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I'll be honest, **** a Polynesian pipeline.
Utah, UCLA and BYU have the most ubiquitous Polynesian pipelines in the P4. I don't expect any of them to win a natty any time soon.
Utah, UCLA and BYU have the most ubiquitous Polynesian pipelines in the P4. I don't expect any of them to win a natty any time soon.
So the DC can go "stunt-heavy", but the DL coach picks the time to call stunts and sets the personnel to do so.
But that also accents the need to have greater harmony on the staff and better communication. If the DL coach calls a stunt and the LBs and DBs are possibly unaware of the need to line up a bit differently to cover certain areas, then it will leave exploitable gaps after the ball is snapped.
Obviously, every playcall is different, it just seemed like we had many situations where, if the DL didn't get upfield fast enough, we had a lot of softness underneath that was exploited by RBs and TEs in the middle. I could live with some plays hitting for yardage if we sent blitzes that got picked up, but it frequently looked like we rushed 4 or 5 and then STILL got eaten up underneath.
****.
I think for the expectations most had they didn’t play to that. But they were the least of our problems imo. We literally got out schemed majority of the games, a simple motion killed us, there was coverage busts all year. We were focusing on alignment and assignment at the end of the season lol
People expected the dline to cover up the problems but that just wasn’t realistic. Of course they weren't getting home when someone is open right away
And no im not a dolphins fan lmao, if the new dc has a respectable dline coach he’s bringing JT can go. I just don’t think he’s to blame for the dline play, and I don’t think the dline was better when joe was running it.
Also think JT evaluations at the edge have been pretty good imo, we’ll have to see if he can develop them tho.
I'm assuming the "poly" in this discussion refers to the state of the art synthetic reinforcement materials that serve as the foundation for his landing spot.
Certainly seems like a guy you would want to work for.
Not everyone is a good fit.
However, if you do your best and still fall short there is no need for public humiliation or spectacle.
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Exactly what I meant. It has nothing to do with race or racism. It’s about culture. Mario thought that Joe was a good coach or else he wouldn’t have brought him over from Oregon. Mario also realized that culturally he needed a Polynesian staff member to draw Poly kids to a school that hadn’t recruited Poly kids well in the past.
Samoa sends the highest number of players per capita to the NFL. It’s amazing for such a small island to produce that much talent. Some families have moved out of Samoa but the cultural ties are still there. especially with the old school parents, and they seem to prefer to build their communities in familial groups as they leave the islands.
Joe is gone and what does Mario do? Hire a Samoan GM from Hawaii. I’m certain he got hired because he’s qualified for his role, but the bonus is that Mario maintains a Poly pipeline.
I guessed right
One of those coaches had a recent issue and hasn't been recruiting all that much...but wouldn't expect them back either.
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Actually it was Keiki who brought Mauigoa Brothers to IMG Academy from American Samoa to Miami. He helped their oldest brother Fredrick get a scholarship to Washington State Cougars.
Of course they're recruited by MORE than Samoan coaches. BUT it's Samoan coaches who have opened that door. Mario is well respected by Samoans as well so that's why I'm curious if this changes things for us or not. All I can say and I know this because of not only Francis and his family explaining but a former Samoan teammate in the league is that Joe is looked at as someone really special if not iconic on the island. Not only for his accomplishments but more specifically coaching and the finances and opportunities he's brought to them. Everytime I'd read about him on here it's just really obvious people don't understand who that man is to that culture.
Well hopefully that guy we just brought in who was the GM at Hawaii and before that their dl coach can keep up the connection for us...
Yeah and that was with Nancy(former owner of IMG)& Joe. I only know that part because they both told me that themselves. I'm only talking about the process of coming to Miami & why.
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Post in thread 'DT Coach Joe Salave'a leaves to Arizona'
https://www.canesinsight.com/threads/dt-coach-joe-salavea-leaves-to-arizona.197007/post-7589828
So my bigger point was like I said throughout the off-season, if the line can't create constant pressure that DB group(safety in particular) would get exposed. The original hope was zaquan would be phased into things more and the expectation was by mid season he'd take over so meesh could play nickel. As we saw for several reasons that never happened. For all good secondaries your success or failure is largely tied into your front 7. What kind of pressure you create or what you show a QB pre snap. We didn't scheme up some work of art. But the scheme wasn't our issue. The issue was lack of talent and overall lack of communication. If you can't pressure a QB to get him rattled continuously the QB will develop comfort in the pocket. Obviously if your comfortable you'll make better throws than if you're not. That's why I've always said the most important part of football is the team aspect. ***** always drilled us on that all the way down to literally quizzing us throughout camp or during workouts about teammates and our backgrounds. He always made **** sure we did everything together. Mario has taken on a lot of the same. He's big into team activities. Position coaches building the bond between they're rolls and the ones who directly correlate. But that takes time. It's why all this transfer stuff is hustling backwards in my eyes. My bad on the rant
I agree communication, lack of talent was a big issue but i also think scheme was a big issue. You dont have that bad of a defense if your scheme isn’t apart of the issue
Some of the things that hurt us was all over his film at marshall too. People labeled it a manny defense with guard rails, opposing OCs found ways to manipulate and break those guard rails all year.
I think the dline got pressure more than people realize but when everything else around them is terrible how can we expect them to be as impactful? I never believed they will cover up the secondary issues, that was off season cope
Great points with the team building side, definitely important for everyone to be on the same mission. I think if you set a culture in your building and get the right transfers it wont hurt you. Its just the new era of cfb we have to adjust to
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That's what I was saying. Joe has open the door for Mario going all the back to Oregon. He should be able to recruit those players with the relationships he has built.
My mind went directly to the Mormons. The polygamous ones, not the Polynesian ones... unless they are also polygamous. Poly polys.
