re: ***Official Fire Doug Nussmeier Thread***

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I want to know where we can find an offensive coordinator that will solve these issues.

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Maybe someone who would bench Fumbletron and Droptimus Prime early in the season after their first fumbles to teach them a lesson and get younger backs experience? I'm not sure who makes that call, but in the UK game we should've benched them both for the remainder of the game. It's not like we needed all of our personnel on the field to beat UK.

Bottom line is we lost three games because of Nuss's playcalling. I'm not sure how else you justify it.

Yeah I'm sure we wouldn't have beaten the GA States of the world without Nuss. Good point

I think CNS was on board with the whole “ lets show case AJ ” thing this season.

Henry should have been a pack mule runner all year with Drake the # 2 and we should have pounded the ball and then hit them with Drake.

Yeldon is not as good as those guys.

Not that Yeldon isn't great, it is the offense really missed having a back that could create his own hole. Yeldon and Drake are both all-purpose backs. They both run hard but they are both lanky for RBs. Lanky RBs take unnecessary hits and are prone to fumbles. Luckily neither has had a serious injury I can remember, but the fumbling sure sounds familiar. Granted when they both ran for the most part it was behind an NFL caliber OL (2012) and one that at times played really hard and overachieved (2013). You may laugh at that but seriously the 2013 OL gave up less sacks per pass attempt and the running game averaged a higher YPC average this year. I'm not saying 2012 was bad though, both numbers are impressive both years. Its just the 2013 numbers should be a great reflection on a first year coach replacing 3 All Americans.

While AP Back is a catch all term the best way to describe them is an athlete that is as much WR as they are RB. It can mean sub 6'2" WR or WR that is chunkier than they are lanky. While we don't (and aren't unless we finally hire Paul Johnson) run the Flexbone for some reason we intentionally recruit AP backs for our Y/Slot receiver. Christion Jones, Chris Black, Ardarius Stewart, DeAndrew White, and the walk on WR are all purpose backs as well. Prothro/Palmer/Milons were great AP backs also.

It has to be a formation sub we experimented with but Christion Jones (1st team), Chris Black (2nd team), and Ardarius Stewart (either A-Day or fan day) have all taken at least a few snaps at RB that I can distinctly remember. Maybe it is a wrinkle we are working with.

We needed a true RB, especially early (VA Tech and CSU). Tech always fields a good D. I think CSU's coach knows our tendencies and our plays, the guy may even have our playbook. And you know both teams spent all offseason getting ready for us

Don't get me wrong, Henry was probably still recovering from his injury though. And as we saw all year Fowler is a pale shade of what he was since his injury. Henry has to be very careful or his next injury could be Fowler like.

But back to the purpose of this thread, I've pulled all kinds of numbers that have shown Nussmeier and Cristobal did great coaching jobs this year.

I certainly get differences in opinion, but do people honestly want them fired?

It just seemed like, despite the stats, our offense struggled to make key plays when the chips were down, especially the last 2 games of the season. Some of that is the OL, some of that is dropped balls by the WRs, some of that was bad throws by AJ, and some of that is play calling.

I have seen many say our passing game is very predictable. I'm far from a an X's and O's guy, but that seems plausible given the number of times AJ has plenty of protection to make a throw, yet can't find anyone open.

I don't doubt it's complex. Complex can still be predictable.

Sure it did. You're going up against a weak secondary and stacked box and your plan is to run the ball? Similarly, you go up against a team that is used to winning shootouts and defending the pass and you pass the ball?

Admittedly defense did stink, but our offense could've bailed us out. Instead, Nuss watches his qb get killed while Henry is straight up beasting people and you make no adjustments to your game plan.

Lot of smoke surrounding Yeldon having a hip injury on top of his gimpy ankle. Against a stacked box you need a runner that can make his own holes ie Henry instead of TJ "Dancing with the Stars" Yeldon. Also, why didn't we run it behind our best oline, Steen?

Also, remember when we faked the run and went for a pass to Fowler at the goal line in the ATM game? That would've worked here. You can talk about execution or you can talk about a game plan that gives your team the most success. I thought Nuss was paid the big bucks to come up with a solid game plan.

And everyone loved the Jumbo Package until they hated it. In 2004 and 2005 we scored just about every time we ran it. In 2006 is when it became the joke.

You have been jumping back and forth from throwing to much to not throwing enough. Especially when most of the time on the goal line AJ has the ability run a run play or pass play based on what he sees.