A regional high school coach's impression of coach Miles

Crowton's offense is a pass happy offense. At La. Tech they would throw 50-60 times a game. They had a pretty good QB for that level in McCown. At BYU the same. I don't know about Oregon but probably the same. At most every critical time last year like in the Ole Miss game, he would go to the pass. That's pretty much what he knows and that's it.

 

i dont get the concern about not sprinting between drills. sounds like some ra-ra high school coach that has a team of underachievers, not a coach preparing men for the nfl. practice should be professional, every one has a job to do and no bsing around. making them always be ra-ra and sprint between drills doesnt sound professional to me.

 

It happens in the NFL. JaMarcus was criticized in Oakland for walking from drill to drill and being the last one to get to each drill.

 

theres a difference between walking and jogging and sprinting. last thing you want to be is one of those weird baseball players that sprints to the outfield.

 

Like Hanover? Haha. I agree, you don't have to sprint. But, lolly gagging is unacceptable. I think you play how you practice. If Les Miles isn't keeping up the intensity in practice, then we can't expect it in games.

 

I think this guy was hanging around the receivers and probably meant the best athlete on the team he saw that day.

Once again, the coach was very respectful of Miles and his staff. He was just surprised by how the practice went. And, it could be that the practice for the coaching clinic was different from the closed door or other practices.

Did anyone else go to any of the practices and observe? Clair, or BHelm maybe?

 

In the NFL, player's don't spend time walking and talking. The jog or run from drill to drill and waste little time in each drill. The name of the game is efficiency and the small details show focus and professionalism. It shows on the field for teams in the NFL as they take very little time getting to the LOS and getting off the ball, even after changing plays.

I have never been a fan of whether or not coaches show emotion. That's just silly and varies from personality to personality. However, running practices efficiently is just the basics of good coaching like teaching how to tackle, block and run routes. When you teach a player how to tackle, block or run routes, you first teach them technique to avoid even a single wasted motion. Blocks are timed, pivot on the correct foot, drop your rear end, explode out, etc. Routes are so many steps, plant firmly to turn, etc. Tackles are taught to bring the head across the body, drive through the player, wrap up, etc. and the goal is to complete each task without taking one step, motion, etc. more than necessary to save energy, close quickly to the ball carrier, get away from a would-be tackler, get a block off quicker than a defender can read and react, etc. It's cliche to say that "football is a game of inches", but it really is and the good teams waste nothing to fight for one more inch than the other team gets.

If there is one thing I think we can all agree on, it's that the offense needs to spend less time getting ready to run plays. That urgency is taught in the fundamentals of how practices are run.

 

Easy skippy. Take it easy. You bring up good examples, OK? Sorry.

However, what I'm saying is this. We have Crowton, and we have Miles. Are we a pass happy team? Or are we a smashmouth runitupthegut team? Who knows? If you have a developed system like a Boise St., you get guys that are capable of running YOUR system.

Like I said though, you bring up good examples...and I stand corrected. No BULL(*&# is needed. :rolleye33:

 

Put it this way, if Jimbo is still the OC, JJ is not the starting QB.

 

Who would be, if not the best QB on the roster?