BJs Wednesday Buzz Column

[SFbayCane]

**** it, Gundy let Bill Young go after last year, bring his old crazy *** (and I mean that literally, dude was certifiable) back.

I was a Bill Young fan. Loved watching this guy dial up crazy-*** blitzes. He was extremely competent too. his defenses are always lined up and ready to go when the play starts. You never saw blank stares coming from the players wondering where they should be lined up, etc...


Was a little too schitzo for me but would still be a light year's worth of improvement over Mark Sandusky.

 

[Ernie McCracken]

After reading the piece, I expect a full out 3-4 scheme. It's what fits our personnel the best. Pierre, Moore and Wyche can play the Nose position. Add Moten and Valentine and we should alright there. I do think we need another JUCO NT. at the ends, you will have Chick, Kamalu, Hamilton, and Chad Thomas coming in that should be able to play as a true frosh.

OLB's, you have McCord, AQM, and a bunch of unproven guys. And why I think we need to go with at least one JUCO player here. Holiett is unproven and then you have true freshmen competing for significant playing time like McCray and Smith who neither would seem to be ready.

Inside, it would be huge if DP comes back. Not only does he add experience and solid play, but it would allow Figs to play that outside backer which is where is suited the best. If DP leaves, Figs will have to play inside along with Kirby and Armbrister.

Bottomline, we can reduce some of our deficiencies with the 3-4. The 4-3 just adds more stress to an already thin depth front seven.

Chad Thomas is not a 3-4 DE and if he ends up there I'll officially be done with this staff.

And all this talk about freshmen contributing on the DL, you can forget about it.

You'll be done with this staff? Well gee whiz.

 

[Notsince1985]

**** it, Gundy let Bill Young go after last year, bring his old crazy *** (and I mean that literally, dude was certifiable) back.

I was a Bill Young fan. Loved watching this guy dial up crazy-*** blitzes. He was extremely competent too. his defenses are always lined up and ready to go when the play starts. You never saw blank stares coming from the players wondering where they should be lined up, etc...


Was a little too schitzo for me but would still be a light year's worth of improvement over Mark Sandusky.

He's probably done, especially after Gundy allegedly let him go because he said he was "too old" to coach and recruit, but I'd still take him.

 

[numbers]

I have trouble reconciling the "get speed on the field" with "needs to put on more weight." I realize you can do both, but it sure doesn't seem to be happening for our guys. The weight goes up and their speed goes down. JAG's abound.

 

[Coach Macho]

After reading the piece, I expect a full out 3-4 scheme. It's what fits our personnel the best. Pierre, Moore and Wyche can play the Nose position. Add Moten and Valentine and we should alright there. I do think we need another JUCO NT. at the ends, you will have Chick, Kamalu, Hamilton, and Chad Thomas coming in that should be able to play as a true frosh.

OLB's, you have McCord, AQM, and a bunch of unproven guys. And why I think we need to go with at least one JUCO player here. Holiett is unproven and then you have true freshmen competing for significant playing time like McCray and Smith who neither would seem to be ready.

Inside, it would be huge if DP comes back. Not only does he add experience and solid play, but it would allow Figs to play that outside backer which is where is suited the best. If DP leaves, Figs will have to play inside along with Kirby and Armbrister.

Bottomline, we can reduce some of our deficiencies with the 3-4. The 4-3 just adds more stress to an already thin depth front seven.

After reading the piece, I expect a full out 3-4 scheme. It's what fits our personnel the best. Pierre, Moore and Wyche can play the Nose position. Add Moten and Valentine and we should alright there. I do think we need another JUCO NT. at the ends, you will have Chick, Kamalu, Hamilton, and Chad Thomas coming in that should be able to play as a true frosh.

OLB's, you have McCord, AQM, and a bunch of unproven guys. And why I think we need to go with at least one JUCO player here. Holiett is unproven and then you have true freshmen competing for significant playing time like McCray and Smith who neither would seem to be ready.

Inside, it would be huge if DP comes back. Not only does he add experience and solid play, but it would allow Figs to play that outside backer which is where is suited the best. If DP leaves, Figs will have to play inside along with Kirby and Armbrister.

Bottomline, we can reduce some of our deficiencies with the 3-4. The 4-3 just adds more stress to an already thin depth front seven.

Chad Thomas is not a 3-4 DE and if he ends up there I'll officially be done with this staff.

And all this talk about freshmen contributing on the DL, you can forget about it.

