Reason why JS is struggling in New England

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Gus Malzahn’s offense at Auburn (where Stidham spent one season before coming to New England) I think is even further from the NFL than Art Briles'. ... What they expect you to know at Auburn for offense is the furthest thing from NFL offenses. Then I think the Patriots offense is the most complex.

" ... The gap he had to make up was the most significant gap I’ve seen. Out of anybody I’ve trained for the NFL Draft -- and I’ve trained over 35 guys and 10 of them started as rookies, I do this every year -- I’ve never seen a gap like that."

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Ouch.

They blamed Art Briles too Basically a one-two punch of suck for Stidham. Though, he has plenty of his own issues as well. Just didn’t have the system or coaching to overcome all of it

We’ve known this, though. Gus’s offense was a bad primer for the NFL if you’re a QB or OL.

At some point you have to stop blaming your coaches and just start looking inward. He has spent two years now in the NFL - Gus can’t be blamed any longer.

It seem that we could get over the Gus hating. He is no longer our coach get over it.

Gus is gone... Lets see improvement.

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It’s not hateful to acknowledge the truth.

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Exactly

Cam had 9 years of NFL production to go off of before the Pats signed him and was coming off of an injury, which led to him getting the deals he's gotten.


Stidham was drafted in the 4th round when the team still had TB12 and they weren't planning on him playing immediately.



Plus the Pats had way bigger problems than QB play last year. Hence why they've been very un-Pats-like in FA so far.

Weird Cam had all these issues according to Gruden about language and play calls as well. He went on to a Superbowl and won league MVP.

I've tried to explain a million times the reads for Gus' offense. It's a numbers based read for the QB. If 2 is covering 2 on one side and 3 is covering 2 on the other then your primary read will be on the 2 covering 2. Generally Gus's routes were timing routes and not read routes like many NFL teams do. NFL has taken some of the numbers reads and also incorporated "putting defensive players in conflict". That's where Gus suffered the worst in the pass game. He didn't appear to have any read routes for the WRs. Except for trying to "trick" the defense he didn't seem to put defensive backs in conflict for who to cover.

Also did Stidham say this or some coach that worked with Stidham and he's not lived up to what the coach wanted for Stidham. Stidham has always has a bad habit of throwing to the other team especially in the NFL. Seems the coach is trying to pass the buck to someone else for his own failures.

This is in no way an endorsement of Gus as a QB developer. Just informational. Also find it crazy outside of the record on the road against our rivals up until the past couple years when we had a closer talent gap to Bama, LSU, and UGA we were competitive.

I will accept the bad recruiting on the OL. But what OL have we signed that was sure fire NFL player that didn't make it even under Gus?

Anyway, like someone said earlier. Gus is gone. It's a new era. It's time to move on to bitching about how much we are paying our OL and DL coach when the players struggle.

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what OL have we signed that was sure fire NFL player

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What does that even mean?

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Gus is gone. It's a new era. It's time to move on

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It's a discussion that will happen when it includes Auburn whether it's a coach or player, current or former.

Gus is part of our coaching history and the most recent one at that. He is responsible for personnel on our roster. Some good and some not. He will be discussed for a bit. You can choose not to engage in the thread or posts that discuss Gus. It's a really simple deal to do that.