Can Taggart evaluate talent?

[Bull94]

 

Then alter the play calls for the ability of your team. Stop trying drop back and throw the ball 10 or more yards downfield. As a team we have not shown any ability, in 15 games, to do so. No reason we can't run quick, short throws just to get the ball to Adams or Welch or Mack or Price or Mcfarland. Even if is behind the line of scrimmage it gets the ball in their hands in space. Worst case scenario it stretches the DL horizontally and helps open the running lanes.

Better than incompletes 12 yards down the fiels because the line can't block, the receivers can't catch and the QB can't deliver a perfect pass.

 

I agree. We have to work with the bad batch of QBs on our roster. It doesn't help that our front line can't hold a block to save anyone's life. Nonethless, we need to switch things up and get the ball out quicker and into our playmakers hands (if we have any) and see what happens. Yes, our QB play has been terrible but thank god we have a defense that allows us to have a chance at winning and better field position.

 

What are everyone's thoughts about mixing in some read-option plays with flowers here and there as well now that his shirt is burnt?

 

 

 

I say mix him in. neither bench or white is the loing term solution. redshirts are meant to build depth anyway. right now we don't even have a legit #1 let alone a need for depth.

[Who'sYourData?]

Point of order, White didn't, "win" the job last season. He got it by default because Bench got hurt.

 

But then Bench got healthy.  Since Taggart is a consistent guy and White did not lose his job to injury, why didn't Bench go back in after he got healthy?

 

Unless Taggart doesn't treat every situation and person consistently.

[Apis Bull]

Maybe, because last year White showed some signs of promise.  This year Bench didn't show a marked improvement (in CWT's eyes) over White when he had the chance.

[Triple B]

 

anybody who thinks a grown man would risk a million dollar job by benching a player worthy of time is insane.

 

Anybody who thinks every decision is rational and based strictly on fact doesn't understand human nature.  There is always an emotional component, no matter if it is a "million dollar job" or not.  Happens in all walks of life, it's why your boss and CEO make decisions that seem odd to you.

 

Sports history is littered with players that only got on the field because of injury and proved they were far superior to the person in front of them.  Lots of coaches make poor decisions based on all sorts of things that have little to do with on field effectiveness.

 

But we can pretend Taggart always makes the best decision for the team, if it makes everyone feel better. 

 

 

Name at least a couple of examples where, when the person behind the starter went in to an actual game, showed he was far superior to the starter, but wasn't played again.

 

Coaches make initial decisions based on tons of stuff the fans never see and 94 is exactly correct that a coach, especially at this level, isn't going to not play a player that is clearly superior where it matters, in a game, because of some emotional component.  

[Who'sYourData?]

 

 

anybody who thinks a grown man would risk a million dollar job by benching a player worthy of time is insane.

 

Anybody who thinks every decision is rational and based strictly on fact doesn't understand human nature.  There is always an emotional component, no matter if it is a "million dollar job" or not.  Happens in all walks of life, it's why your boss and CEO make decisions that seem odd to you.

 

Sports history is littered with players that only got on the field because of injury and proved they were far superior to the person in front of them.  Lots of coaches make poor decisions based on all sorts of things that have little to do with on field effectiveness.

 

But we can pretend Taggart always makes the best decision for the team, if it makes everyone feel better. 

 

 

Name at least a couple of examples where, when the person behind the starter went in to an actual game, showed he was far superior to the starter, but wasn't played again.

 

Coaches make initial decisions based on tons of stuff the fans never see and 94 is exactly correct that a coach, especially at this level, isn't going to not play a player that is clearly superior where it matters, in a game, because of some emotional component.  

 

 

Sigh.

[Bull94]

 

Point of order, White didn't, "win" the job last season. He got it by default because Bench got hurt.

 

But then Bench got healthy.  Since Taggart is a consistent guy and White did not lose his job to injury, why didn't Bench go back in after he got healthy?

 

Unless Taggart doesn't treat every situation and person consistently.

 

Bench did go in against UofL after he was healthy

 

Promptly went 4-12 for 68 yards and a pick then was benched for white in the 4th quarter.

[Triple B]

 

 

 

anybody who thinks a grown man would risk a million dollar job by benching a player worthy of time is insane.

 

Anybody who thinks every decision is rational and based strictly on fact doesn't understand human nature.  There is always an emotional component, no matter if it is a "million dollar job" or not.  Happens in all walks of life, it's why your boss and CEO make decisions that seem odd to you.

 

Sports history is littered with players that only got on the field because of injury and proved they were far superior to the person in front of them.  Lots of coaches make poor decisions based on all sorts of things that have little to do with on field effectiveness.

