from another very obscure board:
Think about what Meyer does with players like Harvin, Demps, Rainey, etc. He designed plays that enable those guys to do what they do best best at that stage of their development. There's nothing coy about it. If you saw Harvin on the field as a true freshman, you knew the ball was going to be in his hands. Only question was what direction and how they were gonna block for it. Fuck whether he could pick up a blitz.
We won't put a skill player on the field until he can pass block. We could have any combination of Branden Smith, Boykin, Carlton Thomas and Ealey running all kinds of crazy shit, but if they can't pick up a blitz out of the I, they're fucked. We treat our offense like it's akin to learning astrophysics or memorizing the Bhagavad Gita, when Meyer's system has to be every bit as complicated and yet he manages to get consistent production out of young skill players and we don't.
My guess is that our guys get discouraged at being benched for not having memorized the entire playbook even though they'll be called on for 1% of the plays in it, and they loaf as a result.
Think about what Meyer does with players like Harvin, Demps, Rainey, etc. He designed plays that enable those guys to do what they do best best at that stage of their development. There's nothing coy about it. If you saw Harvin on the field as a true freshman, you knew the ball was going to be in his hands. Only question was what direction and how they were gonna block for it. Fuck whether he could pick up a blitz.
We won't put a skill player on the field until he can pass block. We could have any combination of Branden Smith, Boykin, Carlton Thomas and Ealey running all kinds of crazy shit, but if they can't pick up a blitz out of the I, they're fucked. We treat our offense like it's akin to learning astrophysics or memorizing the Bhagavad Gita, when Meyer's system has to be every bit as complicated and yet he manages to get consistent production out of young skill players and we don't.
My guess is that our guys get discouraged at being benched for not having memorized the entire playbook even though they'll be called on for 1% of the plays in it, and they loaf as a result.
