Week 3 PFF

[Cowboystats]

Here we go. Where to begin.

Jimmy Johnson use to tell us as coaches at Miami, if the opposition is wide open, I need new coaches. if the opposition out jumps us I need new players. We saw both during yesterday's game . The positive is the punter who completed a pass on a fake punt. The negative for him is he kicked two kickoffs out of play.

There was absolutely no enthusiasm, energy or intensity to win the day. The two penalties at the end of the game by 98 Williams and 11 Bogar are inexcusable. Please, coaches, play your smart players who understand not to hurt the team

The lack of discipline and preparedness to win are shocking. Its obvious that there is no accountability on this team for lack of effort and lack of production. The position coaches are locked in to the rotation. I also noticed the lack of speed. Play your fastest players, not your biggest. We won multiple national championships at Miami with that mentality. Our LB's were converted safeties and our D lineman were often converted LB's. Wyoming has no sack artists or disruptors in this current rotation.

The game plan on defense was especially telling. This CMU team was not a passing team. The game plan should have been one more hat in the box than them. Put eight if necessary. Wyoming barely got out of their base four man front. Do not worry about their passing efficiency. The seasons passing numbers do not lie. An obvious coaching deficiency.
Coupled with the lack of adjustments, its an obvious coaching shortfall.

Also quite evident was that the players rotation was not adjusted. Are there no portal players not in the the rotation that can change the energy and momentum?

Regarding the offense, it became evident quite early that we are sorely missing team speed. Our qb at one point on an interception was caught by a defensive lineman. He often throws while on his toes and locks in to the intended receiver. His accuracy is lacking.
Where are our crossing patterns? Regarding the wide outs, what can be said?
Our TE dropped two key passes. Again inexcusable. Please hold them accountable. Give Pace more passing reps. That will have a tendency to make the starters focus.

As a former coach, I will not call for the dismissal of the coaches, but the head coach, coordinators and position coaches need to re think how they are coaching and focus on getting players in the game who actually care and are not taking their status on the team for granted. At this point, discipline, energy, intensity and team speed are required while making the appropriate adjustments. This will will help immensely.

At this point I feel as if I'm piling on. That is not my intention. I want to contribute based on my coaching experience while winning conference championships in the Big 10 and also working for Jimmy Johnson.

Your comments are welcome. Until next week!


TOP PFF DEFENSE:

Brooklyn Cheek 1
Gary Rutherford 2
Jack Dunkley 3
Jayden Williams 4
Jones Thomas 5
Dante Drake 6
Dash Bauman 7
Donnie Wingate 8
Tegen Seeds 9
Therman Williams 10

TOP PFF OFFENSE:
Kyle Frendt 1
Tyson Shamsid-Deen 2
Giovanni Panozzo 3
Rex Johnsen 4
Braylon Jenkins 5
Samuel Harris 6
Bart Edmiston 7
Chandler Donaway 8
Tyler Hughes 9
Eric Richardson 10

 

[Cowboy20]

Here we go. Where to begin.

Jimmy Johnson use to tell us as coaches at Miami, if the opposition is wide open, I need new coaches. if the opposition out jumps us I need new players. We saw both during yesterday's game . The positive is the punter who completed a pass on a fake punt. The negative for him is he kicked two kickoffs out of play.

There was absolutely no enthusiasm, energy or intensity to win the day. The two penalties at the end of the game by 98 Williams and 11 Bogar are inexcusable. Please, coaches, play your smart players who understand not to hurt the team

The lack of discipline and preparedness to win are shocking. Its obvious that there is no accountability on this team for lack of effort and lack of production. The position coaches are locked in to the rotation. I also noticed the lack of speed. Play your fastest players, not your biggest. We won multiple national championships at Miami with that mentality. Our LB's were converted safeties and our D lineman were often converted LB's. Wyoming has no sack artists or disruptors in this current rotation.

The game plan on defense was especially telling. This CMU team was not a passing team. The game plan should have been one more hat in the box than them. Put eight if necessary. Wyoming barely got out of their base four man front. Do not worry about their passing efficiency. The seasons passing numbers do not lie. An obvious coaching deficiency.
Coupled with the lack of adjustments, its an obvious coaching shortfall.

Also quite evident was that the players rotation was not adjusted. Are there no portal players not in the the rotation that can change the energy and momentum?

