Guy Thomas gone

[Hans Gruber]

I think the whole "knowing someone else's offense" thing is essentially irrelevant now.

 

Every team has access to all-22 game film. Every Power Five team has analysts that break everything down on film.

 

Thomas may know some things, but they'd be things that Colorado's staff already knew much more about anyways. 

[MichiganDad3]

In 2003 Tampa killed Oakland in the super bowl. The Tampa players said they knew what plays and what routes would be fun, and couldn't believe Callahan didn't change any plays. I am sure Gruden knew the raider's playbook better than Thomas knows the Huskers, but he will provide something.

[brophog]

7 hours ago, Hans Gruber said:

I think the whole "knowing someone else's offense" thing is essentially irrelevant now.

 

Every team has access to all-22 game film. Every Power Five team has analysts that break everything down on film.

 

Thomas may know some things, but they'd be things that Colorado's staff already knew much more about anyways. 

 

Frost himself pointed this out at media day, citing how a team can run something new one week and see half the league running it the next. Football is not exactly complicated.

 

The biggest thing that any opposing team can find out is Frost’s play calling tendencies...what he like to call given certain conditions...and like Hans mentioned every team will track and analyze that in far, far more depth than a defensive player can ever tell them.

 

The rest of it would be rather useless information because of how this offense is constructed. Like Osborne’s offense (and a lot of others) it’s based on a relatively few plays out of a lot of formations. But then he tacks on packaged plays, RPOs, his receivers are running backs and his tight ends play about four positions, and he can motion these guys all over the place. So if a defense thinks they have a read based on a given alignment and/or personnel by the time he puts it in the FrostoMatic7000 it spits out something completely unexpected.

He’s a playcaller who grew up with sequential based offenses who now has access to new age modularity, who also happens to understand defenses from the experience of a Safety.

 

Makes you want to be a defensive coordinator, doesn’t it. 

[theknife]

On 7/20/2019 at 8:05 PM, cheekygeek said:

Is there any concern that he is going to a 2019 opponent with at least some knowledge of both how our defense is going to work in 2019 and practicing against the SF offense?

He's not enrolling until January anyways.

[Ulty]

9 hours ago, MichiganDad3 said:

In 2003 Tampa killed Oakland in the super bowl. The Tampa players said they knew what plays and what routes would be fun, and couldn't believe Callahan didn't change any plays. I am sure Gruden knew the raider's playbook better than Thomas knows the Huskers, but he will provide something.

 

This was an impressive way to bring Callahan into this thread.

[KCBuc]

9 hours ago, MichiganDad3 said:

In 2003 Tampa killed Oakland in the super bowl. The Tampa players said they knew what plays and what routes would be fun, and couldn't believe Callahan didn't change any plays. I am sure Gruden knew the raider's playbook better than Thomas knows the Huskers, but he will provide something.

Fwiw Callahan also abandoned the run very early and played into the strength of the Tampa D. A problem that followed him to NU. 

[Stumpy1]

Thomas didnt even know our defensive playbook good enough to get on the field here.  I doubt he could help them out much.