Why are people calling for the heads of Brantley and Meyer?

[DRU2012]

@ InkedAdrenaline: See "Spread QB Comparison"-thread, in particular Escambia94's analysis/breakdown.

 

[The Zooker]

I think Mullen did a much better job molding an offense around a player like Leak because he was a QB coach. Addazio is just a line coach. Mullen is nowhere near as stubborn as Addazio either. He can adapt a system to match strengths. Up until he had Tebow, Mullen never had a quarterback that could bulldoze linebackers. He invented a whole new offense for Tebow. That's after he invented a whole new offense for Leak. Addazio on the other hand hasn't created an offense for Brantley.

 

[Escambia94]

I think Mullen did a much better job molding an offense around a player like Leak because he was a QB coach. Addazio is just a line coach. Mullen is nowhere near as stubborn as Addazio either. He can adapt a system to match strengths. Up until he had Tebow, Mullen never had a quarterback that could bulldoze linebackers. He invented a whole new offense for Tebow. That's after he invented a whole new offense for Leak. Addazio on the other hand hasn't created an offense for Brantley.

This is the kind the kind of situation where Brantley would do well calling his own plays, if he were that kind of guy. Since he doesn't call his own plays, his next best step for a coach that will not mold an offense around him is to make suggestions when he goes to the sideline or during video review on Sunday nights (or whatever night they do that). I think he's so quiet that he just does what he is told and does not realize that he has the power to mold the offense indirectly if the OC is not actively molding it around him.

 

[DRU2012]

Yes, but it's not going to happen, is it? JB is too much "the good soldier"...perhaps if he were as assertive as this situation requires, he goes against his Dad and Uncle (etc.) in the first place and chooses Texas (?!!).
As for Addazio, he in fact has himself created NOTHING vis-a-vis this offense: as Zooker points out, the guy who was doing the hands-on "adapting systems to serve the QB" was Mullen. Addazio basically inherited what Mullen had designed for Tebow, didn't know how to modify it to imaginatively answer opposing defenses the following year, and is STILL trying to make it work now, with Tebow long gone--all the while insisting "we're a smashmouth football team".
I know, I know--we've covered this ground before (more than once). It's just so frustrating. In fact, I'm trying more and more now to move on to a kind of resigned realism: That is, "OK, this is WHO we've got and WHAT we've got, how do we make it work?" However, in order even to begin, for there to be ANY way forward, it is clear that one impediment MUST somehow be removed: Addazio.

 

[Escambia94]

Yeah. Well, it was fun to entertain the thought again, especially with a no-huddle. I keep wondering what JB is saying to the sideline when he jogs over to his flanker position. Is he getting the next play? Is he praying, "please don't hit me"? Then when he jogs back to the center why does he not have the ability under this offense to make an audible or call a new play? That's what a lot of other offenses do in the no-huddle. I'm not asking for Peyton Manning-like no-huddle, just some room for this supposedly good pro-style passer to call a play based on what he is reading.

 

[DRU2012]

Yeah, that "No Huddle" is definitely something that can work for us (ya GOTTA" keep at it and MAKE SOME 1ST DOWNS, tho')...if only it was in JB to do just what you say, call some plays, EVEN IF THEY'RE OUT OF HIS HEAD! All that time last year when he was chucking it around with the 2nd string guys (who, like Hines and a couple of others, are in the rotation now), they must have worked out some routes; your dream is slipping away, JB--go for it! Again though, we know he is the quintessential "good soldier", to his own detriment it seems now.
As for the way they use him thus far, it continues to baffle me. If that's all they expect from him, why is he even in there that much at this point? Burton can do all that and a whole lot more, and if he were DOING IT defenses couldn't count on guessing right like they do so much now (and he STILL makes plays, when he's in there!). Maybe they'll get JB to throw it long with the "No Huddle", if they can get the right match-up. Does he still have it in him? He has seemed a little "gun shy" of late, not even looking for the open guy long field in some instances, bailing on that choice too early in the play in others.
I like the "3-headed-monster" set as well. Used more smoothly and extensively and it could be a godsend for this whole offense, JB included.

 

[InkedAdrenaline]

@ InkedAdrenaline: See "Spread QB Comparison"-thread, in particular Escambia94's analysis/breakdown.

i saw just didnt post up anything...

 

[InkedAdrenaline]

i think they should fire adazio and let me take us to a national title reign(yes i said reign, meanin many back2back2 backs) LOL