After only 4 games, looks like Josh Gattis has worn out his welcome in Miami

"Harbaugh reinserted himself" makes it sound so ... dirty.

Gattis was always an experiment. Prior to Michigan he had other great OC minds around him. At Michigan we don’t know.  The first couple of years he was clearly learning.  

I think it's as simple as getting butthurt that he wasn't mentioned or considered as a potential HC. He likely thought JH was more than 50-50 to leave and thought, fuckit, they don't want me, I"m gone then.

Not a huge loss to date of course

He probably could have eventually gotten a head coaching gig somewhere if he stuck around, but he decided he'd rather go roll around in poop down there in Miami.

Whatever. Weiss and Moore are pretty cool.

If he ever wanted to be fully forthcoming, I’m sure Harbaugh could write a great book. I’d love to read about what was really going on behind the scenes during the 49er years when, after three straight NFC Championship Game appearances and a Super Bowl, Jed York chose to undermine him and the team’s chances by leaking negative information to the press, all because he wanted to make it look like he was justified in firing the only successful coach they’d had since Walsh and Seifert. I’m sure the 2020 off season would be very interesting as well, when half the fan base wanted to run him out of town and the university forced him to take a humiliating pay cut. 

"I won't claim to know which plays were called by Harbaugh vs Gattis - this board LOVED to attribute unproductive rushes to Harbaugh and productive passes to Gattis"

Running isn't bad. Power running isn't bad. Minnesota played their run game beautifully against MSU. Too many people think it is though. The way some people I speak to talk I wonder if they get offended every time we recruit a running back. 

Michigan has had boneheaded runs, but not when Harbaugh seemed more involved. When he was part of the offensive triumvirate when they first came here the running game was effective and complex with Devon Smith. When Pep and Gattis got involved we had more boneheaded runs and it was more predictable. Then when first Warriner, then later Moore and (we think?) Harbaugh got more involved last year it got better. 

I won’t pretend to know what exactly happened, but I also don’t think it’s as simple as “Harbaugh inserted himself back into the offense.” While the offense started to take more of a Harbaugh identity as the season moved along, let’s simply take him out of the equation for a moment.

Before the season even began, Sherrone Moore was promoted to co-OC. Now again, I don’t know exactly what his role was in that capacity but it’s pretty certain he took on at least a small portion of Gattis’ previous responsibility. Harbaugh also brought in Matt Weiss to coach the QBs. Weiss has an extensive background in analytics, so it’s a pretty safe assumption that those were used as a critical component in gameplanning and situational playcalling. 
 

Whether Harbaugh was directly involved in the offense or not, it’s clear he took a lot of responsibility off of Gattis’ plate last season. Enough responsibility that Harbaugh felt confident enough in those two coaches (in addition to whatever his own contributions were/are) to let Gattis walk without much of an attempt to keep him. 

Never bought the Gattis hype. It was funny to see RPO become the stuff of legend though as every week people were hopefully looking for it.

edit: I take that back I sort of bought in at the end of last season, (prior to Georgia) I had love to spare for everybody at that point.

not yet, but probably someday 

Locksley’s ability to draw up plays is unquestioned. I am not so certain that his regime does much to *develop* players. 

Gattis addressing the offense prior to this series:

Speed in less-Space

A thousand times this ^^^

well, yeah, that’s what “average poster,” you know, MEANS.

if you think there wasn’t a significant chunk of this community that weren’t losing their minds about gattis in 2020, then bitching about him leaving this past offseason, you havent been paying attention.