BigOrange15
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"In all these games you're seeing about 60 plays of really good defense and about 15 plays of really bad defense," -- Derek Dooley
Fire this clown. More like 60 plays of really bad defense.
See, this is why you can't argue semantics with a lawyer.
Your definition of "good play/bad play" is not Dooley's definition of "good play/bad play". See, a good play for Dooley is one where:
So we're doing good as long as we give up, say, 10 or fewer 20+ yard plays and 5 scores. 5 yard run? Good play! 8 yard run? Good play! 15 yard run! Bad play!
- Opposing player doesn't gain 20+ yards
- Opposing player doesn't score
See? Coaching is fun!
A Safety can make a good defensive play on a big pass where someone blew their assignment, the play may go for 30 yards. But because a safety took a good angle and made a sure tackle he prevented a TD. The blown coverage wasn't his mistake, but he made a good defensive play on a play that netted 30 yards...
Conversely, a lineman and a linebacker can both miss tackles in the backfield and the runner gains 8 yards because of it... Only 8 yards but that was still a bad defensive play...
Good and bad are highly subjective, and if Dooley cared that people were going to crap a turkey because he said "60 good" and "15 bad" he would have instead said "There are about 40 average plays that anyone can make, there are 10 plays we made because of correct scheming, there are 10 we didnt make because of incorrect scheming, there were 5 made by defensive playmakers, and there were 10 not made as a result of poor positioning, poor angles, mental lapses or simply being beat on the play"... That would remove the subjectivity of his original statement which the truely uneducated like to immediately pounce on and say "Ha, 15?? More like all of them." However, those that would do that would have missed the ENTIRE point of the message he was trying to convey...
only if you consider every pass play and every run to the left end "about right."
As well he should because that's where he's taken our football program.
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So, it should be pretty easy for him to fix, right?
Not really. Did you even watch the game on Saturday?
Did anyone else hear him try to joke about being on crutches when asked why he didn't use a challenge on the last timeoidea
At least he admitted he should've challenged & that he had no idea what the challenge rules are. Really?!?!
I'm surprised that not more people are realizing just how bad he screwed up there. And then he tries to joke about it!!
Get his ass out of here!! What a joke
Our DB's are slow... If they do not play 15 yards off the line of scrimmage, they will get burned consistently. This also means they are unable to help as much in run support since they are back deep, allowing huge lanes for backs to gash us on. One weak part on D hurts everything else. You can't coach speed.Watch our DBs each game and you'll see they couldn't stop a high school team. Anyone ever see alabubba's dbs playing 10-15 yards off the receivers (EVERY TIME)? Maybe these are the 15 plays he talking about but from my standpoint it's more like 50 or 60 times per game. UTs dbs just don't get it....perhaps it's because they are poorly coached??
"In all these games you're seeing about 60 plays of really good defense and about 15 plays of really bad defense," -- Derek Dooley
Fire this clown. More like 60 plays of really bad defense.