Cpj on fake punt, "My bad fam"

That was a defensive lineman who ran the fake punt. He may run a 4.5 but guessing not.
 
Dirty Jacket said:
Dude he takes responsibility to sound good and it starts to gnaw at him and kill him and he decompensates and throws the assistants and players under the bus. Every. Single. Time. I’ve been a Paul defender til last week. Last week broke it for me. He can’t win me back. Arrogance is funny when you’re saban and winning.
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So what should he have said? Downplay it and people accuse him of an IIWII attitude. Be honest about what happened and people say he's throwing the players under the bus. Taek
18in32 said:
The problem is when he says "it's totally my fault" it sounds totally insincere... because he offers no comment on what he's going to do differently to change it. He just says "we have to coach them better." If he really thinks *he's* done wrong, then tell us what it is, and what you're going to do to fix it.

For example, for all the stupid posters on here talking about how CPJ is too lazy/stubborn to fix special teams, it's been a frustration and point of emphasis for him for years now. He's talked about it incessantly, he's tried special teams coordinators, he's taken over it himself, everything. And yet we still have real problems.

That's why CPJ is losing me... it seems like he's all out of ideas for how to fix the problems that have now become persistent across seasons.
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Yeah, I can agree with all of this. I do think he is somewhat arrogant, but I think he's honest with his answers and relates better with his players than most people here believe.

I'm gonna support the team this season because it's what I do, but something major will have to change, because CPJ has lost me.
 
18in32 said:
From the stands it is hard to tell the difference between 1 "taking off a play and getting beaten out" (ie, a motivation problem) and 2 "fighting like hell and getting beaten out" (ie, a talent problem) and 3"fighting like hell but going to the wrong spot" (ie, an execution problem). If our problem was of the second variety, we'd have a lot less success than we (even still) occasionally have. I mean, there were plenty of plays where we looked pretty good yesterday. Not enough to win the game, but enough to demonstrate the problem is not simply Pitt out-manning us.
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I would say DL is some of 2, second level of defense is 2 & 3 due to new system and young guys. Offense looks like a lot of 3, except for passing plays and short yardage which look like 2.

Some people seem to think they see a lot of 1; but I don't.
 
aeromech said:
I would say DL is some of 2, second level of defense is 2 & 3 due to new system and young guys. Offense looks like a lot of 3, except for passing plays and short yardage which look like 2.

Some people seem to think they see a lot of 1; but I don't.
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Watch the long run by Howard before the dropped touchdown by Brad Stewart. Notice who eventually makes the tackle. It was the backside corner. Brad Stewart had the chance to impede him, but never attempted to try to run with him at all. He was never going to get a real block in there, but he could've slowed him down if he ran with him. On a lot of our big plays over the past few years, you've seen Stewart way downfield still hustling and impeding the backside pursuit. He took the play off, assuming it had been stopped, and it cost us a touchdown. He then proceeded to drop the pass on the next play which is more of a talent issue. Brad Stewart cost us 7 points there due to lack of effort and then lack of talent. I don't see the point in sugar coating that fact.
 
johncu said:
Honest question - what do you want him to say about us not being able to complete an 8 yard stop route to an open receiver? That's pretty clearly the player's fault, and ultimately CPJ's fault (as everything is). And that is what he said. People want honest answers about what happened and that is exactly what he gives.
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Plays like fake punts need to be practiced and practiced and practiced until perfect execution is highly likely. And even then, they should rarely be used. I don't know what our situation was on this particular play, but if you watch it three or four times, we certainly didn't look polished in our execution.
 
Yukonwreck said:
Plays like fake punts need to be practiced and practiced and practiced until perfect execution is highly likely. And even then, they should rarely be used. I don't know what our situation was on this particular play, but if you watch it three or four times, we certainly didn't look polished in our execution.
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I suspect that the fake punt was a lot like our other difficulties in running plays the correct way. It seems to me that we have a few formations and the “plays” are more of less directions to run in a direction and toward a certain gap. That would explain not needing a play card.
 
