monte is a character
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Whoever our next head coach is, I hope that they are smart enough to hire a full-time special teams assistant coach. Obviously, Delaney is not. Mick's philosophy was to divide up the many aspects of special teams play to his assistants, none of which know anything about coaching special teams. You can see the results on Saturdays.
Take our FG woes this season. I had lunch this summer with a former Griz FG kicker (and a very good one too). He lives in Missoula, and volunteered to Mick to work with the FG kickers during fall camp. He was rebuffed. Now, tell me which of our coaches knows ANYTHING about coaching the FG game? They don't. Same with the blocking schemes for FGs, punts, and KO returns. Zilch experience!
Mick seems to be oblivious to the fact that Special Teams are every bit as important as defense and offense, yet he tries to "coach them by committee". Bad move.
Another example of how far our ST play has degraded from the Hauck days. If you remember, Bobby's special teams always were a threat for a trick play. Either a fake punt, FG, lateral pass on a KO return, etc. And most of them worked. It was an additional weapon in our arensal that opposing coaches always had to prepare for. And their blocking schemes on blocking FGs and setting up punt returns and KO returns were always stellar.... the results being that we had lots of long punt returns and KO returns. Now, we are lucky to fair catch the ball and avoid going backwards due to frequent holding penalties!
Take our FG woes this season. I had lunch this summer with a former Griz FG kicker (and a very good one too). He lives in Missoula, and volunteered to Mick to work with the FG kickers during fall camp. He was rebuffed. Now, tell me which of our coaches knows ANYTHING about coaching the FG game? They don't. Same with the blocking schemes for FGs, punts, and KO returns. Zilch experience!
Mick seems to be oblivious to the fact that Special Teams are every bit as important as defense and offense, yet he tries to "coach them by committee". Bad move.
Another example of how far our ST play has degraded from the Hauck days. If you remember, Bobby's special teams always were a threat for a trick play. Either a fake punt, FG, lateral pass on a KO return, etc. And most of them worked. It was an additional weapon in our arensal that opposing coaches always had to prepare for. And their blocking schemes on blocking FGs and setting up punt returns and KO returns were always stellar.... the results being that we had lots of long punt returns and KO returns. Now, we are lucky to fair catch the ball and avoid going backwards due to frequent holding penalties!
