Steele Jantz...

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I will admit I was in the Barnett camp just because I didnt trust Steele, and its too soon to know if I trust him yet. I was impressed with his reduced gunslinger attitude Saturday. He looked much better coached and more polished than he was last year at this time, reducing his need to have to improvise. I like how we ran that screen over and over again, sets up for the deep ball down the sidelines when a dback tries to jump the route and it opens it up for the up the middle runs and over the middle passing games, skinny posts anyone?

The mistakes Steele made are at least fixable which I have no doubt Mess is in the process of fixing right now. What needs to happen Saturday is for our O-line to take over in the run game, control the line of scrimmage on both sides of the ball, reduce the need to blitz on d and get pressure on VDB with our front 4. If we do that, he stands back there like a trophy and will be easy to hit. Both things I think are completely doable and will take tons of pressure of Steele. I think the turnovers will decide the game on Saturday, lets go create some.

Great post. Well said, I'm with you.

Play a clean game CYCLONES and the W will take care of itself!
 

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I will admit I was in the Barnett camp just because I didnt trust Steele, and its too soon to know if I trust him yet. I was impressed with his reduced gunslinger attitude Saturday. He looked much better coached and more polished than he was last year at this time, reducing his need to have to improvise. I like how we ran that screen over and over again, sets up for the deep ball down the sidelines when a dback tries to jump the route and it opens it up for the up the middle runs and over the middle passing games, skinny posts anyone?

The mistakes Steele made are at least fixable which I have no doubt Mess is in the process of fixing right now. What needs to happen Saturday is for our O-line to take over in the run game, control the line of scrimmage on both sides of the ball, reduce the need to blitz on d and get pressure on VDB with our front 4. If we do that, he stands back there like a trophy and will be easy to hit. Both things I think are completely doable and will take tons of pressure of Steele. I think the turnovers will decide the game on Saturday, lets go create some.


... and you know what this team likes to do to trophies!! YEAHH!

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We will see this Saturday. The dback that goes and blocks the receiver will start to cheat up, and thats when the dback will "whiff" the block and run a wheel route down the sideline.

SHHHH!

Don't tell anyone with the last name Parker about this.

They deffinitely looked like they were setting something up though.

I really like how we scored 38 points without having to open it up. One deep pass to get on the board and the rest of the game we just churned out yards and 1st downs. Even when they were down a bit they just kept their composure and ran the offense. That lead to them controlling the tempo and retaking the lead. I think last year they might have went into panic mode and dug a deeper hole by trying to force the issue. Instead, they just worked the ball up the field and either got points or gave the other team bad field position.


The main point of emphasis for me is kickoff coverage. We will miss Mahoneys big leg there all year. If we don't improve on that then more athletic teams are going to score points there.
 

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SHHHH!


The main point of emphasis for me is kickoff coverage. We will miss Mahoneys big leg there all year. If we don't improve on that then more athletic teams are going to score points there.

I'm expecting that to improve by Saturday. Seemed like new guys out there for coverage so some learning to do.