Ainge Comment

[orange+white=heaven]

If there’s a reason Ainge isn’t worried, it’s because Cutcliffe has made the pass-protection schemes easier to understand.

"He has simplified everything," Ainge said. "You don’t have 10 different calls you have to make for protections. You’ve got a few, and I could teach anybody that in two minutes now."

-From tfpOnline

Is this a good thing,simplified schemes? I mean it's great that it'll be easier for our guys to grasp, but won't it also be easier for opposing coaches to break down... and bust up?

 

[rexvol]

I dont know what to think about anything anymore, part of me screams that it doesnt matter what scheme you use if you dont have the horses, but on the other hand great coaching can win out, so who knows?

 

[GenNeyland9]

I've always heard complaints/comments on how our system is extremely too complicated. I think some of our most productive offensive years have come when the offense is "scaled down." (see 2004 for a recent example of this)

 

[Low Country Vol]

It worked for Tee Martin and Peyton. The simplified scheme has some credibilty. I am sure if made more complicated when they started understanding the schemes better.
At least with Cut he adjusts with the talent around him rather than wait for the player to catch up to the existing system.

 

[GenNeyland9]

It worked for Tee Martin and Peyton. The simplified scheme has some credibilty. I am sure if made more complicated when they started understanding the schemes better.
At least with Cut he adjusts with the talent around him rather than wait for the player to catch up to the existing system.

Although it certainly didn't work against Florida in 1997 or 1999 (the game that single-handedly put Alex Brown in the NFL)

 

[vader]

Although it certainly didn't work against Florida in 1997 or 1999 (the game that single-handedly put Alex Brown in the NFL)

That would have been '99. The only game I have seen at the swamp. :disappointed:

 

[volinbham]

Although it certainly didn't work against Florida in 1997 or 1999 (the game that single-handedly put Alex Brown in the NFL)

Tee must have been telegraphing the snap count - I don't think it was a "scheme" issue :twocents:

 

[General Jack]

That would have been '99. The only game I have seen at the swamp. :disappointed:

Lets not relive that one any longer. Bad bad memories.

 

[GAVol]

Lets not relive that one any longer. Bad bad memories.

No kidding . . . I watched that game at a bar inside a VFW post in the middle of a cornfield in Illinois. :wacko: It's a really long story.

 

[#10_Ainge_#10]

I've always heard complaints/comments on how our system is extremely too complicated. I think some of our most productive offensive years have come when the offense is "scaled down." (see 2004 for a recent example of this)

I've heard it really takes 2 years to study the offense before you really understand it...I wouldn't know if there was any truth to that or not but that's what I hear

 

[volmanjr]

I watched the replay of the 04 Bama Game a few days ago, with the simplified offense , the 4th qtr was really simple :hand it off 3 times and punt! NO 1ST DOWNS THE ENTIRE QTR!!!!! Hopefully it will be more sophisticated than that!!!!

 

[hvwarrior58]

I don't think he is talking about the playcalling, but how the plays are executed. That is why we are focusing on execution.

 

[jakez4ut]

I don't think he is talking about the playcalling, but how the plays are executed. That is why we are focusing on execution.

exactly...we've been tip toeing around this all off season, but lack of execution, regardless of the reasons for that lack of execution, was our biggest issue last season....

 

[hvwarrior58]

Yup, if we execute better last year, we probably would have won 2-4 more games and went to a bowl. It still would have been a disappointment, but not near as bad as what it was.

 

[GreyWolf1129]

No kidding . . . I watched that game at a bar inside a VFW post in the middle of a cornfield in Illinois. :wacko: It's a really long story.

HA HA HA HA HA.....not to go off on a tangent, but I've been in a few VFW posts in my day, and I feel your pain, my man. I've had some great times at the "V"...and a few I hope weren't taped, or remembered.

Go Vols.

:angel: