The thing about Biff is he an CEO type HC. The D looked great today so that is not a problem so no complaints there and good with DC. Offense is one of the worst offenses I have ever experienced. Now is that on your CEO Coach or the OC. I am leaning towatd OC and talent he has brought in and schemes. I guess I will wait till I see what Biff does eith that situation before deciding to give up on the Biff project.
I still think Biff can get it done. He brought in a ton of talent of the defensive side and turned the worst defense in the nation into an above average unit in year one. No reason to think he
Cant get the offense turned around as well. Its just not looking like it will be in year one.
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clt says we played without our best rb and wr. it clearly showed
Miller shouldnât call a play again. Ivey shouldnât play another snap at qb. He has no pocket presence and canât read defenses. We thought our passing attack sucked because of Jones but it was worse today running our offense without him. Yes Ivey puts up stats when game is out of hand but he canât run the offense. The season is shot. Itâs time to see what we have in bowens and black and see if we have a QB for next year or not. And we need an offensive coordinator.
Chris was a walk on and Ivey is a walk on. We need to be able to recruit the qb position
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Jones has not been given the chances that Ivey has passing the ball. Whoever is calling for Ivey to play needs to be fired.
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Agree 100%, first, Biff didnât help himself with the buildup, but that is who he is. There isnât a get rich quick scheme and remember, we were one of the worst teams in football last year in a subpar conference. We have never had to worry about the QB position for like 5-6 years with Reynolds. This is what it looks like. Look at the improvement made on the D side over last year. Next is the offense. Can the play calling be improved ? yes. But, to think it will be done in 1 year is delusional, no matter how much we want it.
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Yes we all bought the hype and looked past how much we had to jump. We lost our top 3 wr, 2 rotation RB, our top TE and our top 4qb from last years offense. Ivey was QB 5 on last years team
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Maybe we should stop trying to be smarter than what decades of footballer has shown us. Hire coaches that have worked their way up. Grad assistant, Position coach, coordinator and then added AHC. This gimmick hiring is just painful. I love Biff, I like what he brings, but ya have to wonder about how heâs trying to manage things on offense. The ceo type of HC works when every thing is going right. But when things go wrong you have to able to step in and calm the ship. Can Biff do that?
Just saw the post game press conference. I donât like it when a coach is losing and he says he doesnât know what to do. That is when i get concerned!
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Bc its not just about our offensive ineptitude, its that we run a high school offense and our playcallling is terrible
My question is why wonât they let Jalon throw? Has he not been able to grasp the playbook? Has he not been able to make the throws in practice? If he can make the throws it doesnât make sense why you wonât let him run that offense - especially since we are clearly so inept in offense.
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It feels like Biff spent about 5 minutes in the offseason thinking about the offense. He should have tried harder to retain some of the offensive guys from last yearâs team. Promoting a Iowa style offense doesnât inspire anyone. The defense has improved greatly but it doesnât matter if you canât score a damn point.
YesâŚand those can be changed.
I am coming to that same conclusion. What worries me is the simplistic nature that Biff always falls to. That might work in HS when you have superior athletes to your opponent but this is D1 FB where Coaches are getting paid millions in this conference to beat you. When defense struggled he started ripping out pages of the play book, it certainly looks like we have a running QB and a throwing QB that he was just going to alternate all year, to say our offensive schemes are simplistic would be an understatement. Maybe it is our athletes not getting the system, maybe it takes more time to get culture of offense set but to me Biff does not seem like the patient type and he is not Coaching at a level ( HS superior athletes top 10 teams / B10 superior athletes Michigan top 10 teams) to do that. Next 8 months are going to be interesting on how all this shakes out but we are the Niners and our track record speaks for itself. Biff please surprise me!!
We had a âgoodâ crowd numbers wise for our stadium but I honestly think our crowd as a whole and the in game atmosphere is extremely lame.
I wonder if we had many recruits at the game. If I am an offensive player specifically a WR, I see no reason to want to come play here. We could not produce two good plays in a row. Our runs are so predictable! We didnât even get creative with putting Jones at WR. It blew my mind how bad that offensive showing was coming out of a bye week. Micah Bowens was recruited nd given a scholarship by Penn State and OklahomaâŚyes he didnât play but two power 5 programs saw something in him. How can he not scratch the field?
In the post game Biff said Ivey got almost all the snaps in practice the past two weeks and he didnât think itâd be fair to throw Bowens out there with so few reps. Weâll see what happens next week but it sounds like they are thinking about it.
Our problems though are deeper than the QB position. Too weâve got to make people pay on some of these blitzes, weâre not and thatâs why weâre seeing so much pressure.
Still bummed after sleeping on it, hopefully Bowens can provide a glimmer of hope.
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Totally get what youâre saying, but 0-0 halftime score really doesnât do too much to help create an exciting environment either.
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It is delusionalâŚand Biff sold that delusion to our fan base and the media. Hell he oversold big time looking back on it.
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The real question is how did he end up as the number one quarterback if he could not grasp the playbook or make all of the throws in practice, and that is an indictment on the coaching staff that was unable to properly assess his capabilities and recruit a backup plan
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