Please list the top five "goods"
by nd71 (2018-04-15 15:32:49)

In reply to: Well, as with all things Kelly, there’s a good and bad  posted by SEE


Special credit for including wins vacated, under the bus wheel player tossings, etc.




There’s no top 5 on this. The good is that we’re giving
by SEE  (2018-04-15 16:09:59)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

Wimbush and the wide receivers reps that they really need. That’s good. I also like the shift on the OL and Jafar to RB. You can’t have a passing game as putrid as ours was and win all year. The bad is that Kelly will see the passing game as a panacea and likely overload Wimbush.

No question he needs a lot of reps this spring.


Will Wimbush's issues be fixed with pass heavy 11 on 11
by nd71  (2018-04-16 09:11:23)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

practice sets? Hardly. There is no good here -- just more of the same old same old bad.


Wimbush needs drills, lots and lots of them, to correct his flaws. Past BK QBs lack of fundamentals after 3-4 years with BK support that. How's TR job training coming along?


Pass happy practices continue the BK's 9th year of producing soft teams.


Makes one pine for Davies.


Apparently the coaches think so (and do many observers)
by SEE  (2018-04-16 10:02:57)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

Seems to have three problems: seeing the field, consistent footwork and not pulling his short throws.

Seems logical to practice those.


Seems logical to focus on the run
by BlarneyGreen  (2018-04-16 11:49:49)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

Reinforcing failure is a stupid strategy. Our Qb has problems "seeing the field, consistent footwork, and not pulling his short throws."

Then nullify those weaknesses - make them irrelevant. Don't try and shore them up, a losing proposition at this level.


If all that remains true next year then the offense is
by SEE  (2018-04-16 13:18:51)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

Fooked. If they don’t work on it now, than the ghost of football future is the tail end of last year or worse (without Adams, Nelson and McGlinchy.) We could work on the run game 100% and we’d be fooked if the passing game doesn’t improve.


yes, totally screwed if we don't become elite at passing
by jt  (2018-04-16 14:13:16)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

the only way to open up the running game is by passing more.

It's elementary. Secret sauce. If you want to read more on it, just join one of the "+1 in the box" sites.


the same observers who think that the running game issues
by jt  (2018-04-16 11:23:37)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

are basically just due to being -1 in the box.


If he can't improve with drilling, then the practice time is
by nd71  (2018-04-16 10:30:54)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

wasted re footwork and pulling his throws -- especially so after this many years in Mr's 28 years of experience's system. That Wimbush is getting so many reps says that BK has made his choice this spring as to who his starter is.

WRT seeing the field, that is a system and coaching issue. Let's see, hmmm, has this ever been good for Kelly or Rees coached QBs?

Oh well . . .


I'm coaching a team right now with a similar situation
by ThreeD  (2018-04-16 10:24:47)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

My #1 starting pitcher can't throw a curveball for a strike. He throws his 4-seam and sinker just fine, but the curve (and slider just aren't working.

I spend all of my time with the pitchers, pitching being what I'm known for, and 80% of my practices going over strikeouts via the curve. I can't understand why my ace can't figure out how to throw a damn curveball. Sometimes I get a little upset about it, I admit.


kelly has had 1 top 25 passing O at ND. '14 19 other
by cj  (2018-04-15 17:02:05)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

than that he has been #34 or worse with some real stinkers. Interestingly, the 2 most successful teams of his tenure '12 and '17 also had the worst passing stats of his ND career #72 and #103. He is a bona fide passing idiot. Vertical seams....what a joke...


No argument *
by SEE  (2018-04-15 17:34:59)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post