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
Certainly seems like a guy you would want to work for.
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.
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.
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.
Post in thread 'DT Coach Joe Salave'a leaves to Arizona'
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
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.
