Raiola was shouldering some of the blame for the execution. He’s missed a fair number of wide open receivers and those misses have cost us 2 games IMO. He knows that.
Tampering with Raiola
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In the Illinois game alone we had a WR allow the CB to rip a beautiful TD pass out of his hands, so now you have Raiola thinking these guys aren't going to win any contested balls.
Raiola gets 10% of the blame, the wideouts being poorly coached by some nepotism hire kid get all the rest.
I know one team that was a sucker for jet sweeps. Again. And again. And again. And again.
Every player gets their own coach.
Would probably be worse than only have 1 position coach.
The WRs have been an upgrade and underwhelming at the same time. What a mess.
I have a question for all of you.
“Do you think DRs stock has gone up or down since the beginning of the year?”
We all know where he was at coming out of HS. Where is he now after starting for a B1G school for basically a year? I am just interested in your thoughts.
“Do you think DRs stock has gone up or down since the beginning of the year?”
We all know where he was at coming out of HS. Where is he now after starting for a B1G school for basically a year? I am just interested in your thoughts.
I think he had a tremendous showing on the national stage against Colorado.
Oklahoma fan coworkers tell me they wish they could trade Jackson Arnold for Raiola, as they're largely oblivious to how he's played since then.
I imagine coaches who invested are noticing he seems to regress the more he's under this staff and think to themselves "I could fix him"
I don’t think he’s regressed as much as he’s gotten beaten up and DCs have figured out how to defense him. Illinois showed everybody that Satt doesn’t have a workable plan for blitz packages. He’s a freshman QB. I predicted 1.6 INTs per game. I think he’s been a little better than that but B1G DCs have abused him. Not probably his or Thomas’s fault.
Plays that are not complicated to block. Not easy against the defense. We have no easy plays against any BIG10 defense.
The OC coaches the WR coach. It’s on Satt. Yeah the kid is young but he’s not an idiot. I’ve heard too many knowledgeable guys who played the game say that it’s Satt’s routes and schemes that are the bigger problem. Hopefully Dana can fix some of that quickly.
I’ll agree that some of the run play blocking designs are ridiculous. Get a hat on a hat going downhill. Enough with the cute reach blocks for our guards on gap plugging backers on the opposite side of the center. I don’t know if those were blown reads and line calls by our center or if Raiola could have changed things up pre-snap. I just think I see our young linemen playing pretty well when they’re not asked to do unreasonable tasks.
I mean, I don't think they did this to appease Raiola. That said, I think any reasonable player in the world would entertain leaving if you left the offensive staff as is this offseason. There is no discernable reason to think things would improve.
Last year you could make the case you didn't have the horses to compete. This season you made no step forward with arguably a better cast. A bad staff can make really good players look terrible.
Last year you could make the case you didn't have the horses to compete. This season you made no step forward with arguably a better cast. A bad staff can make really good players look terrible.
