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Bill Davis (LB Coach Arizona Cardinals)

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DaBuckeyes said:
Not sure why people try to place blame on only one area. It takes all parts to create a historically bad defense. Scheme, coaching and players. The blame falls on all parts.
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Oh, it's definitely more than one area. The DBs were a shit show for much of the year, as well. But there was noticeable improvement. The LBers, on the other hand, have been trash for two consecutive years and showed zero improvement. All thise long runs we allowed this year? Solid LB play snuffs most of them out. Our guys were consistently out of position, took bad angles, made poor reads and tackled like dog shit. The defense as a whole needs to get better, but I saw improvement everywhere but the LBers as the season wore on.
 
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I didn't see this posted anywhere...

Ohio State linebackers coach Bill Davis asks, ‘Why would you be critical of me?’
Doug Lesmerises
Updated Jan 1; Posted Jan 1

PASADENA, Calif. -- I’ve been critical of you, I told Bill Davis.

“Why would you be critical of me?” he replied, “without having talked to me much.”

Well, one reason is that I talked to other people who would know. But Davis and I talked Sunday, before what should be his final game as Ohio State’s linebackers coach in the Rose Bowl.

I wasn’t that interested in explanations from Davis, but he deserved his chance to defend himself. He’s a 24-year NFL coach who was the best man at Urban Meyer’s wedding and landed at Ohio State as a staffer in 2016 after his latest NFL firing and was a too-easy choice who was already in the building in 2017 when Luke Fickell left to be the head coach at Cincinnati. If Davis didn’t have a personal relationship with Meyer, he wouldn’t have been hired, and I’ve written this season about Meyer hiring his friends.

I cannot possibly imagine that the best move for new coach Ryan Day, with a defense that gave up the most yards and points in Ohio State history, would be keeping Meyer’s best man as his linebackers coach. So I told Davis that.

[cont'd]
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https://www.cleveland.com/osu/2018/...ld-you-be-critical-of-me-doug-lesmerises.html

“I’m not absolving, but I am trying to share with you that there’s a lot of levels and a lot of reasons,” Davis said.
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:roll1::roll1::roll1:

Beneficiary of nepotism, through and through. It's just oozing out of this guy and everything I read about him and see quoted from him.

Day can choose to keep him or not keep him, but this guys isn't about to add any kind of value, at best.

At worst, he could become Day's version of Zach Smith...
 
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Too soon?
 
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shetuck said:
I didn't see this posted anywhere...



https://www.cleveland.com/osu/2018/...ld-you-be-critical-of-me-doug-lesmerises.html



:roll1::roll1::roll1:

Beneficiary of nepotism, through and through. It's just oozing out of this guy and everything I read about him and see quoted from him.

Day can choose to keep him or not keep him, but this guys isn't about to add any kind of value, at best.

At worst, he could become Day's version of Zach Smith...
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The man is just so obtuse. People talk derisively about the coaching profession's "good ol' boys network", Bill Davis is the poster boy.
 
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shetuck said:
You're much more civil than I @NFBuck... "Obtuse" isn't the word I want use, but I'll hold off until he's not on the staff any longer.
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He's a special breed. Tim Beck was run out of town with much glee from Buckeye Nation. Beck's offensive units underachieved massively, but I'd hesitate to call them downright "bad" outside of a few games. On the whole, they were functional. Bill Davis' LBers have been very bad.
 
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NFBuck said:
He's a special breed. Tim Beck was run out of town with much glee from Buckeye Nation. Beck's offensive units underachieved massively, but I'd hesitate to call them downright "bad" outside of a few games. On the whole, they were functional. Bill Davis' variously inept deployment of his LBers has been generally impotent.
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FIFY...
 
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shetuck said:
I didn't see this posted anywhere...



https://www.cleveland.com/osu/2018/...ld-you-be-critical-of-me-doug-lesmerises.html



:roll1::roll1::roll1:

Beneficiary of nepotism, through and through. It's just oozing out of this guy and everything I read about him and see quoted from him.

Day can choose to keep him or not keep him, but this guys isn't about to add any kind of value, at best.

At worst, he could become Day's version of Zach Smith...
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Damn, Doug shredded him. :lol:

Kind of like his linebackers got shredded. :sad:
 
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I agree with Bill, I am sure it was not all on the LBs, but the exact same damn thing he is blaming, "LBs walked up" yada yada, is the exact same damn reason some of the other groups FAILED. There is a reason you have not seen LBs walked up like that at OSU for the past 100 years. I don't give a rats ass about getting one on ones for the Dline and getting a few tackles for losses during the game. Sure that is going to happen when you walk that many guys up. EVERYONE knows that may happen and always have known for 100 years of football that may happen.

BUT NEW FLASH DUMBASS. GUESS WHAT ELSE MIGHT HAPPEN. THE DAMN RB MIGHT GO FOR 80 and HOUSE THE DAMN THING WHICH EVERYONE HAS ALSO KNOWN FOR 100 DANM YEARS OF FOOTBALL HENCE WHY YOU DO NOT SEE LBS WALKED UP AT OSU FOR 100 YEARS BECAUSE IT MIGHT HAPPEN.

Hells fire that speaks volumes to me. He wants to talk about how he has to teach kids fundamentals, that is a damn fundamental of designing a defense, it CANNOT BE FLAT DUMBASS.
 
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They ran PlayStation defense this year.

I used to always run nickel cover 2 man, and I'd blitz the nickel back every single play. It was fine up to about senior. Sure, I would get burned once in a while, but mostly I had 50 sacks a season. On All American or Heisman however, that defense was damn near a guaranteed loss. The AI would break one, and the momentum meter would peg itself. Good luck. Might as well just press reset, because there's no getting this one back.

Getting one-on-ones at the line is worthless if you don't get a TFL. if the guy breaks through the line, there's nothing stopping him from going all the way. What do you do now? Bring the safeties up?

You're better off running a bear front or a 52 at that point.
 
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Zander42 said:
Wow. It absolutely astounds me how people who are in the absolute stratosphere of football, can be so amazingly ignorant about the most basic fundamentals of the game.

Un-fucking-believable.

This is not a smart... man.
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He's one of those guys who thinks that he's smarter than everyone in the room. And his interview came off very snarky and condescending, like "wth does the fan base know". He comes off as a guy who would use the excuse "if you didn't play the game you don't know the game" type, to defend his blatant horrible coaching of a group of very talents LBs. Guys like Hilliard and Booker could've been All B1G caliber players if given more PT, instead of continually playing Borland and Werner, who weren't the most athletic of kids, and he put them in terrible positions to make plays. The least athletic LBs he had trying to run after plays, because when the walk up strategy blew up, it blew up big, because they couldn't keep up with the RB.
 
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