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2025 Transfer Thread/ Portal Offers-- (31) Transfers to UM

billingsgriz said:
Coach Hauck has done a good job coaching in the sequel, but he does need to tweak both the offense and defense.

Offense: Junk the quarterback by " feel," and select a starting QB by the third nonconference game if not before !!! If h I s performance is underwhelming, fire him and replace him with QB # 2. When we have a four or five score lead during the 4th Qtr., play QB # 2.

Defense: Junk the 3-3-5 and it's exotic Blue Angels' flight formations: stunts, stems, twists and use them to a lesser extent in a base 4-3-4 and if an opponent gets pass happy with 3 or 4 receivers, drop a LB and play nickel, 4-2-5 ( No college team was won a NC playing the 3-3-5, and no NFL team playing the 3-3-5 has won a Super Bowl !!! In fact, I am not aware of any NFL that currently uses a 3-3-5. And that is not a coincidence !!! )

Some tweaks need to be made--a tune up for the GRIZ Cadillac is needed, but just six years when Coach Hauck came back for the sequel, the Cadillac was smoking badly under the hood, the engine frequently stalled and quit, and our Caddy needed a complete engine and transmission rebuild, which took 2018 and '19 !!!
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Some wisdom and respect. Thanks!
 
HikeGlacier said:
I know way more about it than you. Have known O’day since his western breeze days.
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No, you don't know O'Day better than I do. I have been good friends with him for a long time. We talk, text, and meet for drinks and dinner quite a bit. I texted with him, as well as Pflu, multiple times yesterday. Pflu is also my good friend. See him frequently in AZ, as well as in MT when he visits. I already knew a lot about the situation, but they fed me more information. I assume O'Day thinks you are a total idiot. I just texted him.
 
billingsgriz said:
Coach Hauck has done a good job coaching in the sequel, but he does need to tweak both the offense and defense.

Offense: Junk the quarterback by " feel," and select a starting QB by the third nonconference game if not before !!! If h I s performance is underwhelming, fire him and replace him with QB # 2. When we have a four or five score lead during the 4th Qtr., play QB # 2.

Defense: Junk the 3-3-5 and it's exotic Blue Angels' flight formations: stunts, stems, twists and use them to a lesser extent in a base 4-3-4 and if an opponent gets pass happy with 3 or 4 receivers, drop a LB and play nickel, 4-2-5 ( No college team was won a NC playing the 3-3-5, and no NFL team playing the 3-3-5 has won a Super Bowl !!! In fact, I am not aware of any NFL that currently uses a 3-3-5. And that is not a coincidence !!! )

Some tweaks need to be made--a tune up for the GRIZ Cadillac is needed, but just six years when Coach Hauck came back for the sequel, the Cadillac was smoking badly under the hood, the engine frequently stalled and quit, and our Caddy needed a complete engine and transmission rebuild, which took 2018 and '19 !!!
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Hauck and coaches were never doing the qb rotation by feel. That's just what he said to the press to deflect the question. That's why he told some of us.
 
billingsgriz said:
( No college team was won a NC playing the 3-3-5, and no NFL team playing the 3-3-5 has won a Super Bowl !!! In fact, I am not aware of any NFL that currently uses a 3-3-5. And that is not a coincidence !!! )
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I hear this a lot, and it just isn't factual. The 3-3-5 is used a LOT in the NFL. Any 3-4 defense that drops into a nickel package is a 3-3-5.

By the same token, the Griz often bring a player down to the line of scrimmage, meaning that sometimes the Griz defense is functionally stacked in a 4-2-5 or a 4-3-4.

If you want to say that we should not use it as our base defense, that's an opinion and everyone is welcome to theirs. If you want to say we don't seem to have the personnel last year that could 2-gap at the NT position, that is a totally valid opinion, and everyone has a right to it. But people saying that college and NFL teams never run a 3-3-5 either don't know what a 3-3-5 is, or they don't know what they are watching on TV. Defenses are more fluid than people on this board give them credit for.

NFL teams are also treating the nickel position as a hybrid safety position more and more, which is something that came out of the 3-3-5. Before the start of the season, or early in it, Vic Fangio talked a good bit about that.
 
billingsgriz said:
Coach Hauck has done a good job coaching in the sequel, but he does need to tweak both the offense and defense.

Offense: Junk the quarterback by " feel," and select a starting QB by the third nonconference game if not before !!! If h I s performance is underwhelming, fire him and replace him with QB # 2. When we have a four or five score lead during the 4th Qtr., play QB # 2.

Defense: Junk the 3-3-5 and it's exotic Blue Angels' flight formations: stunts, stems, twists and use them to a lesser extent in a base 4-3-4 and if an opponent gets pass happy with 3 or 4 receivers, drop a LB and play nickel, 4-2-5 ( No college team was won a NC playing the 3-3-5, and no NFL team playing the 3-3-5 has won a Super Bowl !!! In fact, I am not aware of any NFL that currently uses a 3-3-5. And that is not a coincidence !!! )

Some tweaks need to be made--a tune up for the GRIZ Cadillac is needed, but just six years when Coach Hauck came back for the sequel, the Cadillac was smoking badly under the hood, the engine frequently stalled and quit, and our Caddy needed a complete engine and transmission rebuild, which took 2018 and '19 !!!
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"Junking" the 3-3-5 isn't a "tweak". It would require a wholesale overhaul of the defensive roster. We currently have ONE guy (Ramos) on the roster over 280. In your proposal he'd need a minimum of six for starters, depth and development at DT. We wouldn't need the # of safeties and corners we have.

A) I don't think he's junking anything
B) Even if he did, that roster turnover ain't happening in one year.

We're stuck with the 3-3-5 until he departs, most likely.
 
ElrodGrizzly said:
I hear this a lot, and it just isn't factual. The 3-3-5 is used a LOT in the NFL. Any 3-4 defense that drops into a nickel package is a 3-3-5.

By the same token, the Griz often bring a player down to the line of scrimmage, meaning that sometimes the Griz defense is functionally stacked in a 4-2-5 or a 4-3-4.

If you want to say that we should not use it as our base defense, that's an opinion and everyone is welcome to theirs. If you want to say we don't seem to have the personnel last year that could 2-gap at the NT position, that is a totally valid opinion, and everyone has a right to it. But people saying that college and NFL teams never run a 3-3-5 either don't know what a 3-3-5 is, or they don't know what they are watching on TV. Defenses are more fluid than people on this board give them credit for.

NFL teams are also treating the nickel position as a hybrid safety position more and more, which is something that came out of the 3-3-5. Before the start of the season, or early in it, Vic Fangio talked a good bit about that.
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Elrond. You’re dealing with people who think teams stay in their base defense the entire game. It’s not worth it. Although to be fair, Baer would stay in his base defense the entire game. Bradford changed that.
 
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