re: Coach Jeremy Pruitt - Mic'd Up...

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TallyDawg

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meeeehhhhhh I don't think it's quite an accurate comparison.

Offenses are pretty different between the pros and college. For the most part, pro teams run a pro style offense. Obviously there are little variations here and there, but over 3/4 of the league all run a basic pro attack. DC's going from that to the college game where you could face a pro-style one week, an air raid the next, a meyer/malzahn spread the next, etc are understandably going to have an adjustment period.

Defenses on the other hand are a little more cut and dry. If you know how to attack and exploit a pro defense, USUALLY you'll be adept enough to do the same to a college defense. Yes there are exceptions (charlie weis comes to mind) but it seems the adjustment would be far less severe.

Grantham struggling against good college teams doesn't really mean that schott will struggle against college defenses IMO. A few other points of note are that Grantham, despite being "an NFL coach", wasn't that great. He was ok in one year in cleveland, then was fired for beign shitty shortly after and then took a DL position. Schott meanwhile has been calling NFL offenses for 9 years so he must be doing something right. Also, the main knock on grantham was that in addition to poor adjustments, his schemes were just too damn confusing adn complex. Players said it themselves. We also completely overhauled our defensive scheme. Schott's scheme will for the most part be the same as what we're used to. We also don't have to worry about substitution frick ups on offense like we did with grantham (ie, not subbing out teh DL in the '12 seccg). It's pretty straightforward...chubb at RB, someone at QB, and regular starters on the OL and WR. Our sub patterns on offense aren't going to be nearly the same issue as they were with grantham choosing who to play on defense.

So yes...there are some casual similarities between grantham/schott and bobo/pruitt. But hell the guy hasn't even called one play for us yet. To think that we know how he'll produce simply based on the fact that our former DC came from the NFL as well is simply asinine.