BSpringsteen
Well-Known Member
Another poster and I routinely get into arguments over the phone about KF. He believes that poor or good execution on Saturday is because of good and band coaching. A win is because of the coaches and so is a loss.
I believe that all KF can do as a coaching staff is put his team in a position to win the game. The execution is up to the players.
Yesterday KF failed.
How do you not snap the ball when you get a gift of a first down? They waited and waiter and waiter as if they wanted the play to get reviewed.
Why is it that Colin Sandeman, who is the king of fair catches needs 10 men surrounding him to do so? Why is the other team picking things up on film and exploiting them when it matters most? Why were we so unprepared for that play?
And finally - you lose this game because you miss a last second FG, that's the way it goes sometime, but to not even get the opportunity because of poor clock management is beyond me.
Those three plays lay on the feet of Ferentz, no question about it, and what's frustrating is that this has been a systemic problem under KF.
How many times have we watched QB's look to the sideline and not get a play and need to burn a timeout. That may be KOK and not KF, but he's still the captain.
Clock management has always been his achilles heal. Take the LSU Cap One Bowl. Drew Tate bailed KF out. How do you not know the clock starts running after that penalty?
How about the fact that teams (granted 12 yrs. later) now seem ready and willing to dink it down the field to score on us?
How about the fact that despite the personnel we have on the field, we still allow other teams to dictate that their fastest WR can be guarded by a LB. On the ball that Gilreath dropped, he had nothing but green ahead of him.
I love KF and there is no one I think would do a better job coaching the Hawks. But it's time to admit and I think it is fine to do so, that he is not a great football coach. He is a good football coach. Coaching 2 star players into the NFL is not enough to make you great. To be great, you have to have great games when the X is on your back, and that is a position KF has never seemed comfortable with.
I believe that all KF can do as a coaching staff is put his team in a position to win the game. The execution is up to the players.
Yesterday KF failed.
How do you not snap the ball when you get a gift of a first down? They waited and waiter and waiter as if they wanted the play to get reviewed.
Why is it that Colin Sandeman, who is the king of fair catches needs 10 men surrounding him to do so? Why is the other team picking things up on film and exploiting them when it matters most? Why were we so unprepared for that play?
And finally - you lose this game because you miss a last second FG, that's the way it goes sometime, but to not even get the opportunity because of poor clock management is beyond me.
Those three plays lay on the feet of Ferentz, no question about it, and what's frustrating is that this has been a systemic problem under KF.
How many times have we watched QB's look to the sideline and not get a play and need to burn a timeout. That may be KOK and not KF, but he's still the captain.
Clock management has always been his achilles heal. Take the LSU Cap One Bowl. Drew Tate bailed KF out. How do you not know the clock starts running after that penalty?
How about the fact that teams (granted 12 yrs. later) now seem ready and willing to dink it down the field to score on us?
How about the fact that despite the personnel we have on the field, we still allow other teams to dictate that their fastest WR can be guarded by a LB. On the ball that Gilreath dropped, he had nothing but green ahead of him.
I love KF and there is no one I think would do a better job coaching the Hawks. But it's time to admit and I think it is fine to do so, that he is not a great football coach. He is a good football coach. Coaching 2 star players into the NFL is not enough to make you great. To be great, you have to have great games when the X is on your back, and that is a position KF has never seemed comfortable with.
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