I donāt really know. Maybe we wanted to move him inside? Maybe he got leapfrogged in the depth chart? Maybe we didnāt want to pay up for him?
Itās possible after Mills got hurt, his agent went to UVa and said my client is more valuable now, pay him more or else heāll leave, and we didnāt give them the answer he wanted.
He seemed like he was pretty happy here and the staff gave him a better opportunity than he likely wouldāve gotten anywhere else. Leads me to believe we were okay to see him go.
1 more tackle to make up for Mills injury and weāre all set IMO. suprised we havenāt been targeting TEs. with Sage coming off an injury and Twittyās history as well itād be smart to get more depth there. But thereās prob a plan to spread more of the production among the receivers due to how much weāve added there
Augustave is the bruiser back we were asking for in the winter portal cycle, not super explosive but makes his cuts decisively and rarely goes down at first contact. Should be a good complement to Taylor and X.
With the Mills injury clear path to starting. Makes sense heād want to come now as opposed to then. The Colorado RB is also a good pickup to round out the RB room. I feel pretty good about that side of the ball now.
I think once ppl see this our offense this year, theyāll know how much the failure early on was due to our personnel. Not saying Des is some offensive mastermind, but the scheme is good. Itās a highly sophisticated and diverse scheme and one that relies a ton on the OL. There should be a considerable leap this fall if we stay relatively healthy
Hahahaha. Heās been an OC for four seasons and his offense has never scored more than 23 points a game.
Itās more than playcalling. Itās reps, reps, reps.
One of the reasons the 2021 offense was so crisp was the route combinations and route-running from constant drilling.
Des is a terrible playcaller who doesnāt have the reputation of constantly drilling guys on where to be, diagnosing defenses, etc. Our best plays over the past three seasons have been broken plays ā players executing when everything else falls apart.
And donāt stop at his 4 years here! His other stints all landed him significant demotions. There is absolutely no indication there is a good scheme or coach in there lol.
Elliottās offenses were getting him run out of Clemson too, so not super hopeful there either.
listen just to reiterate, I donāt think Des has done a good job as an OC these first couple years. But the scheme itself is quite good. I say that as someone who has both played the game for a long time and even (very briefly) called plays at the high school level. His scheme requires full-field progressions, possesses a high level of formational multiplicity, and just generally speaking has good schematic answers for a TON of different defensive structures. Due to the run game diversity present in the system (we run inside zone and outside zone, pin and pull, power, duo, counter, etc), the full-field often long-developing route trees as well as the heavy play-action emphasis to set up the pass, having a QB who can truly go thru multiple progressions in conjunction with an adequate OL is so paramount. We havent had either of those his first 3 years which is why I said this year is going to be different. But this isnāt a cookie cutter scheme AT ALL compared to your typical collegiate offense, I sincerely cannot stress that enough. Itās a big boy scheme, one that relies on legitimately out-designing/manipulating the opposing defense to gain a numbers or hats advantage