I have a problem with this

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^ I think what we can take away from that is that people have a problem with Watson, but love TO. They are determined to find things to not like about anything Watson says or does, until Nebraska's holy deity TO comes in and says the same thing.

No, that's not at all what we can take from that. What you're saying there has nothing to do with what he said.

What we can take from it is this: TO and Watson did/do the same thing - they try a bunch of different formations on the defense early to see what works. SAME.

What TO would do was to make adjustments to that and go back and hit those plays again and again when they do work. Watson seems to find something that works and shelves it. For no discernible reason. DIFFERENT.

Reading is fundamental.

Thanks for picking up what I was putting down! I thought Watson did a great job last year adapting to personnel and adjusting in midseason. I heard someone today offer the observation that 1/3 of the big plays last year came off of improvised plays with Joe Ganz creating something out of nothing with Swift and Peterson. We knew coming in that we didn't have that experience. But it also makes me wonder why we can't create some big plays within the offense.