nonsense. It must be similar to Van Gorders overly complex D that looked good on paper and terrible in reality. Maybe that's why those two get along?
Last year Book dropped back, scanned the field and took what was available. If it wasn't there he ran for 4-12 yards. This offseason it seemed they hammered pocket, pocket, pocket. Given, that's all they talked about with Book in the offseason articles.
So, you took a kid's natural strengths and taught him not to use it. Real smart. Real great. That's just stupid coaching!
The NFL did the same with Michael Vick and we saw that disaster. Not that Book is Vick, but when you try to force a player to be the one you want instead of the one you have, it never works. Now instead of 1, 2, 3 out or run. It's 1, 2, 3 freakout. It looks like total confusion going in between his instinct and his thinking.
We've seen this time and time again with Kelly. They really need to tell him to never touch the offense or QBs. He's just not good at either and hasn't done anything worth a damn at ND with either group to be able to claim that he still knows what he's doing in those areas.