re: What coach O apparently doesn’t understand about 2019 offense

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Who are our best players?

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Yep, lots of people don't remember we had plenty of rotation early in the year - it wasn't until several games in that we established the WR and even Clyde fully to where we would do whole drives without subbing.

He understands nothing

He doesn’t know who our best players are yet. He continues to play a guy at RB who has no business playing in the SEC.

I sure hope the Coaching staff reads this board or you have written him a letter.
Bunch of overpaid stiffs being paid millions when a simpleton on a bulletin board knows more about his team and the game of football.

Idk.

J think it has more to do with there being a less clear pecking order.

2019 it was:

Chase Jefferson Marshall


Everyone else.

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This is not true. Coming into that season Justin Jefferson was the #1 receiver, statistically and by seniority. Chase became the #1 receiver midway through the season in 2019.......................and at the very beginning of the season Marshall was leading the receivers in touchdowns till he got hurt.

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I think he meant that this year the only person who had established himself as starter was Boutte.. #1.

As opposed to 2019, when we had already established Jefferson/Chase/Marshall as our top 3 WR’s between the previous year and the off-season.

ETA: This place it hilarious sometimes.
tRant: We need to stop substituting so much!
Also tRant: Put the freshmen out there and see what they can do!

There is a thread on the first page where OP is certain that Boutte, Bech, Smith, and Nabers are our best receivers and need to be on the field at all times. Nabers has one catch so far for 6 yards. If the coaches hadn't subbed him in to see what he can do, we wouldn't even have that body of work.

Others are certain that BTJ needs to be one of our "permanent" receivers. BTJ had more drops than receptions coming into this game. Then he catches 2 balls for 50 yards and tRant is convinced that he's "the guy." If the coaches hadn't continued to rotate him in, that would have never happened.

This is what happens when 3 of your 6 leading receivers are true freshmen. You have to give them enough opportunities to see what they can do. Then whenever they find the guys that they like, tRant will be complaining that some of the other freshmen aren't playing. And the cycle continues.

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I sure hope the Coaching staff reads this board or you have written him a letter.
Bunch of overpaid stiffs being paid millions when a simpleton on a bulletin board knows more about his team and the game of football.

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Gus: Football isn't rocket science. We can all observe what's occurring on the field with our own eyes.

Just because a guy is a coach who wears P&G doesn't make him infallible. There are actually some really bad coaches out there, and some of them (gasp!) land here.

Did you support Pelini last year with this kind of argument? Curley too?

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One of the consequences of not substituting is that when the best players graduate, you have little or no experience left on the team. This can have very negative consequences for the team in later years. Does the 2020 season sound familiar?

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I think there's a distinction that can be made between not subbing as much during drives and not giving a lot of guys playing time while you figure out the rotation. It's possible to do both, imo.

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In 2019 we did not substitute much on offense. We left in our best players and let them play. Good things happen when you do this:

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The problem is we didnt know who the best players were going into this season like we did 2019. We have so many talented freshmen it's hard to really know how they will do until we get them on the field. In 2019, the only freshman who really played a lot was Stingley (Flott and Ika next up but with less than 250 snaps over a 15 game season, they were not starters or really big contributors), who joined the team early that year and everyone knew he would be one of the best DBs out the gate. We felt that way about Maason Smith this year probably, and hes gotten a lot of snaps in last few games and will continue going forward now as well.

I legitimately think they had no idea who the best guys would be at a lot of spots going into this season. Going into 2019 it was so set it stone at almost every position...we knew who the OL would be, we have no clue who that is really right now and still shuffling guys around in week 4 here. We knew CEH was the man at RB in 2019, this year they had to get things sorted out with Emery out and trying to get reps for the freshmen. In 2019 at WR it was no question who the top 3 guys were, along with Moss at TE. This year? Again, had to get the freshmen out there to see what they could do behind Boutte.

It's tough to know how most freshmen will be until you get them out there. Not every freshman you think will be great out the gate like Stingley, so you have to work them in and see how they respond. There is also a thing as playing too much youth and you'll simply see mistake after mistake early on because it is tough for someone who has only been around for a month or two to really pick up on everything. It's 1 thing to have a freshman starting here or there, it's another thing to have 6,7,8 freshmen out there starting.

This year was never going to be a great season, because we're figuring out a lot of our better players are in fact, the freshmen. And most of those guys unfortunately just take some time to ease in.

You guys need to be on the sidelines, or ESPN, or something like that. Hopefully Coach O reads the Rant enough to learn a thing or two about coaching football.