 

But we can pretend Taggart always makes the best decision for the team, if it makes everyone feel better. 

 

 

Name at least a couple of examples where, when the person behind the starter went in to an actual game, showed he was far superior to the starter, but wasn't played again.

 

Coaches make initial decisions based on tons of stuff the fans never see and 94 is exactly correct that a coach, especially at this level, isn't going to not play a player that is clearly superior where it matters, in a game, because of some emotional component.  

 

 

Sigh.

 

 

Sigh all you want but sports is littered with good to great coaches who have missed on players in practice. Saying there's some emotional component, not performance based, that's keeping CWT from playing players who have proven themselves on the field is ludicrous. 

[Bull94]

 

 

 

 

anybody who thinks a grown man would risk a million dollar job by benching a player worthy of time is insane.

 

Anybody who thinks every decision is rational and based strictly on fact doesn't understand human nature.  There is always an emotional component, no matter if it is a "million dollar job" or not.  Happens in all walks of life, it's why your boss and CEO make decisions that seem odd to you.

 

Sports history is littered with players that only got on the field because of injury and proved they were far superior to the person in front of them.  Lots of coaches make poor decisions based on all sorts of things that have little to do with on field effectiveness.

 

But we can pretend Taggart always makes the best decision for the team, if it makes everyone feel better. 

 

 

Name at least a couple of examples where, when the person behind the starter went in to an actual game, showed he was far superior to the starter, but wasn't played again.

 

Coaches make initial decisions based on tons of stuff the fans never see and 94 is exactly correct that a coach, especially at this level, isn't going to not play a player that is clearly superior where it matters, in a game, because of some emotional component.  

 

 

Sigh.

 

 

Sigh all you want but sports is littered with good to great coaches who have missed on players in practice. Saying there's some emotional component, not performance based, that's keeping CWT from playing players who have proven themselves on the field is ludicrous. 

 

I honestly dont know what his rationalization could be for thinking this way. he honestly believes that Taggart would intentionally play White over Bench if Bench had outperformed White on the field. I don't get it.

 

If Bench had shown even a moderate amount of improvement over White in the 3 opportunities that he has had then i think tags doesn't ever get to White or doesn't go back to him.

[Triple B]

 

 

 

 

 

anybody who thinks a grown man would risk a million dollar job by benching a player worthy of time is insane.

 

Anybody who thinks every decision is rational and based strictly on fact doesn't understand human nature.  There is always an emotional component, no matter if it is a "million dollar job" or not.  Happens in all walks of life, it's why your boss and CEO make decisions that seem odd to you.

 

Sports history is littered with players that only got on the field because of injury and proved they were far superior to the person in front of them.  Lots of coaches make poor decisions based on all sorts of things that have little to do with on field effectiveness.

 

But we can pretend Taggart always makes the best decision for the team, if it makes everyone feel better. 

 

 

Name at least a couple of examples where, when the person behind the starter went in to an actual game, showed he was far superior to the starter, but wasn't played again.

 

Coaches make initial decisions based on tons of stuff the fans never see and 94 is exactly correct that a coach, especially at this level, isn't going to not play a player that is clearly superior where it matters, in a game, because of some emotional component.  

 

 

Sigh.

 

 

Sigh all you want but sports is littered with good to great coaches who have missed on players in practice. Saying there's some emotional component, not performance based, that's keeping CWT from playing players who have proven themselves on the field is ludicrous. 

 

I honestly dont know what his rationalization could be for thinking this way. he honestly believes that Taggart would intentionally play White over Bench if Bench had outperformed White on the field. I don't get it.

 

If Bench had shown even a moderate amount of improvement over White in the 3 opportunities that he has had then i think tags doesn't ever get to White or doesn't go back to him.

 

 

He thinks CWT's doing it with the OL, too .... Maybe some of them get together to bake cookies for CWT to keep their starting roles.

[ckparrothead]

There have been some serious issues with his quarterback evaluations and recruiting. I don't think there's any choice but to question whether he or his staff know what they're seeing in a quarterback, and even more questions about whether they know how to mold an offense around that quarterback's strengths and weaknesses.

 

To have a 35.7 percent completion rate through three games at the FBS level is quite frankly inexcusable and I'm not sure I've ever seen the like before. For things to be that bad you have to be doing several things wrong. That you're recruiting poorly is a given. But it also means that you're not doing what you need to do on offense in order to help your quarterbacks out. If they can't make complex reads or read-progressions, you MUST simplify things. You must set doable tasks in front of them.

 

Well, unless you want to walk out of the season having your only win come against an opponent that is terrible even at the FCS level.