In addition to coaching, prep, QB play, and mental weakness I’d add the OL/DL to the list.
OL is the incredibly obvious problem, but I’d say failure to recruit elite DL also contributed to the loss. Yes, you’d think we would beat NIU holding them to 16 pts, but we also didn’t stop them on D when we needed to. In the case of the DL the problem was foreseeable. In some ways the OL less so due to injuries.
End of the day, I just don’t think Freeman knows how to build a championship program at the personnel, coaching, and motivational level. Too bad because this would have been the year, but now I’m as concerned about 5 losses as I am making the playoffs.
Replies to: In addition to coaching, prep, QB play, and mental weakness I’d add the OL/DL to the list.
I'd add to list, who ever made the call to throw the pick that sealed
our fate. Dumbest fucking call I've ever seen. WHY,why,why ??? Wasn't it a 3rd and short down??
disagree Would have been a touchdown if we had a QB who could throw.
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You're missing the point.
Would-haves and Could-haves isn't the issue.
It's that they were throwing the ball...or throwing it down the middle of the field...at all at that point.
2nd and 1...just run the ball...and get a first down...and then run the ball or safe passes to get some yardage and keep the clock running.
Here's a quote I found attributed to Leonard about that play:
“It was a completely bad read,” Leonard said of the interception. “That single high safety was attached to the inside post. I thought he wouldn’t attach again. Bad eyes, bad feet, bad ball. That resulted in a pick. Can’t happen. Completely my fault.”
Bad read? How about lousy, short pass no matter what the safety did?
I'm sure we've all heard the quote about there being 3 things that can happen when the ball is passed...and 2 of them are bad.
Well...the worst thing happened....at probably the worst time in the game.
I don't think that he is missing the point at all.
If your QB can't throw, it makes the offense one-dimensional. Defenses will stack the box and put the oline and the running backs at a severe disadvantage. This is what happened during the game. This defeat is purely due to a QB that can't complete a pass.
so you're saying the coaches didn't know he couldn't make that throw? wtf? what are they doing?
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Therein lies the problem. Not one person has described Leonard as a passing quarterback
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He’s not even better than Hartman who had his own limitations as we all learned last year.
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Hartman scrambled and threw better. He’d have won that game.
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As would Angelli, IMO
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or carr.
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or rees.
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Yes, Rees was better
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or minchey.
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or anybody who can execute a simple hand-off.
just have to call the play and not be stupid.
Agree.
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That was a Charlie Weiss play. Take a gamble on something where the risk highly outweigh the reward
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You nailed it.Probelm is Freeman.Feel good hire, not a great coach.
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