Props for Greg Davis
by djwsatx on Jan 6, 2009 1:44 PM CST
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PrintI hereby accept the job of unabashed Greg Davis defender. He has done a brilliant job the last five years in: (1) installing an offense for VY that allowed him to carry this team to two BCS wins and a national championship; and (2) scrapping that offense in short order and installing and retooling an offense to suit the quick-release, quick decision abilities of the scrawny kid from Tuscola who damned near won the Heisman and the MNC this year. Great coaching is adapting your schemes to your personnel and not being a stubborn SOB who tries to force feed a scheme to ill-suited personnel. 5 straight bowl wins and 3 out of 3 in BCS bowls. Also, not a classier man in football. He is constantly criticized, only relunctantly praised, yet goes out year-after-year and wins games. Kuddos and a standing ovation to Greg Davis.
Last night - the 5 wide, empty backfield hurry-up totally destroyed the OSU defense. Throw it downfield you say? Easier said than done with the blitzing pass-rush. This ain't Madden '09 folks - this is real football. We can't see on TV what the coaches are seeing in the press box as to coverages, etc. Spread the field, let 'em blitz and make 'em pay with the quick strike slants. Take what the defense is giving you. It may not be glamorous, but it sure has been effective this year. That is good coaching.
In contrast, what brilliant adjustments did the sweater vest make on offense in the second half?
Everybody want's the annoint the golden boy Muschamp as the second coming, and he has totally invigorated a slumping Texas defense, but why blame Gideon alone on the TD pass to Pryor? How about some help over there - even the idiot announcer knew they were going there with the fade! Besides, Muschamp can do no wrong because he yells and runs out onto the field and creates great You Tube videos.
Meanwhile, GD sits quietly up in the stands with his Diet Dr. Pepper and play charts and systematically wins ball games.
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“I hereby accept the job of unabashed Greg Davis defender.”
Good luck with that.
I think about 95% of the vitriolic criticism Davis faces is unwarranted.
but, man, that other 5%…
Agreed
That other 5% can make you crazy. Like that running play last night called on 2nd and goal from the 18, or the hand-off 5 yards deep in the end-zone that led to a safety in the Tech game. Or his infatuation with the bubble screen. Or the times the running game finally seems to be working and he decides to pass, apprently just to keep things balanced, and instead of an easy 2nd and 4 or 5, you are in 3rd and 4 or 5 (or more if the QB was sacked). But overall, I agree GD gets too much blame when we lose and too little credit when we win.
"Only angry people win football games." --DKR
The last drive
I was ready to strangle greg with my bare hands.. We just kept Dinking it every single play, the only time we stretched the field the entire game we had Malcolm open and Colt just led him out a little too much… And with only 38 seconds left, we threw two slants in a row, and quan made a great play to save us…
with all that said, would have been hard to stretch the field with how bad the o-line was playing.
Time for a playoff.
Davis did good and bad yesterday
The problem is that he continues to do the bad things that we’ve seen for a long time. We all get sick and tired of it, but that doesn’t mean we can’t see the times he deserves credit.
by TheElusiveShadow on Jan 6, 2009 2:12 PM CST reply actions
Yesterday left a bad taste in my mouth...
There was no creativity on offense. tOSU was the best defense we played all year and we flat out stunk it up most of the time. It seemed like the Cosby TD at the end was two smart players anticipating what tOSU might do. Cosby tells Colt that he’s running a slant and that’ll get behind the defense and then throw the ball to him. That was not GD smartness, that was our players being smart.
Colt’s TD run? All Colt. He scrambled out and Cosby gave a great block and Colt did a spin to make it in the endzone. So there’s 14 points due to our players being special and nothing that GD drew up.
He had a bad game. He took what the defense gave him rather than make the defense adjust to him. I was ready to get over it with the season we had, but this game brought it all back. His lack of creativity kills me. He showed creativity during OU and Mizzou but lacked it during Tech and Okie Lite.
I’ll take the victory because it was huge, but after watching us all season, I expected more out of his gameplan. tOSU deserves credit. They have a bunch of good players and probably were 100% healthy for the first time all season, but so were we. Anyways, we’re set up well for a run in 2009. Let’s keep it rolling.
"Football's so important in Texas. On the West Coast, it's a social. On the East Coast, it's a culture. Here, it's a religion."
-- Major Applewhite
Are you serious???
“He took what the defense gave him rather than make the defense adjust to him.” – What the hell is wrong with that – if they give you the short, underneath stuff, take it and march down the field. And, we did adjust – did you not see the 5 wide, hurry-up put them on their heels in the second half?
What the hell was the junk in the 1st half?
"Football's so important in Texas. On the West Coast, it's a social. On the East Coast, it's a culture. Here, it's a religion."
-- Major Applewhite
And if he ran the 5-wide hurry-up a lot earlier...
then we would’ve scored a lot more points. After we were up by 11, I thought we would take over and run away with the game. We didn’t but we should have.
He shows too many inconsistencies for my taste. One game he’s brilliant (think OU & Mizzou). Other games, he takes too long to get going (Tech, OSU, tOSU). I don’t like it.
"Football's so important in Texas. On the West Coast, it's a social. On the East Coast, it's a culture. Here, it's a religion."
-- Major Applewhite
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