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S & C had nothing to do with Martinez's bad knee that was fully visible with a brace. Martinez had to two step turns which is the hesitation people witnesses. Opposing coaches had no problem identifying this issue which adds even more bewilderment why Frost stuck to him when he had become ineffective at running laterally and repetitive failing to deliver on time to his teammates. Martinez has an old man knee and it seem to have been worse over the course of the season. His delivery mechanics were very poor and did not reflect his throwing motion the previous year. He often short armed his throws with no thumbs down follow through, which made even simple passes needlessly more dramatic. The sudden decline in his throwing motion hints at a shoulder injury, which again has nothing to do with S & C. Wandale had a hip injury that was serious enough to hold him out of practice yet he was allowed to participate at game time. Clearly he was not anywhere near full speed against Iowa. Instead of Duval, maybe fans should be asking about the athletic trainers letting injured athletes continue to play.

How did a guy that was often the worst scored OL starter get adjudicated as one of the best? There is only five of them, so I guess being top 5 is one of the best. But honestly, just being fast out of a stance is not good enough. He has struggles with making line calls which threw a wrench in our pass protection much of the season. He often makes bad angles on linebackers and pulling linemen. Other than maybe Farniok, I'm not sure anyone else on the OL has as many lookout blocks in the run game.

I won't panic if we start 6-1.

A lot of the game is won and lost by the non-stars (journeyman). The stars look pretty good by the time they are seniors, regardless which coach recruited them. It really is the journeyman that has to get better across the board. Wilson got his job with hustle. We're finally getting to the point where guys with ability should be given the chance to beat him out of his position. Honestly, we don't have a single OL superstar and all the jobs need to be under a competition. This includes projects like Jurgens. The same goes for every position across the board. The men will separate from the boys under competitive conditions. Most coaches mistake the product in practice conditions as equal to competitive situations.

Bunch, Forbes, Hemphill, Nance, Bradley, Jones, Chaffin, McQuitty, Liewer, Karel, Alexander, Vainuku, Cox, and Rogers.

The 300 pound bench presses are very common at the college level, but it is uncommon in the average population. I've had the pleasure of experiencing taking on two different gents with claimed 500 pound bench presses and they had great strength. I know what it's like to be head slapped by one of those brutes, and it hurt like being hit by a tree trunk. But all that strength faded fast. The trick is consistently stay on top with hand position so you never feel their great strength used against you. People that study Judo should be able to relate to this. If you learned hand technique then hand speed and arm length are golden. Not too many big bench press guys have great endurance. As endurance fades so does the hand speed. If you aren't winning hand position you waste your strength. Guys with much lower bench presses were consistently better as the game wore on. Don't confuse being weaker on a weight bench with being weaker at football. Will Shields was a good example of that. Sucked at heavy weight on the bench press but could throw up 225 pounds at lightning speeds.

Husker Power was focus on evidence-based outcomes. Duval is all about the science. Since power is a function of work/time, I would never be too worried about max bench or squat numbers. I'd rather face a 500 pound bench that can only throw up 225 about fifteen times per minute than a 300 pound bench that can throw up 225 at twice the rate. The big bench is impressive, but the rapid-fire 225 guy is more football relevant. Everyone focuses on 40 times, but the box run and 10 yard is much more relevant to football. Standing broad jump, vertical jump, hill climbs, and stair run are not often cited tests these days, but they are great ways to separate men from boys, too. Power just is the least understood term when it comes to football. But if you really want to win you really focus on the true meaning behind the term.

Y is your tight end and H back, not the slot. X & Y are the end, Z is flanker. Your slot would be the flanker. Sure an H back can be in a slot, but it is not the same.

If we hadn't kept running him into Wisconsin's wall repeatedly, I doubt he slows down like he did when he got hammered on a fairly routine looking play. The inside pounding made him slow enough to catch by Wisconsin's slower linebacker. Prior to that he was pretty elusive. He is a perimeter threat, but he is unlikely to fit into the role Mills can do. I get the whole concealing tendencies idea, but making guys do what they do poorly is a predictable recipe. The biggest improvement Mills had was not talent-wise, it was understanding the play calls. Wandale came in and had enough reps he should know the offense well enough by now to play the role for which he was recruited. But if this staff intends to keep pounding him between tackles, we're going to see him lose a step at going wide.

So get Tommie to come in as an advisor at $20/hour and make him sign an NDA. While under contract he shuts up. While observing practices he shuts up. Win-win.

Frost happened upon a formula that can make a Florida kid successful, a system not really all that dissimilar to Florida under Steve Spurrier. When he came back to Nebraska he denied his roots and stuck to the UCF plan. His offense is consistent in that it either a drought or it pours, but lacks the steadiness of a rainy day. His defense plays a similar all or nothing style, without the journeyman level of talent he could find in Florida.

The spring was a lot of wasted practice during the spring game. Guys that carried weight in the spring game were ghosts during the season.

