So he knows what to expect. Does that mean the team and coaching will look competent? Why am I unsure?
And like I said, expect every team this year to do offensively what WCU, they provided the blue print.
It seems strange that every team we play schemes against us and we appear to have no clue on the other teams scheme and appear to just play straight up Lovie ball. I'm beginning to lose confidence in the coaching staff and it's starting to sound like a broken record. Let's see how we adjust and look in game 2.
Does the following sound/look familiar ?
This is from an article last year after the McNeese mess.....
Defensive Coordinator Chuck Bresnahan:
"In that first game, if we come out and become a sit-back-and-think defense, I've slighted our guys," he said. "I want our guys, from the first snap to the very last snap, to go out and fly around. If they make mistakes, they're making it at a thousand miles an hour. Not standing there going 'Should I do this or that?' We have to master a couple of things. We'll go into a game shorthanded as far as what we have available -- we know how to play it and we can play it against anything, that's better to me than having 92 different things but you're not really sure about any one of them."
"As soon as the second read is done, that guy's either on his back with the ball in his hand, or the ball's up in the air for grabs," he said. "Punishing the quarterback is going to be big for us."
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As Gary pointed out here, there wasn't a lot of flying around anywhere happening. And The Green Plague of Aaron Lynch's boasting looked more like The Mild Sinus Infection, failing to record a sack while conceding 424 yards over 67 total plays to an FCS team. USF did force two interceptions, but what stood out was the lack of push in the middle. The Cowboys were running in between the tackles against the vaunted front seven everyone thought would be the strength of the Bulls. Lynch, Giddens, Watson, Sager; the guys we thought would be difference makers just weren't in any meaningful way.
"Sit-back-and-think" is a helluva lot better than "getting-whupped-every-****-play."