re: A nice Trip Down Memory Lane or How I Barely Survived Being Excoriated by SFP...

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now i think you and i believe this is silly and O learned he fricked up majorly TWICE in terms of offense. 3rd time was a charm. i gave him credit for realizing his failures and making changes. i also said he was insulated from this on defense entirely and now he's getting to implement his preferred D and his prints are on our style, so we will have to see how that works out.

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I guess this is where you and I differ, though. I don't see 2018, or even 2017, as O having "fricked up majorly."

I accept that there's a lot of moving parts involved in taking over a program that had been in some degree of turmoil for several years.

I certainly don't take the position that he wanted Spread-RPO from the outset. I think he wanted to change the offense and it took him two seasons to find his way here in doing so. I have a hard time seeing that as a knock on a new coach in a program. He finally landed on the Spread-RPO and here we are.

Much credit is certainly due to Burrow and Brady, but I just tend to look at 2018 as a necessary step in Burrow's development, and his supporting cast, more than as a "wasted" season - and I don't mean that as any knock on him at all.