Elevating expectations. Satt is probably too nice…. Dana isn’t afraid of hurting anybody’s feelings.
In a nutshell DH says, "If its gonna have my finger prints on it, you're gonna do it my way."
That's how I coached my entire career. You don't have to be a prick, just tell 'em.
I really do like Dana. The dude has the confidence I like to see in a man when he's talking about something and shooting straight, and not worrying about hurting feelings. He would be 1000 x's better RB or WR coach than we currently have.
The best thing Rhule can do is just get the hell out of Dana's way and let him do what he is really good at.
He's had kind of an up and down career as a head coach, but when they were good,
they were really good. Even though we have the same talent, I expect a nice improvement this week and I'm way more optimistic about winning than I was before watching him today. At a minimum, we should see much more focus and effort from the offense.
So many of the things he was spending time on, due to total unfamiliarity, the first 10 days or so have now been committed to memory, hence, now the real improvement, teaching, scheming, and performance expectation level can begin this week. Hopefully, that will lead to a peak 60 minute effort on Saturday. No reason why NU can't win this week.
I really like an OC that flat out tells the RB coach how it is. I like how he tells the WR's if they don't block they won't get the ball. We need, and haven't had in a long while, dudes that are really hungry out there and busting their ass in order to deserve being thrown to. Even when he called out Scott at C for the two pre-snaps issues, it wasn't done to show him up, its really more a case of "dude you're the guy who sets the play in motion, you have to get it right." Nothing wrong with that.
Rhule should do absolutely everything in his power to sign Dana on next year or two as the OC with total autonomy of that offense. Dana knows what we have for talent on the Offensive side of the ball, his input on types of players to try to get from the portal would be beneficial to Matt.
I'm not gonna be a guy who says, in this game, that we have to run the ball x number or times, as a fan, my whole way of thinking is just find a way to move the ball and then score in the red zone. I don't care if we run it in or throw it in, we just need to score. We can do the style points later.