re: Bert Watts leaving for the Broncos

I was just pointing out a candidate Mr Utah Zorro

Gus made him leave

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Bro you might need to reevaluate how personal the coach at AU makes you feel.

I think everyone here could clearly see Watts was a decent Edge coach. Average OLB coach. And pitiful special teams coach. However when an issue would pop up you could see where he would address it the next week but that is what happens when you haven’t coached special teams before and everything that happens is new to you. We had a TE (Brandon Frazier) getting bulldozed early in the year 2 spots from the center in FG protect unit. He got it corrected and replaced him after the second blocked kick.

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I think everyone here could clearly see Watts was a decent Edge coach. Average OLB coach. And pitiful special teams coach.

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Why don't you break that down for us. These are the same platitudes I'm complaining against. If you have something more than a comment to say that Watts is a good edge coach, or bad, and a pitiful special teams coach then spell it out a-hole. Why is he bad and others are good? What is he doing?

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Generally performance from players you already know what they can do and them putting them in the same positions and they fail is a pretty good indication that the coaching and preparation is poor. Our special teams were atrocious. Prior years our special teams were good except punt return and we were average there.

Need any more in-depth points about special teams?

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You're saying Watts did things most coaches wouldn't do. Or he coached differently. He did things you wouldn't do. Am I interpreting that correctly? He looked at the same film that you did.

So ... Steering away from the angst in this thread, Zac Alley does seem like a natural choice. Learned under Venables, previous page experience with Schmedding, has coached ST, and was recommended as a DC at 27 years old. I think he's younger than Austin Davis. He's be an unknown from a recruiting standpoint just because he hasn't done it at this level yet.

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Would you cock-sucking motherfrickers not act like you know anything about his coaching ability?

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did you not watch our ST this year? Our FG kicking was garbage. We would get a flag more than half the time we returned a KO. We had punt returners watching the ball hit the turf instead of fielding it. Our ST regressed as the year went along. I know nothing about him, but I do know our ST were absolute garbage.

Stacy Collins could also be a possibility.

I am saying just from watching our special teams were bad and we played many starters on each of the different groups. So wasn’t a bunch of young guys out there making mistakes. It was either scheme or preparation. I’m no special teams expert by any stretch but if you couldn’t see the difference in performance of this year’s special teams groups and previous years I don’t know if you even watch the games. We were atrocious as I said earlier. So it’s either scheme or prep. Either way both fall to the special teams coordinator. Our punter had a very solid season. The rest terrible.

The fake punt definitely got us and should have been prepared in that moment and at that score. Gave them some momentum for sure.

The kickoff return was what really keyed the comeback and that doesn’t happen without a freak pulled hammy on the kick return.

I am on board with that.

I’m going to tell my kids that.