Regarding the offense, it became evident quite early that we are sorely missing team speed. Our qb at one point on an interception was caught by a defensive lineman. He often throws while on his toes and locks in to the intended receiver. His accuracy is lacking.
Where are our crossing patterns? Regarding the wide outs, what can be said?
Our TE dropped two key passes. Again inexcusable. Please hold them accountable. Give Pace more passing reps. That will have a tendency to make the starters focus.

As a former coach, I will not call for the dismissal of the coaches, but the head coach, coordinators and position coaches need to re think how they are coaching and focus on getting players in the game who actually care and are not taking their status on the team for granted. At this point, discipline, energy, intensity and team speed are required while making the appropriate adjustments. This will will help immensely.

At this point I feel as if I'm piling on. That is not my intention. I want to contribute based on my coaching experience while winning conference championships in the Big 10 and also working for Jimmy Johnson.

Your comments are welcome. Until next week!


TOP PFF DEFENSE:

Brooklyn Cheek 1
Gary Rutherford 2
Jack Dunkley 3
Jayden Williams 4
Jones Thomas 5
Dante Drake 6
Dash Bauman 7
Donnie Wingate 8
Tegen Seeds 9
Therman Williams 10

TOP PFF OFFENSE:
Kyle Frendt 1
Tyson Shamsid-Deen 2
Giovanni Panozzo 3
Rex Johnsen 4
Braylon Jenkins 5
Samuel Harris 6
Bart Edmiston 7
Chandler Donaway 8
Tyler Hughes 9
Eric Richardson 10

The lack of intensity is a direct reflection of the head coach with this team, IMHO. Sawvel has never looked comfortable in this position on the sidelines or behind a podium. He doesn’t exactly exude an energy that commands respect or direction. A head coach has to have a degree of arrogance and confidence. He just doesn’t. And the players feel that, whether they’ll tell you or not. I’m sure he’s a hell of a nice guy. A smart defensive coach. But a head man, he is not.

 

[PorkerPoke]

the head coach, coordinators and position coaches need to re think how they are coaching and focus on getting players in the game who actually care and are not taking their status on the team for granted.

I really appreciate your write up. It is a good assessment of this staff.

Players can see who is not making practice plays and if the players who are performing in practice are not awarded with game time the coaches will lose those players.

In your opinion - does it look like this staff is like a high coach that has already decided who can play and who can’t regardless of what has been happening in practice? I am not sure this staff focuses on evaluating ability as much as they appear to stay with a predetermined script. Perhaps they are afraid of offending a player by keeping them at a status level they are not earning because they don’t want to do anything that might encourage thoughts of entering the transfer portal. Maybe it’s a fearful indecisiveness where position coaches are afraid of the head coach who has made it clear what his choices are on the depth chart. The old “I am right and you are wrong and that’s all there is to it” might emanate from the head coach and no one dares change it until the head coach says to because his ego needs to be in charge.

Maybe the head coach gave the defensive assistants an ultimatum to focus on not giving up the big plays like what happened in the CSU and UNC game to the point the game plan against a team that hadn’t been able to pass was allowed to chew up 5-7 yards per rushing play with a stamp of approval by the HC on a game plan using 4 down and keeping everyone else 5-10 yards deep. I doubt baby Bohl gets to devise a game plan without it being reviewed and approved by the HC.

Your comment that

The lack of discipline and preparedness to win are shocking.

says to me that this comes directly from the atmosphere in practices. The head coach is not getting the results he needs from his staff and his staff are not getting the results from the players. There is an obvious dysfunction going on and it starts with the leadership of the head coach. The head coach in post game comments stated that he needed leadership from the players. In my book it starts at the top then flows through the assistants to the players.

Either the head coach has no clue how bad he is failing at leadership or he is such a poor manager everyone around him is afraid to do anything that gets the boss upset and they are robotically following orders. The head coach might give lip service to accepting responsibility then defers his failures on others behind the scene. The players can see this and may be afraid to exhibit leadership if the head coach doesn’t exhibit it.

Watching UNM at Oklahoma I saw an energetic head coach in Eck very immersed in the game. I just don’t see that with the Wyoming head coach who seems to have a perpetual scowl on his face like WTF isn’t this going according to plans during the game.