Think you're going to be disappointed a/b Chad Thomas not being played there down the road. What indicates to you the coaches are going to use him any differently than Chick? They'll likely ask him to gain some weight (as they do with virtually all of our front 7 players) and, considering he played inside in HS, they'll view him as a "versatile" guy.

Chad is a prototype edge rusher and has a different skill set than Chickillo. He's also longer and leaner. He would need to gain a ton of weight to be an ideal 3-4 DE.

We'd be wasting his talent IMO. You don't take an elite edge rusher and move him inside. Chad is the kind of kid Bama recruits and turn into a stud OLB.

 

[Notsince1985]

After reading the piece, I expect a full out 3-4 scheme. It's what fits our personnel the best. Pierre, Moore and Wyche can play the Nose position. Add Moten and Valentine and we should alright there. I do think we need another JUCO NT. at the ends, you will have Chick, Kamalu, Hamilton, and Chad Thomas coming in that should be able to play as a true frosh.

OLB's, you have McCord, AQM, and a bunch of unproven guys. And why I think we need to go with at least one JUCO player here. Holiett is unproven and then you have true freshmen competing for significant playing time like McCray and Smith who neither would seem to be ready.

Inside, it would be huge if DP comes back. Not only does he add experience and solid play, but it would allow Figs to play that outside backer which is where is suited the best. If DP leaves, Figs will have to play inside along with Kirby and Armbrister.

Bottomline, we can reduce some of our deficiencies with the 3-4. The 4-3 just adds more stress to an already thin depth front seven.

After reading the piece, I expect a full out 3-4 scheme. It's what fits our personnel the best. Pierre, Moore and Wyche can play the Nose position. Add Moten and Valentine and we should alright there. I do think we need another JUCO NT. at the ends, you will have Chick, Kamalu, Hamilton, and Chad Thomas coming in that should be able to play as a true frosh.

OLB's, you have McCord, AQM, and a bunch of unproven guys. And why I think we need to go with at least one JUCO player here. Holiett is unproven and then you have true freshmen competing for significant playing time like McCray and Smith who neither would seem to be ready.

Inside, it would be huge if DP comes back. Not only does he add experience and solid play, but it would allow Figs to play that outside backer which is where is suited the best. If DP leaves, Figs will have to play inside along with Kirby and Armbrister.

Bottomline, we can reduce some of our deficiencies with the 3-4. The 4-3 just adds more stress to an already thin depth front seven.

Chad Thomas is not a 3-4 DE and if he ends up there I'll officially be done with this staff.

And all this talk about freshmen contributing on the DL, you can forget about it.

Think you're going to be disappointed a/b Chad Thomas not being played there down the road. What indicates to you the coaches are going to use him any differently than Chick? They'll likely ask him to gain some weight (as they do with virtually all of our front 7 players) and, considering he played inside in HS, they'll view him as a "versatile" guy.

Chad is a prototype edge rusher and has a different skill set than Chickillo. He's also longer and leaner. He would need to gain a ton of weight to be an ideal 3-4 DE.

We'd be wasting his talent IMO. You don't take an elite edge rusher and move him inside. Chad is the kind of kid Bama recruits and turn into a stud OLB.

So what you're saying is, this staff will move him to TE?

 

[Gatorhater]

Say all you want about scheme etc....the personnel situation on the D side is a rip roaring disaster. There is NOTHING up front and at LB.

True. Still more than enough talent to avoid giving up 500 yards of offense to Duke at VT.

BTW could have avoided giving up 500 yards against Duke. Heck, I could have falling down in front an olineman and tripped a few runners and held them to less.

 

[Gatorhater]

**** out of here. We may not have the talent to be a top 10-20 D but **** sure have enough not to get raped by wake & duke and etc.

They are getting mind ****ed. I wonder why we can't out recruit kentucy for a DT or why they didn't land 1 DT last year.

It's their fault about the talent. They pass up guys and take on these project recruits that won't play for 3 or 4 years if ever.

I guess this program is going to **** then. I don't see 4 & 5 star DTs or LBs in this year or next year class beating the door to come here despite the need.

Shapiro? HOw do you know the NCAA mess has NOT hampered recruiting? You guys dismiss this stuff pretty easily. Not sure where all the chest thumping is coming from. This is a program that has been irrelevant for a long time before AG walked into a clusterfark.

