Whats the overall feeling about Betts as the new RB coach? His first year on the job did not turn out so great. A lot due to OL problems, but is anything that Betts can be doing better?
I am not sure how Betts is rated after his first year. You might want to start a thread with that title or just a title of "Rating the Asst Coaches". I think our big problem was the OLine and if we would have had the equivalent of the 2002 or 03 Olines the running backs we had this year would have a ton of yards.
I mentioned this during the season but I thought our running backs missed a lot of cutbacks throughout the year that could have gained big yards. We all remember Kirk's best running teams had the Betts, Russell, Young, Lewis, Greene who could cut back, and others. Anyway, Goodson I thought could have cut back more.
And let's face it, 95% of our run plays go to the first direction the OLine moves so defenses have a real high probability of stopping a run to a certain gap or side so that many times our big runs could come off of cutbacks.
Now was that Betts' fault, did they not want the running backs to cutback on their own, did Goodson and others not just see that empty green space in their peripheral vision.
The cutback is the counter play built into the zone blocking scheme.