The Official Bring Jedd Home Thread

Look. People don't think there will be instant fix is out of their mind. And many fan base here use double standard. Just look at our OL development. It's clear how effective a good OL coach can improve the team vs bad OL coach (or you can say a great OL coach vs. a good but not fitting OL coach). Why we hold different standard for OC or HC (if he's the one who call the play). It's about coaching. we have two year sampling size to make a fair good conclusion on this offense, the red zone offense efficiency is enough to make the conclusion.

The fact that media keep claiming the coach staff keep the plays for the future more important game is getting ridiculous. Year in or year out, we never seen those hiden plays from their pockets, other than the first year when we play Florida. The offensive play calling in the bowl game has not been significant improvement from the OSU game. Fan would expect that the coach would pull out all their playbook since it's the last game of the season. It never happened. At this point, I have concluded that this is just suger coating. The team only have limited plays in the books, result on the field shows it. Either it's on the coach or the players, doesn't matter. (keep in mind that this happened before in Bo's era too in terms of passing play, according to some old players in the talk show. I heard in from WTKA. 6 out of 10 passing play was play actions, so when they left behind in the game, and need to pass, still can only call a sorry-ass play action play in obvious passing situation.)  I would guess it's both. I strongly believe football IQ and general IQ level is more important for college football than NFL. Being in Stanford with higher average IQ/football IQ but less athletism may be a good thing for JH's system. Given limited practice time requirement for college football. Players master the concept in 2-3 practices (vs. 4-5 practices) and apply on the field could be massive effect in JH;'s complex play book. Also smarter players can adjust the skill and play on the field.  After 4-5 years, we are still talking about simplifying the playbook!!! Either our player are not smart enough as a team to grasp the concept while maintain their techniques on the field (within limited practice time). Or the offensive coaching (especially JH who is steering the wheel is incompetence to adapt and make change fast enough, or didn't recognize this issue in year 1 and year 2).

Most fan see the issues. either JH need to change his philosiphy (to recreate a new playbook to help better exceution and game plan) or find a better OC who can design better plays for JH for him to call. None of us knows the root cause, but one of this has to happen to solve that miserable root cause.  Otherwise, JH will sink with his incompetent staff or his not-so-fit philosophy. I think JH has a much tough path in BIG than Pac12, where the politics and referees are worse. Still cursing Jim Denaly nowaday, until he is gone, our golory day won't come. If he stays long, the only other path for us is 8 team playoff, so we can mitigate the influence by BIG officials (both adminstration and referees)

I think Jim Harbaugh was working on the passing game improving when he hired Dan Enos and Jim McElwain. I expect more steps in that direction very soon.