I’m typically not a “fire everyone” type of guy and I’m still not in this case with respect to Dykes. He doesn’t get enough credit for the total overhaul and increase of talent that he’s brought since coming on board. Just looking at the body types of guys we have now, it is night and day compared to GP’s last 5 years.
The issue I have with Briles is that the guy refuses to stick with ‘old school’ football, even when it works. We were rushing for 7 ypc on Saturday and he still feels the need to run the bubble screen game. In those situations 99% of coaches in America hammer the run until the two high safety look gets abandoned, but KB can’t stomach it. Instead we’re asking a WR (who is typically soft and doesn’t want to get physical in the run game) to push someone off the ball. It doesn’t work. We got down 14-7 and he totally panicked.
You can talk about personnel issues on the OL all you want, but the reality is that running the football is the most important facet of the game. Even for us, a team with subpar OL talent, you continue to do it because of the benefits - you keep the D honest and keep your own D on the sideline. KB just thinks he’s got to be innovative on every down- to have some exotic motion before he flips out another screen. It’s stupid, it doesn’t work after the first few attempts and there is so much more that can go wrong than right. He is trying too hard to be an offensive genius and instead looks like a dumbass when it doesn’t work. I would rather run it up the gut 100 times for 2 yard gains as opposed to asking a slot receiver to single block a safety 22 times per game on bubble screens.
It won’t change though, and we’ll continue to suck offensively.
