're gonna sell you some pizza - logic be damned!'
need to work on the running game in the summer.