Did anyone listen to Miles' monday press conf?

A few nicks and scratches here and there. :hihi:

 

Hopefully he starts to realise or make changes to things that aren't working before it's too late like he did last season.

 

Listened to it, and it frightens me. One thing he said really made me say, oh ****! He mentioned that the running game is struggling. He said it was unacceptable for the weapons on this team to have such a poor ground attack, of course that isnt a word for word quote, but that was what i got out of it.

This means just like Kotter, welcome back I formation. I have a bad feeling that this offense is about to go really simplified. Which is good against some teams, but when we play a good defense, all they will have to do is load 8 or 9 in the box, and make JJ beat them. If you were a team playing against LSU how would run your defense? Load 8 or 9 in the box every play, stop the run game, and force JJ to throw the ball downfield to beat you, bring safety's up, and it would be a long day.

 

You do realize we have already been running in the I formation a bunch this year and it hasn't really worked because we haven't found a replacement for Quinn Johnson. I think it just means the O line needs to step up and we need to be a bit more creative with our ground attack until a FB decides to that they want to play. This is Les Miles, the I formation is never going to leave the playbook. As long as he has been here, we have had success with it. This is the first year we haven't had a good FB in the formation and the first year we have had trouble with the formation. Have faith in the man.:grin:

 

I know it hasn't left the playbook, but it has been scaled back quite a bit. and i don't really mind using it, if we throw in misdirections, and pulling tackles. The point of the post was because the offense is about to back to be simple and plain, and what he said in that press conference didn't sound like a shot at the O Line, it sounded like a shot at the OC. I have the faith, and i am a positive guy, but this gives me a bad feeling.

 

Could be that if by then end of the year we don't right this ship on the offesnive side of the ball... Miles could very well spend the off season looking for another OC. This is about the same way he left Oregon.

 

His reference to Ship was funny..."he's an exciting little sucker ain't he?" Thats classic.
He said some pretty honest things imo, he's aware of the problems, and apparently they've got the defense going in the right direction. I did like how he said he had a few things he wasn't shoing. Hmmm, guess we'll have to see. He's right though... if Chad Jones gets his swagger back, he'll shore up that secondary really nicely.

 

I don't think Miles will let a last yr happen again due to a coordinator not performing to his standards. Several times in the second half he appeared to be telling GC to open things up. At least thats what it looked like and the announcers thought he was doing.