I’m not trying to be too critical as I really like CJF as our Coach and leader but I must say he has a hard time “admitting” when he’s wrong or other people/suggestions were right. Understand that I don’t ever expect a Coach to publicly say “he was wrong” but the way he talks about some things that he has changed his way of doing comes off as somewhat petty.
In today’s meeting with the media he takes this backhanded shot when discussing the newly implemented deep handoffs to the TB with the QB under center. Now many people have always questioned him as to why our QB never goes under center for the TB to get a head start running down hill instead of getting the carry from a stand still position. He has always answered with remarks like, “we don’t have time to practice it, it’s not easy to get adjusted to when you’re always in shotgun, blah blah blah” He has also given this answer as to why we never QB sneaked under center when we would need less than a yard, instead of trying when the QB gets the ball 5 yard behind the LOS.
When talking about it today he says, and I’m paraphrasing, “you know, even though the TB’s are taking the deep handoffs, I just want to point out that it’s the same mesh point as if they were getting the ball from the shotgun”. Petty
It’s as if he’s saying “yes this method has been successful but it’s really just a coincidence cause it’s the same mesh point”….is he not getting it that it’s not about where the TB gets the hand off but about having momentum when getting the carry and being able to set up play action from these formations? Or he is he too stubborn to say that these sort of things should have been implemented earlier?
Anyways, I know in the grand scheme of things this is not a big deal, but his comment there rubbed me the wrong way. I’m glad we have more and more experienced Offensive Analysts that hopefully CJF is leaning into.
In today’s meeting with the media he takes this backhanded shot when discussing the newly implemented deep handoffs to the TB with the QB under center. Now many people have always questioned him as to why our QB never goes under center for the TB to get a head start running down hill instead of getting the carry from a stand still position. He has always answered with remarks like, “we don’t have time to practice it, it’s not easy to get adjusted to when you’re always in shotgun, blah blah blah” He has also given this answer as to why we never QB sneaked under center when we would need less than a yard, instead of trying when the QB gets the ball 5 yard behind the LOS.
When talking about it today he says, and I’m paraphrasing, “you know, even though the TB’s are taking the deep handoffs, I just want to point out that it’s the same mesh point as if they were getting the ball from the shotgun”. Petty
It’s as if he’s saying “yes this method has been successful but it’s really just a coincidence cause it’s the same mesh point”….is he not getting it that it’s not about where the TB gets the hand off but about having momentum when getting the carry and being able to set up play action from these formations? Or he is he too stubborn to say that these sort of things should have been implemented earlier?
Anyways, I know in the grand scheme of things this is not a big deal, but his comment there rubbed me the wrong way. I’m glad we have more and more experienced Offensive Analysts that hopefully CJF is leaning into.