Re: Lions Additions and Cuts
Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2019 11:17 am
You can't replace the whole team or parts but priority must be on fixing:
1. OFFENSIVE LINE:
You have to fix this and personnel are an issue - not just the schemes/play calling which to is an issue.
2. DEFENSE
Lions don't compare to the upper echelon winning teams here at DL, LB, DB.
If Odell Willis is the leader on the DEF then you're averaging down the play.
No standard setters at LB or DB. Just a bunch of journeymen who miss tackles.
3. COACHING
You can't fire a coach as readily as you can do an internal challenge involving coaches and players on all aspects of the game.
It's so bad it's almost like you need do what organizations do when in this case it'd be the GM who brings in an external consultant who does private/confidential interviews with everyone from the HC to the players and brings an anonymized report to the GM that outlines:
1 What's working well
2. What's not working
3 What needs to be changed
OVERALL ON COACHING
The HC is not sounding like a HC and that's seriously on the GM who was responsible to guage the candidate's understanding of the role.
At practices the HC is typically with the DEF side of the team and Jarius is the clear leader on the OFFENSE.
TWO MAJOR CONCERNS ON OFFENSE:
1. JARIUS LOOKS TO BE A CO-HC (practice observations)
It's clear that Jarius is the OC and there is little sense that the HC or other coaches can challenge what they 're doing.
The HC and DC should be sitting down with the OC and challenging his schemes and play calling and make changes. Claybrooks was the DC and Calgary yet it seems he hasn't passed that knowledge on to the OC.
Look at what MTL did in the reverse then pass to QB Vernon Adams for a TD.
Adams say it was an INT in practice yet the RB Coach told him it was being called in the ESKS game!!!
2. MIKE REILLY - he's basically not one you challenge with either staying in the game or changing what you're calling. He's the S&M QB it seems.
SOL E said post game that their goal is to get Reilly frustrated and it worked.
DURON CARTER - non concern.
Carter got into it with Nick Marshall on that non call out of bounds which to me was understandable.
IF you can get to a practice the only criticism I could muster was when Boyko has them stretching mid practice and carter is often doing his talking with the coaches.
But overall he's not a distraction and not a cancer nor showing signs of being too cocky.
If Carter drops a ball he doesn't get told to drop and do 20, he's doing it on his own.
But in practice it's showing that Mike Reilly has trouble finding his long deep receivers in the clear open like all other teams are finding. It's worse in games.
1. OFFENSIVE LINE:
You have to fix this and personnel are an issue - not just the schemes/play calling which to is an issue.
2. DEFENSE
Lions don't compare to the upper echelon winning teams here at DL, LB, DB.
If Odell Willis is the leader on the DEF then you're averaging down the play.
No standard setters at LB or DB. Just a bunch of journeymen who miss tackles.
3. COACHING
You can't fire a coach as readily as you can do an internal challenge involving coaches and players on all aspects of the game.
It's so bad it's almost like you need do what organizations do when in this case it'd be the GM who brings in an external consultant who does private/confidential interviews with everyone from the HC to the players and brings an anonymized report to the GM that outlines:
1 What's working well
2. What's not working
3 What needs to be changed
OVERALL ON COACHING
The HC is not sounding like a HC and that's seriously on the GM who was responsible to guage the candidate's understanding of the role.
At practices the HC is typically with the DEF side of the team and Jarius is the clear leader on the OFFENSE.
TWO MAJOR CONCERNS ON OFFENSE:
1. JARIUS LOOKS TO BE A CO-HC (practice observations)
It's clear that Jarius is the OC and there is little sense that the HC or other coaches can challenge what they 're doing.
The HC and DC should be sitting down with the OC and challenging his schemes and play calling and make changes. Claybrooks was the DC and Calgary yet it seems he hasn't passed that knowledge on to the OC.
Look at what MTL did in the reverse then pass to QB Vernon Adams for a TD.
Adams say it was an INT in practice yet the RB Coach told him it was being called in the ESKS game!!!
2. MIKE REILLY - he's basically not one you challenge with either staying in the game or changing what you're calling. He's the S&M QB it seems.
SOL E said post game that their goal is to get Reilly frustrated and it worked.
DURON CARTER - non concern.
Carter got into it with Nick Marshall on that non call out of bounds which to me was understandable.
IF you can get to a practice the only criticism I could muster was when Boyko has them stretching mid practice and carter is often doing his talking with the coaches.
But overall he's not a distraction and not a cancer nor showing signs of being too cocky.
If Carter drops a ball he doesn't get told to drop and do 20, he's doing it on his own.
But in practice it's showing that Mike Reilly has trouble finding his long deep receivers in the clear open like all other teams are finding. It's worse in games.