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What changes or what things would you make this week and going forward after yesterday's disaster?

This will probably an endless list but for me I would start with:
  • Tackling fundamentals for the defense, wrapping up, gang tackling, etc.
  • Scrapping the no huddle / hurry up for the offense. Still try to balance pass and run but do it via a more time eating huddle every time at least till we have some sort of consistency then consider putting it back in. This probably will help cut down on stupid false starts and penalties.
  • Open up QB competition.
  • Whatever routine has existed for road games for the last 10 years, change entirely. Whole new approach/prep is needed to having the team ready for road games.
What else?
 
Even under Bohl, out tackling was never very good. As soon as we make contact, our legs stop, and the ball carrier either sheds the tackle completely or falls forward for an extra 2-3 yards.

Nowhere is this more evident than with #43. 99% of the time he is making a solo tackle, you can bet that the ball carrier is going to get an extra 2-3 yards from wherever contact is first made. Not ideal from a linebacker.
 
TheRealUW said:
Even under Bohl, out tackling was never very good. As soon as we make contact, our legs stop, and the ball carrier either sheds the tackle completely or falls forward for an extra 2-3 yards.

Nowhere is this more evident than with #43. 99% of the time he is making a solo tackle, you can bet that the ball carrier is going to get an extra 2-3 yards from wherever contact is first made. Not ideal from a linebacker.
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Really wish we would tackle the legs rather than tackling high and getting taken for a ride
 
Looks like they didn't do a lot of tackling to the ground in fall camp, which I understand to an extent to prevent injuries. However, the whistle doesn't blow when you get your hands on someone in a game. Start there.

Discipline and situational awareness was just as bad. Lot of questions after last night but the false starts, special teams penalties etc. were much worse than just "first game rust." I don't know how to fix it, but these are not the markers of a mature team.
 
I wrote a long post after Koenning's first disaster game.

I could find it and copy it, I suppose. But if my advice were correct, it would mean this coaching staff is hopeless.
 
X's and O's can be fixed. Player technique can be fixed.

What I saw last night cannot be fixed. We were not ready to play a football game. We looked to be simply going through the motions. No fire, no desire, and no confidence. They were not prepared to fight for that game. They did not expect to win that game and it showed. A lack of belief and a lack of self respect comes from the top. There is something rotten in that program. If things do not improve rapidly, and I do not think that they will, there is no point in retaining this coaching staff for another year. They just don't have 'it'.
 
First own it. Second clearly outline the long-term plan to get better. Third, clearly outline how the next 4-5 days will be used to make an incremental improvement. Make attainable goals for the next 4-5 days then the next week, etc.

Stick with the plan and develop your own identity for the new staff.
 
ragtimejoe1 said:
First own it. Second clearly outline the long-term plan to get better. Third, clearly outline how the next 4-5 days will be used to make an incremental improvement. Make attainable goals for the next 4-5 days then the next week, etc.

Stick with the plan and develop your own identity for the new staff.
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Same for athletic director??

Seriously though...this is great.
 
I would start with a hard look at myself and the rest of the coaching staff.Were we giving the players what they need in preparation. I would ask someone outside of the team to evaluate the staff with an eye toward identifying strengths and weaknesses. But all that is long term, the next few days is triage fix what is most important and try put together a vanilla game plan for Idaho which means basically a Bohl type game
 
is everyone off the cliff? I must admit, I don’t have high expectations for this team now. But to make sweeping long term predictions on this game is a bit absurd. The most disappointing part is that it felt like perhaps that next step had been made.
 
laxwyo said:
is everyone off the cliff? I must admit, I don’t have high expectations for this team now. But to make sweeping long term predictions on this game is a bit absurd. The most disappointing part is that it felt like perhaps that next step had been made.
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Do you mean the next step has not been made?
 
laxwyo said:
is everyone off the cliff? I must admit, I don’t have high expectations for this team now. But to make sweeping long term predictions on this game is a bit absurd. The most disappointing part is that it felt like perhaps that next step had been made.
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I’m still fully on the edge of the cliff. It isn’t like Sawvel inherited a brand new team or was instilling an entirely new culture/scheme.