TCU's Patterson is a good coach. It probably was a mistake to take the TCU job for a guy like that.

i finally understand why this offense doesn't run misdirection. Who'd thunk misdirection was considered trick plays. This offense doesn't use trick plays, it only uses decisive choices! All these years...

The average fan wants to see Martinez on the bench once he unravels. When he unravels our offense goes into turtle mode. When he's hot he's hot, but when he's indecisive it falls on the defense too much. And our defense cannot carry this team.

Frost said packages not trick plays. They are not the same thing. You build a series of plays around a look, and this is referred to as a package. Every coach refers to play series as a package. McCaffrey made a read and hit the open guy, that is all. Vedral runs the progression. Vedral's 50% passing is much better for the team than the 67% of simple throws made by Martinez. Vedral focuses on the defense and taking chunks. Martinez has about a quarter per game where it looks like he has focus then it unravels. Martinez focuses too much on the dink in the dink and dunk offense when it is the dunks that open up the run game.

Yet our backups play with the same constraints and do well. Enough with excuses. If the job is overwhelming let the next guy take a stab at it. The best will shine under pressure, the worst will melt like a snowflake.

I think Moos retires with full honors intact regardless how Frost pans out. Moos is doing a great job.

People call those simple passes for a reason, they are much more simple to execute. Would I expect a 75 year old grandma to make them? No. But a 19 year old experienced QB can adjust to make correct throws. Martinez has been misfiring on the passing game because of reluctance to deliver the ball. The substitutes have had very little problem delivering to the same targets in the correct progression at the correct time. And most QB starters don't pad stats against weak competition, they deliver reliably and through the progression. Martinez has delivered passes that were easy when stretching the defense would have helped the team. Three and outs sticking to simple doesn't cut it at this level. But it does look good on stat sheets.

So if you had n as the total number of samples and uses a randomizer to select up to n/10 capped at no more than 10% from that group, and ran that routine ten times then averaged out the results, would that be a fair assessment? I have pretty high confidence it would look favorable in ways that would suggest Martinez is not the best option. All those bad plays would catch up to him, because they happen way too often. His downside is killing us and his upside is often too little too late.

We seem to have a leadership problem with Martinez at QB. There's a lot of writing out there about what 'makes a great leader'. They all tend to say the same thing. Good leaders are: 1. Effective problem-solvers 2. Results-driven 3. Supportive of others 4. Encouraging of ideas 5. Champions of change So how does Martinez look when we go down the list? He doesn't seem to attract a lot of teammates around him on the sideline like we've seen with McCaffrey or Vedral after a scoring drive. Superficially it suggests there's a disconnect with the team. And when Vedral or McCaffrey step into the huddle the team looks excited. With the social media swirling with JD leaving rumors, it suggests a certain level of players resistant to the way the team is being led on the offensive unit.

There's a lot of writing out there about what 'makes a great leader'. They all tend to say the same thing. Good leaders are: 1. Effective problem-solvers 2. Results-driven 3. Supportive of others 4. Encouraging of ideas 5. Champions of change So how does Frost look when we go down the list? If I apply it to Moos then it's an A+. For the staff it is a bag of mixed results. Some score pretty high, some are difficult to score. But it gets very murky with Frost. He's a leader to some on an A+ for sure. But the further from the favorites of the staff it seems to get muddied. I don't think Frost is an F or a D to any of his players. But he probably was a C at best with Riley's players he couldn't see any use for on the team. Was it intentional. I don't think so. It might come across cold, but he's honest. He's also telling it like it is. I think the problem is he didn't use the talent at hand to play the short game and he hasn't really explained the long game. It's a rough position to be in, because he doesn't want to give all his secrets of his vision away in a public fashion. So it is frustrating to see the team fail. And there were a hundred ways he could have reached 8 wins this year. I'm hoping he sandbagged on the competition and we really can start seeing results in at least a relevant bowl next year.

So what was Frazier's record as a coach? Wiki says 3-17. It looks like he maintained 2004 results for a year, but they were obviously bad before his arrival. 2010 3-7 .300 2009 4-7 .364 2008 4-7 .364 2007 4-6 .400 2006 1-9 .100 2005 2-8 .200 2004 2-8 .200 2003 4-6 .400 2002 7-3 .700 2001 6-3 .667 2000 5-4 .556

Tommie is the typical player turned coach that judges talent based on standards that are too high for what he can bring to a Doane or any other NAIA school. Sure he's not a people person and makes a pretty cold impression when fans approach him cold. No different than most sports stars on the national stage. I heard Nick Saban is well known for being cold when people stalk him at the airports. Nobody calls him a tool for it. These people probably have had enough experiences to distrust random people. It might even trigger them as a threat to their personal safety as they don't often have private bouncers around them. If you don't want to be disappointed, don't approach a guy like him because he will not fail to disappoint.