Sure it has and of course he did. I wanted but did not expect to compete with FSU during this time. But, WF, NC, and Duke come on. You mean it is easier to recruit a better player to Duke than THE U under a cloud? What is the deal, Come to Duke and go to a bowl game every year. Even VT clearly has fallen off a cliff but still hammered us. Duke and WF don't great talent either but their coaches found a way to confuse the carp out of us and, in Duke's case bet the crap out of us. If we traded players, do you think we would beat the crap out of Duke? It was said of the Bear, "He can take his-en and beat yourn-en, and then he will take yourn-en and beat his-en!" I fear that what will be said of Al is, "Anyone can take any-ens and beat his-ens any day."

 

[sniffin94]

Full speed ahead...its a process

 

[fastcane]

Sebastian, you keep bringing up facts, there is no place on this board for solid reasoning. lol

So, it's painfully obvious Al will continue to trot out the woe is me, we're young and inexperienced line in year #4 when we're 7-5 to 8-4 and getting gashed by Duke for 500 yards again, but the question is, how long is allowed to get away with it? I mean, not from us, we're obviously not buying it, but we obviously don't matter. It's clear that next year is going to be exactly the same as this year, which is turning out to be exactly the same as last year. How long can Golden get away with this crap? The NCAA excuse won't fly. It's year #4 next year, so these players are all his. This roster is all his doing. When does it ****ing end? You don't need 8 years to turn this around.

Butch needed 6 years.

butch also changed his defensive coordinator when he realized it wasnt working.

After 4 years...and the guy he fired was hired by Nick Saban as a DC.

 

[fastcane]

Really, you want to count the first year he was here against him for his recruiting? Did you happen to forget we just got over the NCAA crap? How many recruits did we lose because of it?

What a clown show they've got going on down there. So its gonna take Golden 5 ****ing years to get enough talent to compete with the likes of UNC, Wake, VT and Duke.

I'm sure the "its the talent" people are quite happy about that article.

By the way, this was going to be a long rebuild to get us back to prominence. 5 years to compete with the Alabamas of the world which is understandable. But if you're telling me its gonna take 5 years to compete for the coastal, then Golden can go **** himself. The guy is a clown as is anyone that buys his bull****.

 

[D7.]

**** it, Gundy let Bill Young go after last year, bring his old crazy *** (and I mean that literally, dude was certifiable) back.

I was a Bill Young fan. Loved watching this guy dial up crazy-*** blitzes. He was extremely competent too. his defenses are always lined up and ready to go when the play starts. You never saw blank stares coming from the players wondering where they should be lined up, etc...


Was a little too schitzo for me but would still be a light year's worth of improvement over Mark Sandusky.

He's probably done, especially after Gundy allegedly let him go because he said he was "too old" to coach and recruit, but I'd still take him.

He might be the grey beard we need on defense. He doesn't really need to go out to the field and recruit. His recruiting pitch will be fielding competent defenses that can line up properly and execute plays.

 

[Notsince1985]

**** it, Gundy let Bill Young go after last year, bring his old crazy *** (and I mean that literally, dude was certifiable) back.

I was a Bill Young fan. Loved watching this guy dial up crazy-*** blitzes. He was extremely competent too. his defenses are always lined up and ready to go when the play starts. You never saw blank stares coming from the players wondering where they should be lined up, etc...


Was a little too schitzo for me but would still be a light year's worth of improvement over Mark Sandusky.

He's probably done, especially after Gundy allegedly let him go because he said he was "too old" to coach and recruit, but I'd still take him.

He might be the grey beard we need on defense. He doesn't really need to go out to the field and recruit. His recruiting pitch will be fielding competent defenses that can line up properly and execute plays.

He doesn't have to recruit, but Gundy's point was that other Big XII schools would negative recruit against him, basically saying you don't want to go play for a 70 year old. Not saying I agree, just saying its out there.

 

[theibisrules]

I swear to god we are in forever rebuild mode. Next year we'll likely lose Howard, Gunter, Chickillo, Armbrister, Bush (if he bounces back), etc. So we'll be rebuilding again.

Loosing Armbrister doesn't sound half as bad...dude can't play for shizzle and neither can Gaines for that matter.

 

[theibisrules]

why is AG Sanduskying all of us??? Damnit man.

 

[Canesfan1899]

I swear to god we are in forever rebuild mode. Next year we'll likely lose Howard, Gunter, Chickillo, Armbrister, Bush (if he bounces back), etc. So we'll be rebuilding again.

Loosing Armbrister doesn't sound half as bad...dude can't play for shizzle and neither can Gaines for that matter.

Armbrister played well at the beginning of the season, not sure what has happened to him.