1) How can we fix a problem that our coaching staff won't even acknowledge?
2) How can we possibly scheme against teams in our own division that will expose that problem?
We are so incredibly soft as a team by design that the coaching staff is oblivious to it. What they see as their strength and advantage is actually their weakness. Thirty years ago coaches developed an offensive identity based on pitch and catch because they couldn't line up against the big boys and impose their will. Yes, when you play pitch and catch you can score a once in a season 300 foot baseball in a peach basket throw. But it's neither efficient or practical for winning conference titles. Teams that line up and play hard nose football by extension have hard nosed defenses. And at that end we will never find the promise land. We are chasing a philosophy based on weakness not strength and it must not continue.
2) How can we possibly scheme against teams in our own division that will expose that problem?
We are so incredibly soft as a team by design that the coaching staff is oblivious to it. What they see as their strength and advantage is actually their weakness. Thirty years ago coaches developed an offensive identity based on pitch and catch because they couldn't line up against the big boys and impose their will. Yes, when you play pitch and catch you can score a once in a season 300 foot baseball in a peach basket throw. But it's neither efficient or practical for winning conference titles. Teams that line up and play hard nose football by extension have hard nosed defenses. And at that end we will never find the promise land. We are chasing a philosophy based on weakness not strength and it must not continue.
