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Jury will be out for a while on him as an OC but he has to be among the very best position coaches to ever do it.
It’s absurd.
It’s absurd.
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No, he’s doing a great job, especially in timing plays. He has a sense of when to go to the air, and even more importantly what receivers should be featured based on tape and gameplay. He sees how the receivers are being checked and gives Sayin a few solid checkdown options.
The run game play calls need some work and creativity. There’s also some syncing that him and Day need to do for short yardage plays, timeouts, etc. Hartline will be molded into a pretty great OC under Day, just going to take some fine tuning and time. Pretty cool to see him cut his teeth this year.
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OregonBuckeye
Semper Fi Buckeyes
I've heard praise for the run game blocking schemes by color commentators. Can't say I know enough to agree/disagree, but it seems like it's just some early season clunkiness in execution and a bit of conservative playcalling that has kept the run game from flourishing so far
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Buckeye86
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I think he’s gotten a little too cute with the TEs so far, thinking too much about how to use them versus just playing to your strength with 3-4 WRs on the field.
That said, lots of TEs coincided with the growth plan they had in place for Sayin, and I’m slightly hopeful they’re putting a million tight end things on tape for teams to think about and prepare for, and then when they need/want to they can bust out a four wide as a fun surprise later in the year.
On the other hand, my nightmare is trying to get cute with TEs and pounding the ball on the ground and running into a buzz saw at the end of November trying that exact thing for the fifth year in a row.
That’s a hypothetical future concern, and there’s a lot to enjoy between now and then, but it continues to be in the back of my mind -as with line up with three TEs and run it on 1st and 20 against Washington - until we show we’re not going to fall into that trap once again at the end of the year.
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