Cutcliffe: Fulmer's worst move as HC?

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I was listening to Ron Higgens on the Sportspage, and he brought one thing that made Bear such a good coach was how much he changed with the times. He mentoned how Bear ran several different offenses during his career.

We have all heard about CPF's loyalty to coaches and heard him say "we've won this way in the past, we can do it again."

That being said was rehiring Cut the worst move CPF made in his career? Possibly, after the '05 season he had a chance to reinvent the program and himself. He chose not to, and I think it will end up costing him his job.

What if he had of gone out and hired Petersen, then OC at Boise? Maybe telling him CPF would only coach another 5 years, letting Petersen learn about UT and settle in then hand him the reigns.

I'm not saying that is THE answer just pointing out CPF had a chance reinvent himself and change the second half of his career. Instead he reached to someone he was comfortable with and now has likely cost him his job and the support of the fans.
 
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Hiring CUT was a good move. We just need to recruit CUT players.
 
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i don't think the offense is necessarily is to blame, the defense has gotten to the point that it doesn't exist anymore. true we cant run the ball but for some reason so far we've been able to score with the exception of florida.
 
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I want to know how the offense has changed since Cut came back. It looks like the same offense from 2005, except Ainge isn't a head case anymore.

So, was Cut just a very expensive QB coach?
 
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I don't think Cut is a bad coach at all.

My point is that after the '05 season Fulmer had a chance to go in a new direction and change with the times. Instead he tried to go back to his past and it hasn't worked.
 
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I don't think it was a bad move. Cut helped transform Erik back into a great qb. Remember how bad our offense was before Cut got here?
 
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Many people on here talk about how the game has passed CPF well part of that is Cut too. He's done a great job with Ainge no doubt.

However we needed to do a 180 after '05 and CPF didn't do that. Our offense is the exact same as it was with Sanders, Cut take 1, Phil before that and so on.
 
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I understand your point about reinventing the offense with some "fresh" new approah. But, Cutcliffe is a great hire. He is an amazing QB coach and a good OC. I am so tired of people complaining about the system. The system is not the problem. We do not have to run the spread to win. Our offensive system is similar in philosophy to the Colts and many other NFL teams. If the system is run with great athletes and executed well it is a great system. We could install the spread offense and not execute (like we have been with our current offense) and it would still not be effective.

You watch the ranked Texas A&M team run that vaulted spread system against Miami last night? Yeah, the system is the answer! Talent and execution is our problem, not the system.
 
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The offense is far superior under Cut than it was under Sanders. The offense was in a steady decline, culminating in the 05' disaster. Ainge was a disaster until Cut arrived, now he's one of the top QBs in the SEC. The offensive scheme is not the problem.

The problem is on defense, which is a complete and total disaster. We are having 40 points a game put up on us. I don't care what kind of offense you have, you aren't going to win many games when that happens.
 
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therickbol said:
I understand your point about reinventing the offense with some "fresh" new approah. But, Cutcliffe is a great hire. He is an amazing QB coach and a good OC. I am so tired of people complaining about the system. The system is not the problem. We do not have to run the spread to win. Our offensive system is similar in philosophy to the Colts and many other NFL teams. If the system is run with great athletes and executed well it is a great system. We could install the spread offense and not execute (like we have been with our current offense) and it would still not be effective.

You watch the ranked Texas A&M team run that vaulted spread system against Miami last night? Yeah, the system is the answer! Talent and execution is our problem, not the system.
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The players they bring in or don't bring in still falls on the coaches.

I agree we don't have to run a spread, that's not really my point. If the players don't execute that is a direct reflection on the coaches. The coaches either are not communicating well enough, that players no longer respect or a number of issues.
 
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chidave said:
The offense is far superior under Cut than it was under Sanders. The offense was in a steady decline, culminating in the 05' disaster. Ainge was a disaster until Cut arrived, now he's one of the top QBs in the SEC. The offensive scheme is not the problem.

The problem is on defense, which is a complete and total disaster. We are having 40 points a game put up on us. I don't care what kind of offense you have, you aren't going to win many games when that happens.
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I don't memorize or store stats so I can't argue whether the offense is far superior under Cut than it was under Sanders. But you are wrong saying the offense scheme is not the problem. We are LAST in the conference in rushing. That scheme seems to suck.
 
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allvol123 said:
While Taylor and Rogers are probably doing their best, the WR situation is not in good shape.
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Give them time, it's not like they got much to work with last year.

JZVOL said:
Is the run blocking or running game?
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better than sanders...yes.

Guys, i'm not saying that he's the best OC out there. I'm just saying the O is in better place than it was when he was gone.
 
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chidave said:
The offense is far superior under Cut than it was under Sanders. The offense was in a steady decline, culminating in the 05' disaster. Ainge was a disaster until Cut arrived, now he's one of the top QBs in the SEC. The offensive scheme is not the problem.

The problem is on defense, which is a complete and total disaster. We are having 40 points a game put up on us. I don't care what kind of offense you have, you aren't going to win many games when that happens.
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In '05 our offense consisted of: Dive, Dive, screen on 3rd and long.

How is that different from what we do now?
 
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