Just watched the DVR recording. Was on the way back from out of town. TQM had a really bad game on reading the pitch. Several times if he had pitched there was plenty of room for big plays on the edge. Not sure why he struggled so mightily with the play this week. As far as his passing he was actually better than the numbers Stewart missed the throw down the seam Would have been a good catch nut you have o bring those in I wasn't sure why we ere throwing there though. We had just picked up a huge gain on the ground and plenty of time before the half to cash in just sticking to our normal set of plays Camp missed an easy throw. To compound the issue our OL didn't give him much time. But to be sure PJ's call for the fake pun was absolutely a dumb ass call. Way to early to put the defense behind he eight ball. Had we been near mid field or in desperation time...yes, but not that early against an opponent that is not very good. PJ coached a poor game and TQM made some poor reads. Long season and maybe PJ's last.
 
I think we might be missing LJ more than we think.
 
I think the fake punt happened because it looked like our D wasn't stopping them, especially after USF, and we couldn't miss our turn. It was a bad call because it turns out our D could stop them. Should've given the D more of a chance

Cost us the game
 
ThisIsAtlanta said:
“We played the second half like we could have played the first. There was no difference. There was no adjustment. They lined up the same way, we played the same way. We just played a little better. The quarterback played a little better. Right now, for us, it has to be almost perfect. It just has to be almost perfect. And when we’ve got first-and-10 and we take the ball on the option and we flash fake and we don’t pitch and we get tackled and it’s second-and-10, then it becomes a problem. As long as we’re doing it perfectly, we can kind of get down the field. We didn’t have any home-run plays today, although we had a chance. We had a chance to hit Brad (Stewart) in the post off play action and we had some chances. You’ve got to hit one or two of those plays.”
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I wondered if some of the late running plays were called because CPJ thought they could be home runs. That makes them more mystifying, because we clearly have demonstrated no ability to make those plays happen, certainly not when the defense is in prevent and has all their men downfield with enough space and time to see any such run coming.

This kind of talk is who CPJ is, it's not as irritating to me as it is to some people and never has been since we've always known this is who he is. What's troubling is that he is saying and doing things the way he always has and there's no indication of any major changes coming. He's going to send the same starters back out to run the same plays in hopes that they'll get it "almost perfect" this time, though it seems obvious that this group is not capable of that right now.
 
RussianOffense said:
I think the fake punt happened because it looked like our D wasn't stopping them, especially after USF, and we couldn't miss our turn. It was a bad call because it turns out our D could stop them. Should've given the D more of a chance

Cost us the game
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Fourth and seven inside your own 35 and in the first quarter is pretty much textbook desperation.
 
There is not one GT fan in the stadium that doesn't think "well, 3 and out" when TM tries to pass on first down. We only complete what? About 30% of our passes? If we throw an incomplete on first down, I just prep for the punt
 
Of course PJ is arrogant. I’m glad he is. I’m glad he believes in his system win or lose. And he’s right: if the players execute properly, his system works. And he’s also right: if the players don’t execute properly, it’s his fault.
 
Reading that, cpj is saying you have to hit some easy passes. Shoot, if you can’t hit those passes pull the qb. If the backup can’t do it, burn the redshirt. Somebody has to be able to hit these wide open passes.
 
atlanta jacket said:
Totally agree, why in the hell with 2.29 in the 4th quarter were we not in any sense of urgency. I wondered if he just wanted 1 score to make it look like it was a close game, we are pitful
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We don't have an actual 2-minute offense. Nor do we hurry-up or go no-huddle. Running in plays from the sidelines is what jr. high coaches do.
 
It's all about the QB play....and it isn't very good. Also, you have seniors fumbling and dropping the ball at crucial moments. Tough to overcome. D looks small and slow. No fight in them trying to get off blocks. We are now the "red headed stepchild"
 
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