If you think this, I can offer you no help

[mcgregor]

Many have mistaken Bronco's insistence that his coaching staff doesn't worry what the other team is going to do, etc, for never game-planning or scheming. If you think this, you are either naive for attempting to understand him on the face value of his words, or you are out of touch with football.

First of all, Bronco didn't invent this line. You will hear the same from countless successful coaches at every level.

Second, the coaches game plan. They analyze film to find weaknesses. They alter routes each week to attack those weaknesses. They call various stunts to capitalize on other weaknesses.

When the coaches say, "We aren't worried about what the other team is going to try to do," this reflects the offensive nature of the coaching staff. For instance, Coach Hill plays offense on defense. On each play called, he is trying to direct the play to funnel to a certain place on the field. Yes, he tries to divine what the offense is going to do, but he hopes this so that he calls the right play to get the ball to the right spot.

Anyway, the point is: The coaches game plan. so let's drop that from our vocabulary of attacks. Rather, it's best to say that the coaches don't game plan thoroughly (not enough time in the film room, playbook too small), or keenly. Perhaps they are not good game planners. That's all legitimate, and at this point, a little obvious.

[Mars]

Every coach is different. Some vary their gameplans more than others each week. You can do this too much, so that your own team is confused, like Crowton. Or you can do this too little, which makes your team predictable, like Bronco, Anae, and Hill.

Don't pretend he's found a happy medium, on either offense OR defense, because he hasn't. Both are more conservative than 95% of their counterparts, which helps lead to the final score of the TCU game.

[mcgregor]

Every coach is different. Some vary their gameplans more than others each week. You can do this too much, so that your own team is confused, like Crowton. Or you can do this too little, which makes your team predictable, like Bronco, Anae, and Hill.

Don't pretend he's found a happy medium, on either offense OR defense, because he hasn't. Both are more conservative than 95% of their counterparts, which helps lead to the final score of the TCU game.

Just a personal impression and observation, but I submit that Coach Hill is MUCH more agreeable to "scheming" than is Coach Anae.

[Mars]

Just a personal impression and observation, but I submit that Coach Hill is MUCH more agreeable to "scheming" than is Coach Anae.

I agree. The "bend but don't break" has significantly lessened this year, I've thought. Still, all us "armchair DCs" seem to notice that when we send strong blitzes, and don't give the opposing QB time on 3rd down, that we don't get picked apart.

[wazzucoug97]

Is it agreeable that Anae up in the Box '09 is little different if not equal to Anae on the field '08? Which to me says, experiment FAILED!