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re: Weird personnel decisions
Posted on 10/8/18 at 1:29 pm to skullhawk
Posted on 10/8/18 at 1:29 pm to skullhawk
quote:Dee Anderson did start over Giles. Which I wonder why over Dillon; I can only assume size and blocking. Which is important, but if so I was hoping that prioritization of blocking over getting open would have gone away. I suspect it hasn't. Dillon was indeed our leading WR. I'd like to see him start as "slot", actually in more of a traditional flanker role, use him more, run 3 WR sets more, use him in the run game, use him on jet sweeps (stretch and off-tackle). We're supposed to be getting our playmakers the ball in inventive ways if the traditional methods aren't working.
Dillon was in the game after Giles had his few touches and didn't do anything with him
To the OP, in my experience who starts is a binary decision. It is either based on a multitude of factors including many we would never see/consider, or, just on a coaches feeling and how much he likes the guy. Never in between. It's either over analyzed or not analyzed at all.
The danger of over-analyzation is the many coaches over-prioritize physical measurements. The 6'5" guy starts over the the 6'2" guy, even though Mr. Tall can't run a route or make anyone miss, or some other physical trait. They get locked up with analysis paralysis and fall back on such physical traits when there is a performance record that should take priority.
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Posted on 10/8/18 at 1:34 pm to I20goon
What about White being out on the 1st scoring drive.
Posted on 10/8/18 at 1:41 pm to TNTigerman
One might think Derek P. Was making our personnel decisions for us, which might explain why he wasn’t posting to TD this weekend. Busy figuring out substitutions, and when to use timeouts. 
Posted on 10/8/18 at 1:55 pm to Ethan Martin
quote:no idea. Barring getting his bell rung or some other injury there's only 1 other reason and it was too early in the game for that.
What about White being out on the 1st scoring drive.
By the way, that "other reason" is offense related. One of the reasons our defense struggles mightily when the offense has 3-n-outs, or multiples in a row, is in addition to getting tired is that they don't have time to adjust/coach on the sideline.
Aranda runs a complicated system, a risky system actually with the way he uses safeties. If they do not have time on the sideline to go over adjustments the opponents offense out-adjusts them (because other teams do such things).
Sometimes they have to pull White, the field general, just to get things sorted and adjusted. But, this instance doesn't have that feel.
Posted on 10/8/18 at 2:00 pm to hassan101
How can he be the better back "except for." Either he is or isn't. Brossette took us down the field and we had momentum, then dumbass takes him out the next series!
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