He inherited a team returning a good number of starters from a 9 win team last season. All he had to do was continue what was already being done. That team on Saturday night looked nowhere close to that. I just don’t see how this season gets turned around.
 
Subcanis said:
Bohl had his WTF game every year. Perhaps Jay just had his.

I don’t really believe this, but Im grasping at straws.
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Unfortunately - Bohl’s teams never quit and never got pushed off the line of scrimmage 3 yards on every play in his WTF games. As you indicate - this is very very different. This isn’t the result of a few bad breaks.
 
OrediggerPoke said:
Unfortunately - Bohl’s teams never quit and never got pushed off the line of scrimmage 3 yards on every play in his WTF games. As you indicate - this is very very different. This isn’t the result of a few bad breaks.
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This is my concern. We looked awful. Undisciplined and disoriented. My biggest concerns revolve around the lines. Your OL and DL decide if you win or lose. OL play can give a young QB time to think. Sound OL play puts you in 2nd and 3rd and manageable with a passable running game. Aggressive, smart DL play can cover up a feckless secondary.

Our lines looked like 7th grade C team squads. They were pathetic and weak. That’s about mental and physical toughness. That’s about discipline and being meaner than the other guy.

We have the guys in the trenches. We know that. They are largely the same as last year. The changes? Coaches and schemes. Pretty clear where the blame lies as of 12:04 on a fine Labor Day.
 
For an entire decade, all we heard were complaints about how poor the passing game was, how we need a more balanced attack, how inept Bohl and the OCs were at running an offense, how we need to spread the field, speed up the game, and play more modern. We complained about him being a stubborn hard ass who refused to change his ways.

After just ONE game of trying these things we've been asking for for years.....we've completely changed our minds.

Does no one else find this comical? I think we owe ol' Craig an apology.
 
The Juice said:
For an entire decade, all we heard were complaints about how poor the passing game was, how we need a more balanced attack, how inept Bohl and the OCs were at running an offense, how we need to spread the field, speed up the game, and play more modern. We complained about him being a stubborn hard ass who refused to change his ways.

After just ONE game of trying these things we've been asking for for years.....we've completely changed our minds.

Does no one else find this comical? I think we owe ol' Craig an apology.
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It’s all relative.

Bohl’s offenses were on the bad side of mediocre. Sawvel’s offense, based on the one game we have to base things off of, is atrocious. That fact doesn’t somehow make the Bohl offenses any better.

My concern is that what makes Sawvel’s offense so inept has nothing to do with scheme, X’s and O’s, or player talent. I think it’s a problem with mentality and motivation. The desire to win that football game was not there. Nobody seemed pissed that they were getting their asses dominated on every single play. They seemed resigned to the fact that this was going to be a blowout and didn’t want to do anything about it. That’s not something that is easy to fix.
 
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The Juice said:
For an entire decade, all we heard were complaints about how poor the passing game was, how we need a more balanced attack, how inept Bohl and the OCs were at running an offense, how we need to spread the field, speed up the game, and play more modern. We complained about him being a stubborn hard ass who refused to change his ways.

After just ONE game of trying these things we've been asking for for years.....we've completely changed our minds.

Does no one else find this comical? I think we owe ol' Craig an apology.
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I have no problem with the offense trying to balance pass and run and think they should continue to do it.

My problem was decisions like in the 3rd quarter I think down 34-0 point after having just given up another score that we trot the offense out which has done nothing good all game, and still run no huddle hurry up, and go 3 and out in about 20 seconds putting the defense back on the field.

Coaches need to see and adjust to circumstances. We didn't need to necessarily go the bohl staple of run run pass at that point, but we definitely should have been huddling and using some clock at that point simply to give our defense a break.

But just like bohl never adjusted his game plan, I saw no adjustment of game plan at all during this game even when nothing was working. We will see if they actually make an adjustment this week or not
 
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