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The talent on that 2016 offense squad was much better.

Kaaya
Walton
Richards-healthy
Berrios
Coley
Njoku
Herndon
Isadora
Mcdermott

Bottom line Richt offense works if you have NFL level experience talent across the board.

If you have a bunch of youngsters and a bad OL and a bad QB you’re screwed.

Other offense systems would get much more out of the current offense
 
gacaneaddict said:
The talent on that 2016 offense squad was much better.

Bottom line Richt offense works if you have NFL level experience talent across the board.

If you have a bunch of youngsters and a bad OL and a bad QB you’re screwed.

Other offense systems would get much more out of the current offense
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And the best it'll give you is a 10 win season without winning your conference.

Fire Mork Richt.
 
PGrady24 said:
@DMoney How would you fix this? What would be your 3,4,5 step plan on fixing the offense starting this week and into the offseason?
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I'm not an Xs and Os expert, and I don't expect Richt to step down and hire a hot spread offense name. But my general thoughts are this:

1) Identify your championship-caliber players and play them. Richt has privately told people that he expects the team to make a big jump when guys like Cleveland Reed and John Campbell are ready to play. Well, the time is now. We have Florida as the season opener next year. LSU scared him into leaning on under-talented seniors throughout camp. We can't make the same mistake twice. Same goes for Jarren.

2) Build on what worked in the second-half 2016. RPOs. Tunnel screens. Short passes into the hands of your playmakers. All of these things play into the strengths of our returning personnel. Guys like Cager and Langham not only lack threatening speed, they are bad YAC guys. The loss of Ahmmon hurt us in both areas. Let's get guys like Thomas, Pope and Harley on the field at the same time. Our returning QBs have the arm strength to make strong horizontal throws to the field side. Use our advantages and make life easier for our QB.

3) Tempo. If we are going to be static, we need to play faster. We move like Stanford without the same personnel. That doesn't fit our strengths.
 
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We could go pay an OC a ton of money, and it would be cheaper than firing Richt. Strip OC titles off of everyone else and pay a real one. It's not rocket science. If Richt wants to keep running this crap, he will be the most hated man in the history of UM football. He will lose games, recruits and ALL fan support. He has already lost all the good will he had built up. It's going to be insanely ugly, and it can ALL be avoided by hiring a good OC. One far, far, far away from the Richt coaching shrub.
 
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1. The last time local hacks like Barry Jackson used the no talent spin to defend a coach (and side of the ball), 17 defenders that were here under Golden and Dorito ended up on NFL rosters.

2. Not just the Saints, but the Chiefs, too. And Oklahoma. I talked about this last week. Richt thinks we just aren’t “executing” or “beating our man.” It’s all archaic Neanderthal talk. Our offense does nothing to make a defense hesitate, or take false steps, or get sucked in the wrong direction. We don’t create mismatches or make a team defend sideline to sideline. It’s pathetic.
 
Why is it inevitable that Mark gets a year to fix the problem? Didn't we already go down that rabbit hole and get smacked in the nose... Coaches tend to be stubborn and believe the answers are just better execution.. the recruiting class is imploding right in front of everyone. I just thought Blake would show some business savvy and make the necessary correction with the HC.. Hiring an OC isn't the answer, it would probably be Mark's offense anyway, much the way D'nofrio ran Al's defense.. The game has past Mark bye which should be obvious to anyone without an agenda... RS years are for the OL & DL to mature or for injury..
 
DMoney said:
I didn’t expect to be here this fast. Richt isn’t Golden, but this is a Golden season. We just flipped sides of the ball.

What hurts the most is hearing the spin regarding talent. It sounds like the Golden era, minus the sanctions excuse. The class is collapsing and a quick fix (i.e. an offensive version of the Manny hire) is unrealistic. Richt came here to call plays and he is going to see it through. This is a bad time to be a Hurricane fan.

Some scattered thoughts:

- Richt has botched the QB position, and we shouldn’t be surprised. That’s what got him fired. Personally, I focused on his prior successes and hoped the way it ended in UGA (with Greyson Lambert and Faton Bauta) was an aberration. It wasn’t. This might just be who Richt is in 2018. When I watched Cam Newton and Deshaun Watson win games on Sunday, it only drilled home that point. There is a disconnect between Richt and the modern game.

- It’s even more concerning to hear Richt talk about Jarren’s redshirt. Now, Jarren isn't going to save the offense. He might not even be ready to play. We don't know. But the redshirt shouldn’t be entering Richt’s mind. If Jarren is good, he won’t be here in five years. If he’s bad, he won’t be here in five years. Or he’ll be Malik. Either way, the fifth year should be irrelevant. I’m worried Richt’s mind is stuck in another era that no longer exists.

- The fans have been screaming for more motions and jet sweep action since last year. Richt dismissed it. But in Week 10 of the season, there it was. He is reacting, as opposed to getting ahead of the trend. And as you'd expect, everything looks haphazard and thrown together. Darrell Langham, who can't run, faked the jet on multiple snaps. Why not use Homer, Dallas, Harley, or Pope? We have guys that can scare people, but we don’t use them in a manner that scares anyone. And when we lined up for a jump ball to end the game—the classic Langham scenario—we pulled him and sat him on the bench. I just don’t see any reason or rhyme to what we do.

- Deejay Dallas is another example. Duke scored on us with a jump pass. Meanwhile, we have one of the most versatile players in the country being utilized like a one-dimensional runner. Where is the throwing threat? Where is the receiving threat? He might as well be Gus Edwards.

- Much has been written about how we ran out of time with four minutes left and two timeouts. It was an embarrassment. And it’s just a continuation of what we’ve seen the last two games. Why is there no urgency coming from the QB position? Can you imagine Drew Brees or Baker Mayfield carrying themselves like our guys? It’s not an experience thing, because Malik is even less urgent than Perry. It is coming from the head coach and the quarterback coach.

- We need to do a better job of self-scouting. Everybody knew Malik’s limitations going into the year. And on our pre-camp podcast, me and Lu spent a good chunk of the time describing how Mahoney and Jones were not talented enough to start for us. We had an absurdly easy stretch after the LSU game. Why didn’t Scaife and Perry start until conference play? Why were so consistent with our first-team offensive lineup early in the season? If the upperclassmen aren’t talented enough—which was obvious before the season—we need to fast-track the young talent and takes our lumps early. That did not happen.

- One last thing on the talent spin job. You are seeing it all over Twitter from the media and staff. The New Orleans Saints played the LA Rams yesterday. Biggest game of the year. The Saints have one of the best QBs of all time, the best OL in the league, and two RBs that combined for 3,000 scrimmage yards last year. If anybody can line up and “out-dude” the opposition, it’s them. But on a crucial fourth and one, Sean Payton called a reverse pass to put the ball in the hands of Taysom Hill. It worked. Nobody is just lining up and beating guys man-on-man. The state of football is too advanced. You need to always be looking for an edge. We aren’t looking for that edge right now. We are just looking for excuses.

Anyways, I'll be watching on Saturday. This November, like so many other Novembers of the past decade, is about seeing young talent develop and learning from failure. I thought we were past this stage.
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Absolutely spot on analysis, DMoney.
 
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